Much better 🏳️‍🌈

Why so serious for Pride?? 🏳️‍🌈

On the eve of the centennial celebrations marked for June 1, here's a piece on the changing perceptions of #MarilynMonroe in today's @bostonglobe.com Ideas section. #MM100 #FilmSky #MovieSky

Woah my podcast getting mad props from the New Yorker 🕺

My podcast—Passenger Seat—just dropped! It’s a true crime story about a brazen kidnapping, the collateral damage wrought by addiction, and how the best intentions can curdle into tragedy. Spotify link in comments but available everywhere. I hope you’ll check it out!

I’m seeing Jürgen Habermas has died at the age of 96. His excoriation of crypto normative premises in the work of post-structuralists like Foucault will be a big part of his legacy.

I wrote about Gus Van Sant, the new queer cinema, and the stalking of immigrants for @lwlies.com lwlies.com/in-praise-of...

What’s in the 📦? I wrote about the hidden allegory in Se7en for the BBC. www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...

I grew up on an apple orchard in rural Ohio, and most of the people who came to pick apples were lovely. Some weren’t. Naturally, I wrote about the ones who weren’t. slate.com/life/2025/09...

For the BBC, I wrote about the divisive legacy of Requiem for a Dream, 25 years on. www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

🏊‍♂️ the 4️⃣0️⃣ ft 🍀

in my medieval era

81° today 🥵 and new ✂️

30 years ago, a film adaptation of a bestselling Stephen King novel was released, and it featured what was then a genuinely shocking twist: being a bitch isn’t a crime. I wrote about DOLORES CLAIBORNE for its 30th anniversary. ⬇️

Me, Kate, and Bette.

Lord Byron. Still mad, bad—and dangerous to know. www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/29/o...

Democracy dies in darkness. We just didn’t know Jeff Bezos would be the one turning off the f-ing lights.

Can this hellish month be the nail in the coffin of the idea that the billionaire class will “save” us—that, against all evidence, arsonists make the best firefighters?

AMADEUS at 40.🎻 www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

Back to blonde 🌞

Seinfeld was wrong. THE ENGLISH PATIENT is a masterpiece. And you betcha it deserved that Oscar over Fargo. www.bostonglobe.com/2021/11/11/o...

Unlike Norma Desmond, SUNSET BOULEVARD hasn’t aged a day www.theguardian.com/film/2020/au...

post grammys glow

Sam and I hit it off

This weekend’s sequence of events

Just arrived from The Other Place—looking forward to checking this 🆕 place out!