how many people who appear on your television screen ever, for any reason, ride a city bus? answer is almost certainly zero. asking these people about bus service is like asking college gameday to discuss opera bsky.app/profile/benj...

Also I think it’s crazy that everyone has their phone out recording in church now. the word did not become flesh to be in your instagram reel imo

This is what they took from you.

This book provides back-justification for the brainmelt and bad-faith trolling of those (especially those living far from the early outbreak centers) who could never handle the solidarity required for stopping the pandemic.

We’ve seen in a bunch of school shootings recently the people who actually are supposed to have this job taking a rather tepid approach. Why should somebody whose job is to open doors or scan tickets view themselves this way?

Real hot dog guy meme energy coming from the business newspaper.

"The Maltese Falcon" era of San Francisco is officially now more dangerous than the version today which makes every tech investor want to invent Robocop

He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.

“Somehow, Ella has become the governor.”

This parallel (particularly the effect the Cold War had internally and externally)is key to the book I’m working on.

Went to high school with many such guys.

That particular movie is an obsession among middle-to-younger millennials that drowns out other worthy adaptations.

I was asked in an interview today about this. I said that Dolan has Romanitas and it would have been “man bites dog” to say anything negative. But the installation is on his birthday.

Blue-collar voters love fare hikes to support redundant staffing.

Segment audio now available: www.wnyc.org/story/change...

Lydia Tár snubbed again by woke cancel culture after all her concerts there.

Segment audio now available: www.wnyc.org/story/change...

Led with Romero and ended with New Yorkers Ita Ford and Maura Clarke as examples Archbishop Hicks might look to: www.wnyc.org/story/friday...

Led with Romero and ended with New Yorkers Ita Ford and Maura Clarke as examples Archbishop Hicks might look to: www.wnyc.org/story/friday...

Today at 11:10!

I didn't know Adrian Lyne was making a comeback (he actually did make a movie in 2022).

I will be on Lehrer tomorrow at 11:10 discussing new Archbishop of New York: www.wnyc.org/shows/bl?fbc...

A photo of David Brooks palling around with Epstein in the latest Epstein files drop three weeks after he wrote a column chiding America for caring about the Epstein story is some serious Rafael Palmeiro shit.

I say "avowed" because they would probably accept various ideas that fall under that umbrella (and be more tepid or reject others) but would resist the term.

The conservative Catholic echo chamber of EWTN, Newman Guide schools, etc. that Dolan & co. think of as real Catholics does not give a good roadmap for engaging the broader society including most Catholics.

Hicks and Zohran are best-matched mayor/Archbishop combo in NY in some time.

Another nail in the coffin of Weigel’s infamous “End of the Bernardin Era” thesis.

This was the case both because of the way it happened (knocking out VP Kicanas and ensuring conservative continuity after George) and because of what Dolan did in the role. Really cemented right-wing culture warrior era we’re still trying to get out of.

Here’s an ironic tidbit from the NCR article about Hicks appointment.

Long Island in particular being hit hard by sprawl-induced traffic. Ironically would benefit from the kinds of policies they oppose in NYC to calm congestion and invest in transit.

This is Leo’s version of JPII appointing O’Connor: “a man like me in New York.”

Cardinal Pierre (Nuncio) turning 80 at the end of January is important context here. Finishing the job.

A lot of otherwise sensible people who lived through the big ‘60s-early ‘90s crime wave always think we’re just on the verge of it being Taxi Driver out there.

noooooooooooooooooo

Say what you will about the tenets of clericalism, at least it’s an ethos. Right now we’re living in the empty shell of it with the institution refusing to open new paths.

Was talking to a bishop recently who said priests won’t make it without priest friends. However true that is, hard to make friends without a choice.

He had both of those Popes’ vices without their virtues.

Dolan epitomized the bad ending to the JPII/Benedict era: a man totally unsuited for his times, always ready to criticize the left and embrace the right. Hicks has a lot of work to do on local level while immediately becoming a national figure.

This is Leo’s version of JPII appointing O’Connor: “a man like me in New York.”

Looks my instinct on Hicks to NY was correct.

A few recent subway ridership records: Saturday 12/13: Busiest post-COVID Saturday Friday 12/12: Busiest post-COVID Friday Thursday 12/11: Busiest post-COVID day

It's not about the Gaston *character*, it's the fictional movie that inspired the Gaston toy.

They should be debating who to cast in a Harry Palmer reboot.

Conservative academia is much more constantly and censoriously political than normal “liberal” academia.

This is especially relevant as they set up to sell people on customizable AI stories with film IP. Physical media allows you to see the actual art in a stable way that’s not trying to sell you on something else.

Because if you care about securely owning a movie that you love--as opposed to "owning" it only until a license agreement over which you have no control expires without warning--you need a DVD or Blu-ray. The hardware may be yesterday; the concern is very much of this moment.

It’s the same thing as “Covid lockdowns led to RFK.”

Purchased a rare official DVD of this off eBay.

Their move with respect to Trump (the man) is typically a version of the “personally opposed but” argument they mock in pro-choice Catholic politicians.

My native land, everyone.