I literally saw both of them perform at the Newport Folk Festival last year, and I still don't know which one is which.

The fact that there is a band called Goose and a band called Geese is very confusing to me, a middle-aged woman.

The lack of uni at sushi restaurants in Baltimore pisses me off so much.

Nothing could’ve prepared me for how completely insane SIRAT is.

I just realized that IMMORTAL BELOVED and HAMNET would make a great double feature.

Do you know what AYCE means?

I don't feel sorry for A24 one bit. But I do feel sorry for the talented humans who worked with A24 (like Jesse Eisenberg) who can't get any love for their movies through the cacophony of anti-AI noise.

it was literature pub quiz night and our team name "flowers for algae gone" didn't get a single laugh, this isn't the country i grew up in

Finished CALAMITY CLUB. That Kathryn Stockett can write the shit out of a commercial novel. I was putty in her hands.

Guys, I’m a sports fanatic. Seriously. Baseball, football, basketball, tennis— I love it all. And I cannot get into soccer. It’s all tangled legs and kicked shins and flopping and own-goals. It has no flow. They call it the beautiful game but I don’t think it’s beautiful at all! What am I missing?

One legacy of Sex and the City is that you can never use the phrase I couldn’t help but to wonder. Not that I need to use it very often, but it can be an apt phrase, e.g. I couldn’t help but to wonder, if the aliens really came would anyone care? Now I just sound like Carrie writing about Spielberg.

DISCLOSURE DAY is rollicking fun until it gets a little...moist. My review.

DISCLOSURE DAY is rollicking fun until it gets a little...moist. My review.

You have to watch this

A guy on Instagram posted about how sets have become notably less lived in and cluttered in television and film and wondered why. Somebody replied that cluttered sets distract “second screen” types with already limited attention spans. FML

You know what film is underrated? THE PAINTED VEIL with Naomi Watts and Edward Norton. A beautiful slow burn love story set against the backdrop of a cholera outbreak in the Chinese countryside.

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I can't believe the Slate Culture Gabfest is ending. Am I going to be forced to go to actual dinner parties to discuss culture with deeply intelligent, funny people? @thehighsign.bsky.social

Dotcakes are yet another indication that people live quiet lives of desperation and are looking for anything to fill them.

In this instance I’d say they’re attempting to convey exasperation, breathy forced speech… but yah I’m a dog person so it’s all wet tongue hanging out to me!

Have you ever read a book where the writer uses a particular turn of phrase that you hate so much you’re not sure you can get past it? I’m reading Lily King’s Heart the Lover and she keeps saying that people “pant.” Not in a sexual desire sense, just in conversation. I’m not even sure what it means.

These conference finals have been so good. Now if only Baltimore could get an NBA team…

The fact that Epstein used IDENTICAL PHRASES in earlier known writing makes the suicide note less likely IMO. It’s almost too on the nose. Sorry to be all Conspiracy Cate about this but, well…

The funny, almost touching thing about Djokovic. He was never beloved. People always rooted for Federer or Nadal over him. Now they’re both gone and he, by default, finally gets to be the sentimental favorite.

Everything is measurably worse from when I was a kid except for grapes. For some reason, grapes are better now.

Is Joe Scarborough quiet quitting Morning Joe?

Diehard fans will be pleased. And let's leave it at that.

I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative

THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2 doesn't pass the sequel test. My review.

Has anyone else ever noticed that Elle Fanning and Claire Danes have the exact same voice?

The guy running this Iran War congressional committee has the worst rug I’ve seen in years.

Your occasional reminder that Valerie Cherish has one of the best marriages on TV.

Every day, I am more convinced that we are going to need to just turn everything off and start again. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/b...

I gasped when a certain A+list actress unexpectedly showed up in episode 4 of Margo’s Got Money Troubles.

YESSS!!! STAY THRU THE CREDITS GUYS THATS ALL ILL SAY!!!!

Trying to figure out where there are so many deeply unpleasant, misanthropic shows on right now: Euphoria, Beef S2, Half Man. I feel icky watching them all. Seems to me that what we SHOULD be craving is humanity and decency, a la The Pitt or Project Hail Mary. And yet, we have both...

In honor of John Waters’ 80th birthday, here is behind-the-scenes footage of our photoshoot! youtu.be/84U4HjsWSIY?...

Sometimes you’re glad a film was made simply because it allows a great actor to be great. My review of THE CHRISTOPHERS.

Sometimes you’re glad a film was made simply because it allows a great actor to be great. My review of THE CHRISTOPHERS.

Nobody ever has just one pug. It's always at least two pugs. See, also, Basset hounds.

On top of being incompetent, ignorant, and cruel, the people in Trump‘s cabinet are such massive losers. Like the dregs of society.

I'm listening to Belle Burden's STRANGERS on Audible as I walk Gus and my neighbors must think I'm losing it because I keep saying out loud, "Oh my God!"

Rock criticism still so patriarchal. Everyone talking about how Geese has revived indie rock when Wet Leg was right there the whole time.

What a terrible basketball game.

On the eve of his 80th birthday, John Waters shows no signs of slowing down. How has the Pope of Trash turned himself into the Filth Elder? For our April cover story, Editor-in-Chief @maxthegirl.bsky.social decided to go straight to the source to find out.

I’m having a “Will This Make Me an Asshole?” moment. I just started following this woman on Instagram who trains dogs for theater. She wrote, “Marty just got casted as Bruiser in Legally Blonde.” Nails on a freaking chalkboard. Do I tell her? Unfollow her? Get over it?

Saying that a pope is weak on crime is objectively hilarious.

Colman Domingo was so good on SNL. Not only is he an incredibly good actor he is just a charm bomb.

The Swalwell news is really depressing.

Thrilled to share my profile of one of my heroes, John Waters, where I ask the question: How does he remain so cool at 80?