Emma is such an incredible writer with elite taste & I am so bummed we are not coworkers anymore!!! a huge loss for us at AVC!

Last month, I was laid off from The A.V. Club. Still trying to figure out what comes next after officially becoming a #MediaLayoffVictim, but in the meantime feeling very thankful to have spent 3 years writing for a publication I grew up reading and loving <3

Fleshed out this argument—about arrested development culture and Christmas—in a new essay, which you can read here: open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

I’m so very sad that I don’t get to work with MK & I encourage everyone to read her beautiful writing!!! It’s a stark reminder of what The A.V. Club is losing out on:

Earlier this month, I got laid off from The A.V. Club after 3.5 years. It changed my life and I’m going to miss it so much. Don’t know what’s coming next but I do feel more committed to the work than ever. I wrote about it on Substack if you care to check it out ❤️ open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

Just remembered that how you spend your days is how you spend your life

my phone broke over the weekend and I can't get into a single account on my laptop because everything now requires I verify with an SMS code... the apps have become too secure... the cure is worse than the disease...

rest in piss

The reason everything seems like a “recession indicator” is because we’re in a recession. If not depression. Btw

So good

Where’s a deus ex machina when you need one!!!

There's nothing chaotic about the race! The runaway winner of the Democratic primary has a comfortable ongoing lead in the polls! The only chaotic element is the mind-traffic of the small circle of self-appointed civic elites melting down over their refusal to accept a straightforward situation.

Here's the first round of what I've been working on for the past few months: A 32-combatant tournament bracket to determine the greatest action franchise ever made. There's also a reader poll if you want to correct our choices www.avclub.com/best-action-...

I’m in Cabo

Get ready for a weeklong slugfest at The A.V. Club: Starting Monday, September 1, the biggest action film franchises will be battling it out in our bracket. You can have your say in the reader poll.

I think planned obsolescence is really wack!!!

The New York Times recently reported that the primary audience of The Summer I Turned Pretty is 25- to 54-year-old women… three of us weighed in on what makes the YA love triangle so irresistible! Cc: @emmakeates.bsky.social & @salonig.bsky.social www.avclub.com/the-summer-i...

We love jb pritzker

Vitamin water needs to step into its queendom and meet the zero sugar electrolyte moment

this AJLT series finale roundtable with @salonig.bsky.social @drewupdates.bsky.social and other AV Club staff really got me #thinking

A horrible show that I would have gladly watched 12 seasons of <3

and just like that, @danettechavez.bsky.social, @salonig.bsky.social, @drewupdates.bsky.social, and I chat about this bad bad show

I would never attend something call a “poop cruise.”

I had such a wonderful conversation with @amylittlefield.bsky.social about my new book Coercion, out today in @thenation.com!

are there barbz on this app

I need 30 million dollars

Neeeed to figure out how to return to the discipline and/or self-hatred that allowed me to be pure vegan for two years

The knockoff MGMT in the Netflix American apparel doc is sending me thru the roof

This is how I view rfk jr

We’re not coworkers anymore so it’s appropriate to joke around like this

What if hbo max learned that when I click on an episode of something I’ve watched before it’s not because I want to watch the end credits 💔

It was so wonderful talking to @jamesfolta.com for @literaryhub.bsky.social about books, my forthcoming book (out Sunday), and writing in general :)

It’s so funny that he doesn’t seem to understand that he lost by, like, a lot

When I’m in a bad boyfriend competition and a Michael zegen character shows up

If you are a g/orphan in ny check in with me babes…

It’s G/Over.

Planning for the G/O Media funeral begins NOW

The Adam Curtis docs have been hittinggggg this week

The New York Times should be endorsing eric adams any minute now

This must be how real millennials felt when Obama won

Almost cried watching zohran’s victory speech at cmon everybody 😭 nearly forgot that good things can happen

Need this to send the strongest possible message to racists islamophobes genocide worshippers sex predators and politicians who stand for absolutely nothing to get the fuck out of here

I’m hearing reports that good things could happen

When it’s really hot out and the subway lies to you

I like that the Tonys let winners speak for more than 15 seconds!!

Realizing with the finale that HACKS has been TÁR the whole time…

Don’t really have an opinion on the overall state of bluesky but I do get the impression that the crowd here is not receptive to me tweeting something like “the peewee herman doc is tea af”

I think Overcompensating would have been a lot better had they just set it in 2013 like Benito clearly wanted. All the conflicts attitudes and references are super dated. How does a college freshman born in 2007(?) remember watching Britney Spears on TRL and George of the jungle ?

Wrote this