I have to imagine some of it translates even if you were not raised on the singing vegetables
mind you, I am not even bisexual, a substantial part of her brand
The people who know me best in my life all told me — in these exact words — “oh, by the way, Taylor Tomlinson made a standup special for you” — weeks before it came out. I have a brand and I stand by it
There is a joke involving baby carrots, Larry the Cucumber, and … um, Easter
Yes, I have now watched the Taylor Tomlinson special, perhaps the most for-me standup special ever to standup special
Had a bit of a Leo meme moment watching REMAKE but man, as they say, what a picture
Yes! They are old friends from long ago, so to speak, and it was a great conversation (and now I am looking up yours!)
Had fun chatting with my friends at the Echoes Pod about stories we tell, movies and a lot more:
echoesmagazine.org/stories/the-...
But it *is* AI, I mean that's not wrong
Universal finally admitting shortening the window was a horrible long term play for them www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/b...
One year ago today, my book “We Tell Ourselves Stories” came out. Happy to say a paperback is on the way, coming June 23, with a cover that we designed to complement the hardcover. Here it is!
And you can pre-order here:
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
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In the days since, I’ve gotten to talk a lot about how Hollywood and American political culture have converged on one another more and more, and how prescient Joan Didion was about it.
Watching what’s happened to our political discourse and media landscape, this has never felt more vital.
One year ago today, my book “We Tell Ourselves Stories” came out. Happy to say a paperback is on the way, coming June 23, with a cover that we designed to complement the hardcover. Here it is!
And you can pre-order here:
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
@liveright.bsky.social
Book update! Today I finished the third and most intensively-edited draft of the DIE HARD book. Now I’m sending it to a handful of trusted friends for feedback and dropped it onto my Kindle, where I’ll give it another read on the plane to Austin and between movies at SXSW.
So, to reiterate, here is the thing, aside from … the thing … there are a LOT of musical cues like this in this extremely strange movie
Good thing this isn’t the BUSIEST WEEK OF MY YEAR
Screaming crying throwing up
Sometimes I watch a movie and think obviously I spaced out during a scene, and it is in checking my memory against other people that I realize they just cut a whole subplot
I assigned “Letter from a Region in My Mind,” a bunch of “Oratorio for Living Things” material and some writing on “Lemonade” to my class this week and in finishing my re-reading to prep I am amazed I thought I could get through it all with equanimity
Weird that my circa 2005 IT/comp sci degree and stint in corporate tech has somehow turned out, in the end, to be useful
The history of Hollywood is bananas and full of dumb corporate choices making way for new art, but the Silicon Valley brained takeover of the American movie business is a new level of yikes and you really have to get how they think to understand what they’re about to do
Studios and critics are not friends, that’s not our job, but I hate this for a lot of people and very specifically for the talented folks at WB (a studio that can be the bane of my existence sometimes) who do phenomenal work for cinema
Mmhmm. Time to start buddy
They mention marketing budgets for the nominees in here too
Galley brag
(have you restarted your allergy meds yet?)
don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free
Matt is the reason I and so many others have careers. He deserves all the best in the world, and any way you can help will go to a truly good dude.
Arguably that’s what Old Joy and/or Meek’s Cutoff are
I’m so sorry, buddy ❤️ ❤️
