Hello, friends! I'm doing Beth Lagarón's novel-of-the-month friend challenge! Please share one novel you think I should read (something that just blew you away you think I'd enoy), and I'll pick 12 and then share my thoughts each month!

Trump used to be very against Redacting Trump. Now's a great time to reread my piece on editing reruns (and use it in your classes this spring!). www.flowjournal.org/2020/02/synd...

ALL platforms need to have specific categories for reporting unlabeled AI nonsense. Since none of you let us write comments about why we are reporting something, at least do this.

Rob Reiner's mansion in the news used to be Norman's. www.tampabay.com/archive/1991...

We're celebrating the 40th anniversary of The Golden Girls with @alfredmartin.bsky.social and @tvdoc.bsky.social . LISTEN: linktr.ee/FrontRowClas...

i asked chat gpt to fact check an article for me

i love when people make fun of millennials who panic when our phones ring as if we weren't all raised by #SCREAM

I just searched Ariana "Girl in the Bubble" on TikTok and these were the results that popped up. 😟

Not to be the complainer account, but it a regulator could intervene in the whole "subscribe with your email for 10% off" but then in the next screen you also have to enter your phone number, should be illegal.

I'm so tired of political texting whack-a-mole. Every single congressional politician (I'm not even their constituent) is now going to text me and I just have to, what, stop2end them all for the rest of my life?

If Trump only investigates Epstein democrats, does that mean the only files made available will be Republicans'? Lol

Will someone give me a sora invitation code?

Beginning to feel appreciative of the “since the beginning of time, humans have ______” sentences because at least AI didn’t write them

Nielsen no longer just using Nielsen family data but also data collection from Smart TVs, set top boxes, etc. www.nielsen.com/news-center/...

This is real btw

In case of rapture tomorrow, my classes won't get canceled if they're under-enrolled, right, because we have passed add/drop?

Today is publication day for The Golden Girls: Tales from the Lanai!!! Copies are going fast on Amazon, and if you’re still undecided be sure to check out my interview with editors @tvdoc.bsky.social and @alfredmartin.bsky.social on my #GoldenGirls blog! goldengirlsfashion.com/2025/08/25/t...

Watch my breakdown of @clairebrarian.bsky.social 's terrific new chapter in the new #GoldenGirls anthology #TalesfromtheLanai youtube.com/shorts/cgdHq...

Claire's chapter is amazing, y'all!!!!!

Speaking of, my friend @tvdoc.bsky.social 's new Golden Girls book just dropped!!! Squeeeeee!

My friend @tvdoc.bsky.social wrote a book about the best TV show ever (The Golden Girls). Go get your copy today - if you’d like! 📕🌴🍰 After all, a day with fruitcake is like St. Sigmund’s Day without the headless boy! #TheGoldenGirls #TalesFromtheLanai #NewBook

As a headphones user who subscribes to Hulu with commercials, I'm curious if advertisers pay more for their commercials to be AT THE VOLUME OF GOD.

Elizabeth Berkley should sue. #taylorswift

How to ensure no one wants to buy your farmers market product (zoom in)

Furious. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Enjoying a mini-cheesecake beside #LakeMichigan for #NationalCheesecakeDay while working on a guest lecture based on our new book #THEGOLDENGIRLS: #TALESFROMTHELANAI. It's now up for preorder (use RUP30 for 30% off!). Coming to audio book, too! www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-golden-g...

So exciting, we are just over one month away!!

Have I just been ignoring it this whole time or does movie advertising for blockbusters also feel nostalgic - like the late 90s? Random commercials have call-outs to go see Superman, Jurassic World, and Fantastic Four like Phantom Menace.

As someone named Taylor in the Swift era, I really enjoy being able to indicate my pronouns in my email signature. www.kansan.com/news/ku-requ...

Aww. He was such a hearthtrob for little Taylor Tot. --- 'The Cosby Show' Star Malcolm-Jamal Warner Dead At 54 www.tmz.com/2025/07/21/m...

Briefly thought that Scarlett Johansson was playing a banjo and was suddenly 100% more interested in the franchise.

Just saw #JurassicWorldRebirth at the same time I happen to be reading #JurassicPark for the first time. Two scenes in this film seem adapted from that original book: T-Rex chasing a raft to chomp on an adult and some kids and #JonathanBailey's (or Ian Malcom's) speech about the limits of humanity.

I'm not at all interested in the movie, but a haptic feedback trailer is pretty darn fun! tv.apple.com/us/clip/hapt...

Just ordered @tvdoc.bsky.social’s book. So excited! #TheGoldenGirls #deepdive 💛

Consider not liking, engaging with, or referring to Trump and Musk as "boyfriends fighting" or going through a "breakup" or any other gay-related joke during pride month. Straight people don't have to be secretly gay to be awful.

This is what happens when Democrats shift right on immigration, they legitimize the lies. They could've run ads defending immigrants along with ads showing masked men taking away mothers and their babies. It would've pushed back on the blatant lies that worked.

“Thank you for being a friend unto others as you would others be a friend unto you” — the Golden Girls Rule

@netflix.com is totally rad for saving Sesame Street! www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/s...

Trump’s FCC stooge Brendan Carr threatens to pull CBS’ license — hypocritically claiming that they are concerned CBS is exerting too much control over content. Where are all the ‘free speech absolutists’ on this one? (Someone should tell him about Sinclair)

The piece I wrote got covered by The Week today.

70% of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s money goes to local stations—not program grants. Struggling rural stations (often in red areas of the country), which offer crucial educational programming and community outreach, would take a huge hit. www.flowjournal.org/2024/07/vani...

www.newsweek.com/republicans-... why are we saying "deported" when talking about US Citizens? That's not possible. Surely @apnews.com stylebook has a best-practice guideline.

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

Y'all, I successfully got my concert tickets!

And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

My funeral will have an end-credits scene so make sure you stick around!

Santos sentenced to 87 months in prison. Now, I want a network tv movie about this, please.

If you adore the Golden Girls, or know someone who does, this is the book to get! 💙💙💙 @tvdoc.bsky.social

Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight: