Brent Shepherd (he/him)

I for one wish our National Guardsmen the best of luck as they comb D.C. in search of the Epstein Files.

And mostly by me, until now. Thanks for nothing, Chris.

DESTINATION WEDDING is a gem. The whole thing cost $47 to make, and he and Winona are a misanthropic dream team.

Andrew Cuomo @andrewcuomo Chicago is proof that incompetent leadership can turn a deep-dish city into a half-baked mess From long before we built the Erie Canal to compete with Chicago, New York has always been about making things happen I believe in government that works. I have done it time and time again for the people of New York. Let’s do it again.

I am here with popcorn to witness the spectacle of Cuomo picking a fight not just with Zohran but also with the city of Chicago.

Fuck him up, Big Shoulders. There'll be nothing left of him for Zohran to run against in November.

Find someone who supports your hopes and aspirations the way Brad Lander supports the primary opponent who beat him.

If you'd told me a few months ago that I'd be the fanboy of a comptroller, I'd have laughed.

I believe this can be attributed to the film being an Apple production, throwing as little as possible at marketing and distribution, a limited release for awards consideration, and getting it up on its streaming platform as quickly as possible.

I’m reading a sequence in a novel by an otherwise brilliant writer whose repeated references to a magnifying “loop” I’d almost be willing to forgive, but the twitch in my eyelid is caused by the copy editor who doesn’t know that it’s spelled “loupe” and the two aren’t interchangeable.

This haunting could have been an email.

$12.56 Adjusted for inflation, $1.50 in 1970 is equal to $12.56 in 2025.

“And they charged the public 12 bucks and change just to see ‘em”

(I mean, as long as you went to the trouble, it was the least I could do.)

The front of a navy blue T-shirt with white all-caps lettering reading, “I’m going to stop drinking just as soon as I’m named Secretary of Defense.”

While I am all too familiar with their game, it seems I still managed to underestimate Fox News’ message discipline.

I wore this T-shirt to my parents’ house for the first time, and upon reading it my 82-year-old mother responded, “I don’t understand what that means.”

The better, by an order of magnitude, of Mitchum's two outings as Marlowe. Michael Winner's modern, set-in-England remake of THE BIG SLEEP (1978) is only barely watchable, and that much to Mitchum's credit alone.

Imagine going back in time about 95 years, telling someone that the stock market is about to crash, spiraling the country into unprecedented economic depression, then saying, “But in the 21st century …” before laying out every aspect of this news story in painstaking detail.

You should never let me find out where this is being done, because I will burn the place to the ground then salt the earth where it stood.

Has anyone checked in on him? I'm not sure even his smoking-hot gymnast-model girlfriend could talk him down from that dark night of the soul.

OK, we preceded you by, like, a lot. But it's always nice to encounter another Double fan.

The New York Times @nytimes.com Some restaurants are trying to lure diners on weight-loss drugs with miniature meals and tiny tasting menus. Headline: "Ozempic is Shrinking Appetites. Restaurants Are Shrinking the Food" over a photo focused on a small plate on which a slider-size sandwich of some kind is positioned next to a fucking shot glass of ketchup into which about 13 french fries have been plunged.

I know it's not specifically the point of the article or the post, but WHAT IN PLUPERFECT FUCK IS THE PRESENTATION OF THOSE FRENCH FRIES ABOUT? It's like some chef said, "I shall now make ketchup even more of a culinary abomination than it already is, as offensive to the eyes as to the palate."

When exactly did you attend KU? (Rock Chalk, by the way. Hi.) Because this is a very specific 98.9 The Wave callout that seems aimed at my best friend and me and maybe three other people.

A Netflix menu bookmark for Bong Joon Ho’s acclaimed 2019 film PARASITE under the category heading “Comedies.”

Best Picture of 2019, one of my favorite films of this century, and not without a certain sly humor. But I’m gonna need someone at Netflix to watch just, say, the last 15 minutes and circle back on that classification.

"Don't Tread on Me. ... No, seriously, these fenders are barely attached with some kind of nylon rivet."

I've always wanted to attend one of these. (I had forgotten about the Boulder conference and thought it was an Ebertfest event.) It's nice knowing they're back in the world.

I'm extremely online, but I think of myself as a quality-not-quantity poster. (My followers' mileage may vary.)

Several years ago I went to urgent care in excruciating abdominal pain while awaiting my surgery date for gall bladder removal, and long story short, Dilaudid became one of the true and lasting loves of my life that day.

I hope you feel better soon.

As of today it appears that a certain public library system — of whose digital offerings I don't believe I've been especially abusive — has finally intuited that I moved out of the region almost four years ago. It was a nice run while it lasted.

I'd say I admire the transparency of Vance hosting an Epstein strategy session at the VP's residence, but what I actually respect is that this meeting could have been a Signal chat, save one unidentified attendee or staffer smart enough to point out they'd end up slamming their dicks in a car door.

Wherever his tangled path leads him next, I really hope they end up letting Drizz be the guy who perp-walks Patel and Bongino out of the building.

Left to right: Richard Romanus, Trisha Noble, Robert Stack, Michael Goodwin, and birthday boy Dorian Harewood in a promotional still from ABC's 1981-82 crime drama STRIKE FORCE.

I am STRIKE FORCE years old. First thing I ever saw him in.

Trump referring to Diddy as "half innocent" because he was acquitted on some charges despite being convicted on others is a pretty good indication of how the former feels about the rule of law and also the likelihood that he'll pardon the latter.

The media guide (IMDb) lists them both as 6′ 2½″. #TCMParty #Casablanca

And yet, Renault asks him how things are in the jewelry business, which makes you wonder if he knows more than he lets on. #Casablanca #TCMParty

So many great one-off, throwaway moments with characters you never see again, accentuating that everybody is stuck in Casablanca, and everybody comes to Rick's. (You can do that when they're all under contract at Warner Bros.) #Casablanca #TCMParty