We've got a bit of a New Hollywood thing going here. Coincides with Larry Ellison looking to smother originality and dissent. Someone needs to CITIZEN KANE his ass (but, to be fair, include Quincy Jones' observation that he's actually a proficient guitar player).

What a magical end to an an all-time great regular season comeback. I love this team of goofballs. #Guardians

Hakeem Jeffries still refuses to endorse the Democratic Nominee for NYC mayor but has plenty of praise for Eric Adams who, left the party, openly supports Trump, & cut a deal with Trump to disappear the DOJ’s bribery & corruption charges against him. Can’t imagine why the Dem Party has 26% approval🤔

Grok told users the lead singer of The Cure was the Mormon church shooter.

"Democracy dies if prominent black writers don't frame their arguments around appeasing white voters in Wisconsin," or "Democracy dies unless liberal writers praise radical, hateful conservative activists" is the subtext. And it's worth thinking through who makes these kinds of arguments and why.

Watching the DEAN MARTIN CELEBRITY ROAST. The first guest is Dennis Weaver, and no one can figure out how to roast him. Every joke is about him quitting GUNSMOKE. Then Nipsey Russell steps up to the mic and flat-out kills by tearing into cops.

Adrien Brody after falling down a fire escape.

I need a t-shirt of Kayfus getting hit by the pitch. Let's do it, Homage. #Guardians

The most Cleveland postseason clincher ever.

Sidebar: it’s amazing how many of critic John Simon’s negative reviews were just writing around “this has Jews in it.”

THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy.

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

I reached out to Bill Burr, a comic I greatly admire, for taking what felt like a massively out-of-character gig. He's a straight shooter who's taken his fellow comedians to task for ignorant positions (e.g. Joe Rogen's Covid skepticism). Yes, the money was likely amazing, but...

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This is how many of us feel everyday. Knowing Kaleb was there to commiserate, to say what we all couldn't bear to think, was a balm of sorts. They want to beat us. They're succeeding.

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. It's hard to raise a family in an authoritarian state. Is the fight worth it? Can your psyche handle the cognitive dissonance? The longer it drags on, the stronger the kids get. They just might save us. Also, powerful white people are inherently awful. Hail St. Nick.

begging democrats to fight right now like portland is as important as jimmy kimmel

RIP Kaleb Horton kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

Put together some thoughts here. In an earlier time he would have been the kind of writer being paid $5 a word by magazines to go write about whatever he pleased. And no one would be pissed off or jealous about it either. www.welcometohellworld.com/life-is-a-pr...

Kaleb Horton was a brilliant writer. I have no idea what else to say other than he should be here working on his next banger of an essay. This is so terribly sad. My deepest condolences to his family and friends.

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. It's hard to raise a family in an authoritarian state. Is the fight worth it? Can your psyche handle the cognitive dissonance? The longer it drags on, the stronger the kids get. They just might save us. Also, powerful white people are inherently awful. Hail St. Nick.

I love that Harlan Ellison had a weekly pool game with Robin Williams and Robert De Niro. I can't remember If they had a regular fourth. @pattonoswalt.bsky.social might know.

I really wish Harlan Ellison were still around.

Septimus, what is carnal embrace?

Tailhook redux.

Yep, this is exactly what I'd have expected. Great article from Ken.

In memory and honor of Henry Jaglom, who made Orson Welles feel loved and needed at a time when few cared at all; the resulting book, My Lunches with Orson, edited by Peter Biskind, is a treasure of solicitude and disinhibition—a testament: www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

Jaglom was a true original, a spectacular raconteur and a Hollywood survivor. He always had a project going. They rarely had a scintilla of commercial value, but they meant something to him. And, of course, he was a valuable Welles confidant. He loved making movies. He believed in the art form. RIP.

Essential read. Kid was an edgelord nihilist.

The Detroit Tigers announcers are talking about *batteries not included for some reason.

I haven't had time to read up on the latest shooting, but I'm going to post my incredibly radical position that a shooting is bad no matter who did it and no matter who was shot. Stop trying to crack the code of a shooter's motives and focus on the one thing they all have in common -- the guns.

RIP Danny Thompson. Watch the full recording of Pentangle at the Two Brewers here youtu.be/ESycWNOJ22o

The other shells were engraved with "Disco Sucks".

Sincere, self-deprecating, righteous, angry and above all funny. Kimmel rose to the moment.

Looking for big laughs in these desperate times? John Huston's UNDER THE VOLCANO is a lava spewing shower of gaiety! Whip up a pitcher of Bloody Marys, and enjoy Albert Finney's zaniest performance!

"You don't look at all like the noble defender of poor defenseless widows. But then again, I don't look like a poor defenseless widow." RIP Ms. Claudia.

this is the most chotinered a chotiner interview has ever chotinered

Pat Bagley never misses.

The government knowingly putting false information in the label of a drug is crossing a Rubicon that should not be taken lightly

Disney has backed down, but there's no evidence that Sinclair or Nexstar have learned their lesson. If you haven't already done so, check the links in the thread below for stations in your area. Find the advertisers and let them know you're boycotting them until they remove ads from these stations.

Now bring back FRANK'S PLACE!

They're desperate for more moderate Dems because their corporate/wealthy donors are scared shitless.

Odds on Chris Pratt becoming the Trump era's Emil Jannings?

It's sobering, in its way, to realize that there was truly nobody (save, perhaps, his children) who knew him that loved him as a man. He made himself into content, and he died as content, and his funeral is the most content of all. Soundbites to soundbites, bits to bits

With CBS doing a throwback NFL Broadcast today, you owe it to yourself to watch this sketch, which came after Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder's racist comments. An all-timer from @triumphicdhq.bsky.social and Co.

Be sure you take a moment today to remember Charlie Kirk for exactly who he was.