This Fugees reunion is very important to us olds

Three years ago I wrote a blog asking how Republicans live with themselves when they are objectively doing so much harm. It still holds up. Maybe you can give it read?

Lol two famous bloviators sniping at each other on Velshi. 👩‍🍳 😘

Do we really believe the MELANIA doc made $8 million? I mean, I suppose hardcore MAGA fanboys bought multiple tickets to artificially jack up its numbers. And a few undoubtedly saw it out of morbid curiosity. But that seems prettttttty high based on all the screenshots of empty theaters I've seen.

My perhaps philistine opinion: I don't need my lasagna to be 100 thin layers. It's food, not a magic trick, and actually being able to taste the pasta is part of what makes lasagna lasagna.

Oh hell nope

For Baltimore magazine's January cover story, I wrote about the golden age of filmmaking in Baltimore.

Ha the critic at The Guardian compared MELANIA to ZONE OF INTEREST 😆

I'm pretty sick of opening up social media to discover that some irreplaceable life force of charm and talent has died. @RIPCatherineOHara

When Don Lemon went into that church, all the MAGA social media warriors were like, "Boom! Disrupting a church service is against the law! We got him!" There is literally no distinction between Trump's Justice Department and @TrumpIsMyDaddy14379.

May MELANIA outgross it at the box office

Can someone explain what he’s going for here?

I just heard Stephanie Ruhle and Ali Velshi declaring that Bruce Springsteen's new anthem will be the biggest thing to come out of the anti-ICE movement. Some people are truly stuck in the 20th century.

The people who think you need to be paid to protest government cruelty are really telling on themselves.

Call it the James Holzhauer Effect but suddenly everyone is going all in on Jeopardy Daily Doubles, even when it's not the strategic move. I've seen it work and I've seen it massively backfire.

I hate the casting of Vladimir. The narrator is supposed to be a former beauty, not a current beauty. Casting Rachel Weisz throws the whole thing out of whack.

Melania Trump gets no magazine covers, no puff pieces, no positive coverage at all. Mostly because she’s in a loveless marriage to a psychopathic dictator. But it occurs to me that’s why she made this movie. She’s dying to see her name in lights, even if she has to take matters into her own hands.

I love how fast food restaurants are now calling sandwiches “protein pockets.”

Tony Romo is cracking my shit up. “One play can win you the game. You can fall down. Anything can happen.”

I just realized that ChatGPT is basically a mansplainer. If it has no idea it will just make shit up.

“You called us fascists and therefore we were forced to act like fascists” is not quite the defense they think it is.

I’m watching BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE. It’s like, take all the rock star biopic clichés but make it boring.

Christi Noem should testify under oath in Congress and explain why she lied about the facts around the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

Who’s gonna open up a class action lawsuit against the Trump regime? United States v. The Trump Administration. Cause I don’t feel like paying taxes to a federal government that, in a variety of ways, is actively trying to kill me.

In the end, it just comes down to empathy. Do you have it or don’t you? If you have it, you understand that Renee Good and Alex Pretti were concerned about their neighbors and trying to protect them from a brutal regime. If you don’t, you think they were paid agitators or radicals.

Here’s my theory. The Republicans saw how straitlaced and relatively charmless Jack Smith was at their closed door hearing so they felt confident trotting him out in front of the public to hector him with their bullying and diversion tactics.

Jack Smith has barely been able to get in a word and Biggs just accused him of filibustering. The look on Smith's face:

Thanks to my crazy MAGA cousin, I have insight into their way of thinking. They don't deny that January 6th happened or that it was violent. They claim is was egged on by FBI agitators embedded within the mob. It's absurd and utterly baseless, of course. But that's what they think.

Oh, I’ll play! One Battle After Another > Sinners > Sentimental Value > The Secret Agent > Marty Supreme > Frankenstein > Train Dreams > Bugonia > HAMNET > F1

I keep thinking about his parents packing up his favorite backpack, putting on his blue knit hat with the bunny ears and tassels, making sure he's warm and safe for school. May we never live down the shame.

F1 has to be the worst film ever nominated for Best Picture.

They have to let the Nazi with dementia ramble on and on at Davos because he’s the president of the United States.

Do you say another thing coming or another think coming? (The number of fights I have had over this…)

In 2016 I wrote an essay claiming Trump didn’t have a single redeeming quality. I was too kind. (For one, I said he loved his kids which I no longer believe.) Considering a follow up.

My friend @jmendelsohn.bsky.social posted this. It so succinctly describes how I feel about our current national crisis—and the craven Republicans in Congress—I had to steal it.

I do feel like the reason why the likes of Ted Cruz, Elon Musk, JD Vance, et al have gone full MAGA is because they can’t get enough of the validation from Trump bros. These guys are all losers who were undoubtedly painfully unpopular in high school, and now they’re online kings.

I just found out that you can do half stars on Letterboxd and it’s a game changer! NO OTHER CHOICE: 4.5 stars BONE TEMPLE: 4 stars

It’s true Trump no longer has guard rails, but he also no longer has people in his inner circle who are intelligent enough to comprehend the dire consequences of his foreign and domestic policies.

Pope shit

That was one of the most insane things I’ve ever seen on a football field.

My 3 letter guesses finally surpassed my 4 letter guesses. Thank you, TRACE, for always being there for me.

People warned me about THE RIVER IS WAITING, and yet I read it. Damn you, Wally Lamb!

It’s weird that Timothée Chalamet, America’s foremost twink, is soon to become the stepfather to two young boys.

Does ANYONE actually like the iPhone feature that makes random words pulsate when you text? The word "JUMBO" just started throbbing for no damn reason. I never want this to happen. Not intentionally and certainly not without my consent, as it were.

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Why wasn’t SINNERS in the musical and/or comedy category. It’s as much a musical as ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is a comedy.

Julia Roberts looks phenomenal. What an icon.

LFG Wagner Moura!

I truly love that Vince Gilligan basically created PLURIBUS so Rhea Seehorn could get her (overdue) flowers and it worked.

At the NYC protest. Powerful and tough.