Stay inside, Pokey. It’s awful out there.

Just finished Spinal Tap II: The End Continues. Such an oddly sweet film, and so heartbreaking to watch it tonight. Fuck this week.

Oh no! We just finished rewatching This is Spinal Tap and saw this news. 😢

Boston University's Film and TV Department is hiring a multi-cam director (studio and/or field). Deadline January 30th! jobs.silkroad.com/BU/Faculty/j...

Give the man some Stuart Hall

Maximum inflation achieved!

Found this in an old box earlier today. Haven’t stopped laughing.

🙄 FFS with this word. A really, really good cloth? It’s cinematic. You are the embodiment of hygiene. You are Joan Crawford, wiping away the ring of dirt around your planter. There is nothing you cannot sanitize, hands clutching a cloth and powdered soap.

Nopal cleaning day! (aka I watch my husband clean nopales and then tweeze espinas from his hands later)

If Argento baked…

Looks like the Pope put on his Newton Minow hat.

Roundabout at Park & Main. Roundabout at Park & Main. Roundabout at Park & Main. www.courant.com/2025/11/15/c...

Michael Peña is a national treasure.

I surprised my husband with this Mexican treat I forgot I had brought from Texas. Beholding the magnificence of yet another way to deliver tamarindo and chile to one’s mouth, he asked, how can people not like us?? 🇲🇽

Colbert did it better

Nice sprinkling of Debs at the outset. Well played.

Fresh from the oven, sans skulls #DiaDeMuertos

Dirty Kalamata Martini Hartford Flavor Company Happy Halloween! 🎃 #NutmegSky

Every October for the past few years, I have helped my husband build an ofrenda at UCONN's @uconnelinstituto.bsky.social for Día de Muertos in November. We grab a corner of the common area & fill it with artifacts we've collected for the 20 or so years. Here's a peek at a few of our altar dwellers.

Potato and egg tacos everyday. Every. Damn. Day.

The Department of Film & #Television at Boston University is hiring! * Professor of the Practice, Multi-Cam Studio, and/or Field Directing * Assoc. Prof. of the Practice, Multi-Episode TV Producing * 3-year, renewable appt. * Deadline 1/30/26 Ads will be in the Chronicle of Higher Ed soon!

If you haven't done your rewatch of THE EXORCIST yet, here's a musical nudge. 👹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4kw...

In my October Director's Letter from @bucomresearch.bsky.social, I talk with Drs. @tvbookstvbooks.bsky.social & @morganweiland.bsky.social about public views on navigating governmental pressure, protecting free speech, and the future of media freedom. #FirstAmendment sites.bu.edu/crc/2025/10/...

I wrote about this years ago, so it's a topic near-and-dear to my TV scholar heart. This is as much a media history story as it is a drug story. This NPR story is quite brief, so I'm interrupting grading to offer a timeline of how shit got so bad. (This does not qualify as procrastination.) 🧵 (1/10)

Midterm grading day means pizza has no calories.

Fucking hell. I read “An A.I. Pastor Legend,” and I was ready to scream A.I. CAN’T MAKE TACOS!

Also the worst time because useless cowards are defunding them.

No amount of Reese’s pumpkins will make my students forgive me for giving them a pen-and-paper midterm.

One month until my book Content Confusion publishes on 11/18! It reveals how mainstream news & ads blur lines, fueling disinfo & shaping journalism itself. Ever noticed ads disguised as news? Share your stories! #Preorder here: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255360... #MediaTrust @mitpress.bsky.social

Good public TV energy in Hartford #NoKings #NutmegSky

Ah yes. The promise of “disruptive” media.

Found this beautiful Stapelia gigantea in my parents’ garden. Apparently it smells awful, so it attracts flies that think it’s a rotting cadaver. There’s a metaphor for 2025 somewhere in here.

That’s my energy when I hear someone chewing.

I believe this will be the key to catching Lefty, the rogue miniature Highland Coo. #NutmegSky

Prof. Jaramillo publishes article in LA Review of Books. Deborah Jaramillo’s article “Indecent Disposal: FCC and the Censoring of Late-Night” in the LA Review of Books can be read here: lareviewofbooks.org/article/inde...

I mean…yes. Can’t argue.

“Russia’s greatest love machine”

NYU-MCC is hiring! Asst. Prof in the area of “Media and Global Cities.” Please help us get the word out. apply.interfolio.com/174886

I had fun revisiting angry viewer letters & FCC speeches to write this piece. The brief but consequential run-up to the 1952 TV Code has a lot to offer as we reflect on the Colbert and Kimmel debacles. (Also, a Morel Orel mention.) Thanks to @sayanniething.bsky.social & @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social!

Writing a piece about this whole Kimmel mess, and I'm going back over some spreadsheets of archival research from 2011. My PhD student at the time typed up some of these for me and would throw some curve balls in there for a giggle.

Bobby Pulido is running for Congress?!?

Seriously, watching NEKROMANTIK was more enjoyable than scrolling through today's headlines.

Incredible. My hotel carries like six different ABC affiliates, and they all must be Sinclair bc Kimmel is replaced with some show about drones.

FFS Tylenol can’t even stop a headache.

From Commissioner Gomez: "... a shameful show of cowardly corporate capitulation by ABC [...] has put the foundation of the First Amendment in danger." www.fcc.gov/document/gom...

The Wall. And the Grease soundtrack recorded off of TV. He contains multitudes.

Colbert: authoritarianism Meyers: authoritarianism Letterman: authoritarianism Fallon:

Section 326 has always been undermined by the commission’s licensing power. By deciding who can broadcast—and basing it on criteria established by them—the FCC has exercised some degree of power over speech.

Can’t we agree now that comedy IS serious? FFS

They’re trying to make late night static again.