I have edited this book chapter approximately a hundred times and I’m still finding new ways I tried to spell Saruman.

My only hope in life is that for the 50th anniversary of the original Star Wars, they release an edition that is de-specialized BUT includes the deleted Biggs Darklighter scenes, which I consider ESSENTIAL:

They need to ask this figure skater about anything other than his grief. Give him one opportunity to talk about it and then move on!

In which I don’t really care what the others are supposed to represent, and I’m accidentally a little mean to my Pop.

My mission this year is to get a new subscriber to Unwinnable every day. For 5 bucks, you get two monthly magazines, a back issue archive of 95 issues of Exploits and the satisfaction of supporting freeform cultural criticism free of the usual online publishing nonsense: unwinnable.com/subscribe/

When I tell my kid that I love him he nods his head sagely and says, “yeah, yeah” like, duh you do. We should all be so certain that we are loved.

Took me 11 minutes to cry at the Olympics

My season 1 finale post starts by quoting Dennis Duffy, get excited.

At the end of every episode of Mad Men I’m like “I have no idea what I’m going to say about this” and then I write a thousand words of #thoughts. Amazing show.

Unironically, I have been wishing and a hoping for this, and I’m very pleased, BUT this is the funniest stretch of weather to make this announcement. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/02/04/c...

One Battle After Another would also be a good title for The Lord of the Rings.

My sister’s groundhogs day report. #neverforget #restinpowerchuck

A sincere thanks to everyone posting Catherine O’Hara clips, especially the SCTV stuff I’m not familiar with. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay1c...

Tonight was Mac n cheese taste test. All white cheddar shells. Trader Joe’s took it!

perfect album!

I dreamt I dressed up as Jessica Alba dressing up as disco Barbie in Never Been Kissed and no one knew who I was. :(

But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care. And for my part, I shall not wholly fail of my task, though Gondor should perish, if anything passes through this night that can still grow fair or bear fruit and flower again in days to come. For I also am a steward

Lots of Boromirs out there on the AI cheerleading squad

I do not have many complaints about the LOTR movies but I dearly wish Gandalf’s “for I am a Steward too” banger of a speech had made the cut.

It’s true

TBH I was nervous to get into episode 6 because Weiner is all in on Zionism, but Rachel Menken’s point that “the good place” is also “the place that cannot be” resonates in many directions! What makes Israel Utopia for some is why it fundamentally should not exist.

First, the amazing cover by @alderdoodle.bsky.social! Usually our covers reflect one of the features, but this time around I got the idea of having something that evoked the promise and mystery of a new year.

Wow this Zohran guy is a menace!

Need Jennifer Tilly as a traitor so bad

I proposed sledding Sunday and my husband said he’s scared because he hasn’t done it since he went with Zohran Mamdani and broke his wrist.

This week: Don is NOT Dick Whitman anymore, and Jews don’t all feel the same way about Israel!

This movie blew my fucking mind as a kid and it did… not as an adult, but WOW what a collection of faces on screen.

I wrote about why you shouldn’t be looking for looking for allegories in Pluribus, and a little on why that’s the most dull way to understand art. Have some feelings!

I have to confess: I thought Druski was a nickname for Drake until like a month ago.

Read my account of that night here. You’ve been living a lie! unwinnable.com/2025/10/10/h...

Watching The Ice Storm for the second time I’m remembering that I learned what a key party was watching The Ice Storm for the first time.

The Pitt is feeling less episodic this season, more’s the pity. Even though the first one had the unity of time conceit you could still identify each episode with a major case storyline. It made it work well as a weekly show, and this season an episode on its own feels a little wimpy.

Not a joke really, the line from Kentucky Route Zero that sticks in my head the most is “they invented a new kind of debt”, I think about it all the time. Play Kentucky Route Zero

I feel like Anthony Keidis came up with today’s Connections

I was very cute in 2016 (my roommate had a flat iron) but I’m not gonna post it because that year sucked! I lost my job, got depressed enough to apply to grad school, and my friend’s students were all worried about getting deported! Where’s the nostalgia for anything but my cute millennial hair?

Jacob Elordi can shave his hairline back and win an Oscar

Social Network 2: Social Climbing should really be about Musk not Zucky. Sorkin loves daddy issues and a revenge motivation.

hey Veronica Mars is on Netflix again, you should watch Veronica Mars (again)

Even less topical than you might imagine!

I’m not really in the mood to do golden globes tweeting but she really made me giggle.

Wanda Syyyyyyyykes

My sign today.

The Traitors S4E2

Don buys a dog and my journey as the #1 Pete Campbell apologist begins!

I always forget that people know Lisa Rina as a real housewife and not as Logan’s mom on Veronica Mars.

Don buys a dog and my journey as the #1 Pete Campbell apologist begins!

"This show is so skilled at spelling out a whole lifetime of character without too much exposition." @nochshorn.bsky.social watches Mad Men S1E3 and S1E4:

"What we have instead are many, many, narratives in which people imagine the future of this technology and how they could have sex with it." @nochshorn.bsky.social on the joy of making and the impossibility of "a.i." romance. tinyurl.com/yuenpm9n

First things first, that horrible [complimentary] cover by @slimyswampghost.bsky.social. As soon as we decided to do an anti-"a.i." issue, I knew Trevor was the artist for the cover. I believe the art direction was "a monster made of fingers" and goddamn, I never want to see this flower blossom.

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