Leah Carlson

Exactly, and I think the movie is sort of *about* that, in a way I didn't see discussed a lot when it came out

i’ve spent the last eight years chasing the high of the moment watching mad max in theaters when i first saw the guitar guy

It's a movie about a person who thinks he's a good guy when he's really not, but bc he looks like Butler, a lot of other people (including the audience) also want to think he's a good guy. I wish I had seen more writing about this film from this angle, bc it was the most interesting thing about it

I think it influenced a lot of people's reading of the ending of the film, too. I think the ending is actually kind of bleak and complicated. That guy is going to fuck up within two weeks and be back where he started, no doubt. But Butler is the kind of guy people want to wish a happy ending upon

you totally believe that everyone gives this guy the benefit of the doubt even though he doesn't deserve it because he's so handsome and has the puppy dog eyes

Charisma level is one of the reasons I keep thinking about Austin Butler in Caught Stealing. He's too pretty by far for the kind of hard-living dirtbag character he's playing, so there's a glaring lack of authenticity; BUT there's this interesting tension that his casting adds, where >

this is just a list of things @annevclark.bsky.social and I think would be fun to hear Matt Berry say and yes I do consider this service journalism

This has the energy of that Valentine's Day episode of 30 Rock with the subplot about couples fighting in IKEA

The kind of year-end round up I live for

I just watched The Secret Agent, lol That's why this is on my mind. Wagner Moura !!

Honestly so down for Sinners winning the new casting award (and the SAG ensemble award), because everyone else is great. I just think MBJ is the glaring weak point, so I am baffled by his frontrunner status

Now Miles Caton? That's how you make an impression. I am so excited to see what he does next

Anyway there's my hottest Oscars take that no one asked for

I don't think Smoke and Stack are rich enough characters to justify undermining Sammy as the main character, and I don't think MBJ's performance is interesting enough to make me not care about that

I'm not a Sinners hater (I liked it, I'm just not as high on it as everyone else), nor am I an MBJ hater, but I cannot get my head around Michael B. Jordan probably winning an Oscar for that performance

An old family friend used to have a cat who could hear the sound of a banana stem snapping from anywhere in the house, and he would come running to beg for a piece of banana. (I have not ever met another cat who eats bananas)

I also always forget Stephen Moyer is British, because he is simply Vampire Bill in my mind. (If I've actually seen him in anything besides True Blood, I've totally forgotten it)

I used to pay a lot of attention to awards season and be really good at Oscar predictions, but now I don't pay attention and suck at predictions. Yet I still insist on printing out the ballots for everyone at my Oscars watch parties

Just paid for my shares for this year's CSA, and I will be vegetable posting with even more frequency and ferocity this summer than last. Prepare yourselves

I guess I'm just completely regressing to deal with the horrors, because somehow I have re-developed a little crush on the same Survivor player I had a little crush on when I was 13, what the hell

(They are twins, lol Only one demands songs by name right now, so the playlist is for him specifically)

A few months ago, I had just shown Music and Lyrics to someone, and right around that time my boys started saying "pop!" and thinking it was so funny. So I played them the song because it was on my mind, and they LOVED it 😂

Making a playlist for my 2 year old son of his favorite songs. The list so far is:
Baby Shark
Monkey Banana (a monkey version of Baby Shark)
A dance remix of the Bluey theme song
PoP! Goes My Heart (I'm passing on my love of fake pop songs written for movies, I guess)

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

Right??

Fifteen year update: this person (the drama teacher that got fired) now operates a Harry Potter-themed merch booth at cons. I forgot about this tragic detail until my sibling ran into her at ECCC today and sent me a creeper pic. Jump scare

As a movie, THE BRIDE EXCLAMATION POINT is a mess— yet I just can’t bring myself to dislike it. Review in Boston Hassle! bostonhassle.com/review-the-b...

Going to pop on Lisa Frankenstein again, see you later

We do have an Instagram account if you want to follow us there (@/teenagebookbag)!! First episode will release on March 24

We don't have a Bluesky account, but one of my oldest friends and I are launching a podcast this month! It's called Teenage Bookbag, and we revisit the books we loved in middle school (when we met). I'm very excited about this podcast project, and it's pretty different from my others