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Bride Wars used the same song and costume for its kooky dance instructor montage as Bring it On does, as if every person seeing Bride Wars has not also seen Bring it On. As if we wouldn’t notice.

This was playing in the bar at karaoke Friday and the other screen was playing top gun maverick.

This skeet was brought to you by the name “Marilyn”.

It must be strange to have a name with multiple kinds of vowels in it.

Underwhelmed by Met Gala offerings this year. Lotta uninspired Madame X adjacent looks without the glow. Lotta Michaels craft bin looking stuff.

there’s an objectively correct answer and it’s Live Más, you can instantly imagine 5 - 10 incredibly self-serious heartbreaking episode storylines that arrive there, my favorite is “Don Draper has seen Angels in America”

getting irrationally mad about Greta Gerwig starting her Narnia movies with The Magician’s Nephew

I did so much more research for this than I ever have for my column.

Per subscriber demands, we included some steamy Final Fantasy fanfic in this issue, by @nochshorn.bsky.social. "He whispered in Cecil’s ear: 'I never stopped hating you.'" Spoiler: what follows does not seem like hate!

I’m really excited about this! First in a series of conversations between me and my most Hamlet obsessed friend about fake Hamlet productions on film. Next up: Slings and Arrows!

Dudes is my husband at breakfast.

As I said: unwinnable.com/2025/05/08/p...

WE GOT BEETS!

Lemon Postpartum Complications

I’m really excited about this! First in a series of conversations between me and my most Hamlet obsessed friend about fake Hamlet productions on film. Next up: Slings and Arrows!

My family budget is this but sub out candles for my husband’s donations to Wikipedia.

It’s not *that* spicy but there’s implied heat. There are metaphors. (I wrote it).

Jason Segel in SLC Punk egg theory

You could smoke everywhere in the 90s. Even in children’s book Bread, Bread, Bread.

Me: so you got a picture of baguette for the kids book about bread? Scholastic: yeah boss, real sexy just like you asked.

James Marsden sorely underrepresented in romcom-journalism-girlie inspo-posting.

This thread is interesting to me (it didn’t make me mad!) because part of the reason I liked classic girls lit was because I was super unathletic and in a lot of the 90s girls books that was the route towards being a problem. Anne Shirley was a problem the same way I was (not paying attention)

If I had only sung dayenu once this year, it would have been enough. But not for my toddler, who is still singing it.

The Pitt season should have ended with Robby singing “Fast Car” to baby Jane Doe

Reposing since the site was down!

New display name after PASSING MY DISSERTATION DEFENSE!

The pictures are funny but it’s really worth watching the video. Australian George Clooney is way more smug and handsome in movement which makes it funnier.

Speaking of bands without PR… bunnypetite.bandcamp.com

All I’m gonna say about these is that there is no click-y or significant monetary reason for me to write them so you know it’s just love.

All my season one write-ups are up!

No, not THAT thing yet.

Her: I love Steely Dan Me: (throws my flaccid dildos into a rain gutter)

There were many seasons proving Rory Gilmore was a better culture writer and essayist than she was investigative reporter, similarly

I really hope Mohan doesn’t have some realization in the finale about how she’s a good ER doc actually. I’ve sat through two seasons of people telling her she’s a good doctor who is a bad fit for this environment and I think it could be a heroic moment for her to realize they’re right.

This song remains so good it makes me wish I liked drugs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD0d...

Mostly Hamnet made me want to rewatch Shakespeare In Love, a perfect movie whose ending makes me shake with the need to make something.

Haynes

As a miniseries the end of Heated Rivalry is fine, but with a second season coming I really wish they’d found a way to end on “I’m coming to the cottage.”

the way i insisted on this playing at the bar that whole year

If you can find it, Cabot has a 10% that is probably what they ate on Mt. Olympus.

No one has ever in my life wished me a happy Easter until I had a kid and now everyone is, and asking him questions about chocolate he is not getting, and god is blessing him, and I’m not prepared to respond.

Annual Passover reminder that my grandfather, a survivor of the camps, said free Palestine in his Haggadah in 1993.

Mainlining Popstar and the Lonely Island to celebrate the exodus story

A good excuse to recommend the wonderful Irish children’s animated movie Wolfwalkers, which goes full Inglorious Basterds on Cromwell.

This thread is something else.

I believe we are very close to the subscriber goal needed for me to write heated rivalry x final fantasy smut 😘

Hamnet vs. Hamnet. @nochshorn.bsky.social ponders the book and its film adaptation. "The film felt like a movie 'about grief' in the increasingly uninteresting way that many projects have been 'about grief' recently: visceral but not particularly edifying."

Underneath they are dressed as Beyoncé.