The correct answer to "Beatles or Stones?" is "Earth, Wind and Fire"

Since it is officially GILMORE GIRLS rewatch season, I insist on knowing what team do you root for? (Absurd answers only)

Little America

OMG! trailer for the great @erinleecarr.bsky.social 's first scripted series MURDAUGH: A DEATH IN THE FAMILY about a famous South Carolina family's connection to several unexplained deaths. Starring Patricia Arquette and Jason Clarke. I can't wait! youtu.be/ARUjuqwA-98?...

Like anyone with big success, Mary Oliver had more than a few detractors. Here's an examination of their complaints yalereview.org/article/mill... (via AL DAILY)

I don't cheer over anyone's murder. But let's not forget Charlie Kirk was a despicable, garbage human being. We can be heartbroken at the state of political discourse and also see Charlie Kirk as part of the problem as much as its victim.

Everyone has a 1-2 season TV show they sorely miss and not enough people knew about that you are always praising the heavens about. What's yours?

Spiritually, "Different Drum" by Linda Ronstadt's band The Stone Ponies and "Tyrone" by Erikyah Badu are the same song.

Praise due to Netflix's DEPARTMENT Q for being the first cop show I can think of that takes the emotional trauma of investigating crime seriously. Can you think of another? I'm stumped.

It occurs to me 41 years too late to ask.. Does this song do anything but repeat the title for 4 minutes? youtu.be/2nXGPZaTKik?...

To MANY future conversationsI will be having. I am happy to discuss AI with you provided 1) we acknowledge it is an environmental catastrophe in its current state 2) You have an argument for it beyond "we can do X quicker but worse" and 3) You have an argument for it beyond "It will make me money"

We need a word for when your favorite musical artist comes out with a brand new record and you are too distracted paying attention to "new music" to notice.

This is gonna be such a great book. I can't wait.

Because my life priorities are rather damp and uninteresting, I'd like some tool to track how players from my favorite college football team are currently doing in the NFL...

Perhaps you have seen the movie COLUMBUS, featuring John Cho and about 8 million cubic feet of architecture porn? This is the new one from the same director, Robie and Farrell. tv.apple.com/us/movie/a-b...

Today is a great day to support the human-made, independent podcasts you love. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

there is a certain irony around tech bros who believe that the work of writers is largely worthless, while also claiming at the same time that they desperately need to use that written work - without compensating human authors - so they can make a bazillion dollars off LLM products.

Our friend @anildash.com is now very old. He turns 50 today. He wrote a lovely thing about it, with excellent advice for all. Happy birthday, old friend. www.anildash.com/2025/09/05/f...

If you are that stupid person (looks around) who can never remember the difference between Emmylou Harris and Lucinda Williams, is there an easy mnemotic you can share with that stupid person?

The Neverhood means Winamp Skins meets what, the Flinstones?

I will take any excuse to praise the work of the great Jamie Babbit and her immortal debut film BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER. Thank you for asking Test of Time Podcast! testoftimepod.com/episode-478-...

I love Cynthia Ozick's essays so much even though, in every interview I have read with her, it seems she would find me frivalous and wasted company. Strange thing to love the nonfiction work of someone whose company you don't. www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Which magazines (we talkin good ole ink on paper here) would you subscribe to if time and money were no object?

Welcome to VTV, aka MTV for the worst and wierdest novelty songs ever created vole.wtf/vtv/

There's nothing wrong with WE BUILT THIS CITY

There's going to a Women's Professional Baseball League, with 6 teams, starting in 2026. May I selfishly propose that teams be distributed according to which WNBA teams have the best fanbase? #valkyries www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

That’s right. Historically that’s almost always been the method. Don’t underestimate how well it works — even passive opponents of the regime second guess themselves: “well, the dictator’s a liar, but what if *this* emergency is real?” It’s the better-safe-than-sorry coup.

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

I have to do more of this. I am terrible at recording what I watch, read and listen to, despite having to recall it for my job almost constantly.

Must watch then reread ASKING FOR IT a modern classic by @kateharding.bsky.social . False accusations of sexual assault are about as much of a thing as voter fraud, i.e. not a thing at all. The data simply does not support any claim of this. (via @emilynussbaum.bsky.social )

My new book BREAK THE FRAME: CONVERSATIONS WITH WOMEN FILMMAKERS is now available in the UK. Please let ya Brit people who love movies and tv by women know...

My not-very-good explanation of this? Too many in the political press bought into the "Hillbilly Elegy" redemption narrative and don't want to cop to having egg on their faces.

tomorrow the series i co-curated on hurricane katrina “when the world broke open: katrina and its afterlives” opens at MoMA (aug 27-sept 21). as a survivor, my entire life has been shaped the storm. curation gives us the power to reclaim, reexamine, and reanimate. i hope to see you at the cinema.

in a talk I gave last week, the topic of whether or not THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA is a rom com came up. I figured this was kind of settled law but apparently not www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

ANNA BODEN, a director I was honored to interview for my new book BREAK THE FRAME, will be directing an adaptation of the novel ATMOSPHERE, about pioneering female astronauts. deadline.com/2025/05/anna...

Was recommending EVE's BAYOU (1997), written and directed by the great Kasi Lemmons today for about the 900th time. Ya'll know this movie, (starring Samuel L. Jackson, Jurnee Smollett and Lynn Whitfield?)

#TIL The Golden State Valkries lead the WNBA in game attendance. Surging with San Francisco Pride here.

Does anybody use app, or tool of any kind to keep track of what tv series you have watched?

While we're at it, someday (I hope) we are supposed to get a movie about the invention of the slinky and the women, Betty James, who was the CEO of the company that make it such a famous toy. Word has it that TAMRA DAVIS (Crossroads, Billy Madison) is directing variety.com/2020/film/ne...

I know Terrance Stamp had a long career before (i.e.. calling Gordon Gekko a "two bit pirate" in Wall Street) but as the lead and emotional center of THE ADVENTURES OF PRICILIA QUEEN OF THE DESERT, he gave that movie soul with its famboyance. He was one of the greats. Sail on, sir. We are grateful

And its famous people talking to one another, an oversaturated market that is nearly impossible to do without sounding back-slappy and self-satisfied and Ms. Poehler does it.

If Democratic politicians do not fight this because it's a "distraction," it will simply happen. They need to get in front of every mic and say that we will not allow Trump to destroy American history. He wants a culture war? GIVE HIM ONE. There are no distractions. Have every fight.

Bring in on, groovy kids!

Somebody up there likes me (via @daviddylanthomas.bsky.social )

Thanks to my dear friend @scottandrew.com , I've learned that the sound you make when you roll up your sleeves, is spelled "zhuzh" Source: scottandrew.com/blog/2025/08...

Have you not found your perfect way to log books you read online? Could this be the cozy answer you've been looking for? www.bookshelf.town (via @are.na )

Very satisfying interview in covering all nooks and crannies, eras and regimes, of Hollywood

And it ain't good....(via @wolfievibes.bsky.social )

I would say "the weather" is not good place to economize. (via @clivethompson.bsky.social )

The IMDB's Best Movies Directed by Women contain many usual suspects but quite a few surprises. I was honored to speak to a few of these directors for my new book BREAK THE FRAME: CONVERSATIONS WITH WOMEN FILMMAKERS>