It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

cool, great day to wake up

Coming up on nine years

not sure that “Not Our Kind, Dear” is really such a banger, if I’m honest

not a fan of living in a pariah nation tbh

In our name, with our money, ostensibly for oil, but mostly because we have a president who's addicted to power and attention and needs to deflect from being friends with the world’s most famous pedophile. Shame on these fucking monsters who run my country. They need out.

I will hate these people for the rest of my life.

One thing I would like in 2026 is to have more copy editing work coming in! I’m a developmental editor at heart but people don’t freelance that out as much and I’m good at CE as well. If you’re involved in freelance CE hiring for any presses besides S&S (who I already do work for) pls get in touch!

how fast I sent these links and “FIELD TRIP” to the friends with whom I went to see the Ann Lee movie last night may have broken some kind of land speed record, which also pretty much tells you how we all felt about the film

a thing that truly does keep me going sometimes is, do you notice how often when people talk about History, they skip forward 10 years without a second thought

yelling “don’t you know this is bad for the Left” at the car alarm that’s been going off in my neighborhood for I swear to god 10 straight minutes

they’re going to want to kill him for this but he’s so right, individualism as an ideology needs to end

2020: Lovers Rock 2021: Drive My Car 2022: Tár 2023: Asteroid City 2024: April 2025: Sentimental Value

I usually consider a few other songs to be the final boss of this thing (song that means so much to me I can only listen to it maybe once a decade) but tonight I was reminded that that’s only because I don’t even allow myself to think about Bread and Roses more than once every couple years

finally watched the video of this and however much I thought it would fuck me up, which was already a great deal, wow no turns out it was MUCH more

I just saw The Testament of Ann Lee and one of my boatload of thoughts is that it would make an incredible double feature with Tár

again, not only is Moby-Dick my answer, but Moby-Dick should be the default answer for every american inauguration the way the bible is now

man's here to grind bones and make bread. thank god.

“you’re a real New Yorker if you’ve lived here more than ten years” “you’re only a real New Yorker if you were born here” no you’re a real New Yorker if you instantly knew what this means

the effort to delete this movement from the historical understanding and cultural notion of its era and of our generation has been overwhelming, which makes it all the more beautiful whenever we get to see that that effort has failed and will continue to fail

BREAKING: Explosions felt across New York City as full socialism begins

Better year I can feel it

zohran was sworn in and twenty minutes later it was so impossible to get a cab on New Year’s Eve that a dude in a random absolutely-not-a-cab car leaned his head out his window and asked for $50 in cash to take us the 30 blocks home, nyc is back baby

gonna do some Phantom Thread role play later tonight (going out on New Year’s despite feeling too tired to go out on New Year’s)

not the real answer but my personal favorite will always be the time I sent my friend Eva a photo of my outfit for some event and she said “you look like Tár AND like someone Tár isn’t allowed to email anymore”

and forgive us our emails, as we forgive those who email against us

David Mitchell (the Mitchell & Webb one) once explained cricket to me at a dinner party, I know that it’s among the hardest I’ve ever laughed but I have no memory of any of the specifics of what he said (this is, among other things, why I don’t drink anymore)

on Letterboxd I said that the recent Knives Out is like the steak at the bar at Joe Allen; it’s also the movie equivalent of having a martini and fries for dinner at a great bar. mid but the absolute pinnacle of mid, give me a million more of it

on my way to the airport wearing two pairs of socks, three pairs of pants, three shirts, and two sweaters: packing light for a long trip is easy I don’t why everyone gets so stressed about it

wow, sorry. Deleting now. I didn’t know she was French

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On the island we can meet a cyclops When he sees us he will eat a guy When he asks who stabbed him we'll say "No Man" And he'll yell "Nobody destroyed my eye!"

“I have no professional interest in people looking at my face” is, not to be dramatic about it or anything, an idea for which I am willing to live and die

and Tiny Tim, who has escaped alone to tell thee

So much is asked of us on Christmas, so much to remember, to consider, but make room for Mary’s own declaration. A handful of verses so threatening to Empire that nations have banned it and will continue to do so.

it makes me cry every single year. merry christmas to one and all.

last week I was embarrassed to find myself weeping in front of arguably the most famous work of art in a museum full of famous works of art and completely unable to explain why even to myself. but I think this paragraph gets at it as well as I imagine anything could

thinkin about stuff

love that software developers are advertising AI functionality in every single app now and it's up to you to try to figure out if they mean "this has spellcheck" or "everything you create in this app will sync in real-time to sam altman's personal laptop" or something in between

Lydia Tár dating Bari Weiss and somehow managing to become uncancelled by way of their breakup

In This House We Believe Lydia Tár is real and lives in our neighborhood where she is banned from several local coffee shops

People have historically, and rightfully, seen the evil of Guantanamo, Abu Gharib, and now CECOT for what it is, but I wish more people would also see the evil in our domestic prisons too. How we treat our most vulnerable, including prisoners, really sets the tone for our whole society.

Perform empathy. Please. Perform the fuck out of it. It's so good to act with kindness. I hope it penetrates to a place where you feel it, too, but if you must act some way, act the right way. I'm not here to judge your authenticity, I just want you to be kind, thoughtful, and mortified by meanness.

The full Weiss memo is dogshit -who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT -who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison —who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison

ending solitary confinement is the necessary first step in imagining a justice system that truly serves justice, that serves the people. Solitary Watch helps people whose humanity the current system tries to destroy. at the end of the year, consider helping them in their work.

whatever this is it isn't journalism

it is with a heavy heart that I must admit Gen Z’s Bloodbuzz Ohio (Taxes by Geese) is much cooler than our Bloodbuzz Ohio (Bloodbuzz Ohio by The National)

my dad asked “who’s that british guy, he was in that movie Who’s Afraid of Jessica Rabbit” and honestly I’m pretty impressed we managed to get to Bob Hoskins from that clue