Zwei peanuts were walking down der Strasse, und one of zem was a salted... peanut #ImSureSomeoneElseHasAlreadyReferencedThis

You really have to read this thread. The genius of Tom Stoppard, the fragility of memory, the magic of theatre — and the glorious stubbornness of a researcher who would not stop.

Tis the season... 🎄 (I do miss old twitter)

Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade. It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...

Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

trust me, you are not prepared for any of this

Goodbye to the master. ❤️

someone attended the Bari Weiss School of Having Principles

Headlines like this are extremely dangerous. Because moms of young kids are the people who make the bulk of the vaccine decisions for famillies. And for a lot of them, "reading the news" looks like scrolling past headlines on social media in the spare moments of the chaos of caring for kids.

They frame it as asylum seekers living high on the hog, but you click through and it turns out the people in question got arbitrarily moved to the other side of the country and the home office didn’t update their GP so they had to drive back. Layers & layers of cruelty and incompetence

It's also an example of the underlying problem being the same cruelty that they now think will solve it! The reason for expensive taxis is that they restricted bus travel to appease the same people!

not sure what Gen Z has to do with a 43-year-old’s adaptation of a 52-year-old’s novel—and lest you think it’s just the hed, the piece calls Hamnet “mumblecore Shakespeare, conceived for the TikTok generation,” never mind that mumblecore predates TikTok by like 20 years

[Gertrude Jeannette, blacklisted Harlem playwright, star of stage and screen, licensed NYC cab driver, was born Nov. 28, 1914. During the Peekskill Riots, she and her boxing champion husband rushed on their motorcycles to rescue Paul Robeson from the Klan. She lived to be 103.]

that cop bunny is in for it now

spent my Thanksgiving night watching a terrible movie called Stuck in Love and hoo doggy

The power of Crufts compels you

OLD ENGLISH SHEEPDOG NAMED JOLENE happy Thanksgiving

[Jacqueline White celebrates her 103rd birthday today! Born Nov. 27, 1922, in Beverly Hills, she went on to star in CROSSFIRE (1947), RETURN OF THE BAD MEN (1948), THE NARROW MARGIN (1952), and of course AIR RAID WARDENS (1942) with Laurel and Hardy. "They were charming and a delight."]

Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind

I really can’t get mad at people calling it “the Macy’s Day Parade.”

47 years ago today, dozens of turkeys met their unfortunate demise in a Cincinnati parking lot.

yesterday's Pears was unfriendly to all dialects of American English

Hey librarians, How is sustainability one of our core values if we're also supposed to be all-in on the AI hype? Asking for these folks. #medlibs 📚

THE GROUND HOG IS BACK

"The White House isn't sure whether Trump actually had a phone call or just imagined it" is where we are on the dementia scale now.

I scored 95 points in Pears today! ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ slate.com/games/pears

Amazing to learn that Isaac Chotiner can apparently just come for you in your replies. Like suddenly realizing you're swimming in open ocean

*playing guess who with werner herzog* werner herzog: does your person have the demented soul of a trapped demon, held infinitely against his will in a universe with no time, his pointless despair flaying his mind into shards me: yes werner herzog: is it clive

Mood!

UTAH SOBY

Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.

Please share widely! 📜 RBMS 2026 CFP (with some changes this year to session formats): web.cvent.com/event/0f0104... The planning spreadsheet is in the re-blogged post.

MARRIAGE BUTTER CAP

Did my freaking dogs write this?

I just found this old picture of a poster that was on the wall at the school my friend taught at and there’s some incredible stuff in there

BREAKING: Judge rules Lindsey Halligan's appointment was not valid, thus, she had no authority to present the James Comey or Letitia James indictments and the indictments are dismissed without prejudice.

On Wayfair looking for cheap trash cans & if I were a suspect on "Poirot" or a socialite in a screwball comedy I would absolutely own this lamp:

I DON'T THINK THIS IS WHAT SHE MEANT

It's only the Welsh seals who can sing in 4-part harmony. Scottish & Irish seals can't.

VELLUM?

continuing to be irritated by the inability of cozy mystery protagonists to set even the most reasonable boundaries

my unpopular Thanksgiving food opinion: I don't like sweet breads in stuffing cornbread stuffing is not my fav for that reason, but I can weed out cornbread stuffing recipes pretty easily. but even after I do I keep finding recipes for stuffing that call for brioche or challah or even panettone. ?

I scored 492 points in Pears today! 🍐 🍐 🍐 ⭐️ 🍐 🍐 🍐 ⭐️ 🍐 🍐 🍐 🍐 slate.com/games/pears

I played squaredle.com 11/22: *38/38 words (+11 bonus words) 📖 In the top 1% by bonus words 🔥 Solve streak: 300

Tormented and Gunslinger are both fairly competent genre pictures with some good moments and good performances (and some bad ones). Kitten with a Whip and Touch of Satan are both genuinely disturbing at times, to the point that I don't actually enjoy watching the MST3K versions very much.