please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...

i would say this review is late to the party, but it's less a party and more a collective decision to wince and make very little eye contact www.vulture.com/article/engl...

For those outside of Chicago, these signs are pretty common

It's rare to see a show with this much utter contempt for its target audience. My review of the thematically ambitious, but generally awful "Monster: The Ed Gein Story":

an entire song about travis kelce having the biggest penis heretofore discovered by science and still nothing to match the raw sexual fervor of Macavity, The Mystery Cat

Charlie Hunnam's performance as Ed Gein in "Gein — Monster: The Ed Gein Story" is very, very, very, very, very, very, very similar to Glen Powell's performance-within-a-performance as Chad Powers.

If you want to understand open adoption, it makes sense to start with birth parents—yet studies of them are few. 2+ yrs ago, I began talking w/ birth mothers to try to understand what living in an open adoption is like for them, and what rights or options they might have if challenges were to arise.

I always really enjoy reviewing Taylor Swift's work and try to give it a measured read. I think Swift is a serious artist deserving a serious response! So here's my Showgirl review www.npr.org/2025/10/03/n...

America First Legal, a nonprofit co-founded by the White House deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, filed a civil rights complaint with the Equal Opportunity Commission, accusing the Dodgers of “apparently engaging in unlawful discrimination" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/m...

That's part of why I wrote this. It's important to understand that MAGA is not "real" America. On the contrary, the reason they're all so fucking bitter is they know most people aren't like them. And they resent that. www.salon.com/2025/10/01/m...

Way before #AlienEarth even premiered, I landed a dream assignment: talking with Timothy Olyphant about everything from lessons learned on #Deadwood with David Milch to the TV storytelling pitfall he hates the most to breaking down tonight's finale (spoilers are toward the end):

my latest is expanding on the observation that your view of the politics of opposition to the administration depend largely on your view of the election (gift link)

Always wonderful to bump into my old friend Daniel Radcliffe!

It's good to see that Zach Woods has only become more powerful and based with time.

Well don't I feel stupid

i too would decline to RSVP for my boyfriend’s work party when he doesn’t even know if he’ll be attending yet

Wrote about PTA's ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, a movie that's fun, beautiful, stressful, and timely. I have some quibbles with where and how it chooses to place its focus -- most of its Black characters are frustratingly underserved -- but do I recommend it? Hell yeah. www.npr.org/2025/09/24/n...

this man has no mask on and is surrounded by people holding cameras and still feels complete impunity to violently throw this woman on the ground because he's wearing a badge abolish ICE

Don't believe the hype. ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is a shallow, mediocre satire that fails to draw blood. Features one of Sean Penn's worst performances and yet another appearance by "Twitchy Leo" But Benicio del Toro is great here, as are the VistaVision visuals. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/25/a...

very alarmed that this is getting more relevant by the week www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Basically, we have a lot of young people that have only ever known a world flattened by viral content, where everything is constantly getting noticeably worse all the time, and understand that mass violence gets the same reaction that a meme or shitpost does and view them as basically the same thing

CHOTINER: Just once I wanted someone to interview *me* DOCTOR: Oh I know just the person, the interviewer Issac Chotiner is in town, I have his phone number right here CHOTINER: (sobbing) but doctor, I *am* Chotiner

CHOTINER: And you thought it would be funny to do a fake interview by me? ME: A lot of people have, so CHOTINER: You were looking for engagement? ME: Well, to make someone laugh I guess CHOTINER: How many likes and reposts did it get? ME: That's, uh, not really the metric...look can we start over

Apple TV+ is premiering a show called "Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars" in October and you're telling me it's NOT a true-crime miniseries about a serial killer targeting high-end chefs?

finally catching up with the world and I gotta say that if you're gonna read one thing about Kimmel last night, @ajhan.bsky.social's thing is the thing to read www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-review...

Here it is, my last piece for @eater.bsky.social: my treatise on the last 20 years of food culture, and how food turned into fandom. I really hope you read it. www.eater.com/food-culture...

cannot believe we as a society have had to spend this much time thinking about jimmy kimmel, a man i normally only think about once a year when i think to google "who is hosting the oscars"

stop talking to me about Welcome to Derry if you don't mean Derry as in Derry Girls

Anthony Boyle has the exact opposite of a face that has seen an iPhone. his is 100% a face for shouting "ahoy hoy" into one of those old timey machines you need to use with both hands

This was fantastic. We say “touch grass” like a curse on someone, when really the digital realm has become a place to separate us from the sensual (and I’d argue the emotional) connection we have with the world around us and those closest to us

this exists it is called thinking

What Charlie Kirk and Jesus have in common is that American Christofascists absolutely hate it when you quote them directly.

“Several board members have expressed their concerns internally over the optics of holding a free speech event at the home of the man who yanked Kimmel off the air” Via THR

Part Two of this story is now live. www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

TCA condemns ABC and Disney’s capitulation to the government’s demands of censorship.

JOINT STATEMENT: Hollywood Labor on Pulling of Jimmy Kimmel Live w/ @sagaftra.org @directorsguild.bsky.social @afm-union.bsky.social

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

We strongly condemn the actions taken by Nexstar and Disney-ABC to pull JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! off the air.

Important to keep remembering and repeating that Kimmel didn't mock Charlie Kirk or celebrate his death in the monologue. He mocked the president's lack of feeling and criticized the regime.

There are a whole lot of media and television executives currently operating with conviction that the potential consequences of the present will outweigh the accountability of the future. And no matter what happens, they cannot be allowed to be correct.

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

Robert Redford on Richard Nixon's death. Not much changes, I guess.

"The title of the film could be read as an exhausted lament. It could be a rallying cry, too." @rilaws.bsky.social on PTA's fiery ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

weird choice by apple to make “ruining safari tabs” such a top priority in ios26