Linda Holmes

Why am I getting a bunch of random notifications from LinkedIn?

DO THEY KNOW SOMETHING I DON’T KNOW?

I tripped and fell (no ice or snow needed!) and jammed my pinky finger, and it’s only about 90 percent normal. This happened in October.

But it has slooooooowly gotten better.

I think this is an early scene in All The President’s Men! (A guy at a hearing who doesn’t want to say who he is.)

I don’t actually think it is a callback—this is from Ryan Murphy’s shop (though he’s not the creator), so I think it’s more a play on American Horror Story, American Crime Story, etc. Turns out a bit awkward, though.

I agree that I did not care for that performance, but I think part of that is (as is often the case) the writing. I don't think they knew what they wanted to say about him that was interesting.

They didn't give us the last episode, which presumably includes the actual leadup to the accident. So I don't know. I agree with you that it's a complicating factor if they don't address it.

Also: I don’t know who has it in for Daryl Hannah in the making of this thing, but holy smokes.

But it was really interesting to me that my feelings about this as someone who experienced their story as an adult was sometimes different from the feelings of the other panelists, who were all younger when these two were famous.

Like, I’m not sure “Who are these people in the lives of the rest of us?” is a question that is best explored through this chapter of the family story, or that “What damage has the paparazzi done?” is one that is best tackled through this example.

‘Love Story’ navigates the complex Kennedy mythology : Pop Culture Happy Hour John F. Kennedy Jr. was an object of public fixation his entire life, and he’s now the subject of the FX series Love Story. It focuses on Kennedy’s (Paul Anthony Kelly) relationship with his wife, Car...

I struggled with LOVE STORY because to me, they didn’t find the right balance between members of the Kennedy dynasty as victims of tragedy (which they are) and the same people as perpetrators of unhappiness in the lives of others (which they also are).

This is really useful surveillance.

You did good.

Well that’s the other thing. Not knowing how to use the system that generates it is one thing. But nobody has to let that out the door.

They’re always adding dots when you don’t need dots and leaving out stuff with dots when you do need stuff with dots!

It is very very oof.

Right—and you respect them, so you wouldn’t!

Absolutely. Let alone know how to troubleshoot one if it produced a bunch of gobbledygook like this.

Smart lawyers give a good legal secretary pretty much whatever they want, I think. It can be the difference between misery and peace.

Yeah. Because I suspect many of these attorneys are not knowledgeable about generating a TOC (which I wouldn’t be either!). If institutional lawyers with heavy caseloads lose their support staff and the people who actually know how courts expect documents to arrive…yikes. Like, YIKES.

One of my deep curiosities among all the talk about the lawyers who have quit is: Did all the legal secretaries also quit? Because when I used to file stuff in court 20 years ago, Gloria would never have let this happen to me.

Not to mention three industries that currently seem to be free to do whatever they want. What are these anti-gambling Democrats doing, exactly? Because you can probably bet on the exact size of someone else’s benign colon polyps if you want to, so I feel like gambling has a pretty free hand.

John I think about that story ALL THE TIME.

Yeah, I was thinking as I typed that that he’s not Louis Vuitton, and certainly they don’t think he is, so maybe I was being imprecise. But then I realized you certainly know that and you know I know that, so.

But yeah, I think he was very savvy about that.

Like I feel like that was a high-profile example of “refusing to dress awesome famous women is really foolish” series of moments when he first went down that road.

This is really well-said, and I have wondered whether Siriano (bless his heart) helped in this effort by so eagerly embracing a lot of women (not just Leslie Jones) who had not been embraced thusly because of age, race, body type, and so on.

If it’s anything like “girl dinner,” it’s not bad, but it is a little exhausting that everything has to be presented on social media as a hack or a trend or a diet, when actually it’s just eating.

Well, at least the dog got a few snow zoomies in of the only kind he likes: with the snow very soft and not very deep. He is resentful but satisfied.

White House reporting is a land of contrasts.

I freely admit this was motivated in part by the fact that I was unaware that it was going to snow today, which has made the snow seem exceptionally rude.

Absolutely chaotic weather forecast for the next 10 days, from today’s low of 30 and high of 36 (it’s snowing) through a week from Wednesday’s low of 60 and high of 78.

I’m sorry, what?