I love that Stonehenge was incubating in Reiner's mind for years while he was still at All in the Family. His dreams of an ancient people about whom no one knew "who they were or what they were doing" must have seized him with a relentless frenzy until he begged Norman Lear to leave his sitcom.

Please no no let it not be Meathead they’re talking about…

always a pleasure and honor to join Steve and @thehighsign.bsky.social on the Culture Gabfest, this time to talk the new Fantastic Four, Netflix's K-Pop Demon Hunters (w/ an assist from @euny.bsky.social!), and *that* South Park episode:

"As an Asian who sings disturbingly white songs like Neil Diamond’s “Cherry, Cherry” at Asian karaoke; who speaks French with a German accent, German with a French accent, and Korean with an American accent, I feel seen." Best line in the Sunday NYTimes! Thx, @euny.bsky.social, for my morning laugh.

10 years ago, I was seated next to Diane Ladd on a plane from Boston to Austin for SXSW. I had no idea who she was but she had a golden aura. She introduced herself. She guessed that I was a Sagittarius and said, "Sagittarians get physically sick when they're being lied to." RIP #dianeladd

So I seem to write a lot about Kpop for someone who does not like Kpop. My latest for @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/o...

Birthrates are falling — nowhere more dramatically than in South Korea. @euny.bsky.social, who knows a bit about South Korean pop culture, says one reason is evident in TV's popular K-dramas — if you know where to look [gift link]: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/o...

Some dude made a video of #Eminem's "Lose yourself" in the form of 331 movie clips stitched together. I mean this is a massive triumph of eidetic memory and FinalCut Pro. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYta...

My latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com: I never recommend K-Dramas but this is an emergency, guys. They hold the answers to why Korea has the world's lowest fertility rate. TV is the new books. Thanks for the usual editing magic @sternbergh.bsky.social (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/o...

Yes, I heard. No, I haven't seen it. No, I don't care that Darren Criss is not Korean. @maybehappyending.bsky.social #Maybehappyending #DarrenCriss #Tonys

Is your plush animal having trouble being taken seriously as a journalist? Then do what I did and crochet them an old-timey fedora with a band around the crown to prominently display their press credentials. #Crochet instructions in comments. @amigrumi #eunyhong #journalistlife

This week on the podcast: @euny.bsky.social is here to chat genre-bending, K-pop, and the last 5 songs of the first #Eurovision semifinal! this was a delightful conversation, DEFINITELY check this one out, folks.

Thank you Oliver Wang for interviewing me for the @LAReviewofBooks about the new 2nd edition of The Birth of Korean Cool. Your wicked smaht questions made me also seem smaht. @owang.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/lare... lareviewofbooks.org/article/ridi... #hallyu #eunyhong #theBirthOfKoreanCool

Next up: @euny.bsky.social with her paper “K-Poppenheimer’s Deadly Toy: How the South Korean Government Manufactured the K-Pop Industry from Scratch” #PopCon2025

No joke, today is pub day for the new expanded edition of The Birth of Korean Cool! New chapters on #BTS #Parasite #SquidGame. First pubbed in 2014. I predicted the #KoreanWave and I WAS RIGHT. Buy your copy today! @PicadorUSA

I was a very little kid when I saw Superman. Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor marked perhaps the first time I actually understood what the hell the grown-ups meant when they said someone was a good actor. Is this, or is this not, one of the greatest re-interpretations of an iconic character of all time?

ICYMI The city of Paris officially closed its Twitter account. “The goal of this account was for everyone interested in Paris to stay informed. This became complicated, then impossible.” @paris.fr

The women in your business are not ruining things with their female energy, Mark. They're adopting male energy, because *someone* has to bring it when you're in the room.

Me talking about Han Kang's Nobel Prize win for @FRANCE24's @FrancoisF24. Because every day is Throwback Thursday when, like me, one is bad at social media. Look familiar @mitrakalita ? @HanKangOfficial www.france24.com/en/video/202...

Inaccurate Movie Summaries, part 17: Flow. Flow is a remake of that Twilight Zone episode with Burgess Meredith, "Time Enough at Last," where the world ends and the loner thinks life is rad and then finds out what's really important. Friends. Lasik surgery. Whatever.

I present my latest creation, Grace Slick from Jefferson Airplane crochet doll! Specifically, her Smothers Brothers appearance in 1968. I need to point out that the doll is the one on the right. #graceslick #crochet #amigurumi #jeffersonairplane #whiterabbit #eunyhong

I have more Neanderthal DNA than 80% of the population, according to one of those genetic tests, so it stands to reason that one of my fave dishes is l'os à moelle (roasted beef bone marrow)The bistro down the block, Le Parleloup in Paris 15, does a bangup job.

This 1978 cartoon is how I came to be familiar with the song Puff the Magic Dragon. Trugger warning: Sad dragon #peteryarrowRIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fyh...

ok pourquoi personne ne m'a dit ? The Frenchest of all French public intellectuals Bernard Pivot is gone. It was a dream of mine to be a guest on his show, once upon a time. He, France Gall, and Sophie Marceau are the three people who drove me to move to France. www.lemonde.fr/disparitions...

Fine I'll do it but only if I get to talk about Belgian police procedurals that take place in the Ardennes. www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...

My latest thing for @nytopinion, on #PastLives and white people or whatever. Thank you so much Adam Sternbergh and the other amazing mystery editors who made this readable! You are the William Shawn(s) to my Hannah Arendt. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2024/03/09/o...

I made fun of this show but it was part of my reluctant entry into adulthood. I was close to their age and newly in NY. I had Rachel's inability to do anything practical, Monica's anxiety, and Chandler's insecure nihilism. Without Friends my generation would not be able to contextualise a life event

not happy that my 1st bluesky post is to say that 2 of my books were pirated to train Meta's Generative AI tool LLaMA. Writers guild is organising a class action suit against Meta if you're interested: authorsguild.org/news/you-jus...

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