Meredith Blake

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.

The BAFTA Tourette’s Controversy Isn’t So Simple. A Black Disability Advocate Explains Why. John Davidson shouted a racial slur at Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo at the BAFTAs. The worst kind of social media storm ensued.

This is such a thoughtful piece about an agonizing situation slate.com/culture/2026...

YouTube video by Nostalgix Heathcliff - Intro Opening Theme Song 1984 (4K)

I never understood how well the theme song from the cartoon show Heathcliff also describes Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights.

This is how you live a life

He is refreshingly boring (compliment).

Early in his career, William Randolph Hearst famously joked that if his papers kept losing $1 million a year, he'd lose all his money in 60 years. If the Post continues to lose $100 million a year, it will take Jeff Bezos 2000 years to lose his money.

Also Jeff Skoll, executive producer of Spotlight, the Oscar-winning movie about...journalists investigating the vast coverup of systemic child sex abuse

Peter Gabriel!?!?!

The owner of Amazon killed the Washington Post books section.

me finally owning a home in a walkable neighborhood when im too old to walk

Hear me out: a remake of Desperately Seeking Susan starring Sabrina Carpenter and Billie Eilish

It’s Cold. Punxsutawney Phil Did Not Bring Good News for the U.S.

Can we primary Phil? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

Catherine O'Hara Dead at 71 Catherine O'Hara -- famous for her work in "Schitt's Creek," "Home Alone," and "Best In Show" -- is dead ... TMZ has learned.

2026 is already well on its way to to sucking more than the historically sucky 2025
www.tmz.com/2026/01/30/c...

Every word she ever writes/utters has the most annoying TED talk cadence. It drives me crazy.

Stop! I can't believe this is real.

Big 2020 vibes in the air today and not in a fun "I'm going to make sourdough/learn to play the ukulele" way

Support your local newspaper.

Tortured men: award-worthy! Tortured women: booooooooring!

Promo graphic for Heated Rivalry, except Shane and Ilya's heads have been replaced with a Thin Mint and a Samoa (a.k.a. Caramel DeLite). The text below reads: "Why choose? Bring them BOTH to the cottage! Buy Girl Scout Cookies from (redacted)'s Online Store today!!"

Here's how my sister is advertising my niece's Girl Scout cookie sales on Instagram (yes, she's proud of herself)

CBS News report on ICE officer’s injuries drew ‘huge internal concern’ Anonymously sourced report that Jonathan Ross ‘suffered internal bleeding’ after killing Renee Good faced skepticism inside CBS newsroom

Interesting which stories don't get held for "a few more phone calls" www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Also when he thanked GM for the "beautiful space"

It's also impossible to actually hear what they are saying and it's just completely chaotic?

"They made me feel really old,” he says. “They were like, ‘What is a wolf and why is it on parade?’ And I was like, ‘I hate both of you.’ And I was like, ‘Feist? 1,2,3,4?’ And they’re like, ‘Oh yeah, we watched that on Sesame Street.’ And I was like, ‘Again, I’d like to push you down a flight of stairs. Your youth enrages me.’”

I will read every interview with Heated Rivalry writer and director Jacob Tierney because his quotes are truly a reporter's dream: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

My kitchen table issue is “don’t shoot people at their kitchen tables”

I was just thinking about this!! I need a stress-inducing theme song to really set the mood.

In 1995, Sandra Bullock was the first person ever to buy movie theater tickets online, in promotion for her new film THE NET.

weissand effect

In addition to everything else wrong with Bari Weiss it is clear she's never heard of the Streisand Effect because she's massively amplifying this story by trying to kill it

They seem to want to turn CBS into the Sun Valley Conference Network and don't realize that normies absolutely do not care about these people