Megan Ellison has been doing weird prestige stuff for years (she produced Phantom Thread and Riley’s last film) and from rumored tabloid reports hasn’t spoken to her father in years, I’d rather the children of rich kids make weird hard to market movies than run media conglomerates into the ground
It's not terribly surprising that Amazon is behaving badly but I did expect better from Chewy.
Mardi Gras.
i just wanted to point out, maybe its a small thing to some, but the credits for Speed Racer IMAX said Lily and Lana Wachowski..... which swelled something within my heart 🥹
I will never forget the experience of seeing LEAVING NEVERLAND at its Sundance premiere. For @avclub.com I wrote about a devastating, definitive documentary about surviving sexual abuse that cannot be erased.
Just horrifying to watch once excellent universities voluntarily destroying themselves.
I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again
Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited
John Swartzwelder had the best answer to this question.
Here's birthday boy Tim Curry on Broadway as Mozart in Amadeus.
You might also recognize the gentleman to his right.
A large white waterfowl with orange feet stands in front of a door. On the door is a cardboard sign secured with tape that reads, "DO NOT LET THE DUCK IN." Adding insult to injury, I think the duck might be a goose.
Whatever you do,
view from u of portland, river plus vessels framed by trees
gorgeous old tree full of huge bright green leaves
WASTETOP sign with mirror and planter at a recycle coop.
mural of monk (buddhist?) in red robes with blue river and red fish
Fourteen-mile walk meandering from the southeast to the University of Portland, using 7 parks as my anchors for water. Absolutely gorgeous and scribbled down a lot of the rest of the novel while walking. Goddamn but this city is stunning.
The last time I read one (a month's worth), I nearly sent you one of those endless ridiculous emails I used to send associated with online journal entries. The entries remind me of how conversational everyone's writing was.
A homemade Hawaiian pizza topped with generous pieces of Canadian bacon and pineapple chunks over red sauce and melted mozzarella cools on a wire rack on a granite countertop. The crust shows the characteristic charred blistering of high-heat baking, with a thin, slightly irregular shape typical of hand-stretched dough. (Description assisted by Claude AI.)
It's what you think it is. Shut up, it's good.
#pizza
A federal jury found that Live Nation, the concert giant that owns Ticketmaster, has operated as a monopoly in violation of federal and state antitrust laws, ending a closely watched trial in New York that could have far-reaching consequences in the music industry. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/a...
There's no greater sign of the iron grip that "both sides" framing has on American journalists than the repeated descriptions of the unhinged tantrum Trump is throwing over the pope's anodyne statements on Catholic doctrine as a "feud" or a "fight" or anything else that implies they're both to blame
Texas gubernatorial candidate Gina hinojosa speaks to a full house
Meanwhile, in Houston, gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa is talking about Greg Abbott trafficking people into Texas’s private prisons and detention centers so that his donors will profit, and I really appreciate her for it.
This thread. I have been doing this kind of work for a very long time and I know a lot about exactly this. If you want to do misconduct reporting with scared sources going up against very powerful people, and also keep your soul, it takes time. So much time. It’s very difficult. Brain meltingly so.
Gramercy Park & the Chrysler Building NYC
In part inspired by @bakerdphd.bsky.social, but fully driven by my own Austen-mania, I'm about to watch the Root/Hinds Persuasion (1995), an artful, thoughtful adaptation of my favorite Jane Austen novel. It is not quite so lovable as P&P; it has edges, and conscience, and true melancholy. Beautiful
It's probably my favorite adaptation. Hope you enjoy it.
was once New Amsterdam.
Just thinking about the time I was at a CLE held by a group of women lawyers, and one of the lawyer speakers (a cis man) said that men can't mentor women anymore because "we're all afraid you'll cry rape."
Then, when one of the women said she'd been assaulted by her boss and broke down crying,
This is from the film, of course, but allow me to quote Wikipedia about the stage production: "Garber played Jesus in Toronto's 1972 production of Godspell, alongside Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Gilda Radner, Dave Thomas, Paul Shaffer and Martin Short."
A jaw-dropping cast, but no one knew it then.
a weird belief that is held across basically all sectors of American life is that boy dollars and boy votes are better than girl dollars and girl votes and so if you have a lot of the latter you need to be constantly trying to exchange them for the former
it took us forever to find a house because of the "minimal stairs" requirement. FYI, LMK if you want a realtor endorsement, ours was absolutely first-rate.
oh dang, that's my pharmacy! Which on the surface doesn't seem like it's going to have a cat living in it, but it's secretly nice like that.
This is a thing I've had to deal with a lot, people will say about a guy I reported on "oh well at least he apologized." In all cases, the guy Did. Not. Apologize. Sometimes they've used what I call "remorse-shaped phrases" that are not & never were actual apologies. Which seem to always get a pass🙃
ooh ooh oooh
although I'm a cynic and after the thing with THE HEARTBREAK KID screening in Portland while I was in Austin and vice versa, I'm sure this will play in town on some rare date when I'm away or have out-of-town guests, I seem to be cursed. Still ...
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'Gov. Spanberger signed a bill to end the renewal of commemorative Robert E. Lee license plates in Virginia. A portion of the sale of these plates has previously supported the neo-Confederate organization Sons of Confederate Veterans.' #CivilWarMemory www.wavy.com/news/virgini...
With all of yesterday’s craziness, I missed that it was the 50th anniversary of THE BAD NEWS BEARS, my favorite sports film of all time. If you’ve never seen it, be warned - it’s very much a movie of its time. But it’s a masterpiece, with an ending that floors me every time. youtu.be/xSQxtMWJzGQ?...