Counterpoint: there is no Chevy Chase discourse. He’s literally a wildly awful misanthrope whom everyone despises, who has had every chance to try anything different and never did. There’s nothing to discuss or debate. Why he’s that way we will never truly penetrate. Turn the page.

Christ, you're bad at this.

Agree with this, but even more each season is about 1/2 as good as the last, but takes so much longer to arrive until it all has worn out all goodwill. Even grading on a curve it’s tiring. And Maya Hawke’s character is ridiculous and grating and keeps getting more and more screen time.

Something that many (at least online) seem to forget it how high this man was flying in January and where he is now. Yes he is richer and still terrible but the Tesla protests pierced the sense that he was beyond reach. And that matters a lot. Thanks to everyone who joined those ongoing protests.

It’s a volume business.

I'm not condemning it, as I haven't seen it, but the Marty Supreme discourse, and its cameos that are a sudoku of strange specific hipness just...all feels like a lot.

Thinking about the time I interviewed Justin Vivian Bond in her apartment for the TV show I produced and she pointed to the dual portraits of Jean Genet and JonBenet Ramsey above her bed and said, "When you think about it, they were both little prisoners"

Theater seats already suck, but now MARBLE ARMRESTS.

This is evergreen, but really: A Christmas Carol is an incredibly great fucking story.

This is disordered. It’s weird to feature big stories about AI featuring people who are clearly disordered.

Even in 2025 this is some breathtaking audacity.

The challenge was that it was a real job.

Stop, bootlicker

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John is brilliant here, and you should read it.

I sent out my second 'Advice For Men' newsletter on Monday. I'll link to it here -- it's about intimacy, and addiction, and the 1999 bro song “Higher” by Creed, "a greasy pop-rock band that sounds the way a long road trip smells." johndevore.substack.com/p/advice-for...

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

First Star Wars news I’m allowing myself to be cautiously excited about since 1999.

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Refreshing in the later stages of the fall to occasionally glimpse journalism.

They just keep tweeting it out

Jeremy O. Harris finally did something no other playwright has done. He is also probably weeping in his Japanese jail that he was credited first as a playwright.

God that is depressing

It would be better than the bad Star Trek they have been making for years, I would welcome this.

Delroy Lindo should be given awards on general principle

I spoke with @hellgatenyc.com about our negligent landlord and the dangerous conditions they’ve created in their rent-stabilized buildings (including in my own apartment).

Narrator: it was not a big loss for Apple.

Holiday thought!

No.

Star Wars rankings: 1. Star Wars 2. The Empire Strikes Back 3. Return of the Jedi That’s it. If anything came out after 1983 it’s elaborate fan fiction, which is fine, but doesn’t need to be ranked.

I regret to say that The Running Man is a joyless and humorless slog. I didn’t expect greatness, but how Edgar Wright decided to make a totally unfunny 80s reboot and replace camp with boring speeches is crazy. This should have been simple, short, and fun. It’s bloated and self-important.

This is really true—this might be the very worst one.

Cleaning medical bandages makes a hard man humble.

Is this the one who lives on the second floor?

so every a.i. chatbot is basically wormtongue

Remember when he went on and on about the incredible flagpole? SAD!

Is tech writing even actually writing?

Sam is being too kind—boiling oil is easier than this.

I am watching MATERIALISTS on someone else’s screen on a plane. They have the subtitles on. I assumed it was a bad French film, and when I did, it worked better.

As someone who was scolded and harassed and death threated for years bc of my journalism sins—and I was never a journalist!—maybe journalistic ethics were never the point, and this industry is just bullying and harassment and bullshit as it fights for last scraps of attention.

These two, working together. He "interviewed" me years ago. Garbage in, garbage out.

That's odd—just a few days ago he was certain it was all a Democratic hoax. I wonder what changed?

Tonight is your very last chance to see RESISTANCE. Tickets are nearly sold out for the run. I've turned on PWYC tickets for these last few, because I'm cool like that and I want everyone who wants to see it to have a chance. When they are gone, they are gone! tickets.frigid.nyc/event/6897:1...

I see the right wing Epstein pivot is going like you’d expect.

POSTHASTE that thirsty bitch will definitely say yes

Exactly. I hold the entire caucus responsible, starting with Schumer and heading on down from there. Those who don't want to be counted that way will have to prove it. Not many will.

Happy Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day! Don’t forget to smash your clocks!

Can't even imagine what it is like to be a senator and have to look at this piece of shit's face right now.

At least Trump is openly a monster. Schumer, Gillibrand, Kaine—they pretend they aren't, but are even more monstrous by cosigning the monster's wishes. This takes a clear victory, and turns it into a defeat. It signals weakness and submission.