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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

I read V FOR VENDETTA for the first time this week. I loved it. But it also inspired some thoughts about [gestures broadly] everything that's going on. Here's the piece. I hope you enjoy.

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

Something about Trump's Iran speech last night stuck with me — and to a degree the likes of which the world has never seen before!!

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

RIP Access Hollywood you did more to prevent a Donald Trump presidency than many other American institutions

"I never thought I'd die blogging side-by-side with a Conde employee." "What about side-by-side, with a *friend*?"

It's a wonderful week for Oscar, so I spoke with my @vulture.com colleagues @kn8.bsky.social and @alisonwillmore.bsky.social about what they'd like to see changed about the Academy Awards telecast, whether stars should get political, and the upcoming move to YouTube. www.vulture.com/article/osca...

It's time for my final Oscar predictions! After reading other people's I think I'm more bullish on OBAA winning big than most, but recent history says that the Best Picture winner usually wins a whole lot else, too. www.vulture.com/article/fina...

Ranked all 50 of this year’s Oscar nominated movies. Many good ones! Some bad. www.vulture.com/article/ever...

We talk a lot about the naïve hopefulness of the Obama era -- I'm writing a whole book on it -- but the naïve cynicism of the long Trump era is even worse.

Greetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...

Does anyone know who’s going to win this year’s Best Actor race? After a couple late-season upsets, it seems as though 2026 could be the rare instance where any of the five nominees could emerge victorious on Academy Awards night.

Watching That's So Raven as our new-parent smooth-brain show, and discovered it's the anti-Surf Dracula: They waste zero time explaining the premise, because they already covered it in the theme song! And with the time they save, they do THIS. In the very first episode! youtu.be/fGdQ6Jn7MKU?...

Once you notice this rhetorical okeydoke -- by which any critique of Trump is magically transmuted into a personal critique of his voters, which is ipso facto out of bounds -- you can't stop noticing it everywhere.

Today in creepy AI stuff, the transcription service we use has now thrown in some psychoanalysis for free: POWER DYNAMICS: [Redacted] clearly holds expertise and authority; Nate defers to her judgment and seeks validation

was a real delight gaming out this incredibly consequential Oscars weekend out with the brilliant @kn8.bsky.social, who I think is among the best in the game at awards season coverage www.vulture.com/article/this...

This week's Oscar column is looking ahead to what's at stake at the PGAs and SAG this weekend, plus a postmortem on the BAFTA omnishambles: www.vulture.com/article/this...

a few months ago, i talked to Tony Kushner for an hour and a half about Munich

I strongly recommend this well-sourced argument that Harry Styles is a "Potemkin pop star" exiledfan.substack.com/p/harry-styl...

Break the news to her gently, Aubrey! I shall die! With slit ribbons of his shirt whipping the air he hops and hobbles round the table, with trousers down at heels, chased by Ades of Magdalen with the tailor’s shears. A scared calf’s face gilded with marmalade. I don’t want to be outmogged!

Here for the sidebar on twink vs hunk -- www.vulture.com/article/osca...

I wrote about one of Oscar's most infamous glass ceilings: the Academy's longstanding bias against hunks. www.vulture.com/article/osca...

I’m so excited to be publishing my first-ever visual essay with @puddingviz.bsky.social: pudding.cool/2026/02/wome... It brings together so many of my recent interests — research, coding, design, and sewing — on a topic that won’t leave me alone: the chaos of women’s clothing sizes.

"Someday this war's gonna end..."

This week's Oscar column looks at how the theoretical Sinners surge, currently a matter of vibes and tea leaves, could become concrete: www.vulture.com/article/what...