gay hockey smut, buried 60 minute report on CECOT - Canada really has all the hot shit

For my final big BUFFERING story of the year, I teamed up with @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social, @kvanaren.bsky.social and @nwquah.bsky.social to figure out which 5 streamers had the best 2025. The result: Our list of the hottest platforms of the year. Up now @vulture.com: www.vulture.com/article/stre...

at the christmas revels in Boston which this poem is written for, this is the dance they perform in the shortest night solstice portion and I think about it every single year youtu.be/jv0wku4LJrI?...

the single wrongest opinion I held as a teenager was that rick steves was not cool

never had pneumonia before, 2/10, do not recommend, however nothing says Christmas chic quite like being your family’s Tiny Tim

I personally think there should be an option when you roll up to urgent care where you can write what you suspect your diagnosis is on a little paper before the doctor sees you and if you’re right you get a sticker

was not aware you could do the press release version of crossing your fingers behind your back by putting parts in tiny tiny font

the real reason for the season is that it’s fun to pick little bits of fir tree sap out of your cat’s fur

8yo, after one painstaking performance of Happy Farmer on viola: well my shoulder blade hurts like hell

possible that the one thing i say in zoom interviews, more than any other single thing, is "i'm so sorry, my cat loves to be in interviews"

because i promised an update and the season is now over: the penultimate episode of IT: Welcome to Derry is a flashback about why pennywise became a clown www.vulture.com/article/penu...

thrilled to inform you that in the proud populist tradition of opera, the family production of magic flute at the met includes papageno counting 1, 2, … 6-7… 3 uproarious applause and laughter

finally saw one battle after another; did not previously appreciate that benecio del toro is the coolest man who ever lived. mea culpa that’s on me

absolutely incredible, after an entire bluey episode about the frustration of claw machines, to see a bluey capsule machine as a toy www.target.com/p/fao-schwar...

update I have outsourced most of my critical opinions to 8yo Percy Jackson WAY better than Fallout Pluribus confusing

happy friday time to post your hottest takes and log off (this episode of heated rivalry really definitively demonstrates what a misfire hudson williams's performance is) (just kidding) (just kidding about the logging off not the other thing)

8yo would like to write a letter of recommendation against: getting a significant piece of orthodontia and then coming down with the flu 5 hours later

screeners, ranked by how inappropriate it is for me to watch them with my 8yo home sick from school

it's such a pleasure to be able to share this best books list from anthony jeselnik. as with movies, where we publish john waters's list as well as our critics, this list has gone up along with our nymag list by @jvojdani.bsky.social and @emmaalpern.bsky.social www.vulture.com/article/anth...

in which I offer to politely end an interview about books, and anthony jeselnik says, wait I do have a few more thoughts www.vulture.com/article/anth...

it's such a pleasure to be able to share this best books list from anthony jeselnik. as with movies, where we publish john waters's list as well as our critics, this list has gone up along with our nymag list by @jvojdani.bsky.social and @emmaalpern.bsky.social www.vulture.com/article/anth...

i know horror movies usually signal doom with like, doors creaking open, or eerie shadows, or foreboding music but as an alternative, i suggest: finding your elementary aged kid in bed, still wearing a fleece, under the covers and fully asleep at 4:30pm

i understand that "tech ceos don't value child development" is like the least surprising statement but the truly astonishing part of this clip for me comes earlier when altman says that chatgpt is a genius so he feels really bad when he asks it questions about stupid things, like parenting

husband late at work today long discussion at dinner of for-tv edits of movies children now wandering around the house delightedly shouting I HAVE HAD IT WITH THESE MONKEY FIGHTING SNAKES

guys shhh @sepinwall.bsky.social just texted me

this is my grumbling subtweet about the fans of a certain new tv series, you cannot make me excited about someone's "microexpressions," this is not the 2009 tim roth-led procedural Lie To Me, that is just acting!! that is what screen actors do for their jobs!

browsing for tween-appropriate manga, have stopped to contemplate a very contemplative looking cover with the title I Want To Eat Your Pancreas

heated rivalry ep 3 was a good decision i think!!! (not entirely because i think connor storrie is a much stronger actor than hudson williams, but not NOT because of that) www.vulture.com/article/heat...

but, and I mean this sincerely: does Netflix care so much about its tv that its head of programming might organize a bunch of twitter sock puppets to yell at me and @sepinwall.bsky.social for posting negative opinions about its shows? it does not

if you've heard of every single thing on my top 10 lists, i have missed an important opportunity as a critic

As I suspected, that big Mad Men 4K foul up was a studio error, it seems. Someone at Lionsgate messed up. @ericvb.bsky.social has the scoop. www.vulture.com/article/mad-...

I AM TAKING THE DAY OFF

i will say this, if you hit play on an episode of mad men it is VERY hard to stop watching mad men

HBO episodes are also mislabeled! I just went to watch "Red in the Face," the oyster vomiting ep, and it played "5G" instead?? The one labeled "Babylon" is actually the the vomitorium ep

roxana's list is SO roxana, and this is why it's good to have lots of individual voices with weird opinions and obvious personal bias! you think chatgpt is over here standing up for black rabbit? i think not

things 11yo has requested for christmas: nano tape a perforator a 50pk of 3in ball-chain segments with adjustable clasps a wall organizer for her alcohol markers more alcohol markers

picked up a used copy of the readers digest merry christmas songbook of piano sheet music copyright 1982 and my house now sounds like the atrium of the crossroads mall in Kalamazoo MI from thirty years ago and I am LIVING

never have I heard a more egregious example of “brain simply cannot accept how much time has passed” than a bbc radio announcer just now suggesting that there may in fact be some children today who were born after the collapse of east germany

tom stoppard 💔

being married for a long time is very beautiful because you can watch your mom deliberately troll your dad by off-handedly suggesting that no one will want all this leftover turkey so you might as well throw it away

sometimes you read something and you wonder, does this exist to be a piece of writing? or does this exist mostly to be sold as a miniseries

OR clutch the things you care about close to your heart and refuse to give in to the temptation of nihilism (about motion smoothing only - everywhere else make your own calls)

I know you are not supposed to have children to fulfill any needs or desires in your own life, I know this is contrary to all parenting but I did it anyway! I had children solely so that I could train them to play stringed instruments and play Christmas music with me and It Is Finally Happening

let’s all watch deadwood

sure, but call me when zohran does stavvy

okay having finished this episode i can say that there is truly no reason for toby huss to be here, he just walks in wearing the hat, mariska goes "still doing the hat thing huh" and then he walks out A+

i'm sorry, last week's SVU featured toby huss wearing a fedora????

PSA for very very near-sighted people with small-ish kids - this fall FDA finally approved essilor's stellest lenses, which fit into standard glasses frames and which significantly slow the progression of myopia they will stop your kids' eyes from getting as bad as yours!!! THAT SHIT IS MAGIC