i love that we all knew that it would always be tom holland who confirmed or denied the marriage. he is so me, fr.

“you treat your mouth as if it’s heaven’s gate” is one hell if an indictment.

i’m flying today for the first time in over a year and: we don’t have to take our shoes off for TSA anymore??

now rebuild the east wing. re-plant the garden. halt construction on the ballroom.

i don’t talk to people in social situations that often. but i love listening to other people connect in social situations. i’m always grateful to be in proximity to it.

i am such a sucker for a jlo romcom. i have seen almost all of them. including that weird, really bad one where she started dating a cheesemonger after she was inseminated with twins.

The first 2:51 of this goes so hard. 🔥https://music.apple.com/us/album/symphony-no-7-in-a-major-op-92-ii-allegretto/392431799?i=392431805

one thing for certain, two things for sure, when you google "songs about [topic]," you're sure to find at least 2. i run this search at least once a week for my job and it never fails.

i'm watching "the boroughs" now. and can i say: i just adore clarke peters? in this, in everything.

i waited until "margot's got money troubles" was fully released before binging. i'm on episode 2. michelle pfieffer has always been Her. and elle fanning is the level of adult actress that dakota was as a child and that'saying something. that talent in that family should probably be studied.

it's wild how much some late-night shows permeate culture for me. i don't watch them in real-time ever. but i still remember the song that functioned for david letterman's last night the way that the beatles "hello, goodbye" functioned for colbert last night. it was the foo fighter's "everlong."

The importance of preserving memory: Baltimore’s Black archives and museums are still standing tall baltimorebeat.com/the-importan...

Julie Dash directed Wanda Sykes’ latest standup special and this intro is really lovely. I didn’t know Wanda was a Hampton alum.

i loved this, start to finish. i listened to the audiobook; it was lovely. i came to this narrative with prior empathy for yolande and this book deepened that.

i loved the first act. 2nd and 3rd were more of a challenge. but overall, thought it was beautifully performed. beautifully shot. interesting, original, eccentric, tragic.

sooo… that was heavy.

i think it’s so ridiculous that they’re making a he-man film in 2026. but that boy playing him is awfully pretty.

will report back.

I can’t believe the corporation for public broadcasting doesn’t exist anymore. like…

there she goes, hyper-fixating/fantasizing over phd programs again...

talk therapy is hard, man.

i’m not usually an historical fiction person but early-to-mid 20th century Harlem-based novels are having an incredible run. first Harlem Rhapsody (which I loved). now these two? what a time. 😍

just finished With Love, From Harlem by ReShonda Tate. now i’ve started A Harlem Wedding by Tiffany L. Warren. really loving this one so far.

i wish the Mother’s Day fairy would gift me a ticket to this. www.unionstagepresents.com/shows/goldco...

yall, mindy kaling may be problematic, but she makes an excellent situation comedy. (when she’s not starring.) the second season of running point is as fun as the first.

i love producing interviews with my faves as guests. tayari has been. dolen perkins valdez has been on. andrew bird has been on. if i can get bilal on...?

maybe it's not good to *meet* your heroes, but producing remote interviews with them for public radio? 10 outta 10, do recommend!

just taped this and he was everything i hoped he'd be, tbqh. lol 😍

day before payday. step outside to head to work. slightly under half a tank of gas. median prices are $4.19, up 43 cent from this time last week. (they'd curiously dipped to $3.76, after a week or so at $3.99.) but it's okay! we'll make it... wait.

incidentally, he's doing a 20th anniversary tour for his album "andrew bird & the mysterious production of eggs." here, he'll be performing it with the greensboro symphony. which sounds like a dream pairing. this is what i was hoping bilal would do this year with "first born second."

i've produced a lot of conversations for my job over the past three years. hundreds, probably. some with celebrities, who come through town for shows and concerts. and *i'm* not talking to them, so i'm rarely nervous about how they turn out. but...

hired at $4.75/hr at McDonald’s in 1997. got a “raise” after 3 months to $4.90. the minimum wage changed to $5.15 while i was there but i was still receiving $4.90. i left about a month later.

me looking out the peephole before opening the door. it *is* that serious over here.

i've been down a jack white rabbit hole for about a week now. "archbishop harold holmes." "g.o.d. and the broken ribs." "derecho demonico."

he’s pretty incredible. he was also amazing in May December. he was easily the best thing about that film.

one thing about me, i don’t care if you’re a nepo baby if you poppin’. sadie did a fine job.

i like when natasha lyonne doesn’t lean super-hard into her schtick. i dig her schtick, but it’s nice to see her do other things again.

elisabeth moss is really exceptional at what she does.

based on early reviews, i’m quietly wondering if chloe might’ve been the Bailey sister that should’ve been cast in that romcom… she’s older and she reads older. plus her performances have a bit more nuance… i do love that they’re both committed to acting, though.

this goes way harder than we deserve in 2026, but it’s exactly what we need music.apple.com/us/album/g-o...

rob reiner was such a good filmmaker. and so was penny marshall. and i like that they were married for a little bit. and i get why they didn't stay married and just... God rest both of their souls, fr.

the way meg ryan used to push her nose up in the air when a character was self-satisifed (and most of her characters were self-satisfied) was so fun. i searched for photographic evidence but it was harder to find than i thought. this is essentially it, though.

Alice Augusta Ball found the cure for leprosy at 23. She died in a mysterious lab accident at 24. Arthur Dean stole her research, stole it and renamed it from "The Ball Method" to "The Dean Method." It took 90 years before her original research papers were found and she got the credit due to her.

“I don’t want to go to my grave with my ideas.” - Lenora Helms (second from left)

“… y’all klan?”

that truly is nasty work.

aaand with that, the tv goes off.

… I wasn’t even going to watch this tonight. I wanted to see the “I liked to you” performance, the cinematography category and supporting actor just in case it’s delroy. but i might turn this off to mitigate annoyance and disappointment.

the aggressive Burger King advertising feels as dystopian as all the AI messaging.

delroy lindo looks so good. that cravat(?) is doing some important work.