packers in the playoffs

malik willis innocent

Hundreds of residents signed up for FEMA buyouts after Hurricane Helene. Not one has been approved.

to me, carlos-manuel vesga is giving the best performance on PLURIBUS as manousos, who'd rather take on the Darién Gap alone than have anything to do with the Others who've taken over the world. we chatted about catholicism, language, & migration, for @vulture.com. www.vulture.com/article/plur...

long live Carol

when someone doesn’t like carol sturka I feel like emma stone in wells for boys

talked to Vince Gilligan about Pluribus, with a detour through romance www.vulture.com/article/vinc...

Pluribus is a brilliant show that forces you to watch it actively and interrogate your own responses. The finale, now streaming a couple days ahead of schedule, devastatingly illustrates how the capacity to love discriminately is both what makes us human and our downfall as a species.

if you are bored by pluribus and my curmudgeonly queen carol sturka that's a skill issue*!!! *reasonable minds may disagree but I tried to work through that disagreement in writing variety.com/2025/tv/colu...

I wrote about the divas of Pluribus

A throwback to @kellyq.bsky.social's wonderful take on #TheXFiles' "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas": www.givememyremote.com/remote/2018/...

I wrote about the divas of Pluribus

the packers ended that game clown style but I love malik willis football

most of the green bay packers are legally dead

“It’s not a “Florida” thing. It’s not a “Texas” thing. It’s a 21 states out of 50 thing. The government wants to dictate to half of this country's states what they can read & what they can think. They want public institutions of democracy & civic engagement to be mouthpieces of government beliefs.”

i think about 'we slidin' at least once a week

The thing that really gets me is back in 2014 I think bigots in NC tried to pass a bathroom ban & it blew up in their faces & when these same people came back with "fairness in sports" too many people took them seriously when it was an obvious change in tactics!

a lil depressing that the majority of entertainment articles i see shared are just “[Movie/TV Show] Ending, Explained!” seems bad for journalism but also bad for filmmaking and pop culture and audiences and our general intelligence

I can’t explain living through the aftermath of two devastating hurricanes for the past 15 months while also watching things like this happen. it’s like time traveling back here from a future apocalypse

for our last best of the year list, I wrote about Mrs. Table, how good Zahn McClarnon is at being in pain, and, obviously, Carol

The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died. New, @propublica.org

I loved the way Rob Reiner humbly carried on the tradition of combining humor and activism—two modes of truth telling that are always more potent together—that defined his father and Norman Lear's cohort of entertainers. All 3 gone within 5 years. Feels like we're losing two generations at once

when my Christmas tree infested my house with bugs three days ago it was an omen

This was what happened to Newsweek and it’s in the process of happening to the LA Times and the Washington Post, too.

at least the green bay packers are sapping me of my will to live a little early this year. getting it over with

more movie reviews should include a shoutout to O'Neill Library

wrote about my favorite episode of the year for my favorite list of the year

"I see that you are advertising for your restaurant in the town square. How DARE you not give me the full meal for free?!"

wrote about my favorite episode of the year for my favorite list of the year

PACKERS WIN THERE IS HOPE FOR AMERICA

a lot of people seem to think that television shows are full of secrets and that analyzing shows is about looking for clues to reveal those secrets

Beautiful sentence. God bless America.

PLURIBUS makes a case for humanity, but also for humans making things. It’s the most anti-AI piece of art I’ve seen.

I talked to Samba Schutte about Pluribus and he had an incredible reason to break out his Vince Gilligan impression

"The more time a show spends trying to simplify itself for unengaged viewers, the harder it is for anyone to stay engaged." I'm SO tired of watching streaming dramas where the main characters just constantly explain the plot to each other.

For @tvguide.com I reviewed WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY (which I think is now my favorite of the three):

A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social

Mad Men 4K

A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:

Thanksgiving is for lovers

guess who's in the pluribus hive mind

My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?

big year for new shows! I wrote about my two favorites

anyhow the answer is that haha suckers you can't pull out your fun theories-y posts about what this show is REALLY about because it's about ALL OF IT

I get why it happens but goddamn do I wish anything could hit as hard on the timeline as something that sucks that everyone hates written by or about the worst person you know. I wish something good or interesting was able to get anywhere near the traction some shit that sucks does.

Pope Leo absolutely cooking

Keep on travelin', Carol! #Pluribus

YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wrote an essay about the lowdown, and how it can be hard to think about drama at a time when there never seem to be consequences for bad guys, and how the lowdown offers us a way out www.vulture.com/article/the-...