Couldn’t watch live but my impression is Jon Hamm is having the best day of his entire life

I was making a wooble fox but then had a brainwave

If I post about a book I read, you have some ways to read it too: pull it off your shelf, get it from the local library, find a friend who can lend it to you, or pay to get a copy. Sometimes I post links to articles that I read, too. Let the reader understand.

Someone side-by-sided the 1976 and 2026 Muppets openings. Fantastic. www.instagram.com/reel/DUcQNyp...

In wholly other Sunday musings, this has been puzzling me for weeks and I finally have to ask. For New Yorkers who use the Brick: it seems like it only kind of works if it’s physically inaccessible. But like … how can you get it far enough away from you for it to be useful???

Yup! I think, psychoanalyzing my own hatred of AI, that a lot of it stems from an intuition that what people want out of AI (affirmation, therapy, instant gratification) is what they increasingly want (or are being trained to want) out of art and culture bsky.app/profile/alis...

The piece about AI in romance novels (which, I mean, has been very widespread, I don’t think this is surprising) has reminded me of this excellent @xwaldie.bsky.social article of a year ago about romantasy that I think about probably weekly at least: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Whoever wrote Will Lewis’s Wikipedia entry really cracked their knuckles

So we’re back to clicks again

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dearly beloved we are gathered here today to get through this thing called the coldest temperatures outside imaginable and no cars to shield us from it

unfortunately the apocalypse has occurred: my dearly beloved favorite bar has been discovered by the tiktokkers

I’m struggling to imagine any possible reason you would do this other than you’re trying to kill it. (Also, why is nobody still reporting on the fact that the WaPo killed almost the entirety of its arts and culture coverage? They literally got rid of all their critics.)

I haven’t gotten a haircut in 8 months and I finally went in today and there were three fluffy dogs just having the time of their life padding around in there getting scritches and pats from everyone. What a life

I wouldn’t have finished my MFA except for the fact that I was working a (third) job that had me out in LA twice a month and the plane WiFi was always terrible. Honestly probably a good thing to just factor into tuition costs

It was ultimately a different scenario, but this still feels vaguely reminiscent of what led to the creation of the @thebaltimorebanner.com, which is less than 5 years old and already has a Pulitzer.

Another wild thing about “Melania”: she includes Eleanor Roosevelt in that ending sequence, which concludes with a photo shoot in what I think is the East Wing? And Eleanor R established the tradition of having the First Lady’s offices in the East Wing. Guess where it has, presumably, ended?

Read this by @michaelschulman.bsky.social, it is both super interesting and illuminating about some industry stuff

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

There really should be some kind of federally mandated warning sound that occurs five seconds before they start playing “If We Were Vampires” in a Starbucks on a random Saturday morning

ok. does anyone know if it's twice per athlon or every two athlons

There were, I confess, many head-scratching moments in MELANIA, but one sequence at the end was particularly bizarre to me and I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I dug around and then wrote about it. (Cameo by Joan Didion.) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/m...

I’m sure a hot toddy is technically worse for a mysterious nagging cough / touch of the ugggggs than tea alone, but counterpoint: happier

they put dancing moka pots in the opening ceremonies. gold medal no notes

I like the Wuthering Heights movie, for the record, but I unfortunately made myself erupt into giggles the other day realizing that in college we definitely have been making jokes about the title for weeks in a very particular SNL Celebrity Jeopardy format, Sean Connery voice and all

This is also why this thread got started, if you were wondering bsky.app/profile/alis...

It makes sense, on the poster, for a lot of reasons that are pretty good and that I like, but it's obviously stupid to insist on it in a review or whatever (and like, those of us who use AP style then are meant to use single quotes inside double?)

There were, I confess, many head-scratching moments in MELANIA, but one sequence at the end was particularly bizarre to me and I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I dug around and then wrote about it. (Cameo by Joan Didion.) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/m...

I also think Martin Scorsese should host one by the way

Dave Bautista

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Epstein had many known connections to Silicon Valley CEOs, but less known was how he made money from those relationships. We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...

Does … does it say National Prayer Breakfast behind him

Here’s a GoFundMe that the @postguild.bsky.social has organized to support laid-off colleagues, which I learned about through @nytimesguild.bsky.social colleagues ✊ www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

This is like if the title of that OJ memoir lopped off the first word

I can only hope to see a resurgence in alt weekly interest, but the Chicago Reader for example has been struggling for a while now and continues to struggle. Really want the best for them. Announced last week that they're going monthly Gift 🔗

hi! www.coyotemedia.org/what-we-talk...

Speaking of alt-weeklies, yes

The Metro Times in Detroit and neighboring cities is still going strong.

Discovered the genre of black light puppetry thanks to the alt weekly in St Louis. www.wanderlustatlanta.com/2015/10/peter-pan-flies-into-center-for.html?m=1

I write for @memphisflyer.com Recently, I had a young person tell me that she and her friends met up for lunch on Wednesdays to read our paper when it comes out. I was flattered!

It's depressing after all these years to find that some people think a critic's job is to be in synch with popular taste. It's depressing how many critics think that's a critic's job. (1991)

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Today I said to my students, horrifyingly, “So these are some tools to keep in your toolbox if you feel like your draft is kind of greige.” The Melania sponcon movie has incepted itself into my brain

It's been nice seeing people pine for the days of alt-weeklies, and note that some do exist (like the one that employs me). If you're feeling the urge to support local, independent journalism today--maybe you're in Utah, maybe you're not--here's one option: www.cityweekly.net/subscribe

"Those who were laid off include Caroline O’Donovan, the Post’s beat reporter covering Amazon"