Just rewatched S4 of "Homeland" (chosen to get out of the way of a certain arc). 12 perfect episodes. Mission after mission, twist after twist. Today, we'd get one of these episodes stretched into 6 or 8 and called a season. Was "Homeland" just that good, or do we not realize how bad TV is now?

well look at that, everything i despise about my industry is captured in one paragraph

Yessssssssssss!

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

About 15 years ago, I discovered that, based on rewatches, Rob Reiner was my favorite director. The Princess Bride, Spinal Tap, When Harry Met Sally, A Few Good Men… But he was also a tireless activist for progressive causes. Probably the main one in Hollywood! This is awful.

Even though there is absolutely no reason it would ever happen, I still live in terror of being invited to [status signal in] the Criterion Closet.

I don’t think we’re talking enough about how After the Hunt is maybe the worst film ever made and makes the viewer wonder if they accidentally took a psychedelic substance right before watching it. Did it have a script? My official review is: “WHAT?”

Just finished Celebrity Traitors and I would like to find the show’s unintentionally hilarious incidental vocals on Spotify or something. They consist of a woman’s voice randomly whisper-singing fragments like “Who to trussssst” or “So much manipulationnnn.” Like 100 of these!

imagine walking down the beach and seeing jesus carrying some guy

GAWKER! thou shouldst be living at this hour

ONCE AGAIN, we find that "Mr. Show with Bob and David" predicted EVERYTHING. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UojL...

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Nobel Prize to whoever can fix the maddening H2/H3 spacing issue in *EVERY* CMS! (If you don't know what I'm talking about, I envy you!)

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

Who wants to bankroll my Seven Brides for Seven Brothers revival: Seven Partners for Seven People?

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Pretty soon you're going to be able to buy human organs on Quince.

I'm in the same sinking boat, but I would buy ANY of these if I could!

I just got the Notify NYC alert that the entire South Street Seaport area is closed due to Jude Law chewing all the scenery in "Black Rabbit."

From lindsayism.com's "About" page, published in August of 2006 (six years into my BLOGGING JOURNEY or whatever). It's all still true (as long as "exotic food" is defined as, like, most meat).

Speaking of Crazy Amelia Earhart Things, I am trying to save lindsayism.com from the Typepad shutdown happening in <48 hours, and I found this and I LIKE IT? www.lindsayism.com/2009/09/amel...

People who only send out paywalled Substacks should be completely socially ostracized. People who do this for AFFILIATE Substacks should be sent to Mars.

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Somehow obtaining EU citizenship is now the American Dream.

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I hope something interesting happens tonight because I’m at my sister’s place for the weekend and it would be fun to always remember finding out about interesting news together.

Lotta people forgetting they believe billionaires should not exist today!

There won’t be a Vanity Fair in a year.

I never got to call anyone a sweet summer child while it was still acceptable.

RFK Jr. is canceling the cancer vaccine and there is not yet an absolute horde of people with terminal diagnoses who want to be the biggest heroes of the 21st Century??!! It should be like Orient Express meets irl Black Friday already.

Was just reading about all the Florida idiots who are sick from raw milk and remembered a year ago in Paris in the grocery holding up a bottle of milk trying to communicate with the clerk and resorting to “ummmmmmm Louis… Pasteur?” (This did not work.)

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Instagram autocorrects “bootlicker” to “footlocker” lol.

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Now do Peter Thiel!

(Insomnia thoughts): 1. When did I start saying "ah, gotcha" all the time? 2. What on earth did I say before to convey that I understood the information just provided?

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I have a new newsletter called Order History about my misadventures in retail therapy. The first one came out today! Aesop hand soap will change my life:

A well-dressed older man with a nice phone has been sitting at a restaurant table in front of my apartment for 4 hours BLASTING the radio while I have the biggest deadline of my life and it seems like the best way this will end is with me somehow sharing my cell with Luigi.

this is violence against the American people and should be met in kind.

Someone named their popular thriller book after a line in one of my favorite Mountain Goats songs and help I am very actively letting it bother me! Even though it’s fine to do that!

And on the exact same day Nick Denton launched Kinja.

Wordle accepts "bluey" and "fleek" as guesses, but not "roman."

It would be funny if they finally put every movie in the Criterion Collection except for American Beauty

I woke up last night and emailed myself “Gogurt situation but with cheese grits,” and I kind of stand behind it!

At precisely what age does one, even one without and allergic to all pets, go from automatically thinking "That would be a good band name" to "That would be a good dog/cat name"??

Ah, nothing like the pronunciation gaslighting of a good ol' audiobook.