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It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

ME: Obviously, it’s great that KPop Demon Hunters is getting a physical release—it’s never guaranteed with a Netflix film, and that’s a movie that means a lot to a lot of people. But is Criterion really the right home for it? I’m just not so sure. MY MOM: And how’s that wonderful daughter of yours?

The old Old Town

One thing that I like about parenting is if you get sick while you're doing it the kids universally understand and support you and give your partner an easy time while you're out of commission

A giant loss: Robert Duvall is gone. An extraordinary artist who was fluent in every dialect of film acting, from ice-cold underplayer (The Godfather) to expert naturalist (Tender Mercies, The Apostle) to balls-to-the-wall maniac (Apocalypse Now). One of our all-timers. Plunge into that filmography.

James Van Der Beek and Bud Court dying the same day, a bad day for millennial and boomer teens alike

It’s time to post this. Confirmed. Sam Darnold is a Super Bowl Champion. ilovecitr.us/darnold/

It’s hard to imagine someone more universally enjoyed than Catherine O’Hara where the opinions range from “I like her and her work” to “I love her and her work” and that’s a pretty good legacy

Our government's atrocities are bringing together Bears fans and Packers fans.

i hate living in the second act of CABARET. i miss living in the first act of CABARET

Have never been to Minnesota in my life but I grew up with MST3K playing on a loop on my computer and that does a weird thing to your brain where you’re like “why do I know what Menards is?”

Oh shush let a boy dream

Before we begin, I would like to acknowledge that we are meeting here because of the unceded suffering of the Omelas child

The longer I stare at this photo, the more convinced I become that that is not her hand. It is not attached to her body, I swear. Also it’s too small. static01.nyt.com/images/2026/...

and just to be clear, this isn’t hamlet the play. this is the origin story of the hamnet child that the play is based on.

boy that gyre sure keeps getting wider

why did so many millennials read so many newspaper comics? easily 60 percent of my reading diet in elementary/middle school was collected editions of calvin and hobbes, farside, dilbert, peanuts, doonesbury (!), foxtrot (?!?) and i know im not alone. historically unique phenomenon

Finally, I now know why everyone on the tl was snarking about whiskey

it's incredible how if you put this entire dialog into the Left Behind series, it would basically work, but instead it's just IRL MN

10 years ago I woke up I a hotel room i Portland at 3 am cuz I had a Or I g flight. Checked my phone and learned that David Bowie had died. 18 hours later I crashed our car on I-90 in Minnesota at like 10 pm in the middle of nowhere with feet of snow on the ground. What a shitty day.

Certainly the gyres must be narrowing. It couldn’t possibly be any other way. (Checks the gyres) Shit shit shit they are so wide they are thicc as hell fuck shit fuck

The amount of comfort I draw from them is ... frankly alarming.

In the world of CARS, there was a worldwide nuclear incident that killed everyone except the people who were in their cars. THEY melted into their vehicles, merging with them, turning into their internal organs and nervous system. I swear this is the only explanation that makes (some) sense

wow, the last few minutes of me being the person I’ve been my whole life. I can’t believe how soon I’ll be a brand new, better person, free of the bad personality traits and undisciplined habits that have haunted me these many years. thank god for calendar change make new good me

Adios, 2025! You sucked a bag of fucks.

Betty Gilpin‘s line in Death by Lightning that no children will ever know Charles Guiteau’s name hits a little less hard if you were a teenager who got in trouble for passing along the Assassins cast album to your little sister, who then started singing “The Ballad of Guiteau” on the ride to school

Going Beth Mode (Retiring to the seaside to recuperate)

how we do

RIP Rob Reiner. WHEN HARRY MET SALLY is a perfect movie. As is PRINCESS BRIDE. And THIS IS SPINAL TAP. And A FEW GOOD MEN. From what I have hear he was a true mensch. We need more of those not, not less.

Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.

Huntsville AL is an absolutely lovely place, and most of that loveliness is directly subsidized by the military industrial complex. It’s the town where the Cold War Never Died!

At a time when most theatre critic jobs are being stuffed into the boot of a car that is then sunk in a bayou, someone of this stature taking their talents to the theater beat is great to see!

New gig! Extremely excited. See you at the theater… 🎭 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

I remember Stoppard, for the New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/t...

RIP Tom Stoppard. Still my favorite playwright. Probably will always be. This description from THE REAL THING of what writing IS—in form and in function—is even more elite than it is elitist.

It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.

The fact that a lot of leftists despise Parks and Rec - one of the best and most sympathetic depictions of non-cop government in modern media - is a symptom of the fact that a lot of the left has no idea how to actually implement the policy proposals they want to enact.