BJ Novak you have made a fool out of me with your little book for the last time

I have a really clear memory of being six and driving down the freeway with my dad and saying “I reckon I can run this fast” and him, weirdly annoyed, saying “no you can’t”. I always wondered why that pissed him off so much but now that I have a six year old I get it. I get it, Dad.

This is fucking insane. I know we have other stuff on but I feel like this is something the UN could sort out if they put their minds to it.

Slow Horses gripe: I don’t think Roddy Ho is a fan of Shadow of the Colossus.

Exciting news: I have given myself a tummy ache from eating too many chicken crimpies from the snack table.

- Hey there’s a really smart guy at the New Yorker who only interviews people he’s pissed off with and everyone who does it comes out looking like a bozo. He wants to talk to you, I figured you wouldn’t - - My God yes can he do 2pm

Well this is extremely fucken exciting. Insanely blessed with this cast and team. Going to set every day not quite believing it, trying not to knock anything over. au.variety.com/2025/tv/news...

I only recently learned that John Wilkes Booth wasn’t just an actor but a reasonably famous one from a famous acting family. Having run the numbers, I’ve decided it’s like if Bill Skarsgard or maybe Liam Hemsworth shot the president today during a screening of one of the Conjuring films.

originally tweeted this when the thing happened. reposting it here because i remembered the phrase and it made me laugh

Just tried to listen to an audiobook while not doing anything else. Not cleaning or walking or driving, just sitting there. Feels absolutely demented.

I am thrilled to announce that I am the the guest (not counting the other guest) for the first episode of this bananers show hosted by the wonderful @demilardner.bsky.social. Watch and see my invention, Creature, serve as my body #SYWTWAPP

My 6 year old asked me this morning what ID stood for and I got so excited to do the Norm joke that I absolutely fumbled it. 😒

I’ve only seen the trailer but is the plot of the new i know what you did last summer that a different group of teens run over the same fisherman three decades later? Because if so that’s incredibly funny.

lol all the characters in paw patrol on paramount+ have English accents for some reason instead of the original Canadian, and Moses just looked at the tv in disgust and said “there is something wrong with our speakers”

I will find, and kill, the villainous mayor from Paw Patrol. This has gone on long enough.

One of the interesting things about animated kids tv now is that I guess animating large numbers of people is expensive so they all take place in these towns full of lovely buildings but with haunting, empty streets and like six residents, giving the whole thing a post apocalyptic feel.

If you think about it hard enough, all nouns are proper nouns

I worry that recommendation algorithms may be getting too good.

I am drowning/There is no sign of land/You are coming down with me/Hand in unlovable hand

This bed is on fire / with passionate love / the neighbours complain / about the bed that's on fire

This has pissed me off for close to two years now. Why would the bread dream of a field of *corn*? It wouldn’t, it would dream of a field of wheat, which is exactly what the illustrator has drawn, possibly in an act of open defiance.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... This is grim. (Full disclosure: This street kitchen is run by my sister. Carly is an incredibly decent person. Does that make *me* an incredibly decent person? By association?? Possibly even better than her??? Ha ha well that’s not for me to say but yeah maybe!)

Hamish Linklater. Now there's a guy, if he turns up in something, I'm always going to do the Leonardo DiCaprio Pointing At The TV Thing. Love seeing that guy in stuff.

95% of making television is this, but without the whimsical doodads.

We need to update the record here.

For Americans following our election: our system is similar to yours except we don’t have a President, we have a Prime Minister, and they’re whoever can throw a pig over the National Barn first go.

Broken Hill photo dump. Someone really oughta consider filming stuff here just once.

This is a good slogan. Positive, but not committing the sin of pridefulness.

At the risk of saying something controversial here, Broken Hill is a place that is dry.

Come to the inside of a Sidney Nolan painting in 15 minutes if you want an ass kicking.

Do you think any of this woman’s friends ever took her aside and were like “hey babe you still seeing this guy? Nice okay listen there is something seriously wrong with his brain.”

I think Spelling Bee is running out of Normal Words.

My son made this this morning. We would all do well to remember its powerful message.

I used to scoff at scenes where someone is trying to explain something scientific and they pick up objects from the desk as props, but now that I am writing a scene were such an explanation is required...the temptation to go 'this-stapler-here?This-stapler-is-the-sun-mode' is almost unbearable.

Apparently season 2 of The Pitt is going to be 15 hours in the life of Doug Driscoll??? Just him getting into altercations with various frontline workers and an entire episode where he's asleep??? Don't see how that'll work but here's hoping!

Thinking about this some more, Harold Lauder in The Stand was a really prescient rendering of a Certain Type of Guy who is now pretty much everywhere.

I don’t think Stephen King gets enough credit for being able to write incredibly nasty pricks really well. Horror and spooky stuff aside, he just writes a really loathsome type of person perfectly.

It’s unsettling to be living through an event with the bone deep certainty that it’s going to be patronisingly explained to you by Judd Apatow in five to six years.

What's everyone's favourite chewy dragee? Mine's gotta be Mentos.

THE SEER: [32 minutes later] Oh, one more thing... Nah just yanking your chain, Swans, have a sick one.

In many ways, I see myself as the Dr Robby of this website (very tired, currently covered in blood)

My six year old has started saying Skibidi and all I can do in response is make that sort of Hank Hill noise he does when Bobby does something unsettling.

I saw a review of The Pitt that said the problem with it is that it straddles procedural and prestige TV. Wrong!!! That’s why it rules!!! It’s a lot better than a network medical drama BUT I never have to worry that there’ll be a departure episode from the perspective of a stethoscope or whatever.

How wrong he was. Then, how tragically right.

I believe I would bring some much needed levity and humour to The Pitt with my various antics.

TEEN: you’re the only one who understands me danny. my stupid dad won’t let me go see billie eilish with gretchen AI CHATBOT DANIEL PLAINVIEW FROM THERE WILL BE BLOOD: Your father is a bastard. Fit for a hole in the ground. You will go with Gretchen. Even if your father must die, as a bastard dies

A lot of my haters said I’d never hold an adorable little kitty cat. To them I say this;

You can tell how robust your world building is by How Many Things you are putting in Title Case.