jfc

I know people terrified of Portland, Maine

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER fucking rules.

Jesus Christ

Kimmel back Tuesday.

dudes rock

Goona watch the Pats today on my local Sinclair station and take notes on who buys ads.

It’s going to get worse

One of the hallmarks of authoritarianism is to terrify people into self-censorship. ABC ending Kimmel’s show is the perfect example of this.

One of my favorite Robert Redford stories is when Mike Nichols was considering him for "The Graduate" and told him he needed to act like a guy who has struck out with women and Redford replied "what do you mean?"

Some news: yesterday was my last at Rolling Stone. For now, I'm going solo, doing all my TV reviewing, recapping, etc., at my newsletter. I hope you'll consider subscribing. Many more details here:

WTF

New movie. Today! www.patreon.com/posts/12328071

For my day job, I got to interview John Stirratt of Wilco. It's, I think, a pretty interesting discussion about his early days, his time with Uncle Tupelo, the whole Yankee Hotel Foxtrot situation, and what it's like to be in the Criterion Closet. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

For my day job, I got to interview John Stirratt of Wilco. It's, I think, a pretty interesting discussion about his early days, his time with Uncle Tupelo, the whole Yankee Hotel Foxtrot situation, and what it's like to be in the Criterion Closet. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

There's few things better than when a longtime character actor wins an Emmy

Watching COUNTDOWN and it's crazy they fired Altman.

Political pundits are like professional athletes. They don’t care which team they play for. All that matters is staying in the League.

Ezra Klein can fuck right off

So someone fucked around and found out?

My main takeaway from this Charles Bronson movie I'm watching is...maybe leave Charles Bronson alone?

Switched over to @tcmtv.bsky.social to find MARTY is on and after 3 minutes I think I might cry.

Same

Every Chicagoan rn:

#Award #Football #NIL

I heard they’re still struggling to get the president to master the line “putting on the ritz!”

I think I need a remedial editing class called “What the fuck are all these new features in Resolve?”

A guy who became what he hated

Best New-to-Me Films (August) THE LAST SHOWGIRL (Coppola) ROLLERBALL (Jewison) NIGHT ALWAYS COMES (Caron) THE MAURITANIAN (Macdonald) FREAKY TALES (Fleck & Boden) SHARP CORNER (Buxton) CAUGHT STEALING (Aronofsky) CIVIL WAR (Garland)

Love the cat in CAUGHT STEALING

A FAVOR--I'm trying to get this YouTube channel to monetization, so if you don't mind smashing that subscribe button, it'd be a great help. No need to watch any of the videos (unless you want to!) Thanks! www.youtube.com/@Maine.Baske...

This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor. Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...

I'm up for hard secession, but this is very good. cmarmitage.substack.com/p/its-time-f...

Put on a Pauly Shore heist movie and it is...not great

Oh hey, that episode helped inspire the only piece I’ve ever gotten published in McSweeney’s:

Episode 1.2 of MacGyver is directed by "Alan Smithee" And yet, it survived.

Every movie is better when Marshawn Lynch shows up.

A team went nine games without making a single goal. The fans decided to help.

James Dobson dedicated his life to evil and the world is worse because he made it so on purpose. defector.com/james-dobson...

I use one (1) AI thing--Opus Clips to pull shareable clips from my podcast--and I'm quite sure it's gotten much, much worse in the last 6 months.

Come to ghost

Just the other day I mistook Craig Mazin for Steph Curry

Is MS NOW compatible with Google Sheets or do I need a third party app?

#15moviestogettoknowme CASABLANCA HOOSIERS FIGHT CLUB SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE THE ROYAL TENNENBAUMS IN THE BEDROOM HER THE BEST OF YOUTH THE GODFATHER DETOUR AMERICAN MOVIE METROPOLIS HIS GIRL FRIDAY THE STING DEKALOG

There is no better @letterboxd.social review than the film's writer posting "I swear I wrote this before [film]"

Can't wait until they try this in rural Maine