thank you thank you this has been "things Lily believes in instead of astrology"

finally, I doubt it was an alien spaceship but I don't know what the fuck the 2006 O'Hare UFO was and it's suss as hell that the cell phone footage has never been released publicly :)

I also think 'Oumuamua was probably an alien probe of some kind but that one is an inside thought because Avi Loeb was WAY too annoyingly confident about it in a way that messed it up for the rest of us Mulder types!!!

there is more to either AH84001 or the Wow! signal (or both) than has been publicly disclosed, less for "we are negotiating with aliens" reasons and more for "might fuck up the midterms if evangelicals get weird about this" reasons

it is kind of amazing that a show made in the nineteen nineties that aired on network television has so much gay subtext that if you try to graph out all the plausible ships it looks like some kind of lovecraftian sigil. and yet

Episodes Monday Rundown April 13–19 2026 This week: Faces of Death, Exit 8, and the new Olivia Rodrigo!

In this week's Monday Rundown: Faces of Death, Exit 8, and the new Olivia Rodrigo!

Screenshot of Joker and Batman from the Adam West Batman series surfing. Joker says "Cowabunga, Bat-Drip! As surfers go, it looks like you're all wet! Ahahaha!", to which Batman replies "Shut the fuck up! Fuck you!"

musicals should be loud, painfully yearning, and written by john cameron mitchell

hedwig and the angry inch: now that's a hell of a movie!

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April mailbag! This month: books that need reissues, songs that belong to one director, and the Buffy Big Bad ranking you've been waiting for.

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this is a place that's usually kind of pop punk heavy with some show tunes mixed in, save for three or four forty year old men who do this. whittier is a land of contrasts

seeing multiple people posting about great nights they're having at karaoke with their friends. good for them! my friends and i had to leave our local a couple minutes ago because a 40 year old was screaming "america, fuck yeah" loud enough that he was clipping the mic

Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Send me off to a foreign land
To go and eat the silver ham

Bluesky status report reading “We are investigating an incident with service in one of our reginos”

Mike D: only rock
all: JEANS
Mike D: never rock
all: CHINOS

The biggest danger of over-licensed music in movies and TV Maybe the song doesn't need to do all the feeling for the audience!

In this week's free Wednesday newsletter: @emilystjams.bsky.social on why we're all feeling Max Richter fatigue these days!

MIKE D: Cranial hemorrhage means we got a brain

EVERY BEASTIE BOY: BLAND

MIKE D: It impairs cognition of the words we

EVERY BEASTIE BOY: LUNG

and I'm saying this as someone who can't stand Geese lol

people feeling duped because they like something that was marketed to them is imo mostly an indictment of the strange ways "authenticity" culture and the pervasive sense that everything in America is a grift have intertwined with one another in the 2020s

I think I'm officially tapping out of "industry plant" discourse. that's like. how the industry works??

John Cena’s in this???

(I know he is. I edited this recap. I am indicating my delightful bafflement.)

Is the great joke of Pluribus at its audience's expense? I get into that a bit in this week's review! Little preview here!

A meme of a hairless rat named Neil on a grey floor sitting in front of a rainbow piano or xylophone or something. The text at the bottom says “Neil banging out the tunes April 13, 2006”

happy neil banging out the tunes day to all who celebrate

if you have never read a Kelly Link collection I cannot beg you enough to spend two (2) American dollars on this. please. do it for me. I need more people to yell about "Skinder's Veil" with

Episodes Monday Rundown April 6–12 2026 This week: The Testaments, The Subtle Knife, and an album that hints at the end of a beloved show.

In this week's Monday Rundown: The Testaments, The Subtle Knife, and an album that hints at the end of a beloved show.

the fact that he’s using it for propaganda makes me regret ever painting this

am I saying that's materially evil? no! you still get a LOT of material support! but there's a principle behind it that you should be grateful that the institution deigned smile on you, and that your gratitude is the cost of admission to the circles Yale gets you into

having been a Yale undergrad in a bunch of creative writing courses in Windham-Campbell's early years: it's an Ivy League cult of gratitude kinda thing. they rave about how generous the prize is, but the cost is you have to grovel for it. the same logic underlies a lot of stuff at Yale!

tuvok is the one character who might get me to finally watch voyager. it feels like every single screencap and gif i see of him is like this

A deeply cringe thing about me is that if any Democratic leader, a single one, were to call for me to go to DC and do something I would