Wodehouse

A thought occurred to me, and it’s meant as the highest compliment from a place of love for both people:

The closest thing we have to an analog or a successor to Catherine O’Hara is Kathryn Hahn

I went to my barber shop on the east side this afternoon. Yes, it's cold out, but it felt like a ghost town. Tons of closed businesses. My barber shop *looked* closed and they kept the door locked. The market across the street still had a Christmas tree in the window.

Sick “I still have hair” brag

As the year begins, don’t look away from the headlines, look better and deeper | Justine Toh It’s important to cultivate a fresh way of seeing – one that isn’t blind to harsh realities but refuses to be cowed by them

As the year begins, don’t look away from the headlines, look better and deeper | Justine Toh

How The New Yorker Became Irrelevant On the decline of America's premier magazine.

This is a well reasoned critique

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At some point you start to believe this is intentional dereliction of duty. Collusion and not cowardice.

Or does it matter?

Bilge Ebiri: “Why Terrence Malick Is the Most Influential Director” Bilge Ebiri explores filmmaker Terrence Malick’s vision of grace and his far-ranging influence on American cinema.

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a really good Getty image of Rita Moreno and Sam The Eagle in 1979 at Muppets Go Hollywood

Does anyone wanna see a really good Getty image of Rita Moreno and Sam The Eagle having dinner in 1979?

Hot take: Sleepless in Seattle is a movie about a stalker

My god, CBS news is just shit

Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.

Sorry for the vagueness but if you saw the same news alert I just did, we could be getting some very sad celebrity death news shortly

Image of Shax from Star Trek Lower Decks with the words "Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice"

We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

Well we have corollary:

The section on the Holmes fight will break your heart

D-Day veteran Charles Shay, who saved lives on Omaha Beach, dies at 101 in France Decorated Native American veteran Charles Shay died at his home in Bretteville-L'Orgueilleuse in France's Normandy region, his longtime friend and carer Marie-Pascale Legrand said.

Obituary of the day

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This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

John Noble Wilford, Times Reporter Who Covered the Moon Landing, Dies at 92

Obituary of the Day: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/s...

Damn, the Jeff Buckley documentary is very, very good

All I’m saying is that I never saw David Rivers and Nipsy Russell in the same room.

Tonight I am recommending “Carol and Joy” on @criterion.bsky.social

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

#Booktok but it’s just visits to dusty, disorganized, vaguely communist, used bookstores with leaky roofs, in a bad part of town, shelves collapsing on one another, run by a crabby former hippy eating soup at the cash register.

The Max Brosmer go backwards 15 yards, blindly throw underhanded, interception, 80 yard return for a touchdown is among the single worst plays in Vikings franchise history, and the team once had a guy run the wrong way for a touchdown

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) - Playing Questions Scene (2/11) | Movieclips YouTube video by Movieclips

Vintage Stoppard as performed by Oldman & Roth. Delightful stuff. youtu.be/u3xIs0aajN4?...

Owamni restaurant in your former home of Minneapolis

I found this terribly sad. A young woman with her life ahead of her, and she becomes one of the last American victims of the Long War.