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Here it is. This is abominable.

inhaled Selling The City because these shows are my most humiliating addiction and while the cast is mostly underwhelming and the drama is often inscrutable at least it has the iconically bizarre musical choices of the rest of the franchise

The occasional live TV event always reminds me that American pharmaceutical ads are some of the most uniquely troubling and deranged things created by anyone ever. Why's a CGI turtle asking me to talk to my doctor?

oh no they replaced Jennifer Aniston with Meta AI :(

reading Justin Baldoni's entire lawsuit against the NYT, and this text from Blake Lively is more "Celebrities Are Just Like Us!" than 99% of entries in Us Weekly's "Celebrities Are Just Like Us!"

The funniest part of 2024 was every single time Cole Escola said, "The south of WHAT," in Oh, Mary.

Bobby Finger is real You need Bobby Finger

It’s so, so beautiful that the best Christmas song of all time includes the line “you scumbag, you maggot, you cheap, lousy faggot.”

Finally watching The Americans and it’s triggering that Bourne Response in me where every time I watch or read something about spies I think, “I’d be so good at that.” Anyway here’s me at the beginning and, 30 seconds later, the end of my interview at any intelligence agency:

Radioactive, the podcast about Karen Silkwood’s death, released its finale today. A major revelation never comes, but in its place is a statement from Karen’s daughter—a moving and eloquent condemnation of true crime obsessions—that I found pretty stunning! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

"ok girlie" - kate winslet

about a year ago I started a running list of the "best original songs not nominated for the best original song oscar," which I update each time I remember one. I'm prepared to add all of these 2024 tracks to that list when (based on current predictions) they're ignored. really good stuff this year!

incredible video. she's showing rolling stone her song like a child showing their parents a drawing of a house underneath a smiling sun with glasses on.

The Daily Mail describing The Cut as a "Pro-Sussex Magazine" is a fun one

hi yes, mr kahn, i don't mean to split hairs but that's a photo of *Carrie Bradshaw* not *Sarah Jessica Parker*. mr kahn? hello? mr. kahn?

An absurdly deep dive on the question on everybody's minds—or at least ours: Are Luigi and Chuck Mangione related?

arriving home from a Tuesday morning 10th anniversary Interstellar screening in IMAX and seeing signs from other dimensions everywhere… what could it mean, and how could it save us…

A few months ago I had the idea to set iconic movie endings to "You Got the Love" a la Sex and the City's series finale in an effort to prove, I'm not quite sure... Anyway, here's the first and only one I've made. (BlueSky's 60-second limit hurts this but... oh well.)

Hot Frosty has a very confusing understanding of both temperature and Christmas.

All five of the fiction titles on the list are from PRH. That seems bad.

Thank you @npr.org for naming @dannymlavery.bsky.social, @bobbyfinger.bsky.social, and @leemandelo.bsky.social's latest books as among the Books We Love this year!! apps.npr.org/best-books/#...