imagine watching this and not thinking that this is the whole goddamn reason to even *have* America

I'll watch this but I object to the title.

They shouldn't make Cookie Monster do all these healthy eating segments on Sesame Street. It's against his nature and you can see in his eyes that he doesn't like it.

I don't think it's just nostalgia everyone's feeling, I think people are sincerely lonely. And not just young white men, who are not special. I think all kids, gender aside, want to spend the next few years talking shit to their friends on used dirtbikes without surveillance.

NEW TT: I dug the new movie NO OTHER CHOICE, and use this tremendous moment in Donald Westlake reception as an opportunity to look at what can be a convoluted process: iverson.substack.com/p/tt-562-fro...

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

I think the second part is the bigger news.

So long to this now-demolished dive where Buffalo Springfield was formed. Featured in L.A. Confidential, Unholy Rollers, Mannix, Cannon and TJ Hooker, the Hollywood Center Motel was sketchy onscreen and off. As of today, it is officially a vacant lot.

Not really a self-help guy, but I'm an Oliver Burkeman fan. I'm reading his latest, MEDITATIONS FOR MORTALS, a chapter a day as he suggests. And this essay is packed with useful advice about how to go into the new year. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The Joker’s theft of artworks from the Gotham Art Museum raise a host of extraordinary legal issues, say experts

It's been a rough year.

living in this country is like being awake on the table

ANIMAL CRACKERS (1930) just entered the public domain and it's already on Tubi (and elsewhere). I remember its 1979 TV premiere on CBS, after decades of unavailability due to rights issues. I hope a new generation discovers the Marx Bros. now, just like I did then. #FilmSky #PublicDomain

First movie of 2026, and if I see a better one I'll be grateful. True in spirit to Donald E. Westlake's brilliant novel while defiantly its own beast.

It’s that time again! extension765.com/blogs/soderb...

Hi yes you can still get an annual subscription to my newsletter for $37 until Tuesday. The Long Game is for kind and funny baseball fans of ALL teams who want to be part of a non-toxic sports community! mollyknight.substack.com/p/flash-sale...

You'd better believe if we're going out on NYE, we're both going to wear our "Am I really gonna buy this jacket?" jackets. The Hot Sardines and the Seattle Symphony were sensational, as was the afterparty. And about a dozen people complimented my jacket, so maybe I wasn't nuts to buy it.

still writing MISTER POLICE YOU COULD HAVE SAVED HER I GAVE YOU ALL THE CLUES on my checks

I legit think this would be on my list of 2025 favorites.

ICYMI, a recap of 2025 at Cocktails & Crime. And with that said, let's put that godawful 12 months behind us and concentrate on 2026. Happy new year, kids. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-88...

BREAKING: Explosions felt across New York City as full socialism begins

have i ever said how much i love Waffle House?

NEW COCKTAILS & CRIME. The year, such as it was, in review. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-88...

My last movie of 2025 is a rewatch of a film marking its 25th anniversary this week.

Saving the local pub in London, with Gen Z leading the way. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...

NEW COCKTAILS & CRIME. The year, such as it was, in review. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-88...

They say imitation crab is the sincerest form of crab

Terrible, always a total magnet. His story about getting cast in Goodfellas, basically his first movie, is so charming www.avclub.com/isiah-whitlo...

Gotta admit, Clooney & Co. reviving the OCEAN'S franchise along the lines of GOING IN STYLE (1979), a movie I watched them film in my neighborhood as a kid, is an idea I support. variety.com/2025/film/fe...

ICYMI at Cocktails & Crime: Playing catch up with movies from two filmmakers in their 80s, David Cronenberg (THE SHROUDS) and Barry Levinson (THE ALTO KNIGHTS), prompting a jazz tangent. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-87...

An absolutely wonderful, versatile, powerful and powerfully funny actor who enlivened everything he was in, and a huge loss. I'm not going to say the word, but we're all thinking it in his honor. RIP Isiah Whitlock. deadline.com/2025/12/isia...

REPEAT PERFORMANCE is perfect New Year's Eve noir if you're still making plans.

BOSTON (AP) — Environmental journalist Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of late President John F. Kennedy, has died, family says.

ICYMI at Cocktails & Crime: Playing catch up with movies from two filmmakers in their 80s, David Cronenberg (THE SHROUDS) and Barry Levinson (THE ALTO KNIGHTS), prompting a jazz tangent. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-87...

The last newsletter of the year: Oops, I left my gender in 2025. buttondown.com/christafaust...

NEW COCKTAILS & CRIME. Looking at two "old guy" movies - THE SHROUDS and THE ALTO KNIGHTS - after a long, weird year. Then I tenuously tie it into jazz and @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social's book with Billy Hart. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-87...

MEGADOC, Mike Figgis' documentary about the making of Francis Ford Coppola's MEGALOPOLIS, is a fascinating piece of work in its own right. I love that Coppola hasn't made his movie available via streaming or Blu-ray and is roadshowing it on January 1. Makes the whole thing seem like a hallucination.

I fucking knew it.

NEW COCKTAILS & CRIME. Looking at two "old guy" movies - THE SHROUDS and THE ALTO KNIGHTS - after a long, weird year. Then I tenuously tie it into jazz and @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social's book with Billy Hart. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-87...

Great post about generative AI. Happy Holidays. Don't say I never gave you anything. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Every time I see this video, I'm struck by the irony of the HOOSIERS clip being played to honor Gene Hackman considering how he felt about the movie. >

I miss the days before covid, when in New York, in Times Square or a crowded subway, you would sometimes see people wearing masks and think, "Why are they wearing those? Oh, right--it's none of my fucking business." Let's get back to that.

Edith Head's role in creating this classic look is of course mentioned. www.elle.com/uk/fashion/a...

i regret to report this is literally a dell ad campaign

whenever some rich tech asshole is like “we all must leave california because it’s about to turn into a hell hole!” I cross my fingers they’ll be right so I can afford to buy a house.

My new year's resolution this year, as every year, is to be a more available, supportive friend as well as an increasingly looming, formidable enemy.

Stoked to see this starred review in Kirkus for HOLLYWOODSKI!!! As the founder of TIGER VAN BOOKS, it has been such an honor to publish the great @loubeard.bsky.social and bring his vision of Los Angeles to a wider audience. Thank you to everyone who has supported our independent press.

I wish I could find the comment on here that referred to video podcasts as "non-union television shows," which completely killed them for me.

Marlene Dietrich, born December 27, 1901. Here with Edith Head during production of the Billy Wilder film A FOREIGN AFFAIR (1948). Marlene "hires" Edith and Lillian Frost to find her missing accompanist in the second Lillian and Edith mystery DANGEROUS TO KNOW. (Wilder also cameos.) #BOTD