My other pitch for it is “homoerotic Normal People for sickos.” That should be the tagline tbh

Here’s my review of Half Man, Baby Reindeer creator Richard Gadd’s 2nd show: nypost.com/2026/04/21/e...

A diva

"Someone tried to strangle Sneako", "Clavicular just had a drug overdose", I refuse to believe that understanding any of these headlines is better for me than chain-smoking

i think one of my favorite things about modern PR is how few companies truly get that the best way to kill a story is to ignore it

say one thing once then go radio silent for a week or so. but every single one of 'em thinks they can tweet their way out of it

Jacob Elordi to his manager:

Astronauts Victor Glover and Christina Koch in their orange astronaut suits as they sit inside the side of a helicopter after it has landed

LOL, trying to stay offline and do my work, and friends are sending me

"LOOK AT THIS NEW PIC!" texts ....

This one is worth it.

First PoC and first woman to go around another world. Don't stop talking about this point. It's important.

#ArtemisII

Here’s my review of Euphoria Season 3 nypost.com/2026/04/08/e...

the process of writing IS writing! that's the job!!

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” --William Faulkner, Requiem of a Nun

I've been thinking a lot about this phrase as a scholar of legal and US history in these times.

Sorry but most movies are for grown-ups.

Came out of the post office, saw that a guy had cut my saddle bag off my bike and was about to take off with it. I yelled "Please wait my cat's medicine is in there!" He started to run, and this grandma-age lady goes "SHE SAID HER CAT'S MEDICINE IS IN THERE" and WALLOPED him with her grocery bag.

Just seen "thee/thou" pronouns in bio for the first time, delighted by the idea of Quakerism as gender

The purpose of studying anything isn't the subject itself but to learn how to *think* like an expert about it.

People outsourcing their thinking to genAI are not learning how to think, at all.

Part of the cognitive atrophy that genAI immediately induces is no longer being able to understand this

Music producer Nelson George's Facebook post from March 18 2026 which says: The lies promoted by AI are going to ruin our historical memory. Just blocked a post that featured a photo of Quincy Jones on stage at Madison Square Garden walking behind Prince. Never happened. The post the image supported was a lie too. That's just a small example of a huge problem. I am researching two non fiction books and I never use AI information as my sole source and never will. It's often inaccurate and, as this post suggests, filled with outright lies and disinformation.

From one of the top music historians in the world

If you want Bluesky to be good you need to be weirder

A E! News graphic with Jane Fonda and Barbra Streisand and the text "I wanna know how come Streisand was up there doing that for Redford? She only made one movie with him. I made four. I have more to say." -Jane Fonda jokingly shares her thoughts about Barbra Streisand's emotional tribute to Robert Redford during the 2026 Oscars

Imagine having so much swag that your death causes a bad bitch succession crisis

Harrison Ford as Richard Kimble in The Fugitive (1993). He’s wearing a green bowler hat and marching in a St Patrick’s Day parade in Chicago.

happy the fugitive trying to blend into a parade day to all who celebrate

you can count on one hand the number of powerful men in Hollywood who champion women artists like Ryan Coogler

you could almost count them on NO hands

Unpopular opinion (?) good. No reason to do to Buffy what the unnecessary Veronica Mars and Gilmore Girls revivals did to those shows

NOBODY. WANTS. TO. READ. AI. WRITING.

(this really shouldn't need to be said)

Me revising an essay

The practical advice I would give is: get to the end of the damn thing, whatever it is. Even if it’s provisional and stupid, even if you know that’s not the right second half of the novel, it’s important to find a way to zoom out enough to see it holistically so that you can figure out what it needs. The sooner you get to some kind of end, the sooner you’ll realize that this book—even if it’s Infinite Jest—isn’t going to do everything you want it to do, or say everything you want to say. And that realization will hopefully help get it to the best version of itself it can be. Some kind of deeper meaning, for me, so often comes in revision, or later. It’s rare that a book says what I thought it was going to say.

Andrew Martin the importance of finishing drafts and revision:

countercraft.substack.com/p/processing...

Honestly, I am absolutely disgusted by academics suggesting that AI can do the reading and writing for you. At a certain point, what you're bragging about is fraud. And in a broader sense, what you're contributing to is the erosion of knowledge and the destruction of trust in academic publishing.

This quote has been with me every day since I first heard it and I love her so much for saying it.

this is like

the thesis statement of our times

Watching the classical performance internet drag Timothee Calamity to hell and back is incredibly entertaining.

If I were a dude who only recently added a fourth facial expression to my acting rep I simply would not come for the best in the business but that’s me.

I lack the words to capture it, but ... it's just endlessly remarkable to me that so many people in our society have chosen trans kis -- TRANS KIDS, the smallest, least significant, most vulnerable demographic slice you could possibly pick -- as a repository for all their fears & insecurities.