Wishful Thinking is another one for the “Lewis Pullman is boyfriend material” files (tho he’s not necessarily always *good* boyfriend material in this one)
I’m going to circumvent this list by saying hi to you here and refusing to say hi to Donato even if I see him in person. Hi, Matt Monagle! 👋
first up: Margo's Got Money Troubles, which is among other things an excellent use of Nick Offerman
who wants a #SXSW review thread from me? no one? too fuckin bad!
“You almost don’t realize what’s happening until five years later,” Anna says, “when you look back and you’re like, Oh gosh, I was being used.” She also blames herself: “I was too frivolous with ideas.” nymag.com/intelligence...
Hey there Delilah
It sure is dark inside this cannon
A circus for the first date
Is a choice I'll reexamine
If I'm found
After I am launched by this clown
Clear over town
If Adrian hasn’t been knighted yet then I need the king to rectify that asap
Arrogant and clueless and facing a shocking crash out, Team USA got the manager it deserves in this cultural moment: open.substack.com/pub/mollykni...
yes unless it goes into extra innings
"The story we received is not the one the original writers intended to tell. It’s garbled, like a scratchy transmission on a ham radio, but I still heard it: You’re not alone."
@dodgyboffin.com on Pixar's Elio as a story on community and coming out sanded down by corporate interests:
that’s the stuff
there is nothing wrong with tubi but I don’t think most people know what it is and I think the Americans should have to flail for the remote and frantically google “what is tubi and do I have it” 10 seconds before game time
they should have kept the Italy-Mexico game on Tubi. the Americans should have had to suffer the added humiliation of having to learn what Tubi is and how to access it
this is so good, thank you
I wrote something--4000 words' worth of something!--for the Yale Review about Hamnet the book, Hamnet the movie, & the riddle of representing Shakespeare's life on the page & on the screen.
This is so American it hurts.
we beat canada at their sport and italy beat us at our sport so to restore equilibrium canada must beat italy at bocce
I long to just experience one (1) “precedented” week.
unbelievable banger from the always-good london review of books: "As a couple, they have always been too stupid to understand the vulnerability of the institution that supports them, and they began wrecking it from the inside as soon as they met." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
$6.9 million of lobster tail in a month????? What would you even do with that much lobster
I mean, I would argue that a much bigger societal issue is people being unable to distinguish between "thing that irks me personally" and "thing that is an actual problem for everyone" but sure
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
The data economy has made us dumber in ways that also make us vulnerable to authoritarian takover. We are have become both cynical and gullible in the sense we think we are too jaded be fooled and as a result are tricked more easily www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
well, i did it. i finally wrote about Fargo. specifically i wrote about how Marge's marriage is in extreme turmoil, even if it doesn't seem that way
goodones.beehiiv.com/p/the-near-d...
It’s always a good idea to read the great dance critic Gia Kourlas - here’s a gift article so you can: Timothée Chalamet Has a Point About Ballet www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/a...
Today’s Terror Teletype: Thoughts about THE BRIDE!, thoughts about your thoughts about THE BRIDE!, and the weirdly right wing-coded trend of thinking everyone who disagrees with you is just pretending to disagree with you. manage.kmail-lists.com/subscription...
sometimes people ask critics "what is the worst thing you've seen recently" and they expect you to name something bonkers, but in most cases the real soul-suckers are the half-hearted mediocrities. i will always be more excited by a swing-for-the-fences misfire, even if i hate it
