For the record, I don’t endorse that Bond is even more of a degenerate sex-pest than usual — but in this case, he kind of has an excuse when the leader of a global crime syndicate inexplicably offers Bond a massive amount of money to sleep with his daughter. A truly baffling plot turn.

tfw you just paid $65 for the two cocktails that taste like a forest fire and now get to listen to the bartender flirt with your gf for the next 40 minutes

Driving Miss Daisy. Not only a dumb movie in and of itself but Do the Right Thing wasn’t even nominated for BP that year and that’s especially galling.

Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers Jennifer Lawrence, No Hard Feelings Joaquin Phoenix, Napoleon Lee Pace, Bodies, Bodies, Bodies

The racism? Undeniable. The words? Unforgivable. And yet!

This — however, after an 8-year bid in the gifted program, can confirm that this actually isn't a joke.

In these tumultuous times, it would be downright cruel for the Eglinton Crosstown LRT to open. Do you know how many people rely on this never-ending project for work?

I imagine this isn't a popular position among Blue Jays fans but I'd much rather Toronto trade for the D-Backs' Ketel Marte than re-sign Bo Bichette. Even though Marte is 4.5 years older, it's not at all unrealistic that he could match or exceed Bo's value over the next 3-4 seasons.

Cardinals had to pay $20M to send Sonny Gray to the Red Sox in exchange for two prospects who might never be 1 WAR guys in the majors. So I don’t know why people think the Blue Jays will find a lot of teams lining up to acquire an apparently disgruntled Jose Berrios.

The Raptors' franchise-altering Rudy Gay trade news broke 12 years ago today. (Made official the following day.)

Congrats to Barry Bonds for making Jeff Kent a Hall of Famer.

Notre Dame, 10-2, has announced that they have removed themselves from bowl consideration because a bunch of players have a big final paper coming up in their fourth-year queer cinema seminar and need to crank out at least 2,000 words about Portrait of a Lady on Fire by midnight tonight.

There’s pretty compelling evidence that the christofascist Whos have pushed the indigenous Grinch population to the edge of extinction.

The most overused Twitter-era rhetorical flourish is “[bold statement] and it’s not even particularly close.” … and it’s not even, uh, well … you know.

The stimulant tolerance issue is real.

Haven’t done one of these in a hot minute, so here’s my updated list of the best movies (3.5 stars and up) I’ve seen this year-ish.

Lina Khan has been omnipresent on liberal digital media channels in recent weeks. Unless I've missed something, she doesn't seem to be hawking a book, podcast, newsletter or whatever ... Wonder what the play is here.

I think it’s so stark because he’s dyed his hair and sprayed-tanned for decades and he’s currently between treatments but holy shit is he rapidly starting to look like the elderly man he is.

it’s almost time

The Toronto Raptors have swept their season series against the (rival?) Cleveland Cavaliers. Wild.

One of the most peculiar major Hollywood decisions in recent years was Nintendo’s approach to Super Mario Bros.

@bryancurtis.bsky.social When Only in Journalism gets meta!

tfw you finally watch American Beauty

*checks notes* It’s true!

Squeezing my 6’2, 260-pound frame into a structured jacket and pleated pants so that I can wedge myself into a seat comfortably designed to fit a 5’3 woodland nymph for six hours sounds delightful. Just extend the death penalty to anyone who takes their shoes off on a flight and we’re good.

Thank god Toronto's finally fast-tracking the renaming of Dundas Station, ridding us of a painful reminder of Canada's checkered hist—

15% concentrated power of will

I think the takeaway with Marjorie Taylor Greene is that she’s a very cynical person who knows how to attract attention that serves her ambitions above all else. If for one second you actually believe her partial-flip on Trump is earnest, back away from the football, Charlie Brown.

This has to be the reddest the East's traditional playoff seeds have been a fifth of the way into the season. Knicks in/Wizards out is the only thing stopping a perfect sweep. Makes one think.

The Toronto Raptors' mojo factor is very high.

Semi-annual reminder that if you need really funny half-hour comedy to inhale, The Other Two is one of the best skewerings of the entertainment industry in years. Never gets the love it deserves.

*letterman doing the opening monologue at the rnc* nuzzi … nazis; nazis … nuzzi

cleaning out my homemade meme folder and ...

Oh Nico, Nico, because Nico Oh Nico, Nico, because Nico Zajebal Luka! Zajebal Luka! The Mavs have said Their GM’s dead

Nico Harrison checking Twitter half an hour before his morning meeting

Whenever we're just sitting around and shooting the breeze, my dad will inevitably ask, to no one in particular and with a wink: "What are the poor people doing today?" And the the answer is always whatever we happen to be doing in that moment. Same spirit.

Time to fire up the news and see how great everything's goi- OH MY GOD.

That’s a lot of penguin bones.

This is a classic albeit exceedingly risky tactic — the “maybe they’ll think I’m simply looking downward if I raise my eyebrows while I nod off” gambit. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it work.

One of the greatest coverups in modern history is Tom Cruise pretending he eats popcorn.

Kathryn Bigelow really made a movie with a scene that implies Angel Reese might get nuked. The WNBA's cultural footprint has never been larger.

ESPN and Penn National have bailed on their ESPN Bet branding deal. Penn is just way too behind the 8-ball to ever catch up as a serious player in the online sports betting space. You can't use content to market the betting app when content has been perpetually devalued over the last 20 years.

If there was a random small city in America that mandated that taxis had to be camel-powered, it would immediately become a must-visit tourist destination. Like, if Victorville, California, had a notably large camel population, that'd be something to behold.

Feel terrible for all the Wall Street firms that mandated a return-to-office, only to have their most insufferable vest-wearers fulfill their pledge to leave the city if Mamdani won.

The number of 30-somethings talking about Mamdani at the Halloween party last weekend was astounding. We live in Canada!

Seems like a not-so-great sign of the times that it’s November 4 and I just heard “All I Want for Christmas is You” in a public space before I saw a single person wearing a poppy.

Want to feel old? The kid who played Beans on Evens Stevens is currently pitching for the Dodgers.

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No need for Jomboy on this one, lol

Bomb Bichette.