Calm down, babe, you’re not listening—I said they’re MAGIC beans.

Beautiful portrait of a star studded Baez tribute by @zackruskin.bsky.social Especially ♥️ the quote from someone riding the bus after the concert! www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

they should not be public servants and take an oath to be so if they can countenance the death of their country before threats to themselves

Saw PAVEMENTS last night and love that a major plot point involves Joe Keery (Stranger Things) being *convinced* he's going to win an Oscar for playing Stephen Malkmus.

Didn’t think I could possibly love Tim Robinson even more but did you ever notice he’s cast more non white & even trans people in 3 seasons of I Think You Should Leave than Lorne Michaels has in 50 years of Saturday Night Live?

Bumping this with the hope that a senator might see it

Incredible to see a political party so addicted to losing and fucking over their base

Langston Hughes

Black history month starts today and this administration would like us to forget it,

creating spaces where queer people can be themselves is literally one of the most meaningful things you can do right now

love to see the president log on and post like “yo that’s crazy” about a plane crash

Don't tell me that the billionaires running the country don't have my interests at heart. You don't know my interests. What if my interests are to eat shit and die

My knee jerk reaction to every news story in 2025 is like someone put Bart Harley Jarvis up on the screen

Will someone PLEASE accept my pitch to interview @leahsottile.bsky.social about cults and her incredible new book, BLAZING EYE SEES ALL? I never go public with this stuff but the book deserves extensive coverage and I am stupidly qualified to make it happen. If that's you, zruskin [at] gmail. 💙📚

Everyone keeps telling me to be angry but very few people seem to be telling people what to do with that anger

It'd be funny if there was a slightly worse actor named Scottie B. Pippen.

"My favorite thing about record shopping is discovering new things. I’m always looking for stuff that I don’t know, rather than the stuff that I want, because it can send you off on all these tangents." Big up @zackruskin.bsky.social on this #rare Jamie XX chat. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Last month I FaceTime'd with @ihatejoelkim.bsky.social to preview his return to San Francisco for @sfsketchfest.bsky.social and learn why SF has become a home away from home for him. Also feat. the brilliant @norireed.bsky.social. Via @sfchronicle.com: datebook.sfchronicle.com/comedy/joel-...

you hear Crouching Tiger and you're thinking, well that's gotta be the most fearsome and best camouflaged creature in this title,

Hello #ppbsides voters! I'd love for you to give a listen if not a vote to my main by Oakland's Shannon and The Clams. I keep coming back to this pitch-perfect description of the band by @zackruskin.bsky.social in the SF Chronicle: "The group you want to play the prom following a zombie apocalypse."

yep. talent doesn't make you a better person. he's a great writer, and a serial sexual abuser. we have to be able to hold both things in our head at the same time.

Still pinching myself that I got to interview legend Richard Kind ahead of his tribute event at San Francisco Sketchfest later this month. Out now via @sfchronicle.com: datebook.sfchronicle.com/comedy/richa... @sfsketchfest.bsky.social

Well thanks for nothing Sean Penn, guess if you can’t get in a little boat it’s not worth “helping”

I don't pretend to know much but my interview with the great Pico Iyer is out today via @sfchronicle.com and one of the core subjects we discuss is California wildfires. Sharing in the event his wisdom offers peace to anyone in need. datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/aflame...

the la fires are so shockingly bad. i don’t remember anything coming even close except the malibu fires that scattered ash all across the area in like 2007. this is unreal.

Can a mutual get this job and hook me up forever? Thanks so much! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/40...

JOURNOS: If you get a call from the rebooted Playboy magazine asking if you want to contribute, I highly encourage you to turn them down When I cheerfully suggested to a top editor on the phone just now that they should put a trans woman on the cover, he replied, "Is there a hot enough one?"

There was this early avatar-based chat space called The Palace and there was a hack where you could steal other people’s outfits and it was the best.

Your honor my client doesn’t like jail

my New Year’s resolution is to avoid getting polio

If you start watching THE SUBSTANCE at 9:50:58 PM on New Year's Eve you will see Monstro Elisasue drench the audience in blood at the NYE show right as the clock strikes midnight.

If you live in the Bay Area and could use a laugh, look no further than the 2025 edition of @sfsketchfest.bsky.social. Read about all my top picks hitting San Francisco next month via @sfchronicle.com! www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Always nice when one of your idols rises to the challenge. hyperallergic.com/973444/art-s...

I'm a contributing editor on this @mcsweeneys.net project, so if you want to work with me on a running list of reasons Donald Trump is a nightmare, please apply by Jan. 5! www.mcsweeneys.net/pages/job-po...

You had a good run, @latimes.com. Sorry you’re not a real newspaper anymore.

I also pick GO (of course)

me for @sfchronicle.com: at a time when movie theaters and small music venues are endangered species, San Francisco’s 4 Star Theater has decided, optimistically, to be both www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

"I really wish JR could experience this, but I think he knows." A lovely profile of Christopher Owens by @zackruskin.bsky.social for the @sfchronicle.com. Emotionally preparing myself for the SF show on Monday too 🙏 www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

The tsunami scare today in the Bay Area illustrates how Elon Musk has changed X for the worse in emergencies. This is the real account of Berkeley PD. But changes in verification means it no longer has a verified badge. Anyone searching for immediate info might be uncertain if this post is legit.

Lol thx for looking out for me, Google Sheets

Whatever this #tsunami warning does or doesn't mean, @kqednews.bsky.social and @sfgate.com are now both reporting that tsunami "activity" is expected to hit San Francisco at 12:10pm. Source: www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

I’m not sure “little bookstores” deserve much blame for where we’re at but the big pubs? Very much so!

WE DID IT

I've waited just shy of a month to learn if phone banking for this guy paid off.

hot damn lmao

This is the money Marge. Reskeet for good fortune. 💰