The new New York City Transit-centric app from the MTA is live! www.curbed.com/article/mta-...

Okay, so. Following on from this conversation, what is your favorite hilarious example — especially recent ones — of pop culture mixing denominations of Christian expression in ways that would almost certainly never happen (e.g., Jesus on a crucifix in a Baptist church)

Enjoying the “America 250” themed commercials running during SNL UK on Peacock, it’s thematically correct honestly

High Point University has an on-campus steakhouse where students can do fake business dinners, and an life size airplane on campus where their students can pretend to pitch execs in first class. This is Nathan Fielder University.

Secret tricks to get much better results out of the very dreadful 'Google search' these days, plus other search engines for specific things. Statospherically useful for researchers. open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...

Now I can't stop thinking about a ROOFMAN remake where Kirk Cameron hides in the attic of a Hobby Lobby.

man I think about this all the damn time. It’s why all these weird Bluesky people are like “what is this EPISCOPALIAN doing saying LEFTIST things, they must be LYING”

I think one of my more charming qualities is worrying every April that my household income reached a level that will require me to pay taxes rather than receive a refund or, at least, break even

love to catch a trailer on TV for a movie coming out next week and have absolutely no idea what movie it’s for

Perfect

Of all the “Friends” stars, Lisa Kudrow has had the most unorthodox postshow career, creating a menagerie of oddballs. But Valerie Cherish, Kudrow’s character in “The Comeback,” is “her finest creation,” Michael Schulman writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/mHeTem

Jason Isbell Explains How Music Is Like The News But For Sounds. Subscribe to The Onion at https://membership.theonion.com/?campaign=701a500001bfegPAAQ.

I love baseball and I don’t get to invest every season but I’m pretty sure this season I will. Here is an essay I wrote about it ages ago, genuinely one of the best things I think I have ever written. Sox! archive.is/5yu7y

Today is the one day on which people ask film critics “so, how are you doing?” with a modicum of care, and (a) that’s so nice! (b) actually it went fine (c) let us never speak of it again

This is the last thing I will be saying about this year's Oscars (with @manohladargis.bsky.social): www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/m...

Michael B Jordan proving he can win without Scottie B Pippen.

Jesus when he comes back to Earth:

If you didn't catch the names in PTA's speech, the 1975 Best Picture nominees are Barry Lyndon, Dog Day Afternoon, Jaws, Nashville, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. There are no skips; there is no wrong place to start. They will make you love American movies anew, and demand the best from them.

EVERYBODY GO BUY PTA A FEW SMALL BEERS

literally did not know that Lewis Pullman, who I love, is Bill Pullman's son

I'm over on the Oscars live blog tonight: www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

My first Oscars as a staff writer (at Vox, long ago) was the year of the Moonlight / La La Land Incident, and not even The Slap has been quite as messy to handle in post as journalists since then (we pushed a prewrite, obviously we had to then retract it and some people acted like it was our fault?)

This is also correct

This is correct

Best fact of the 2025-26 Oscar season

(•_•) <) )╯Publique fundinge / \ \(•_•) ( (> of the artes and humanityes / \ (•_•) <) )> doth benefit everyone! / \

Sometimes it is astonishing that Black Mirror did not go far enough

“We hope you enjoy your 35-minute flight” feels mean

Honestly I think my fancy credit card pays for its annual fee in recouped airport lounge drinks alone

Folks, I regret to inform you: This design was OK'd by the Citizens Coin Advisory Committee in...October 2024. Its design was set in place when Biden was in office. The designer left out the olive branch to symbolize the colonists' not yet achieving peace, but hoping for it. Trump didn't do this.

In general I am inclined to abstain from pointing these out but this is just beautiful and I love it so much

"Train Dreams" is an NYT Critic's Pick. Read the full review.

Also I had them rebook me on the later connection in case it got furthered delayed which means I am about to enjoy some airport bourbon, baybee

Nothing like a very delayed flight in your hometown airport

When I was a kid I remember a wave of consultants coming through churches claiming they should be run like businesses and it seemed wrong then, and it sucks that every public good has fallen prey to that logic

RIP Habermas, whose death follows that of his beloved Public Sphere

At the 2026 Oscars, it will be a tight race for best picture and actor. Here is what else to expect on Sunday.

Leadership shake-ups. Staff cuts. A push for the newsroom to double productivity with half its budget. Here is the inside story of how Jeff Bezos upended the Washington Post. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...

Yes, I have now watched the Taylor Tomlinson special, perhaps the most for-me standup special ever to standup special

Had a bit of a Leo meme moment watching REMAKE but man, as they say, what a picture

Had fun chatting with my friends at the Echoes Pod about stories we tell, movies and a lot more: echoesmagazine.org/stories/the-...

Universal finally admitting shortening the window was a horrible long term play for them www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/b...

One year ago today, my book “We Tell Ourselves Stories” came out. Happy to say a paperback is on the way, coming June 23, with a cover that we designed to complement the hardcover. Here it is! And you can pre-order here: wwnorton.com/books/978132... @liveright.bsky.social

One year ago today, my book “We Tell Ourselves Stories” came out. Happy to say a paperback is on the way, coming June 23, with a cover that we designed to complement the hardcover. Here it is! And you can pre-order here: wwnorton.com/books/978132... @liveright.bsky.social

Book update! Today I finished the third and most intensively-edited draft of the DIE HARD book. Now I’m sending it to a handful of trusted friends for feedback and dropped it onto my Kindle, where I’ll give it another read on the plane to Austin and between movies at SXSW.

So, to reiterate, here is the thing, aside from … the thing … there are a LOT of musical cues like this in this extremely strange movie

Screaming crying throwing up

Sometimes I watch a movie and think obviously I spaced out during a scene, and it is in checking my memory against other people that I realize they just cut a whole subplot

I assigned “Letter from a Region in My Mind,” a bunch of “Oratorio for Living Things” material and some writing on “Lemonade” to my class this week and in finishing my re-reading to prep I am amazed I thought I could get through it all with equanimity