Have you heard the one about the Beach Boy and the cult leader? I wrote about Dennis Wilson and Charles Manson. gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/hollywood-cr...

This is probably my book of the year so far. Someone else please read it so I have someone to talk about it with.

Was complimented on the street two strangers for my tshirt. Another win for Misc-en-scene!

The only way to spend a heatwave.

Fireball!

Thanks for reading.

Tonight's film.

And the wedding sponcon begins.

I wrote about The Elephant Man, the Lynchian, and how the director's most "normal" film is still deeply odd.

Sorry, Taylor and Travis, but if we're talking about extravagant and genuinely bananas celebrity weddings, we have to talk about Liza Minnelli and David Gest! gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/was-liza-min...

The thing is, I could work for the rest of my life and never write a banger like @ceilidhann.bsky.social calling Pillion "if Rainer Werner Fassbinder directed an Alan Bennett monologue, with a sprinkling of Richard Curtis."

Tonight's film.

Vanessa Williams made history as the first Black Miss America, but a Penthouse story featuring nude photos forced her to step down. Let's talk about it! gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/do-you-remem...

Sorry, Taylor and Travis, but if we're talking about extravagant and genuinely bananas celebrity weddings, we have to talk about Liza Minnelli and David Gest! gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/was-liza-min...

I'm being watched.

AI isn't 'inevitable'. Banning and resisting it isn't 'going against the tide'. We can reject this narrative and determine our own future. But it will be a fight, and it will take greater tech literacy. Which tools are bad and which are not? Who are the bad actors? Which politicians are fighting?

Sorry, your sexist creep publicist never reached out to us.

"Come on, Homer. Japan will be fun. You liked Rashomon!" "That's not how I remember it."

Brad Pitt was at the Taylor-Travis wedding? Did they bond over their love of private jets?

“While this is structurally a familiar tale of overcoming adversity in the face of cruelty,” @ceilidhann.bsky.social writes of ‘The Elephant Man,’ “Lynch’s take on this story is still imbued with the uncanny sense of the otherworldly that made ‘Eraserhead’ so unique.”

Atty, Scotland's baby sloth, and his maw, Fe. He's named after David Attenborough.

Vanessa Williams made history as the first Black Miss America, but a Penthouse story featuring nude photos forced her to step down. Let's talk about it! gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/do-you-remem...

Tim Heidecker and The Onion's "Real Infowars" has launched in full. @AVClub reviews the 50-minute episode, which included a phone call from Tim Robinson, and the shock revelation that Alex Jones "popped like a balloon" a few months ago. https://flip.it/VCIX8j #television #theonion #infowars

I wrote about the first lady of Netflix and whether the streaming giant can help Millie Bobby Brown move into an adult acting career.

Have you heard the one about the Beach Boy and the cult leader? I wrote about Dennis Wilson and Charles Manson. gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/hollywood-cr...

Tell me what you're reading, playing, watching, and listening to this weekend!

When you have your wedding party at MSG on the 4th of July weekend during the World Cup. youtu.be/-egkmhWMLdg?...

I wrote about the first lady of Netflix and whether the streaming giant can help Millie Bobby Brown move into an adult acting career.

Tonight's film.

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

Immortal life advice

Are we back?!

"... that’s the real agenda here: people like being able to berate and harass and objectify celebrities, and the press wants that nasty cycle to continue."

My friend made me this chonky crochet kitty for my birthday!

What's the weirdest celebrity fad diet you've ever heard of? How about porkchops and pineapple? gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/is-this-the-...

Kayleigh has this incredible ability to take something with which I have only a vague familiarity and carefully transform it into engaging, urgent prose that makes me instantly understand why it's important. Anyway read one of our best culture writers hitting it out of the park yet again:

Team Canada! #worldcup

Amplifying this great piece because some of y’all (INCLUDING YOU, TRADE PUBLICATIONS!!!) do not understand the dangers of Cl*bCh*lamet’s behavior and I’m sick of seeing people act like she’s some harmless fangirl.

Mel Brooks and the Davids.

One of the reasons I could never bother with modern fandom is that I'm exhausted by how everything seems to be a competition. Why is there such a virulent split between Connor Storrie & Hudson Williams stans in the HR fandom? Why is everyone so concerned with Spotify streams or box office grosses?

What's the weirdest celebrity fad diet you've ever heard of? How about porkchops and pineapple? gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/is-this-the-...

What are you reading this weekend?

Read @ceilidhann.bsky.social on it!

This excellent. You will laugh, but it's also disturbing.

Did you ever watch Salo and wish it had more jokes? I wrote about John Waters's Desperate Living!

Shout out to all the furries in full dress for Dundee Pride amid this heatwave. Braver than the troops.

No dragons, no party.

*heavy sigh* I guess I had made it as long as I could without learning who Club Chalamet is. ah for the uncursed halcyon days of twenty minutes ago. thanks to Kayleigh for breaking this down so lucidly.

Fine, let's talk about Simone, Connor Storrie, fandom stalkers, and the commodification of the parasocial. gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/its-getting-...