A thought I’m having after publishing this is that when people (artists) steal from each other, it comes from a place of feeling: jealousy, identification, inspiration… if someone lifts something from me I know it’s because they cared enough to do it. When AI steals it’s just programming

"Expressing our own flawed subjectivity just makes us feel better." - @mkcarr.bsky.social

For my June wrap-up, I wrote about the similarities and differences between AI and human magic (you can guess which one I prefer): open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

I love the way Seth Rogen has been weaponizing his doofy likability by playing really difficult annoying guys lately

My opinion is I think Mindy’s NSFW has a lot of growth potential and I rly wanna see season 2…

A service I need is to be able to input old films I want to see in theaters and then get notified when screenings are scheduled in my city

I’ve been on the bandwagon for Tony winner Alden Ehrenreich since BEAUTIFUL CREATURES

My favorite new release of the week!! Katherine Arden’s Winternight trilogy is amazing and this lush standalone historical fantasy does not disappoint. SOOO good

For my May wrap-up, I wrote about the different ways to craft a romantic life, featuring Annabel Monaghan’s Dolly All The Time, Lily Meyer’s The End Of Romance, Pulitzer Prize winner Liberation, and A Perfect Hand by @ayeletw.bsky.social : open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

Annabel Monaghan’s latest book is out today! She’s my favorite contemporary romance author and this is my fave book of hers since Nora Goes Off Script. Make it your summer vacay read!

Top Gun being 80s Great Waldo Pepper omg I’m gagged

Another one in the greys anatomy finale???

So interesting to see someone sneeze into their hand in 2026 …

Major Gift by Tiffany Ezuma—out next week—is like Apple TV’s Loot by way of Emily Henry in novella form. Read it basically in one sitting. If you’re into romance definitely check it out❣️ www.vogue.com/article/majo...

For reporting, I'm looking to speak to a Black novelist whose screen adaptation has been scrapped or delayed for a long period of time. If that's you or someone you know, please email me at [email protected].

It’s pub week for Anna Konkle’s memoir and I highly recommend it!

Spending the week in Los Angeles, continuing to marinate on fantasy…

For my April wrap-up, I wrote about the fantasy of fame and why it remains so irresistibly alluring despite the fact that all our fame narratives are embedded with tragedy: open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

For my April wrap-up, I wrote about the fantasy of fame and why it remains so irresistibly alluring despite the fact that all our fame narratives are embedded with tragedy: open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

Universe is pointing me to this song as the spring anthem open.spotify.com/track/6KOthe...

Giggling and kicking my feet coming out of a screening of The Hot Rock

Michaela Coel was giving some Doctor Who ass monologues in Mother Mary

Jupiter Ascending is a Sarah J Maas plot

wrote a little bit about THE PITT writing out Dr. Samira Mohan, the outcry around it, & the conversations we ~should~ be having more of about this whole situation:

Anyone who enjoyed the way Lena Dunham’s Famesick brings a new dimension to Girls should check out next month’s The Sane One by Anna Konkle, which will remind you how good PEN15 was and help you appreciate the series in a brand new light.

My sister is fundraising for Holy Cross’s charity dance marathon benefitting Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, if anyone has any $ to spare ❤️ join.pedaids.org/fundraisers/...

My sister is fundraising for Holy Cross’s charity dance marathon benefitting Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, if anyone has any $ to spare ❤️ join.pedaids.org/fundraisers/...

The Copilot AI product placement in the High Potential finale …

So excited to report that I got to visit the New Mexico set of DARK WINDS (one of my favorite shows!) last summer. It was a lot of fun to talk to and an eye-opening experience to watch the cast & crew bring this special, sensational AMC drama to life:

Whidbey by T Kira Madden and Strange Girls by Sarvat Hasin were two of my favorite releases this month. Wrote about them and more on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

WHO’S getting excited for the Paradise season finale tomorrow!!!

Matrix Revolutions is major Snyder Cut vibes

My writing group is arguing over whether lightning has a sound… I’m like yeah it’s called thunder… and they’re like no thunder is a separate thing

Paradise continues to be my favorite show on the air, and after binge-reading some Octavia Butler this year I feel even more jazzed on its delicious sci-fi structure. Wrote about it here: open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

Paradise continues to be my favorite show on the air, and after binge-reading some Octavia Butler this year I feel even more jazzed on its delicious sci-fi structure. Wrote about it here: open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

I come to bury Timmy, not to praise him. The online mob hath told you Timmy was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Timmy answer’d it. open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

I come to bury Timmy, not to praise him. The online mob hath told you Timmy was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Timmy answer’d it. open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

[points at shirt, gestures at screen]

This made me so mad I had to write a pre-Oscars screed about F1, a toxic American fantasy funded by a collaboration of technocracy and autocracy: open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

F1 the most poisonous propagandist enterprise I’ve seen in a minute… artistically bankrupt paid advertisement that doesn’t even function well as a paid advertisement

It upsets me badly when people debate who the “real father” in Mamma Mia is… the whole point of the story is that it doesn’t matter. You care about the wrong things and it reveals a sickness in your soul.

i need to know who is holding Nicole Kidman hostage and making her do these dreadful tv shows. prime video's SCARPETTA is a real low point imo:

I have seen the pilot 7 or 8 times over the last 10 years and it only just now clicked that Keith Mars’ classic “who’s your daddy” line is foreshadowing😭😭 that’s crazy. I love good stories

I guess the version of the Veronica Mars pilot I’m most familiar with is the extended one but the version on Netflix feels like it starts so abruptly

went slightly long on Shah Rukh Khan in what is one of my favorite pieces i've gotten to write 🥰

I always think the Bridgeton costumes are cheap and tacky… and yet Jonathan Bailey is still styled better in his 15 min cameo this season than he was as Fiyero😭

Threw my hat into the ring of Wuthering Heights opinion and managed to also make it about Moonlighting (among other things) open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

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My best friend Liv Harvey, an amazing artist and artisan, is selling these anti-ICE stickers with a portion of the profits going to LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of Massachusetts — you can get them on her website: www.ohpleeze.com/listing/4456...

A Wuthering Heights where Thrushcross Grange is way creepier more haunted and more central to the story