You say there's a football play worth 7 points? That seems unlikely.

Random icky news of the day: I'm in the Epstein Files. (He received a link to an article I wrote for the Rolling Stone website in 2015, "8 Grammy Moments You Couldn't See on TV.")

I was watching the video for Kim Carnes' "Bette Davis Eyes," and now I want the complete life story of the guy in her band rocking a hat with an enormous feather.

here's my entry!! #Comics4Liam

I spent some time with a random sample of fifth graders this week, during which I discovered they knew exactly two things about Star Trek: 1. The Spock hand gesture. 2. "George Takei was in it."

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1765

You didn't know you needed footage of test planes crashing synced to Van McCoy's "The Hustle," but I am telling you that you very much do.

Also, because I know some of you are writers and other types of artists: your creative work is a valuable asset and you should name a literary executor in the event of your death (which, obv, I hope doesn't happen for a long time).

YES THIS: "Whichever consonant you think to double in an Italian word/name, you probably picked the wrong one."

Went through airport security right behind Fred Armisen.

To me, my X-Mas!

Hey @mnemex.bsky.social — any relation?

RIP Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner. In this moment of unspeakable awfulness, I want you to know something about them together: the story of how they met, introduced by Barry Sonnenfeld when he was the cinematographer on When Harry Met Sally.

Since Emily and I were in the same HS drama club, this seems like the natural order of the world reasserting itself.

RIP the incomparable Tom Stoppard, whose plays moved and inspired me my entire life. I directed a production of Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth in college that still delights me to think about (much more credit to him and to the actors than to me). But the moment that really awakened me... 1/2

Introduce yourself with five concerts you attended David Bowie on Staten Island Nirvana at the Loft (Berlin) Moby/Outkast at Jones Beach Prince at Staples Center, 5 encores Blink-182 on the USS Nimitz (Gulf of Oman)

Fascinating read on how a suspicious pitch highlighted a growing problem in freelance journalism: A flood of generative AI that even prestige publications don't catch, complete with fabricated quotes, from scammers who see opportunity in a field so many real humans are struggling to survive in.

Another really good magazine bites the dust: RIP Charlotte magazine, 1968-2025. I was proud to be a small part of its history, but this is a tragedy for the city, where one media outlet after another has been going down or getting hollowed out into an Easter Bunny chocolate shell.

It's 20 years since @seanphillips.bsky.social and I exchanged a sketchbook back and forth in the mail, a drawn &painted call and response. INTERSECTIONS may be out of print but here is a flip through that sketchbook. You can still find the book out there :)

I would like to give a shout out to @gregpak.net , my favorite politics uncle and tireless documentarian of NYC life. He deserves to feel amazing tonight for all his work showing what organizing and participating actually looks like. And he writes comic books good too!

Flashback to when I wrote an article about HBO's Rome for TV Guide and had to grapple with the issue of whether it was a spoiler to tell TV Guide's readers that Julius Caesar got assassinated.

I found this book to be more interesting than many MCU films and shows I’ve seen. #BookSky #MCU @jowrotethis.bsky.social @mrgavinedwards.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Well, this is clearly the bargain of the year. I just thrust my money in Binc's direction — if you haven't read The Wicked + The Divine, you are in for a treat.

The one time I met Ace Frehley, he was in full Spaceman stage makeup and costume. Which, really, is how I'd want to remember him anyway. (It was backstage at MSG in 1996.) I wrote his obituary for the NY Times. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/a...

Hello friends and family in the UK! There's a big sale happening on the audiobook version of this bestseller I wrote with @da7e.com and @jowrotethis.bsky.social -- but please don't be alarmed if the narrator has an American accent.

What I love about this story is that he's taking on a role that was previously held by his mother. (No, not Fran Drescher — Patty Duke, who was president of SAG from 1985 to 1988.)

So here are my suggestions if you ever find yourself in a situation where you need to pronounce names in an official capacity. 1. Read them ahead of time. 2. Ask for help 3. Forvo.com is a great resource 4. Slow down, and use falling tones to give extra gravitas. 5. Apologize and own mistakes

I wrote an entire book (LAST NIGHT AT THE VIPER ROOM) by hand. Which gave it a particular mental texture and came with the satisfaction of a growing stack of pages. But it was a bear when it came time to type it up.

A comic about making comics (the alt text took longer to write than the comic did to draw * I drew this a few years ago)

The furthest I’ve been: North: Stockholm, Sweden, 59.33° N East: Wellington, New Zealand, 174.77° E South: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 42.88° S West: Kauai, Hawaii, USA: 159.46° W (Stockholm is just a hair further north than Oslo; Hobart is just a hair further south than Wellington.)

Horns up for the mighty Ozzy Osbourne. I wrote his obituary for the NY Times. Gift link:

I didn't realize how much I needed to see a good Superman movie. Question for people who are more familiar with the arcana than I am: when did the Fortress of Solitude relocate to Antarctica?

Happy Live Aid Day for those who celebrate! rulefortytwo.com/articles-ess...

This is what the internet is for! More!

Quote post with the Fantastic Four comic that came out the month you were born.

So happy for @keezyyoung.bsky.social !

Punk rock kid buskers (‘The Whops’, tiktok) near the Edgware Rd. They run into Paul Simonon, play Death or Glory for him. He asks if they know The Guns of Brixton. They do -

In both of my Brian Wilson remembrances, I made a point of mentioning Lewis Shiner's novel Glimpses, which hit me hard 30 years ago: it's about a man who, by listening to music, can time travel to the time and place when it was made. (Not just metaphorically, like the rest of us.) Still in print:

Please enjoy this table of possible future scenarios from a 1990s paper in a peer-reviewed journal on how to deal with nuclear waste storage in underground repositories in New Mexico. I found it while doing research for an article on nuclear waste storage. "WIPP" means "Waste Isolation Pilot Plant".

Rest in peace, Brian Wilson, purveyor of musical sunshine, melancholy, and melodic genius. I wrote two things about him, separated by at least a decade, that both ran today.

RIP to the stone cold genius Sly Stone. He squandered so much talent and goodwill, but he had mountains of both and so left an enormous legacy. If you can, listen to his air checks from when he was an Oakland DJ: you can hear him figuring out the blueprint for a musical revolution in real time.

RIP Peter David. I wrote the NY Times obituary:

My super-cool pal Wendy Greene has a podcast! myhollywoodstory.podbean.com/e/it-s-billy...

An article I wrote about 35 years ago about one of the greatest works of comics never made:

Fan letter from Charles M. Schulz to Joan Didion: @lukeepplin.bsky.social

Comics fans, the correct answer is yes.

A birthday card to Bob Seger where my pal Rob Sheffield lights the fire down below — @tommytomlinson.bsky.social, you'll dig this one.

Once again, a new MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE movie will be in theaters this weekend. At your local bookshop, find MCU: THE REIGN OF MARVEL STUDIOS a book @jowrotethis.bsky.social @mrgavinedwards.bsky.social and myself wrote explaining how the MCU changed Hollywood. TheMCUBook.com