People are desperate for tangible things that can’t be taken away by greedy billionaires. CDs are cheaper and more portable than vinyl, and a greater portion of the money spent goes to musicians compared to the pennies provided by Spotify and Apple Music.

Our two investigations into Madison Square Garden are now unpaywalled and free for anyone to read.

"Why do people look so weird" asks the guy who traded his hair, his youth and his soul for a bomb casing filled with used pinball-machine parts

Friday afternoon post for everyone who's asked me where they can read my review of THE ODYSSEY: It's right here on SHINY THINGS, but you have to be a paid subscriber. Sorry. (I would be happy to write about it elsewhere but no one has the money, you see.)

an underappreciated downside of hiring a particularly stupid senator with no law enforcement experience as the head of your law enforcement agency is that he’s too thick to know his statements in that capacity will be used against his agency successfully in court

Snuck into BEVERLY HILLS COP at 16, which was a bigger deal in Ontario because our R rating meant no admittance at all if you were 17 or under.

Not being All Fancy or anything, but my answering this question would violate at least two NDAs.

Why does the larger politician not simply eat the other one

Elon Musk trying to sink a Christopher Nolan movie was honestly the funniest and dumbest course of action he could have taken. He’s one of the most popular filmmakers alive and now it proves Elon and his fanboys have no real cultural impact outside of X

Every single story about Sam Neill is this sweet. I encountered him maybe half a dozen times over the decades and never spent more than half an hour with him at any given time, but this is exactly who he was. Fully engaged with the world, reflexively friendly and always, always kind.

Sing, O muse, of SHINY THINGS -- where paid subscribers found my exclusive review of THE ODYSSEY, as well as Apple's LUCKY and Jesse Noah Klein's BEST BOY, in today's What's Worth Watching. And you can join us! Click on the image below to upgrade or start a new sub. Don't displease the gods.

The accuracy of the subtitles really makes it sing, somehow.

Percy High-Speed Powered USB Hub is never getting to The Show

"air quality" was a mistake. I think we should go back to talking about air pollution wildfires aren't "lowering air quality" they're increasing pollution and filling the air with smoke

Monsterverse Godzilla really nails that mid-period Showa characterization where he's no longer a villain but also not quite a superhero so he mostly feels like a house cat defending his territory Whenever he charges at something the overwhelming sensation is "fuck you for making me run"

That's funny, that's what we say about their president

hey, remember: don't eat anything and don't breathe

*I'm a science fiction writer, so I'm allowed to be way-into some weird crap, but if I ever start skeeting that DMT elves are "real" in the way that, like, hammers are real, you'll need to gently caress that Bluesky block-button, okay

I love it when Doug pretends to get mad at corruption.

I really like Ossoff's style here -- no stentorian posturing or self-importance, just exhaustion with an undertone of disgust. "Are we still doing this? Really? Have you looked around lately?"

pretty embarrassing to only make $100,000 in that scenario

A paint-splattered SHINY THINGS just dropped, featuring one of the year's best pictures and one that sort of has a mummy in it. Also some sharks.

It's gone from oppressive and pervasive to just ... looming.

Probably THE LONG GOODBYE.

every time trump is president you gotta wash your groceries

Ah man, American is stealing the Loonie, and also now the name suits their coin better

Sympathies to the English footy fans, but let's all focus our rage on today's real disappointment, which is of course the Wordle.

Outside again. Smells more like garbage than wood chips. I guess that's good?

... ey, yo, it's the whole frickin movie

I'm guessing it's the exploding

google's $190 billion spend on AI this year definitely working out for them

... but flu vaccinations were optional

Q&As moderated by MARTIN SCORSESE AND PATTI SMITH, for the love of god

This is the way to do it. Don't just ask once and let them dodge, keep coming back to the question and explain WHY you keep coming back to it.

These photos of FNs community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic (Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his “hometown is gone”) www.facebook.com/share/r/1ArN...

never fucking forget that our tomato of a premier slashed tens of millions from our forest firefighting and emergency preparedness budget so now yea we’re surrounded by toxic air and whole communities are burning down

Feeling trapped by the weather? Escape to the ocean as ROSE OF NEVADA's Mark Jenkin brings John Milius' epic surfing drama BIG WEDNESDAY to the podcast! On all platforms and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/mar...

News: Toronto has the worst air quality in the world today due to Ontario forest fires. Doug Ford: Buy a coffee! (There’s no sound. You’re welcome.)

Greetings from Toronto!

Yesterday it felt like 40+ C in Toronto. Today it's cooler... because smoke from the wildfire that has obliterated Collins First Nation in northern Ontario is blocking the sun. Seems like time to re-up my column from last year on the summertime blues. thenarwhal.ca/seasonal-dep...

Oh no Toronto (and the rest of Ontario), air quality is bad out today, like, wearing a KN95 outdoors bad. Take heed! #dlws www.iqair.com/ca/air-quali...

Update: I polled the audience and about a quarter of them had never seen DIRTY DANCING before, which means riiiiight about now they're experiencing Peak Swayze for the very first time. Toronto just got hotter, is what I'm saying.

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

If you're on your way down to Harbourfront for tonight's Free Flicks screening of DIRTY DANCING, there's still time to grab a decent seat! Also, free popcorn! I'm sorry, I'll repeat that in all-caps: ALSO, FREE POPCORN!!!

I never thought I’d see the trades treat a company whose stated goal is to be “The Asylum, but with 99% less effort” like it’s brand new and very, very impressive.

BREAKING: E. Jean Carroll just received Trump's $5 million — plus interest. Despite Trump's repeated attempts to block Carroll from receiving the money, $5,625,005.48 was disbursed to Carroll's legal team this week. www.ms.now/news/e-jean-...

Tonight! Beat the heat by watching a movie about people sweating at summer camp! ... you know, from all the dancing

I won an award at Sundance years ago and Sam Neill, whom I did not know, tweeted to me “we’re all so proud of you, sweetheart”. I can’t even express what that meant to me. That our most beloved national treasure, a man I worshipped, would take the time to write to me!

I'm telling you guys, it was explosive diarrhea.

Gosh, I remember when the slashes were just 300 feet long.