Pomeroy and Buster Kitten.

What a tragedy. www.latimes.com/california/s...

I hate to put DJT on the timeline, but I wouldn’t have believed it if I didn't see it.

Zibby Owens, whose father is a big finance guy, can afford to hire publicists to push her as a thought leader on publishing. But we won’t forget her efforts silence Palestinian voices. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Let him go, not the right person. Which means the Brown shooter is still out there.

As a child watching Meathead without understanding the context that yes, he was the true voice, then watching Reiner’s stellar directorial career and steadfast commitment to liberal causes, I can’t think of anything more terrible than an ending like this. Good goddamn, what is wrong with our world.

No no no. www.nbclosangeles.com/investigatio...

Today I managed to (mostly) install an overhead light and do more hopeful repairs on the dining room table that got broken during my months-ago move. I’m finally able to sit in a chair at the table, with my laptop. 😌 Pictures when the rest of the room stops being under-construction chaos.

Today I learned that tumbleweeds aren’t native to the American Southwest — they’re from Russia. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...

They’ve picked up a person of interest in the Brown University shooting, who was still in RI. Good news for Providence. www.providencejournal.com/live-story/n...

They haven't yet found the shooter. Be safe, Providence. www.brown.edu

I was in a bookstore yesterday and the bookseller ringing me up set aside the book she was reading, clearly on the last pages, and she was literally crying. It was “Hamnet." (Too late, I apologized for interrupting her.)

“let the arts which we are talking of beautify our labour, and be widely spread, intelligent, well understood both by the maker and the user, let them grow in one word POPULAR, and there will be pretty much an end of dull work” -William Morris, Hopes and Fears for Art

I'm shocked, shocked that Woody Allen and Jeffrey Epstein were total buds.

I went to a bookstore today and was talking about sales numbers and I said "of course you have soundscan", apparently believing I was in a Virgin Megastore in 1999.

Making draconian changes to Amercian copyright law for decades to protect Mickey and now they're -- just giving him away? Oh wait I paying $1 billion for the privilege of handing him over.

I know how much some people love Instagram and Facebook, but maybe their anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ+ actions will prompt a reconsideration www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Since when did drawing cocaine under celebs' noses with macpaint become "scoopy and sometimes vicious takes"?

I love this ($200) keyboard

Watching the Puffy doc because I'm here for long-held grudges against sexual abusers. Also, in the 90s I worked for a good guy (who repped Sonic Youth) at an evil NYC law firm, and the big new hire was a pompous lawyer who repped Puffy, who I saw in the office. Bad vibes - I had no idea how bad.

Insomnia is bad for writing. Come on, sentences!

This is what’s happening in Los Angeles.

What are five of my favorite books of 2025? They’re here. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Right on. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Boy howdy the birds DID find the feeders. Pretty soon I'll figure out what they are and maybe even get photos.

this is the best thing I have ever seen!!!!! thank you @annehelen.bsky.social

I don't want to predict what's going to happen in this film I just started watching, but I think if Willem Defoe knocks on your door and asks to rent your basement, you should probably say no.

Today I got a couple of birdfeeders and some birdseed and I hope the local bird population notices it soon and stops by. I forgot to get dried mealworms for my roadrunner friend. Next time.

First time I've driven by The Witching Flour Bakery when there's been no line. This is a their persimmon and hazlenut danish with tonka bean custard.

It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.

Definitely better than that other guy. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

All I want for Christmas is Mia Goth's malachite dress from Frankenstein.

It's pretty, but I wasn't ready.

Pomeroy and Buster Kitten.

I'm failing at keeping Buster Kitten from playing with the xmas tree but my plan of Only Unbreakable Ornaments seems to be working.

I talked to Tim Blake Nelson about his new novel, Superhero, for the LA Times. (I have no control over headlines now, remember). www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

It's been such a strange relief to watch Traitors UK where celebrities have real faces and teeth.

Christopher Knight's @knightlat.bsky.social's last column for the LA Times! 🫡 www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

This weekend I watched the DVD extras of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead. I don’t know who did the interviews, but it was someone who knew Tom Stoppard, so he was relaxed and candid. I think it was recorded around 2004? Totally great if you can find it.

One small thing to love about King of Comedy (1983) is that the least cool person in NYC, Rupert Pupkin, is dressed as the future Guy Fieri.

I wasn't in LA for last night's Spaceland anniversary show but '90s me made an appearance.

I just tried to type the word “gray” and autocorrect changed it to “The Grateful Dead” and I can assure you I will never type that phrase willingly, ever.

Buster Kittten and Pomeroy, who is only slightly annoyed.

I watched Fitzcarraldo for the first time last night. Buster Kitten did too. I hope his forming brain took away from it, look at the beauty/futility/necessity/labor/destruction of art, rather than, be like that wild-haired madman.

I've been struggling to demo the ramp leading up to my house and today after I'd finally cut a piece of board free the roadrunner (not pictured) appeared, came right up to me not 2 feet away, then plucked out a snail to eat & stepped aside.

Some people think Airstreams are neato but the real stars are the Spartans, for their wood interior. And this one is just $19,500. classifieds.vintagecampertrailers.com/Classified/1...

A blow-up bouquet: artist Ginny Ruffner’s watercolor transformed into a unique inflatable floral arrangement for the Seattle Art Museum. shop.seattleartmuseum.org/collections/...

I finally watched Breathless. Now, to find thoughtful feminist critique or two...

I’ve not yet been to the Louis Armstrong House Museum in New Orleans, but you can support them with the purchase of a tote bag featuring Armstrong and his wife Lucille visiting Egypt in 1961. louis-armstrong-house-museum.myshopify.com/products/tot...

The Huntington Library & Gardens, whose art collection includes the kitchily wonderful Thomas Gainsborough painting Blue Boy, has a Blue Boy Christmas ornament & refrigerator magnet for sale in its genuinely great shop. thehuntingtonstore.org/cdn/shop/fil... thehuntingtonstore.org/cdn/shop/pro...