Tim Carvell

I remember reading once that, in the run-up to the Puppy Episode, the "Ellen" writers room dropped so many increasingly-blatant hints about where things were ultimately heading that they joked about having a bell ring each time, and every time a new story about this guy drops, I can hear a "ding!"

This feels like an elaborate effort just to get people to say the phrase “lemon party”.

This is what “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?” is called in Horsetown.

"This is the cup of a carpenter."

“Monster Mash” but it’s slowed down, acoustic, and telling the events of the Charlize Theron film “Monster”.

There’s an old line about the two happiest days of a man’s life being the day he buys a boat and the day he sells it, and having been through this a few times now, I sort of feel like Warner Bros Discovery is the corporate equivalent of a boat.

Look, sometimes you have to separate the personal life from the work of the man who created masterpieces like... (checks IMDB) oh no this can't be right.

I know I'm gonna regret weighing in on this, but thinking back to that "Left of the Dial" documentary about AA, what's striking is how many of the faces in it went on to bigger things -- Franken, Maron and Maddow all wound up finding their audiences elsewhere, just not on radio.

“We will create jobs like these. And we will create pipelines to jobs for people like these” does not mean we will only create the jobs in column A, and every one of them will be for every individual in column B. It’s making up a guy to get mad at.

Even aside from the terrible underlying argument, there’s such an impressive, willful failure of reading comprehension to think that the two sentences he’s grabbed here aren’t referring to two distinct initiatives.

My husband is watching “Call the Midwife” and every once in a while will text me tiny moments that are the whole show in a nutshell and I think this is my absolute favorite.

Not a single other 1993 supporting actress nominee has generated a Letterboxd review this perfect:

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I’m reading Naomi Klein’s “Doppelgänger” and she sort of points to the fact that, thanks to LLMs, we can all create our own Naomi Wolf with the click of a button.

Never a big Narnia guy but this 6 seconds typifies everything I love about British television.

My most irrational movie take is that I always really like the first ten minutes of every horror movie when it’s working in overdrive to get you invested in liking all the characters before they start getting killed, and I sort of wish non-horror movies would figure out a way to replicate that.

The F1 of its time.

Right up there with Mel Farr Superstar, Ollie Fretter and the fact you can be a sophisticated lady in Ceresnie and Offen Furs.

They could try TV! I hear “The Pitt” is good!

In his 1970s campus comedy, Changing Places, David Lodge invents a memorable literary parlour game called Humiliation in which players confess to embarrassing gaps in their reading. One of the characters in the novel, in his determination to succeed, becomes so obsessed with winning that he admits to never having read Hamlet - as a result of which, he is promptly fired.

Today’s discourse around “The Pitt” from someone who’s never seen it and is getting increasingly dismissive of anyone who tries to tell her about it is both a “you’re only making my opinions worse” moment and also reminding me of this.

The cover of the album "12 Inches of Snow".

Furious beyond words that it has been over 30 years and I still can't see any winter weather forecast without immediately thinking of...

Key plot device for “Star Trek III” iirc.

All else aside, imagine winning gold for your country and being told now you’ve got to hang out with the director of the FBI for some reason.

Honestly incredible that this guy hasn’t washed up at the University of Austin.

Former professor requested thousands from Jeffrey Epstein Foundation to fund campus rape policy conference Content warning: This story contains discussion of pedophilia, sexual assault, harassment, rape and suicide. A former UT Classics professor requested over $10,000 from Jeffrey Epstein’s charitable org...

The headline is bad here but somehow, incredibly, each paragraph of the story and quote from the professor makes it worse, as does the photo.

(h/t to the @localmatters.bsky.social newsletter for flagging the story)

It feels like one of those “how you’ll know I’ve been kidnapped” things that you’re not saying the sandwich.

Hear me out: Clifford the Big Red Dog was almost certainly euthanized at a relatively young age due to hip dysplasia and honestly? Everyone in town was secretly relieved.

I keep wishing they made a version of The Traitors where the traitors’ identity was kept secret and you could be just as much in the dark as the contestants, and viewers would get to decide if someone’s loud suspicions meant they were brilliant, delusional or manipulative.

John that isn't a photo of a baby, it's the famous musician Elton John.

a Free Press headline, Why Is No One Having Sex? https://www.thefp.com/p/why-is-no-one-having-sex

The Free Press is discovering new levels of Telling On Yourself that scientists previously thought could not exist

I like both “Blue Moon” and Ethan Hawke’s performance in it very much but every time I see a still frame from it I think it looks like “Dorf on… The Great American Songbook”.