wife: did you forget to get eggs? me: uhh no i looked but they were out wife: *immediately taps head for ABS review*

this kind of procedure is why healthcare costs keep going up

R.I.P., Sid Krofft. Which means that Sid and Marty are together again, no doubt already back to lovingly squabbling with each other, as they did during my conversation with them for the AV Club. Legends. Glad I had the chance to talk with them both. www.avclub.com/sid-marty-kr...

RIP Sid Krofft. When I wrote about a Land Of The Lost episode for my VSE column, I also wrote at length about the Krofft brothers strange, '70s-specific magic. www.avclub.com/land-of-the-...

THE POPE DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO MANUFACTURE A RUN.

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

I am sure all the theater people on here knew this already but this is a lovely writeup of the actor playing Tommy on “The Comeback”, who’s an 86-year-old four-time Tony-winning director who’s apparently acting on screen for the first time.

Oh this has strong "fight in the dugout that continues down the tunnel" potential.

Sunday Night Baseball crew tonight had an awkward start but Benetti is always so good at loosening everybody up and now they're starting too cook. (It helps to have CC Sabathia in the mix.)

Rory McIlroy Struggling To Fit Big Check Into Mobile Deposit Photo

Sunday Dinner: Jambalaya, Dad’s Famous Salad™️, cornbread w/honey

’Twas it? ’Twas it brillig?

Men: Never forget that women want you to prove your love by doing the simple things, such as fleeing a life of danger and heartbreak during Hungary's communist uprising before going on to terrify audiences as Dracula

Do not watch Sesame Street on Tubi with the subtitles on 😭. I swear, I didn't edit or add anything. Is it hilarious? Yes, but also, they need to fix this immediately. Absolutely incomprehensible and bad

This piece of mine keeps popping back up, which I appreciate. Here it is again ICYMI.

This may be a fundamentally new kind of sin blending blasphemy, idolatry, divination, and simony, among others. Those who are not horrified at this may be entirely lacking in authentic religious awareness and feeling.

Max Muncy That funcy Muncy Max Muncy, juncy That funcy Muncy

One of the things I always appreciated about the Obama administration was having Sasha and Malia Obama negotiating with other countries in some of the world hot spots. That's a diplomatic tradition that I hope moves forward.

“What are the best and worst Morrissey lyrics?”

I've been working on a big project that has a loose deadline of today, and I dreamed last night that I told the late character actor Jack Warden that I might need the weekend to finish up, and Jack Warden yelled at me.

🎶 Albania! Albania! You border on the Adriatic, your land is mostly mountainous and your chief export is chrome!🎶

In our new interview, Anthony Norman and Ronald Gladden discuss the surreality of being the good guys in Jury Duty. www.avclub.com/jury-duty-in...

This is a fun piece (with some wild AI hallucinations thrown in as a sweetener): www.nytimes.com/athletic/718...

Fun with the kiddo....

Love this

I needed just this

Holy shit!! @shudder.com becomes the home of TALES FROM THE CRYPT. Streaming once again after a 30 year hiatus! And nearly one year before my book on the series drops in 2027! Best day ever.

i've touched i believe 4 different school-supplied chromebooks now, and my favorite features shared by all 4 machines are the dull and yet laborious thud of every individual mouse click, combined with the sisyphean experience of moving the mouse across the screen

MapTap today hitting me with a literal "Where Is Kazakhstan?" #iykyk

Stay in the know, but remember to practice self care and touch grass and seek laughter and whatnot.

Drone Panic in New Jersey (ambient/downtempo, Editions Mego, 2026) Side A: Faceless in Bordentown, Learn to Commute, Hoboken Waterway Sutra, Turnpike Follies Side B: Passed Out on the Shark River Golf Course, Born to Doze, Regional Jet, Long Drone for Thomas Edison

For @deciderdotcom.bsky.social , an appreciation of a non-Cosa-Nostra (as such) David Chase opus: decider.com/2026/04/07/d...

it is impossible to overstate the romance of living in the Tampa Bay area

I haven't been as doomy as some have (understandably) been all day, but I will say that I've been meaning to try the Andy's Frozen Custard gooey butter cake concrete and I did decide that I may as well do it today.

In his second appearance, the Silver Surfer stands in front of Alicia and instead of eating food converts it into energy, boasting that this way "not a single gram shall be wasted". But Alicia can feel the warmth this process produces, meaning grams ARE being wasted - as heat. In this essay I will

Sure, I spent the '80s watching action movies that were mostly military revenge fantasies about the Middle East. But then I went to college and spent the '90s watching movies mostly about Tehran schoolgirls trying to accomplish various simple tasks. The Iranian New Wave would fix a lot of people.

For The Reveal I wrote about John Woo's brutal 1990 war movie BULLET IN THE HEAD, and about what responsibilities war movies have to try to tell the truth about war:

I think this is the greatest photograph I've ever seen.

"Banned in 46 Countries!" I wrote about Faces of Death—the original, the new one, and the cursed videotape that haunted a generation.

CBS and TNT leaned way too much on game shows and gimmicks in NCAA Tournament studio coverage that missed the mark. awfulannouncing.com/cbs/2026-nca...

Good blooms.

awwww

The Comeback gets even more meta than usual this week, in a sweetly sentimental episode that's partly *about* plugging rote sentimentality into a sitcom's formula. My NYT review of a fascinating episode that argues against itself. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/a...

Not the point, but this guy looks like Doug.

Wait a minute now

Today is both Merle Haggard's birthdate and the 10th anniversary of his death... I honor one of America's great songwriters by picking 10 of my favorite cover versions of his songs, by Charley Pride, Johnny Cash, JD Crowe, Johnny Rodriguez, Bettye Swann and more. At No Fences Review

The mist above the creek this morning was really good, but hard to catch on camera. This is the best shot I could get.

SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion in stores now read.macmillan.com/lp/such-grea...

Easter Dinner: Honeybaked Ham (w/horseradish sauce and honey mustard sauce), hash brown casserole, butter-poached carrots, green beans, garlic bread.