Doing the most random double feature: Justine Triet’s SIBYL (interesting, flawed, cast off-the-charts great) and 2 FAST 2 FURIOUS. Never seen either before. The extent to which the Tyrese and Ludacris characters bear zero resemblance to their later iterations in the franchise is downright surreal.

I am casting ONE MORE ROLE for my 90s rock audio drama, Phantom Pulse!!!! this time we're seeking an LA-based Black actor with (or comfortable with) she/her pronouns!! please share around, we want to hear from as many people as we can!!

Once someone’s pointed out to you how many otherwise good novelists seem to venomously hate fat people you never stop noticing it.

The autism-Tylenol press conference is basically a long series of potential 30-second spots for the Democrats laid end-to-end.

I try to navigate the narrow path between doomerism and “don’t worry, the guardrails are definitely kicking in soon!” but Tylenol fearmongering strikes me as a pretty seismic miscalculation to anyone who does not dream of being entombed with Trump to serve Pharaoh in the afterlife.

I hope to avoid ever playing a deadly game of cat and mouse.

“You’re not the minority anymore” is bleakly fascinating. My guess is in this woman’s warped mind a “minority” is defined as “a righteous victim who by virtue of being so can behave any way they like with impunity.” She thinks Black people have been enjoying special license and now it’s her turn.

They seemed to be marketing ALIEN EARTH on “fresh new discovery Sydney Chandler pairs with reliable warhorse Timothy Olyphant” but now I’m watching it (just finished ep 5) and this guy Babou Ceesay is walking away with the whole thing. Like it’s more or less his show.

I’m reading that Terrifier 4 will finally provide “answers” about Art The Clown, but… I don’t have questions? He’s a clown who kills people.

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

It would be nice for the theoretically objective media to sporadically mention in their coverage that Democrats and the left didn’t actually kill Charlie Kirk, given the current regime is trying to set that impression in stone.

Lol

Bro-bergine: aubergine for bros

Watching a botched finale of a sci-fi show I’m reasonably fond of: “oh, that’s too bad, you can really tell the poor writers were in a bind from a lot of external factors” Watching a botched season finale of my very favorite TV show since I was a small child: “RTD MUST GO!!!!!”

I think your listeners are probably gonna still be around.

I was deep in hardcore lib-out circles at the height of Obama’s popularity and I never heard anyone talk about him like this.

Just heard a guy say “Winner winner chicken dinner” in a Telugu action movie; America really gets around.

Overall I’d prefer the Rapture not take place on Tuesday but I wouldn’t have to go on LinkedIn anymore

NOT ENOUGH.

The entire thesis of Ross Douthat’s career is “It’s very sad that we need a Catholic theocracy, I totes dig modernity, but there’s really no other choice.”

I will never “vibe”

Breaking news: Thirty-one journalists were killed in Israeli airstrikes on a newspaper complex in Yemen last week, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists. They say it was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East.”

Trust in a news source - and integrity of those sources - is going to matter more and more. A few years ago I thought brands like Britannica would own this moment - heritage names proposing accuracy. I think there is still a niche there, I’m just not sure who’s positioned or willing to take it on.

When you post fun or interesting stuff on Twitter, it makes people want to spend more time on the website that is doing this.

Assuming this is genuine (I’m a little puzzled that it’s partial), this is astronomically worse than I thought it would be.

Tonight PAUL AND ÉMILE opens at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater and it’s so moving and lovely. If you’re anywhere near Cape Cod, get tickets right here: ci.ovationtix.com/35151/produc...

My feeling is Musk created a no-win situation for liberals & leftists. To continue to post on Twitter, to contribute to its value as a place to spend time, is to actively abet his global authoritarian push. To leave for Bluesky is to reduce your platform. My assessment was that the former is worse.

Is it helpful to rewatch 28 Days & Weeks Later before watching 28 Years Later? I saw both the first two years ago, and roughly remember what happens in them, but (without spoilers) does the third movie call back to any of the small details in them I might want to re-familiarize myself with?

Is it helpful to rewatch 28 Days & Weeks Later before watching 28 Years? I've seen both the first two and roughly remember what happens in them, but (without spoilers) does the third movie call back to any of the small details in them?

Quite possibly the centrist-brain-poisoned paragraph of all time.

Maybe the most perfect realization of the Torment Nexus meme, like this is literally some tech guy paging through Nineteen Eighty-Four looking for pitches.

The tent has to be big enough to hold Jay Jacobs' feelings, not big enough to include the voters of New York City

Today in "Who is Ezra Klein willing to sell out?"

What the fuck is it gonna take for mainstream journalists to stop taking right-wingers’ “tone down the rhetoric” bullshit seriously? How much more blatantly insincere do you people need it to be?

Guys, look, you can't sanely make the case that Fox stays on the air for even the first 24h of our next presidency. Not after this week.

Here’s my question every time this comes up: are there actually pro-life Democrats out there who substantially agree with liberals and/or leftists on any of our other priorities?

Hollywood has been absurdly slow to figure out what a movie star @ashlieatkinson.bsky.social is but hopefully THE LOST BUS will do the trick ‘cause I just saw it and she is a fuckin *movie star.*

It's been kind of amazing to watch a small cult grow around this iconic performance in recent years.

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

And another point for culture in the “culture vs material circumstances” debate.

This is the worst time imaginable to kill off “blue no matter who” for good, but I’m pretty sure that’s what the anti-Mamdani centrists have done.

"Shock endorsement" by the democratic governor of the democratic nominee for mayor in her state's largest city. The only thing shocking is that Jay Jacobs - who has been persistently wrong, and borderline republican for years - still has a job in democratic politics. He's a dinosaur.

Honestly not even a joke. When I saw they were making noises about going after Wikipedia it was like where the hell are we gonna hide all our accurate information until it becomes fashionable again?

I’ve become one of those New Jersey Transit riders who doesn’t activate his e-ticket until he actually sees the guy coming. #iykyk

If there’s ever anything approaching normality again and the Atlantic / Free Press types start freshly sniffing around college stories they need to be run off campus on a rail. Never take these people seriously again.

Micah shared a volunteer shift with me at manhattantheatresource in, I think, 2004? He has since gone on to become one of New York’s preeminent religious figures, a hero, and the epitome of an actual Christian.

Proud of my old friend Rev Micah Bucey, Pastor of Judson Church, rock singer, actor - we did Caryl Churchill's Mad Forest together - who was arrested this afternoon at Federal Plaza protesting ICE

This whole episode has been so disgraceful.