Last night during the Oscars I posted about my experience interviewing Robert Redford. Then remembered today it’s no longer online. So I brought the interview back and added some commentary (I truly think about this one a lot)

And this also has the two other songs he did, which are just as powerful.

Free message for Democrats on taxes: We will use them to improve people's lives instead of killing people for no reason.

Two people wearing leopard spot pants and two people wearing leopard spot coats within the same block of 12 seats on the F train must be a sign of…something?

Amazing.

America no longer innovates in the tech world but we are always breaking new ground when it comes to heckling

There is a man at the ACC tournament screaming Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls while Stanford tries to shoot free throws

Who the fuck is demonizing homeowners? It's landlords we hate

OK, here's our story on the wild situation in Manhattan today where the Justice Department settled a monopolization case against Live Nation without telling its own lawyers. We got one week of testimony that was going really badly for the company. But corruption won out. prospect.org/2026/03/09/l...

This absolutely reeks of a false flag attempt, particularly with the most odious bigots in Congress immediately hoping on board.

Happy Gary Retrograde everyone! The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman

For once I’m grateful for DST because two months of waking up at 4am almost every day—for no apparent reason—has gotten old. 5am seems so much better!

Oh yes please.

So I guess I’m canceling another subscription???

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

How do you like THESE apples, Mr. Madame Secretary, Sir?

These awards should come directly from a police department's budget.

Great essay as always by Annie. And a great cover contained within that post!

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

I think the bigger security risk is the gestapo she runs that murders people for standing in the street and kidnaps children to put them in concentration camps. But sure, if the shoe thing gets her shitcanned, do what you gotta do.

"In court, prosecutors said that after reviewing the evidence, they were unable to prove that an officer suffered a physical injury caused directly by Coulibaly’s conduct and therefore did not pursue an assault charge."

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

Every next piece of news that comes out of Jessica Tisch's reaction to the snowball fight makes her look increasingly insane

The crybaby cops should be put on desk duty for the rest of their careers. That'll make sure they never have to encounter a vewy scawy snowball fight ever again.

bring back shame please for the love of god like IT WAS A SNOWBALL FIGHT YOU WEENIES

I hope you all see what's happening: The cops and a bunch of bad-faith "influencers" are manufacturing a crisis over a snowball because they have nothing to hold over the mayor while crime in NYC continues its years-long decline. Watch carefully who plays along with this charade.

Fuck this and everyone who helped get things to this point. Trans rights are human rights—full stop.

Wow

J.D. Vance went to Yale Law School and doesn't give a shit about the law. He's a Catholic who doesn't give a shit about kindness, empathy, or love. He's likely to one day lead a nation of hundreds of millions and he hates people with a passion. I hope he rots in hell.

Hearing "Champagne Supernova" on the day job's classic rock station here in NYC is somehow making me uncomfortable, even though I know it's by far old enough to be "classic rock."

Hot take: I don't think we should be issuing guns to people who are afraid of snowballs.

U.S. men's hockey with Curt-Schilling-in-Boston levels of good will squandering. A 25-mile lead in the good will marathon and they tripped on their dicks right at the finish line.

Glad Kash Patel was having a nice time visiting his parents in Florida, not only while Providence teenagers who had just seen their friends shot to death cowered in their rooms **but while the gunman drove to Brookline MA and killed someone else**

Got a text from my friend (the wisely avoiding all social media) Hank telling me what he was listening to while awaiting my blizzard playlist. I demurred from texting “challenge accepted,” but then I got to thinking and hastily assembled this during lunch. figgsrock2.substack.com/p/that-name-...

I assume this bucket is named “The Gondelman”? cc @joshgondelman.bsky.social

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.

Any car that hasn't moved in the period between the last storm ending and the next storm beginning should immediately be towed, stripped of hazardous materials, and dumped into the Atlantic Ocean to become artificial reefs like they do with old subway cars.

Making people pay for street parking in this gridlocked city? That could generate $1.3 billion—yes, billion—each year. And unlike taxing the rich, this revenue idea is completely within the City's power to implement. Now we're talking! hellgatenyc.com/feed-the-met...

They're quite literally pillaging the government.

I, too, will watch this movie.

La Retraite de Hugues de Payens, by Georges Mathieu, 1958 (rotated), 📸 by @tiltoncreative

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

There’s going to be Covid style shortages of cars, TVs and even washing machines and fridges, then job losses because assembly lines can’t source solid state memory, just so the stupidest person you know can state with 100% confidence a chatbot confirmed dinosaurs coexisted with humans.

Watching the Mission: Impossible channel on Pluto and it got me thinking—how much reel to reel tape ruined in making the original series cost? Gotta be in the thousands, right?

just need to accept that from here on out it is a non-stop stream of very sad deaths and at some point one really fun one

This kid is my new hero.

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A suggestion for your Friday: this comp has songs from 110 Minnesota artists. Your $20 donation goes directly to mutual aid in the Twin Cites meltice.bandcamp.com/album/melt-ice

I'm looking to interview some non-American musicians or bands who've decided not to tour in the U.S. this year because of ICE. Please hit my DMs if you are willing to chat about this decision.