Me writing something that I am having fun with even though I am not sure if it's actually good.

I swear to God, if I see one more ICE recruitment commercial today... Is anyone actually signing up to be in ICE based on these ads? Would love to know the answer.

It is truly incredible how funny THE SIMPSONS still is. Watching the season premiere and dying laughing.

I'm trying to figure out if I could care even less about TRON: ARES than I already do, and it turns out I can!

Another step forward on the road to fascism www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...?

My friends @kphipps3000.bsky.social and @scotttobias.bsky.social write a very good newsletter about movies called THE REVEAL. They're having a flash sale today, so it's the perfect time to subscribe if you don't already. thereveal.film/flash-sale-i...

This is like when your boss says, "Hey, got a second to talk?" but you don't know what it's about. Except in this case you have to travel all the way from Japan to find out. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Me, scrolling through this interesting, eclectic list: "Da Butt" better be on here. Keeps scrolling. <Phew> www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Jimmy Kimmel tried to thread a lot of needles in his opening monologue tonight. The most important thing he did was to name the issues so many Americans agree on, then specifically call out things that tend to be associated with Dems: protecting kids from guns, reproductive rights, among others.

The headline on the actual story — "Gen X women don’t have the bandwidth to figure out why they feel so terrible" — is so, SO painfully accurate. www.salon.com/2025/09/22/g...

I feel obliged to point out that this is the movie that asked John Mulaney to tape an audition for the role of "Young Cop." And no, he didn't get it. www.youtube.com/shorts/fsKjx...

Got to write the WATCHING email newsletter for the NY Times this week. Please read, subscribe, share, etc. etc.

NEW: JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE is not dead. Up now at @vulture.com www.vulture.com/article/jimm...

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YES!

Watching a football game, the dogs are asleep, no one else is home and I am screaming at the TV. The BEST.

I am not sure there is a reason to make a movie about this Wisconsin football team. But if it ever happens, Coach Fickell should be played by either: 1. Jeremy Armstrong (both very strong gum-chewers) 2. Sam Rockwell 3. Tom Cruise. I mean, you can kinda see it, right?

The Television Critics Association, of which I am a proud member, released this statement today and I stand behind it 1,000 percent.

Very excited to see Wet Leg tonight and also praying that everyone at this show is 5'4 and under.

Fuck yeah Letterman

Looks like it, because they are.

One of my favorite things in life is watching Leonardo DiCaprio have a nervous breakdown in a movie. He does that for almost three hours in ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. I loved it.

1. Hulk Mo is the best Mo. 2. I've been a working journalist for, as of next month, 31 years (😭). It has always felt like a precarious career but never, ever more so than it does right now. 3. If they can get rid of someone as respected as Alan, none of us are safe. (thread)

I never had the opportunity to talk to Robert Redford. But I did talk to some of the folks who shared the screen with him when he made a cameo on DARK WINDS, which turned out to be his final screen appearance. The respect everyone had for him ran so, so deep. www.vulture.com/article/dark...

Some news: yesterday was my last at Rolling Stone. For now, I'm going solo, doing all my TV reviewing, recapping, etc., at my newsletter. I hope you'll consider subscribing. Many more details here:

Make it make sense. You can't. Because it doesn't.

Having a real "Lemon, it's Wednesday" kind of Monday.

The plan: we spend an entire award show promoting the Boys & Girls Clubs, then give them a donation of a few thousand dollars

I knew DYING FOR SEX wouldn't win anything but it's such a special show. Take the time to watch if you haven't.

I am beginning to believe all of the award intros on the Emmys were written by ChatGPT

"I probably wouldn't be here hosting if it weren't for you." So is Nate B. trying to make us mad at Lorne Michaels? Because...

The other reason I don't like this countdown clock thing is it feels like a sneaky way to prevent people from saying anything political. And not only that, but making them look like selfish assholes if they try to extend their comments for that reason.

Is this what life is going to be like watching live broadcast TV from now on? So frustrating.

What pisses me off about this deducting money from a charity bit is that it assumes the viewers want the speeches to be short. And we don't, at least not all of us! Why do awards shows constantly try to tell the few people who still watch them that they are dumb for liking them?

If you haven't seen SOMEBODY, SOMEWHERE I truly cannot recommend it enough and i have already recommended it quite a bit. www.vulture.com/article/some...

I am so happy for Jeff Hiller. Oh my God, he's so wonderful.

Thanks to all of you for telling me what she said was Fuck ICE. On CBS, totally got deleted off the broadcast. Shocker.

OK, what just got bleeped? Was it "Fuck Trump," because that's my guess

Give Angela Bassett an Emmy for the way she read that nonsensical Emmy copy.

Tramell Tillman: looks fierce, made a fierce speech, didn't look at any notes once. 👏

<Nods>

Noah Wyle is wearing a tuxedo made by the company that makes medical scrubs. I mean: what a fucking human being.

Jason Isaacs being unironically asked on the red carpet what it was like working on WHITE LOTUS, God bless Entertainment Tonight.

This is the first Emmy Awards in a decade, at least, that I haven't been covering the awards in real time. Instead of being sad about this, I am going to try to enjoy it.

Look, I'm just saying it would have been twisted and kind of funny if DOWNTON ABBEY: THE GRAND FINALE had ended with Molesley giving Cousin Isobel a ride home, then getting into a car accident that killed them both.

Please take a moment to say happy birthday today to @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social, who I already know will roll her eyes when she sees this. But she deserves to be celebrated because she's the coolest.

Yay, it's Jayden time!

Went to see Rilo Kiley tonight at a SRO show and three people near me acknowledged my shortness and actively offered to help me see better. I am nominating each one of them for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Charlie Kirk was a private citizen Melissa Hortman was a seated lawmaker in MN No Flags were flown half staff at the WH for her death by gun violence

It was literally impossible to be alive in the 1970s and not know the phrase "Kiss my grits." Even babies who couldn't talk yet would say it. RIP to Flo and to Polly Holliday, also an enjoyable crank in the movie GREMLINS. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/a...