For 2026, I am logging off. I may show up infrequently to post updates, but for now, please reach out if you need my contact info!

I *know* I shouldn’t share the NYPost but I got served this BUTT PHRENOLOGY article !!!! And people should know that we have entered the era of BUTT PHRENOLOGY !!!!

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

I watched AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH in Portugal today and I just want everyone to know that the entire movie was subtitled in English in Papyrus. The entire movie.

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The Abundance movement often points to environmental groups as the obstacles to building. But who actually files the lawsuits blocking projects? It’s not environmental groups. It’s been lawyered-up HOAs protecting property values all along. Regulation by litigation is the problem.

updated my letterboxd favorite movies

Why is this tiny gesture so funny

Had to track down the Rob Reiner cameo on 30 Rock.

Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008. Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.

the good that you do persists in this world

This is a textbook case of political asylum.

Agree with Greg — this part has long confounded me. Abrego Garcia agreed to go. But the admin wanted him to suffer. These people are monsters.

Transport Workers Union Local 234 and SEPTA reached a tentative agreement on a new two-year contract on Monday after Gov. Josh Shapiro helped break an impasse in talks. 🔗 www.inquirer.com/transportati...

Andre Gregory wrote this in 1967 after he was fired from Theatre of the Living Arts, on regional theaters and board politics. Just as true today: "Most of the community stays away from the theatre simply because it does not like what is done there."

I thought the whole point of a review of a bad book is that you don't have to read the book

i think the financial incentive to bait people into engaging with dogshit is a big part of how we got where we are.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

james cameron every couple of years for some reason:

This shit is just planned out and orchestrated out in public. Her mother is a fucking conservative podcast host and lawyer, this isn't some kinda quirk or accident, this paper was written with the express purpose to gin up another culture war about trans people in academia and it's working.

I am trying to expand my list of Movies With Plays In Them on @letterboxd.social. What is it missing? The play must be featured, somehow seen performed, not simply referenced or mentioned boxd.it/tpLw6

"High American construction costs are not downstream of high incomes, but rather of poor governance leading to low labor efficiency, poor procurement practices, nonstandard systems, and overbuilding." pedestrianobservations.com/2025/11/30/i...

I left substack 4 years ago and Twitter about a year ago for ethical reasons and I am doing just fine. The fact that neither product does what they are supposed to do didn’t hurt the decision.

the entire beltway media complex is rotten all the way through, I truly believe Nuzzi's just the worst at hiding it

well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.

As a society, we should be more embarrassed by non-athletic outfits with sneakers

And the piece itself: www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

OK tonight I learned that Gaspar Noe brought Dario Argento as his +1 to meet the Pope, and this is possibly the sweetest and the maddest thing to ever happen.

my beloved girlfriend has an inexplicable attraction to grotesque, almost supernaturally weird old men. guys who look like the adults from a roald dahl story. fellas who act like they were perhaps recently animals turned human through some unnatural bargain with the fey. not me though

I would love to read an account of this saga that isn’t written in an atrociously purple way but seems like that’s too much to ask of anyone involved

this would have been a month-long scandal in 2011

Pope Leo absolutely cooking

It is very funny that this Pope is just going to get jerseys from now on. Everyone decided that's what this Pope likes and that is it. It's like if your grandmother got you a puzzle for Christmas one year and you said you liked it so your entire extended family is like "oh that's the puzzle kid"

i’d be more comfortable with the olivia nuzzi coverage if every story was headlined something like “seduced by a guy who eats roadkill: the story of an extremely stupid lady”

Plant trees pet cats

I attended a meeting yesterday and it reminded me that every single organizer needs to get training on how to facilitate meetings. Truly. You lose more people through terrible meeting facilitation than I can express.

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

If I taught a modern theater history course, I would assign my students to make wikipedia pages for theaters because it is real bleak on there. All sorts of notable cultural work that is totally non-existent there.

And yes it matters to still DO politics and this is part of that. I think it's strange when people say 'nothing matters' when in fact anything done in a sustained fashion matters to someone over time.

The actor who narrated the film Train Dreams, Will Patton, also narrated the audiobook. I just think that's neat.

Will you fight

David Lynch shorts program played this, from July 2020, which is about a minute and a half of a drawing of a cartoon guy bouncing around the screen with yellow squares and an industrial score. Someone walked out. How was your day honey? youtu.be/Ggz_oXPjfhg

The asters are holding it down, continuing to bloom and feed the local pollinator population. Observed at least three species using this one plant today

this is the craziest thing I've read in a long time???? Meta projected that 10% of its revenue last year, $16 billion, came from scams. Meta intentionally charges the scammers MORE and knows that people who click on scams are more likely to see more of them www.reuters.com/investigatio...

if we're talking final shot: It Was Just an Accident

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

if unofficial results hold, Democrats have swept the city council in Troy, NY, a small upstate city. Dems were previously in a 4-3 minority.

Like clockwork, PMA CEO & Director Sasha Suda was fired this morning, as the Inquirer reported yesterday (and ran on this morning's front page) that the board was in the dark as the rebrand moved forward www.inquirer.com/arts/philade...

Taking profound pleasure in having set my clocks back earlier in the evening

New Yorkers vote today if you haven’t and you get this