When dogs have a dried piece of food stuck to their leg, do you think they can feel it? Or is it like when Jordan Catalano had that tiny leaf stuck in his hair?

Martha "Just throw me in a hole" Stewart

"Megan is Missing." Hands down the most upsetting/repulsive movie I've ever seen. Don't watch it. [Really. Don't]

There will come a day when I can no longer wrestle and then deadlift a 70-pound dog fighting for her life against taking a bath. Today was not that day. In your face, dog who no longer smells like a bag of old tortillas.

[clears throat] Fuck this stupid fucking narc elf That’s it, that’s the TED talk

Tell me you were going through something this year without telling me you were going through something.

Life update: Bought a huge coffee mug shaped like a gingerbread house to hold my coffee spoon.

A psychosexual pop thriller

You don't have to video your podcast.

“Come do Christmas with me!” she yelled at her dog.

Turns out it only takes 4 days to forget how to do your job/use a laptop.

A thing we're launching at @salon.com is a weekly art-over-algorithm newsletter on culture and entertainment that isn't decoding the latest trends but rather looking closely at stuff that's (hopefully) built to last. It's called The Swell, it's free, and it starts next week. www.salon.com/newsletter

Love that the takeaway from the Stranger Things series finale is that you can save the world by being extremely gay.

Happy Thanksgiving, America!

POPCORN DISABILITIES is out tomorrow and the wonderful Kelly McClure at @salon.com published an excerpt you can read now. www.salon.com/2025/11/26/e...

It's been quite a while since I lived in New York, but I can still bob and weave through a holiday mob in any store/parking lot/ sidewalk like I'm in the Matrix. Very handy skill.

Minutes out of watching Wicked in IMAX and am afraid to talk for fear of bursting into song. And yeah, I bought the damn bucket too. And what?

American Sasquatch

I feel like Pluribus will be my go-to word now. “Can’t. Feeling too Pluribus.” “Why’s it so Pluribus in here?” “Everyone on Tinder looks like Pluribus.” “The new Austra is great. It sounds like Pluribus.”

"Death and poetry both demand vulnerability and the willingness to admit to it. They casually spill our secrets into the world and expose us as beings who spend our lives committing humiliating acts of feeling," @andizeisler.bsky.social writes.

Honestly, it’s one of the least weird things you can be at the moment

I spent last week reading and re reading and diving deep into the worlds Patti Smith recreated for her new memoir, Breqd of Angels: www.salon.com/2025/11/11/p...

Nothing will stop me from saying, "Oh my God, it's so cold," every time I go outside. I say it with a little smile, like I'm in a movie. I've lost a lot, but no one can take "main character" from me.

Did women ruin the workplace? No! Did I personally ruin my own weekend writing about the cynical fuckery that led to the New York Times asking that question? I sure did! Huge thanks to @moiradonegan.bsky.social for lending her expertise and insight to my ranting

I finally repainted my front door a deeper shade of red today and will share the tools for a perfect execution: Hand sander, two small plates shaped like pumpkins, one chopstick, three of the cheapest paintbrushes, thing of paint (exact unit of volume), old bath towel. Paint simply everywhere.

Running out of neutral/polite responses for my elderly neighbor who yells out “where’s your girl” from his porch every time I walk the dog.

#InterviewWithTheVampire #TheVampireLestat #iwtv Birthday Boy Lestat appears in a new teaser shared by @annerice.amc.com!

I’m sorry but . . . . can you imagine?

Nachos Navidad for everyone!

This year has taken too many perfect weirdos. RIP, Diane Ladd. Poor Laura Dern.

Beautiful night of remembrance for Anne Rice at the Orpheum tonight, complete with a performance by Irma Thomas and touching stories from Christopher Rice. I’ll never forget it.

Before Mariah Carey takes the wheel and spooky season retreats for another year, please enjoy this @salon.com essay on how my dead relatives visit me via their scent.

Because people think you're a bitch if you don't. See also: add emoticons, softening qualifiers, and any other happy-go-lucky, no-worries-if-not! flair.

There are maybe too many squirrels on my roof.

Big hand claps to @carynrose.bsky.social for putting her expert Springsteen knowledge to work in this "Deliver Me from Nowhere" deep dive for @salon.com, breaking down what the film got right-ish, and what it failed to capture when it comes to the magic of "Nebraska."

Beyond honored to be a finalist for Best Online Columnist and Best article on Diversity in TV/Streaming Industry. Check out the thread below to see all of the amazing work from the other @salon.com finalists, and thanks, @erinkeane.bsky.social for submitting us! 💻✍️

A show based on the works of Anne Rice pronouncing New Orleans as New Orleens almost had me reaching for the remote, but gonna push through on Talamasca, at least until Daniel shows up.

New "Standing Room Only" premiering now is a special one! I interviewed E. Jean Carroll about her battles with Trump and the #MeToo movement. I also get deep into how Mike Johnson is covering up the Epstein files, and what this tells us about MAGA. youtu.be/Hl_Lc49s2n0?...

Anyone who doesn’t like Kylo Ren is probably a bad kisser and when you think about it this makes perfect sense.

Heads up: Crunchy grapes at Trader Joe's

Finally able to open the back door in the morning and say "crisp" out loud.

The constant tussle I'm in with the version of me that will pick a random day in my planner to write something like "paint door," setting up the other version of me to forget about it and then, later, be like, "hell no."

I usually put my underwear over my butt.

I bought a beret.

"The idea that the current success of horror can be explained by the triumph of high-concept sophistication over baser motivations of the past is fascinating, though, if only because it presumes that horror needs a good reason to be looked in the face," writes @andizeisler.bsky.social.

Every month Criterion reveals a new batch of releases and every month, this isn't one of them.

Thankful that shows like The Chair Company can still exist. I haven’t laughed this hard at something in a long time. 10/10

After the fact question about Role Model on SNL: Is that guy’s voice supposed to be bad?

What kind of mental illness is it where you all of a sudden crave paging through an old Sears catalog?