It rocks to tell people their shit rocks. Every single person who has ever been nice about my work has been appreciated for doing so. I take time to say I love stuff and it’s always the right time to remind somebody you value their work! You don’t need to get into detail either. Just say it rocks

This gets a repost because these numbers are infuriating: There are over 20,000 homeless families -- families -- and 35,000 children now sheltered in the city of New York, one of the richest in the world. If you too are now angry at this, maybe take a moment and do a small, decent thing with that:

Spotify: Wrapped in complicity

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Judging everybody who posts a Spotify wrapped because how have you not moved on already.

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

Fire this dude.

We love to see it! Congratulations!

On the latest Pivot podcast, beta alleged male Scott Galloway rails against therapy (largely because therapists call out his whiny, blame-feminization-for-the-ills-of-men screed he calls a book), and @karaswisher.bsky.social does her best J.D. Vance to cover and protect his hurt fee-fees.

Why yes I AM staying up to watch the Diddy docuseries on Netflix.

Side note: how much does 50 have to hate Diddy to make a whole-ass documentary about him? NEVER go to war with that man.

This show--based on its premise--is one I would never watch. I'm 3 episodes in. It's fairly ridiculous & absurd. Likely on purpose. It's also strangely inventive and often hilarious. At the end of each episode, I'm shocked (ashamed?) to find myself saying "one more".

The show is The Chair Company.

Imho, Mad Men, The Sopranos, The Wire and Breaking Bad form the Holy Quartet of Greatest Television Dramas Of All Time. Mad Men is the top for me.

Good to see it on HBO...before they become HBO Netflix.

Happy bday!

Part 4: Means of Control The Mar-a-Lago tape, the Bobby phone call, Olivia's side of the story, and the neighbor who cracked the case. RYAN LIZZA DEC 1

PART 4: Means of Control gofile.io/d/ycgOQR

by Ryan Lizza

Refs are TRYING to give this game to Denver.

Watched this last night. It's wonderful.

Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88 A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter

One of the greatest to ever do it.

I wish the Bills would do the same thing.

@semaforben.bsky.social

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This may not answer the watercooler question, but this newsletter is pretty spot-on as far as data is concerned. Looks past Top 15s and uses Luminate and others to determine how a show is really doing.

tedontv.substack.com

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call the pwga and see if you might have some reserve credits to apply. I have discovered in the past that I overearned & had some excess credits that covered me on years that I didn’t earn enough in that specific year for it.

Can relate. W/the work & excitement we put into it, it's deflating. But our job is find the idea that intrigues us, find those who believe in it, find our yes. The stories of hit shows that survived multiple passes all over town, that one person said yes to are countless. The song remains the same.

I love Nancy and Mozza is my favorite restaurant...can't wait to try this.

The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.

It's seeped over to development too. The fear coming off execs and pods is palpable--like they're looking for the surest bet (big IP, big hook, body drops) to keep their deal, their jobs.

They'll step over 6 projects they personally love to get to an NCIS/Nicole Kidman-family-w/murder secrets show.

Happy born day!

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No. Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

This is the *moderate* position.

There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.