it’s almost like every year checks its quotas and realizes it’s short. all these folks moving on, on the penultimate day (and week) of 2025? 🥹 deadline.com/2025/12/isia...

sitting here watching "sister act" with my nana and... i always tear up at least twice during this film and one of those times is always during "oh, maria."

mind you, i'm not over ms. reid soskin yet. www.kqed.org/news/1206821...

first of all, i had no idea she was still with us. all this time. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/a...

there are *many* richard smallwood records we can spin in his honor today. this is in my top 5. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrGo...

a genius has joined the ancestors. variety.com/2025/music/n...

hi, so this is an insane picture. it’s always been an insane picture. we’re lucky to have access to it. we actually do not deserve it? but like… put it in humanity’s time capsule. it’s evidence of what the best of us are capable of looking like. in this dissertation defense, i—

emily in paris is so *painfully* basic and i really need that right now.

sam jackson is about to be 78 years old in a few days. i don't know if he's ever going to look his chronological age. it took morgan freeman until he was over 80.

asked and answered. www.eonline.com/news/1425151...

yall. zootopia 2 calling to mind eminent domain, Black Wall Street, gentrification, indigenous history and and Lake Lanier was not in my 2025 bingo card.

i love this song. it feels very sonically weird. i don’t speak music so I’m sure there are technical terms for it. to me it just sounds… eccentric in a way i really dig. music.apple.com/us/album/be-...

i noticed that hailee steinfeld hasn’t done m(any?) award circuit appearances with the rest of the sinners cast. this could be bc she’s on location w/other projects, taking time off as a newlywed or any other number of reasons. (jack also hasn’t done much yet, maybe for the same booked/busy reason.)

Rinaldo Walcott considers Sam Cooke and power, connection and promise in Black music.

i went from not planning to have a tree at all to buying a tree and a bunch of ornaments yesterday and planning a full-on mother-daughter decorating party for tonight. homemade hot cocoa, chocolate chess pie-baking and The Princess Switch are all on deck.

the occoquan exit on 95 is the bane of mu existence every time i travel to and from baltimore. i type this as i sit practically parked at it at 9 in the morning on a sunday.

i want a new job so bad. which is not to say i don’t appreciate the one i have. i just want a different one. with some growth potential, a higher salary and more compatibility with my skill set.

not me repressing a sob over a Holly Robinson Hallmark Christmas movie. 😩

i overheard Lainey Wilson singing for the first time, on the parade this morning. i can see why she’s everything they said she was. she sounded great. lol

i love that busta rhymes is never too cool for a Macy’s Thanksgiving day parade float performance.

tyler perry films ain’t rooted in *no* kinda reality. never have been. how’d he fix his final draft pro to type a scene where a lady in a sarin slip dress and pleather trench coat falls into a frozen lake for an undisclosed amount of time and just wakes up w/o frostbite, hypothermia or an afterlife?

not this de la album opening with a features roll call led by Giancarlo Esposito…

are Karen Pittman and William Jackson Harper flirting in this morning show season finale?!

i love this one, too. music.apple.com/us/album/the...

kid you not, there’s something about the second half of wicked that just… turns me off. when i saw the play, we left at intermission. and now that it’s time for the second half of this film, I don’t wanna go. 😩

I just pre-added that whole new de la to my Apple Music library and I see there’s a track with Bilal on this album. *sigh* they made this for me, i fear. from the album title on down.

i love this so much. 🥹 music.apple.com/us/album/day...

the national trust for historic preservation just finished restoring nina simone's childhood home in tryon, nc. i'm producing a radio segment about that -- which, of course, provides a prime opportunity for me to use this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=E17-...

one of the great surprises of my life has been how much i love Billy Bob Thornton, as a middle-aged woman. that man has been married 6 times and i understand all six of those women.

and he didn’t say, “put him,” actually. he said, “put *it* in his cabinet.” which…

there hasn’t been a day that’s gone by since Jack Schlossburg said this that I haven’t thought about it:

sometimes, you just need one good primal scream.

Claire Danes has always been one of the strongest actresses of our generation. and while i don’t think she’s underrated, per se, we don’t talk about that enough.

i’ve said this before on social, but the way i will not be okay… www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

i’ve been screaming from the rooftops about *this* particular Venn diagram.

y’all. is she not just *too* fly?

i might be trippin but i like the morning show this season. it’s *so* random and weird and i am locked in.

sooo… every time i see William Jackson Harper, i think of a baby duck. I think of Huey, Dewey and Louie. that being said, i love him? like, i mean that in the hottest way possible. like, respectfully.

one of my favorite Black gen z slang phrases is "on me." like, i *love* when people say that. not on their mamas. not on God. no. on them. lol. bc, really, that's the only person you really should hold to account when making a bold claim. don't bring deities and matriarchs into your mess, you know?

my daughter wanted to watch “enough” for the first time tonight. she said she saw clips on YouTube and wanted to see the whole thing.

not me crying at the end of “a good Indian boy” early on a Saturday morning.

maybe i should hold this until the actual awards but... for my money, this *was* the top album from a commercial artist in 2025. and he *will* clear.

in searching my feed for bad bunny grammy predictions, i came across this. which... 💅

of course, my favorite random, unhinged, macabre love song is this one. music.apple.com/us/album/bur...

they really just dropped this one random, macabre, iconic single and dipped. music.apple.com/us/album/die...

i went from not knowing this song this morning until i saw it on dolly parton's tiktok this morning, to pulling it for a segment at work and tearing up 2/3 through the video. youtu.be/Ruw0_o-tWzk?...

this rec comes with a trigger warning. but i thought it was quite good.

y’all, have you watched “moving on,” starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlinson and featuring Richard Roundtree? it’s *really* good.

My partner works at one of these food banks (foodbankcenc.org/give). Demand for food ALREADY far exceeds supply (less funding, fewer donations from companies/individuals due to...everything). If you are able, please donate to a local food bank

I thought I was starting to feel slightly more resolved to the idea of D’Angelo moving on. Then Wynonna Judd covered “One Mo Gin” and I’m back at square one.