Finally finished!

It's not that I'm surprised by how many critics, fans, etc, have decided that the abuse allegations against Brian Jordan Alvarez aren't important enough for them to top watching English Teacher. But I do think many of us need to be reacquainted with the concept of shame.

Help me pick a film to watch tonight!

Inherent Vice is still Paul Thomas Anderson’s best film though.

I reviewed One Battle After Another and shared some thoughts on why Leonardo DiCaprio endures. gossipreadingclub.substack.com/p/review-one...

If you think Trump deploying troops in American cities is nothing more than an opportunity to pivot to a completely different subject, you do not belong in Democratic leadership.

It's pretty fucking dire if The Beano knows its (mostly primary school aged) audience will not only see you as a punchline, but also get the joke that you're a gullible bullshitter.

You can't joke about anything anymore. Because you signed a multi figure contract with the Saudi government that said they wouldn't pay you if you did.

This was the inevitable endpoint of GamerGate.

How long before Reese Witherspoon announces that she's signed a deal to "work" with this AI "actress"?

Tonight's double bill.

I've said it before but it bears repeating now that I've seen One Battle After Another: cast Teyana Taylor as Akasha in season 3 of Interview with the Vampire!

Oprah's legacy will be one of elevating junk science, anti-vaxxers & woowoo emotional bullying to the heights of "wellness." I wrote about it!

PTA meeting.

Capitalism has never been this stupid. I wrote this.

Do you, like me, think about the mall of memorabilia in Barbra Streisand's basement all the dang time? Let's talk about it on my newsletter! gossipreadingclub.substack.com/p/do-you-rem...

We need to stop having hot people play the British royals. variety.com/2025/tv/glob...

I'm baffled by how so many film fans (not even critics or industry weirdos like myself) seem obsessed with data. When did fandom become such a numbers game? Why are you so concerned with budgets, Rotten Tomatoes scores, Letterboxd averages, etc?

I need to make an embroidered pillow that says, "boycotts are supposed to be inconvenient, you dolts."

This is not a romance. Nobody is "in love" with apps. There are no A.I. boyfriends. You cannot "date" a chatbot. Accepting this framing and treating it as real is tech-industry propaganda. slate.com/technology/2...

Research conducted by @transjournalists.org “identified 43 outlets including the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic and The Daily Beast running with the disproven stories of a ‘trans shooter’ and ‘trans bullets.’”

No, I haven't seen every contender for 2025, but I am secure in putting all of my energy behind Wagner Moura for Best Actor in The Secret Agent.

Do you, like me, think about the mall of memorabilia in Barbra Streisand's basement all the dang time? Let's talk about it on my newsletter! gossipreadingclub.substack.com/p/do-you-rem...

I read All the Way to the River and I'm not sure Elizabeth Gilbert should have written it. Here's my review.

All the Upcoming Legacy Sequels We’re (Maybe but Not Really) Looking Forward To

I started my second semester of Chinese classes. I didn't forget everything I learned in the first semester so I consider that a victory.

Jimmy Kimmel Is Coming Back on Tuesday

While I am generally not the target market for any sort of nonconsensual sexual content, there is absolutely no world in which you can trust to the discretion of moderators in judging this sort of thing. It will always end badly, and in a different place from where YOU thought the line was.

Box Office Report: Him-othee Chalamet

Capitalism has never been this stupid. I wrote this.

Southland Tales ass Presidency.

We're here to have a bad time!

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

I was startled by how sharply engagement on my Twitter account dropped once Elon took over. I have over 20k followers and tweets were suddenly doing a 10th of the numbers they used to. Add to that all the hate speech and weird ads and it just became pointless for my purposes.

What movie do you consider perfect?

You mean pro-sepsis candidates? Pro-women bleeding out in parking lots candidates? Pro-forcing girls to carry the product of rape and incest candidates? Pro-goverment all up in your cooter candidates? Just the most unserious conciliatory pendejo shit these two are peddling.

It's depressing how much generative AI has ruined all of my hobbies: books, embroidery, lofi music, crosswords. Every time I try to search for new patterns, playlists, etc, it's 80% ChatGPT or Midjourney slop on every platform.

Last week, Israel targeted and massacred 34 newspaper reporters in Yemen. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, it was the second deadliest attack on journalists ever recorded.

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

I sure do love it when someone responds to a piece I wrote on a woman who was murdered by her husband with "well, the Bible says she deserved it."

Still reading this. I'm about halfway through. It's a lot of book.

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TIFF 2025 Review: ‘Scarlet’ Is a Visually Stunning Anime Retelling of Hamlet

Aaron Pierre and Teyana Taylor Are the Hottest Celebrity Couple of 2025

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If I had done the same shit Olivia Nuzzi did my name would never be allowed in the VICINITY of a legacy pub ever again.

I think an underappreciated motivation on the right is how much they just don't like people not liking them. Like an absolutely massive grudge right wingers have about social media is that they very quickly realise they're unpopular on every site except the ones specifically for them.

How many Democratic politicians do you think are currently writing their pitches for book deals on how they strongly disagree with this rise in fascistic censorship and definitely did something about it other than an op-ed or podcast with a white supremacist?

What's everyone reading right now?

I wrote about the new Leni Riefenstahl documentary and how her propaganda has endured to this day (and shaped a new era of kayfabe brainrot.)