Wake Up Dead Man is inspiring fine writing.

Most of these you can read now (including mine), but I'm planning to read them as they show up in my inbox. I'll post a brief note about each as I get to it.

Astonishingly insightful review of WAKE UP DEAD MAN.

This is what it looks like when billionaires own the media.

I'm going on strike Thursday. Solidarity!

Christmas is here again: irreantum.associationmormonletters.org/2025/12/01/a...

The War & Peace of this genre: thmazing.blogspot.com/2023/05/zoey...

Two truly excellent and very different speculative romances, some unimpeachable classics, and two movies (Party Girl which I thought was bad and One Day After Another that I thought was good) that I think are better now than when I first wrote about them.

It does seem to say something about American culture that there are so many more JFK conspiracies than MLK conspiracies.

Who could've seen THIS coming???

Astonished this isn't a constantly covered Christmas classic.

It does repeat itself a lot but I still love it. As the 16yrold says, it goes hard.

Love this but it feels about three-hundred words abbreviated.

One of the best essays I've read about movies—and much of it takes place withing walking distance of my house.

Coming tomorrow:

I'm not an expert, but this smells like a crime to me. How about we tell Pete Hegseth they're having a surprise birthday party for him at the Hague?

How Republicans commemorated Thanksgiving in 1869--with a multi-racial/multi-ethnic gathering of people at a table with a centerpiece celebrating universal suffrage and self-government, and with an engraving of Castle Garden, the pre-Ellis Island point of disembarkation for immigrants.

So what DOES make you sleepy on Thanksgiving? Odds are good that it's CO₂, especially if you're cooking with gas. I've seen our indoor air CO₂ spike just over 3,000ppm on Thanksgiving. All the people plus all the gas cooking, it adds up.

Now THAT's a series of books. bookshop.org/a/8076/97986...

You guys. This is one of my favorite bands. This is from a two-disc set. One disc is Pipi Band, the other is Pippi Longstocking. Basically they're the same band, but the first is fronted by the woman and it's hella weird. The second is fronted by the man and is more straightforward altrock. LOVE'm.

American Movie is my reset button whenever I feel I don't have any drive or passion anymore, Mark Borchardt's singular ambition despite everything (including common sense) telling him to stop is infectious and never fails to set me back on track. Takes place on thanksgiving too so points for that

Christmas comes early for patrons only, my friends.

@calradiohistory.bsky.social Question: what's the cost of entry at the museum?

The people find a way.

The heck is this? You trying to tell me I'm the only deeply committed Latter-day Saint who is a loudmouthed anti-LLMer?

lawyers are basically professional students: study study study, write a report, make a presentation study study study, write a report, make a presentation study study study, write a report, make a presentation ad infinitum

New goals for my next mayor.

In my darkest moments I worry whether or not anyone will still be reading my tweets in 100 years.

Just watched the trailer for ZODIAC KILLER PROJECT and instantly recognized the voice and style from this video which I love and have showed a couple hundred high-school students over the years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWUw...

Stacks is back!

Just want to be on-record grateful to Elon Musk for constantly demonstrating the intentional unreliability of AI.

Peak Alexandra

Another minimasterpiece from James. The most beautiful thing I've read all week.

In the end, these two narratives are so funny precisely because they are not funny at all. Check out this new review of ETERNITIES OF CATS: substack.com/home/post/p-... Buy: bookshop.org/a/8084/97982...

The latest issue of Irreantum (21.4) came out today. My poem 🫐 "In which my toddler eats forbidden fruit" 🫐 is the first piece. Enjoy! And Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃 irreantum.associationmormonletters.org/_21-4-start/

This joke is from 2005.

No surprised that MY muse is named Thalia.

Tired of the commodification of Christmas Advent?

Read with me. thmazing.substack.com/p/hundreds

Eventually, all the good writers are just gonna work for The Atlantic.

If movie studios can't own theaters, why can they own streamers? (And vice versa.)

They say rats know first.

What idiot thought THIS was the best image to usher a should-be classic children's film into an actual classic children's film?

Not what I want for Christmas.

Top 5 film genres ( I needed two tweets for this): 1. Old friends realize they've been in love the whole time 2. Strange people doing strange things admired lovingly by a good cinematographer 2. Strange people doing strange things admired lovingly by a goofy cinematographer

I found the beginning of the end.

Seeking submissions for another to-be issue.

The Supreme Court should be expanded to 13 justices, because having some 6-7 decisions is an easy way to get kids interested in how the federal government works

Big fan of Latter-day Saints' principle of recording.