Does it strike anyone as weird that we have a ratings board that counts the number of times a movie says fuck or shows a boob and decides who is allowed to see it, and yet GenAI was dropped on the entire with no restrictions, no age verification, no checks, no regulation whatsoever?

Gloria Grahame in a publicity still for THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH (1952) Grahame was BOTD in 1923 The movie might not have deserved to win the Oscar for Best Picture, but I love this image

This is the best bit of advice I’ve seen on the internet 😂

We had traditional Thanksgiving-weekend tacos last night. They were AWESOME. The hard shells are Old El Paso, the hot sauce is Taco Bell brand. They are the best version of the tacos of my childhood.

how much I like GLASS ONION: until I tried (again) to clean up my desktop icons this year, I had the following image file at hand on the desktop in case I needed to share it in a hurry:

RIP Chumby, which over the years became one of my favorite devices ... repurposed as our supercool living-room clock. I keep staring sadly at the empty space where it stood (not just because I want to see what time it is, either). It absolutely tied the room together.

something I noticed while traveling earlier this fall: am I imagining things, or do hotel TVs have motion smoothing on now and it is impossible for guests to turn it off? Everything had that look and yes, I went through any settings I could access. Multiple hotel chains, multiple cities. Ugh.

timeline cleaning

World AIDS Day was cofounded by an American journalist--James Bunn, a San Francisco reporter who was the first person at a local TV station to make the AIDS crisis his beat, in 1983. An administration that did not loathe the press, history, and knowledge itself might have considered honoring that.

Danish film poster for THE MYSTERIOUS LADY (1928) featuring Greta Garbo. Poster design by Sven Brasch.

Charles Brackett, Screenwriter, Novelist, Producer, #BornOnThisDay in 1892, in Saratoga Springs, New York

I want this moment for us

Ernst Lubitsch dirigiendo a Miriam Hopkins en Design for Living (1933).

Also, no one seems to talk about all the MeToo accusations leveled at Ratner anymore.

If you have ever thought that my journalism or my first book were net positives for the world, understand that they probably would not exist if I did not have a spouse who paid the mortgage. If I'd been a solo earner/parent, I likely would have left criticism, journalism or book writing long ago.

*Stares in Discworld* cancelled-movies.fandom.com/wiki/Mort

So many thanks to @mldavies.bsky.social for this comprehensive feature for @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social on WITHOUT CONSENT, which gets at all of the frustrating complexities I had to (and continue to) grapple with.

bonus Helen in She with decorative lummox Randolph Scott

PITCH: I should be able to buy the exact same pair of sneakers every time my old ones wear out for the rest of my natural life.

Look you're just not getting any ice cream today unless you're buying for him, too

"A movie that takes place where you're from." This is about as close as it gets:

the reason 101 dalmations looks like that is because disney incorporated xerography (ie early photocopying technology) into the animation process. rough pencils (by mostly male animators) were copied onto the cels so that disney could fire the (mostly female) inkers. remember that art can lie to you

“When you are dying, at least in my limited experience, you start remembering everything.” Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, writes about receiving a terminal diagnosis. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/4SkkDI

Cat lover Davy Jones for #Caturday. Dig the shirt and the ring.

David Cassidy with cat. It's a late 60s/early 70s bubblegum music kind of #Caturday

Within 2 minutes on here, was scrambling to create a list of words to mute. I hope to hell it works

for this week's Memory Holed, i revisited/tortured myself with Sam Raimi's worst movie, made only slightly tolerable by Mila Kunis' campy Meg Griffin-as-Wicked Witch

TONGUE. 🪶

How many times do we have to prove that giving money to poor people improves their lives

50 years ago today, this photo of the Chicago press conference for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was taken. In the background you can see Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert — in the clothes they wore in the Siskel & Ebert pilot, which was also shot that same day.

An incident in a locker room has always been key to Riley Gaines’ anti-trans fame. But @msjpauly.bsky.social spoke to swimmers who were present at the same 2022 meet. They shared a very different narrative.

oh yeah the new york city subway is so fucking scary, you never know what kind of weirdo you'll have to share a train with

A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...

That moment followed by his calling a reporter "insubordinate" while shrugging off the murder of a journalist would have ended other presidencies. "Piggy" enraged me less than the silence that followed--the indifference, the cowardice, the collective shrug is what enables the eradication of decency.

evergreen #comic

A fantastic shot of Cab Calloway by William P. Gottlieb during a break at Columbia (recording) studio, New York City, ca. 1947.

[writes rant] [deletes] [shorter rant] ... y'know, this fucking coonass.

PUB DAY

the other day I asked my neighbor what the signature dish of Portland was, and she spoke passionately at length about how much locals like to eat regional foods in season, which was lovely but now I realize what I actually wanted to ask: what is the slop dish of Portland (OR, not ME)? anyone?

Hyde Park Grill in Austin had an upscale version of this, which I miss very very much (and could eat maybe a third of, and still feel stuffed after). Texas toast, big burger patty, Hyde Park's fancy fries, cheese sauce ... there may have been two layers of cheese sauce? A whole event on a plate.

An entire section of Anna Wintour's @wikipedia.org profile has been erased. Can you guess? The section on her troubling issues with race. From Wayback:

Anna May Wong by Ruth Harriet Louise, 1927.

You mean the company that's currently being struck by its workers and the company that's currently being boycotted because of its terrible DEI policy rollbacks? Why not just call this the Chocolate Mint Racist Scab Frostie?

OMG it was amaaazing chili y'all

some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops: Blue Diamond Bob's Red Mill Land O'Lakes Tillamook Welch's

This idea that #metoo was a temporary piece of insanity that happened because America was too woke... Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.

#botd Burgess Meredith and Paulette Goddard at home on their farm, c1946.

bet you didn't know you needed this photo of Pedro Almodóvar with a kitten on his head today

Ok honestly I got a little verklempt reading this: deadline.com/2025/11/pope...