I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.
we appear to be free-jazzing a war
Industry is the best show on television
They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.
Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.
Industry is the best show on television
Nothing quite like a goalie going superhuman
Nasty
Girlfriend and I were watching the new Shrinking and I said wow this new girl looks like Latina Anne Hathaway and then later in the episode she says that verbatim about herself man I knew I was a writer
Kendrick has won nine and counting Grammys since Drake said "Kendrick just opened his mouth, someone go hand him a Grammy"
Rhythm of War
This Side of Paradise
Inherent Vice
Wolf Hall
I Who Have Never Known Men
The Catcher in the Rye
Nine Stories
The Wide Wide Sea
The Ultimate History of the 80's Teen Movie
The Lincoln Lawyer
Wind and Truth
As a writer it's reassuring that even a big, well-made show like Pluribus can still struggle with something as basic as stakes
The world’s largest streaming company swallowing one of its biggest competitors is what antitrust laws were designed to prevent. The outcome would eliminate jobs, push down wages, worsen conditions for all entertainment workers, raise prices for consumers, and reduce the volume and diversity of content for all viewers. Industry workers along with the public are already impacted by only a few powerful companies maintaining tight control over what consumers can watch on television, on streaming, and in theaters. This merger must be blocked.
Joint Statement of the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.
Gotta be Harrison Ford
Shea Whigham as Roscoe Conkling is such insanely good casting that you have to be at my intersection of Character Actor Sicko and History Sicko to fully appreciate but fortunately that's like hundreds of thousands of people on here
I did not know that he looked like this but now everything makes sense
2025 Reads
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Intermezzo
Playworld
Where Are Your Boys Tonight: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion
Saul Goodman v. Jimmy McGill: The Complete Critical Companion to Better Call Saul
The Mosquito Bowl
Rabbits
Fleishman Is In Trouble
Long Island Compromise
Oathbringer
😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
My strongest book-related belief is that the paperback should come first and then the hardback after for people who want a fancy edition.
I immediately snapped to attention in EP 2 when they addressed and then further complicated reveals that most other shows would have put off for two or three more episodes.
Somebody cooked here.
Shoutout to Mo Salah for making Katie Nolan a Liverpool fan 📣
Introducing: Teaming Up with Becky Sauerbrunn! 🚨
@beckysauerbrunn.bsky.social will be diving into the stories shaping the soccer world. Inspired by Becky’s “Nerd Squad” days on the USWNT - each ep will connect fans to the people behind the scenes. First ep with Elizabeth Banks drops Monday!
VIVA LA REVOLUCIÓN!!!
Headline from the New York Times, 1939: “Goebbels ends careers of five “Aryan“ actors who made witticisms about the Nazi regime.”
www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...
Robert Redford (1936-2025) 🤍
My list!!
Gold star to the first politician to say you can have you AI or A/C but not both
Why Won’t Mandani Weigh In on the Luka Trade? What Is He Hiding?
Tweet: “A grim and joyless campaign, as befits a battle for a prize never wanted, one long viewed with disdain and contempt as a trifle that only lesser men would debase themselves to seek.... Victory, if it comes at all, will be bandaged with tinny fanfare and strident gloat, to muffle the voice at the center that won't stop whispering i’m hollow"
Former Andrew Cuomo aide Howard Glaser: “A grim and joyless campaign, as befits a battle for a prize never wanted... Victory, if it comes at all, will be bandaged with tinny fanfare and strident gloat, to muffle the voice at the center that won't stop whispering i’m hollow.”
Rick Carlisle looks like a dark elf
