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A couple weeks ago a good friend of mine told me, “you need a purpose in life.” After some soul searching, I decided my purpose in life will be a newsletter. I hope you like it because I do like receiving accolades.

Introduce yourself with the name your parents almost gave you: Jeff

04 Feb 2026

Every day it’s just a new round of punishment. Just relentless.

My favorite performance in Cocktail is from Laurence Luckinbill, this is great acting

New cut for time SNL sketch. We can all watch Mikey Day’s inner struggle not to laugh

I got sucked into watching DRAFT DAY again and gosh if that ending doesn’t make me tear up every single time

He does fun punches and kicks. I love him.

Sombr

It’s a tragedy Vinny Chase wasn’t invited back for The Devil Wears Prada 2

I have been very sick this week but I liked the Alexander Skarsgård show so much I got out of bed to talk to Ryan about it

Unless something changes there’s most likely no SNL podcast today for me @ryanboston.bsky.social. Ryan is holding out for more money and, frankly, I’m just not caving in this time.

Can’t say I’m surprised

What?!?!

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image.

Mike introduced me to Yellowbelly in September and I haven't really gone a day without thinking about it since.

John Candy is so funny in Yellowbelly but the sketch doesn’t work at all without Catherine O'Hara

Interesting fact for Bruce’s ties to the area: the Born in the USA tour started in St. Paul and that’s where the Dancing in the Dark video was filmed

Now: Bruce Springsteen sings “Streets of Minneapolis” in Minneapolis

DOJ has since killed this link. This is what was there:

I think they might be releasing the Epstein files now *as* a distraction. (I read this entire particular file and can’t wrap my head around why they did. Did they just miss it?)

I wouldn’t want to be Robin Leach today

Me every morning in this fucking country

Darren Aronofsky's Vietnam War

The Wrecking Crew is fun

I reviewed The Wrecking Crew, a buddy movie with "more nuance and depth than you’d expect in a movie where trucks and cars fly through the air before exploding. It has a binding theme, forgiveness, and is filled with journalistic details of Hawaiian culture." www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-...

Over and above everything else HE PRONOUNCED NICOLLET AVENUE CORRECTLY my god this man

Sam Darnold is going to play in a Super Bowl

Big fan of the One Battle After Another SNL action figure commercial… youtu.be/X5J5AbdaprU?...

New podcast! @mikeryan.bsky.social and I attempt to discuss last night’s SNL, but mostly talk about what it means to even try to make an episode of the show at this stage of history. open.spotify.com/episode/33jX...

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

I’m skeptical we make it through this

the star tribune’s live blog has no paywall right now

Here’s me and @ryanboston.bsky.social leaning into the now total cliché of watching Heated Rivalry (good show!) and we discuss the cut for time SNL sketch based on Happy’s Place. And I introduce Ryan to the song Tim Tebow’s Fire

What?

Fun to read this article because 1) it mentions the "annual blogger party," of which I am proud to have been one of the hosts every year it existed (2011-20); 2) a lot of the embedded tweets are "Not found" because those people have since deleted their Twitter accounts. 💀

Ahhh man. I still can’t believe AbracaDeborah happened. I wasn’t trying to cause mischief! I was in line and bored and imagined a movie I wanted to see and assumed everyone knew it was a joke…

I called this in June

So far this is the biggest surprise to me, but still well deserved

People can say they didn’t vote for this but people are liars

I’ve added the script for Wake Up Dead Man to my site. This is the final shooting script, so it has stuff that was cut and moved around, which I always think is more interesting to see than a conformed cleaned up version. Enjoy! www.rian-johnson.com/screenplays

Mark my words, tomorrow morning’s Oscar nominations will be a great day for MANK

Chewbacca is right

What is the greatest line in cinema