I have had a random piece of orchestral fanfare stuck in my head for weeks. Something grand and imposing, but also with an air of steadfast determination. Today I finally tracked it down. It is from the opening credits of the 1968 Godzilla movie Destroy All Monsters: youtu.be/6OcgOdDpzl8?...

god damn, i was just reminiscing with friends about Once More with Feeling a couple hours ago. sad news. a great actor and wonderful TV presence.

"Kimmel’s father remembers opening a yellow legal pad in the middle of a sensitive meeting and discovering a perfectly drawn penis with a note from Jimmy reading 'Dad, I hope you enjoy this.'" hope you enjoy this @jimmykimmel.com profile by @kvanaren.bsky.social www.vulture.com/article/jimm...

Cannes Most Anticipated: 1. Fatherland 2. Minotaur 3. Fjord 4. The Black Ball 5. Camp Miasma

Count how many times you say "GIRL." while reading this.

Pedophilia is a plank of the Republican Party, a very real policy goal that they work towards on a consistent basis, from the President to the primary electorate. The Republican Party's countless exposed sexual predators simply represent the party's view, which is that children should be molested.

Amazing to see Sebastian Stan in @resnikoff.bsky.social drag here.

Semi-regular reminder that I wrote a book and it is currently available for pre-order! It comes out shortly before Christmas, so get a copy for the urbanist in your life and another copy for the persuadable NIMBY in your life! bookshop.org/p/books/buil...

HUGE NEWS: ICE’s courthouse arrests have been STAYED by a New York district judge. That means that ICE will have to stop arresting our immigrant neighbors on the spot when they show up to court at places like 26 Federal Plaza, 290 Broadway, and 201 Varick. (1/2)

This is the early favorite for my most anticipated film of the year

Your drink is waiting for you

Gonna throw "The Dog Days Are Over" by Florence + The Machine into the ring: -Millennial artist -bridges the sound of the Aughts (the ukulele) and 2010s (the stomps and claps) -has an optimistic shoutyness redolent of the best Millennial music -was covered on Glee

AMERICAN READERS! Publication Day for PRESTIGE DRAMA is TODAY. You get it 2 days early for unknown - but doubtless welcome - reasons, so you should immediately profit off this by heading to your nearest bookstore OR clicking on this beautiful link below! geni.us/Prestige_Drama

This is a great playlist that my baby absolutely hated. Though I can't tell if that was because she could tell I was trying to blatantly manufacture an emotional moment, or if she was simply overstimulated by all the bleeps and bloops.

One weird wrinkle of this though is embedding festival juries into the Oscar system without their consent. If you're deciding between two films for the Palme, do you now have to give the edge to the one that seems less likely to become the official selection?

The Oscars fixed the Best International Film category! Or at least, created a workaround that should leave most people happy.

The baby whenever a strawberry is thrown on the floor:

Two things I recently learned about Frank Perry, and I'm not sure which one's weirder: -He went on to direct Mommie Dearest. -He is Katy Perry's uncle.

Both of us caught COVID so we are going Weapons Mode this week: just sitting around grey and lifeless as the baby wonders what happened to her parents. (We got it from you, kid!)

"Was Obama-era identity politics leftism or liberalism?" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 2,013 pages of heated debate.

Others have said this, but when It finally Happens, one thing I'm looking forward to is not talking about the same guy all day, every day. It's been 11 years!

He is a left back West Ham acquired from Rennes in the January transfer window

They can't keep getting away with this

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The baby's ability to go from Ragdoll Mode, no bones at all, to awake and screaming the instant her body touches her crib is quite something. It's like she's been possessed by a magic doll.

guess he has to go by Loser Orban now

Welp this old story just got a lot more timely: www.vulture.com/article/dann...

I noticed that people today are more likely to speak in terms of states of being rather than actions. For example, someone now says "He went no-contact," rather than "He has not been in contact."

there are two absolutely canonical Good Friday posts

Here's what Bowen Yang told me about being put in conversion therapy in Colorado as a teenager: “That’s scar tissue that will never totally go away...That was a moment of real danger for me, where this thing I love and cherish about myself—there was an effort to eradicate it.”

The ‘Harry Potter and the Sacred Text’ podcast just aired its final episode. Earlier in March, two dozen of its biggest fans joined its hosts on a pilgrimage to discuss the books’ tainted legacy and their relationship to it.

The phrase "You once threw a snake in Paloma Faith's face" is going to stay with me for the rest of my days. youtu.be/h93NIzyabTg

This conversation was a few weeks ago now, but as someone who recently finished Bossypants I can confidently state that the voice she's ripping off is early 2010s Tina Fey.

Saying bye for now in my final Oscar column of the season: www.vulture.com/article/who-...

If you'll forgive some bragging, I'm pleased to announce that my team Enver Hoxha's Day finished in the top 50 in Vulture's Movies Fantasy League.

Here's me on Timmy Tim: www.vulture.com/article/osca...

went to the “human” themed oscars and wrote about it

Here's my postmortem on why OBAA and PTA cleaned up at the Oscars: www.vulture.com/article/osca...

I'll leave you with the sight of Adrien Brody cutting the escalator line to the Oscars afterparty.

Imagine someone watching the Oscars without seeing Sinners; what they would think the movie was about? "Okay there's music ... Michael B. Jordan is there ... and a guy gets lit on fire??"

I love writing about casting directors and I'm glad they have an Oscar! www.vulture.com/article/who-...

Here's a look at the Oscar stage:

They are serving sliders with only one bun.

@rachelholliday.bsky.social a gift for you

I'm here at the Oscars, where the Australian sound designer from F1 took my photo so I have no choice but to root for him.

great stuff about a great, difficult movie