stealing this from our Brian Bennett -- the Hornets just had a fairy tale draft: Hannes/Christian Anderson

literally watergate

They’re calling it the least comprehensible achievement of all time.

some very good seth rogen lore here

Can't break the record on some boring-'ole penalty kick. Had to complete a super-cool sequence instead. Awesome stuff.

Reminder: Service is selling. Selling is service.

God bless Cape Verde for straight-up going *after it* today. No playing for a tie, no staying on their back heels on defense. Just put it all out there. Incredible drama.

Sports app going.wild over that one.

This is incredible. So satisfying. I was going to say it’s “cutting” but it’s more a knifing to the gut or maybe a beheading. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Some good work being done here by @nichemusicmemes.bsky.social on Insta (h/t: @maggieserota.bsky.social):

I’m not merely pro-penis, I’m a

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to show up in full combat gear on a hot summer day to the pool he filled with algae because he gave a paint job to one of his cigar puffing cronies. you are ordered to stop tourists from touching the green water. good luck soldier

Knicks 🤝 USMNT Clutch scoring by OG

Watching Jim Dolan sulking in that stupid salmon suit jacket while Mamdani offered the most soaring imaginable tribute to his team was such a pitiful display. Greatest triumph of his life and he looked like a petulant little boy his mom dragged to the department store.

Today at The Reveal: You can read me on TOY STORY 5 and THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD (a study in contrasts if ever there was one) and @scotttobias.bsky.social on GIRLS LIKE GIRLS and ROSE OF NEVADA:

It really sounds like Dolan hasn’t even talked to the players about this. Total buffoon. It is even happens, there will be a ton of absences, I’m guessing.

From earlier today, I wrote about cutting my teeth at a pre-internet student newspaper, Cop & a Half, and the privilege of being a mostly shitty writer for a while. (Free to read.) thereveal.film/my-time-at-a...

Today at The Reveal, I wrote about my student newspaper days at UGA in the early-to-mid '90s, and the invaluable experience of failing in front of my peers: thereveal.film/my-time-at-a...

The war on metaphor is over and we lost. defector.com/promises-mad...

"The remarkable—and, in my opinion, pertinent—fact about Bicycle Thieves is that 63 critics were so impressed by a film that had come out only four years earlier that [in 1952] they considered it the greatest of all time." thereveal.film/41-tie-bicyc...

After years working on our Sight & Sound 100 conversation project, @kphipps3000.bsky.social and I have finally reached the #1 movie [of the original poll in 1952]. What a picture! thereveal.film/41-tie-bicyc...

475 million of them are accidentally clicking on a link in Instagram and getting annoyed

Fantastic take on Wemby's performance in the Finals. This excerpts the lede, but the piece is more nuanced about the series exposing the fact that the 22-year-old is, in fact, a 22-year-old.

Incredible triumph for Cape Verde, one of the world's great MapTap score destroyers.

The text chain between @scotttobias.bsky.social , @kphipps3000.bsky.social and me will be *heavy*.

“Côte d’Ivoire” yet another amazing thing to say in a Philly accent

only one writer I know picked the Knicks to win the title in October and picked Knicks over Spurs before the playoffs: @teamziller.bsky.social. I’ve been a GMIB subscriber since the start. What I really subscribe for is the clairvoyance.

Wemby and the Spurs just leaving the court without congratulating the Knicks is such a terrible look. They’re awesome but have some maturing to do in many regards.

Has a team ever won a title by winning the same exact same game four times?

MVP to championship bench talisman Dillon Jones.

Got scaffolding-cam on the big screen at my in-laws’ house. Events like these are why high-definition televisions were invented.

Team USA looking… fucking awesome?

I'm not naive about how difficult it would be for American soccer to compete with elite soccer nations, but I'm certain that taking Alexi Lalas off TV is an essential step in the right direction.

"We have a term for enterprises that look successful because they keep drawing in new investors and keep drawing in new investors because they look successful. They’re called Ponzi schemes." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...

DISCLOSURE DAY fuses themes and ideas from classic Spielberg movies like CLOSE ENCOUNTERS and E.T., but it's got a pedal-to-the-metal urgency that's closer to MINORITY REPORT. Anyway, I liked it: thereveal.film/in-review-di...

Three Stooges Syndrome!!!

The level of hatred Knicks fans will now feel for James Dolan if the team loses the series will be beyond measure. Like you almost have to appreciate his active vibe-killing prowess.

Spend a plane ride reading that big New Yorker piece on Andrew Tate. Excellent reporting. Just the most comprehensively sickening person and phenomenon imaginable. Barron Trump wrapped up in that whole thing, too, in case you’re wondering what that kid is up to.

For The Reveal today, I interviewed the Documentary Now! showrunners about “Mr. Runner Up,” their Kid Stays in the Picture parody, tied to a new coffee table book about the greatest niche show ever: thereveal.film/interview-th...

The difference between Russia/Qatar and the USA is Russia/Qatar used the World Cup to hide their human rights abuses, and the USA are using it to flaunt them

A crossing-the-streams moment: At the end of his annual epic media availability today, Sam Presti enthused over @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social’s Wes Anderson book. Who’d have guessed that the GM who lines up every basketball Wilson-side out at the practice facility would be into Wes Anderson?

Secret Service will need to listen up to hear if Enrico Palazzo is in fine voice tonight.

For @slate.com's Spielberg Week I explored the deathless question of Spielberg's role in POLTERGEIST:

The Western Hemisphere should never be allowed to host the World Cup. The whole point is to be able to get to work and watch soccer all day until I need to pick up my kids from summer camp. I should be watching Ghana-Uzbekistan at 9am.

James Dolan invited his friend Donald Trump to watch Game 3. In order to do that, they have to ban the organic, historically joyous parties happening outside MSG for fans who can't afford to be inside. Modern sports in a nutshell

So little has been fun about the 21st century Chicago Bulls, but that's never been on Stacey King, who could make a regular-season triumph like this Josh Giddey buzzer-beater seem like a Game 7 victory. R.I.P. to a legend. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tnw...