kicked off the New Year by watching SISTER ACT on BET (with commercials) and bursting into tears in front of my sons when Sister Mary Lazarus busted out the "Mater amata intemerata"

The Financial Times named GILDED RAGE one of its best tech books of 2025. www.ft.com/content/af55...

no one else liked THE REGIME but more often than not I'm sitting around thinking about it and doing the Alonzo Mourning meme in reverse

after fretting about it for months I just replaced the “stylus” on my “turntable” and it took one (1) minute

RABBIT RABBIT

I wanted to do a story about the SNL band during the show's 50th season but couldn't get it done. So when Colbert's cancellation was announced, I zoomed out a bit for @newyorker.com. My fact checker asked how I found all of the world's nicest famous people for this one. Good luck, I guess.

Lots of people are referring to Marty Supreme as "Josh Safdie’s solo directorial debut." Not true! His solo debut was the mumblecore-era gem The Pleasure of Being Robbed (2008), which began as a piece of sponcon for Kate Spade Handbags. Important Safdies history.

once again tapping the sign

Kirsten Dunst and Gabrielle Union could do HEAT, but Pacino and De Niro couldn't do BRING IT ON.

real comedic 24 hours over here - Christmas visit to urgent care with one kid; the other kid ralphing and delirious all night; every muscle in my own body hurts; woke up to like 2 feet of snow (yay!) and - here’s the comedic part - the power just went out 🥴🫠🫩😬🫨🤗

Happy holidays from a top shelf Disney-Hollywood Pictures Sneak & Stay double feature.

Knicksmas!

enjoying the calm before the storm, literally and figuratively. merry merry ya filthy animals!

being a mom on Xmas vs being a kid

I respect that Mariah actually goes TOO hard on OHN open.spotify.com/track/3B7FO3...

as part of The Ringer's extremely comprehensive BEST SPORTS MOMENTS OF 2025 I wrote about Brad Marchand, Lord 'o the Rats! www.theringer.com/2025/12/23/s...

Huge thanks to all the donut lickers who kept up with our Pluribus pods this season, and to everyone who followed along with the Prestige feed all year: open.spotify.com/episode/00wV...

the PLURIBUS whiteboard could fix me

A Safdie cast is something like Adrien Brody, Jennifer Lopez, the Rent Is Too Damn High guy, Maurice Dubois, Charles Oakley and the guy who did the whistle on the PC Richards commercials

asked my mom to just send gift cards for Xmas to make life easier for all and she somehow managed to select THE spammiest purveyors imaginable?? what is happening here. actually I don’t even wanna know

“Why is it my lord is silent while I wag my tail and run about like a dog?” I’ve been left on read too many times. A man named Ashur-resiwa is begging a superior to answer his previous 3 letters, and we can maybe all relate to both sides of this particular coin.

ICYMI I wrote what I (don’t) know www.theringer.com/2025/12/16/p...

My friend Scot sent me his set of these when they were repurposing his doodad room as a nursery and I remember washing the one I used as my office water receptacle in the office kitchen when I was at Vice and the bottom just popped off like the lid on a can of cranberry sauce.

~*~ champions of the world ~*~

excellent article! on a scale of 1 to 5, I give it a - [crowd groans at my shit]

I've been waiting for this one since Katie's kid drew 67 all over his art project 🤣 I also had someone on an all-hands meeting reference it recently and you could see every parent on the call collapse in on themselves at once 🤭🤭

Here's my new interview with James Cameron. We talked about the Avatar cultural footprint debate, his approach to sequels, his favorite character in One Battle After Another, and a bunch more. www.theringer.com/2025/12/16/m...

wrote about (eyes go black) SIX SSSEEEEVVVEEEENNNNNNNN www.theringer.com/2025/12/16/p...

watching Wemby is sooo stressful

why is the Amazon “scorebug” that particular size and shape.

Burned the midnight podcast oil with @matt-james.bsky.social to bring you piping hot The Game Awards takes: • Winners that made us happy/salty • Did Clair Obscur win ENOUGH? • Matt's tips on peeing when attending TGA • Our Game Awards Awards: The top 10 announcements open.spotify.com/episode/1CWO...

jfc that poor security guard at the Colts game 😭😭😭

my son wants a GameBoy* for Christmas and I assumed that would be a simple enough mission and instead I'm completely in over my head encountering words like "Linux," help *I don't think either of us particularly care if it's "real" / refurb'd or some newfangled emulator (?) or knockoff

was not prepared for Ariana Madix's answer! www.theringer.com/2025/12/05/t...

ME: they shouldn't be able to say 'your order has shipped' when they've just created a label. That's not shipped. ISAAC CHOTINER: so, you've never claimed to have a task underway when you've merely opened the file? ME: that's not- CHOTINER: in this Teams message to your boss, you said-

hey thanks for watching my cooking videos. you can tell i'm a bad ass because i slam all my food down on the chopping block constantly.

30 years ago today was a huge day in #phish history as it was the debut of my setlist book 😂 It was my first of 11 shows in December '95 and the fact that I made it is a semi-miracle. This show was a Monday and it was the first day of finals week at Northwestern. Yet I was in MA... 1/

dang TIL Ruth Shalit Barrett won a cool mil from the Atlantic for her youth sports story snafu?! Playing the long game indeed!

went thru a little bit of a funk the last couple of months where I stopped enjoying watching things but I'm happy to report that I broke the curse via binging season 2 of GEN V ft. my longtime biggest crush Hamish Linklater in full scary mode. really relieved

that’s right

New York Hockey Rangers. never in doubt.

now that i think about it, Whoopi is both Harrison Ford AND Lukas Haas

in the '90s you could go, "What if we did Witness, but a musical-comedy where Harrison Ford is actually Whoopi Goldberg, and she plays a Reno lounge act who goes undercover and teaches nuns how to sing R&B?" and laugh your way to $200 million, and rightly so!

beer calvinism

hot yoga ladies are on his ass

Turned on the classic rock station here DC, Big 100, to hear they have a new slogan: “GUARANTEED HUMAN.” Then they launched into Journey‘s “Don’t Stop Believing,” the kind of bespoke curatorial genius you’d never get with AI.

running a small logistics enterprise out of my home (returning Quince purchases)

Dropped this in a chat on Sunday w/ Coach @hollyanderson.bsky.social and Sofia Coppola scholar Coach @cinetrix.bsky.social. I guess the comparison between Lane and Marie Antoinette is unfair, in that Marie Antoinette was able to form attachments.

Less than five hours to go!