Ben Cannon

My latest entry into the Podcast Canon on @avclub.com has it all. An all-star cast! Written by an Oscar-nominated screenwriter! Amazing sound design and music! A spiritual link with the history of Black radio! Chicago!!

Give it a read and a listen.

Also…big news if you make it to the end!

Anyway I need some work so I can pay off this ER visit and the upcoming follow-up appts 😕

I can do writerly and podcast things. I can interview your faves and talk about Black women stuff, thirst, desire, romance novels, and a whole bunch of other things

Melania's budget could've paid the salaries of every fired Washington Post employee, three times over An incomplete breakdown of Jeff Bezos' financial priorities, weighing one piece of propaganda (Melania) against 300 journalists.

we crunched some numbers www.avclub.com/melania-budg...

Pride Flag Is Removed From Stonewall Monument After Trump Directive

“To think you can go to Stonewall and just take down the Pride flag — that is telling of the time we are living in,” Ms. Lentz said. “It is unbelievable. The flag is not just an abstract symbol; it tells L.G.B.T.Q. people, especially younger ones, that their history will not be sidelined again.”

I'm sorry, the Washington Post hopes *I* will reconsider the value of their journalists?

My time with The Washington Post is up. I was laid off with hundreds of folks I am so honored to call my colleagues.

I covered it all at The Post (really), so now I'm looking for my next adventure.

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forever

I've been friends with Kim for 13 years and I am absolutely flabbergasted, she is a versatile, TREMENDOUS reporter (and human being). A huge asset to any newsroom fortunate enough to have her

O’Hara was incredible forever, on SCTV, the Christopher Guest movies, Beetlejuice, Home Alone, etc. But she didn’t become as famous as her talent warranted until her 60s. Suddenly it was like everyone caught up to her, and she could’ve worked forever. To have her taken away at this moment? No.

The wrong Home Alone 2 actor died.

Risk-taking thrives in the comedy podcast Valley Heat Risk-taking thrives in the comedy podcast Valley Heat

The specificity of Duguay’s comedy—droll and exacting yet completely surreal at the same time—proves to be the show’s creative engine.

This is a white supremacist paramilitary operation. Their goal—their stated goal!—is to force America to submit to the President's racist domineering vision for the country.

The sooner everybody starts confronting it on the terms that they themselves have stated, the better.

The newest video shows very clearly that they attacked him for coming to an aid of a woman that the agents pushed, and then executed him while he was immobilized. Everything the government has said, like with Good, has been a complete lie.

They murder a man in cold blood and wait around to watch him die. There is no hell hot enough. Abolish DHS. Impeach, convict, remove. Trials as soon as possible.

This is the best speech, just from a pure rhetoric perspective - its sophistication and persuasiveness - that I've seen a politician deliver in a good long while. Really recommend watching or reading the whole thing.

Yes yes yes yes!!

The joyous flashback this just gave me, to you and @chrisvfeil.bsky.social playing @joereid.bsky.social's mischievous game of Hedlund or Hunnam (or Jai Courtney or Aaron Taylor Johnson or Boyd Holbrook)... What an all-timer episode of THOB.

Shit sucks so hard these days, but this is a panacea.

this one weird trick will let you make a talk show but not have to pay union rates

And brownie mix for his neighbors!!

Please say this episode will be 6+ hours. Wes Anderson deserves to be longer than (Paul) W.S. Anderson!! Happy to pony up for a mulligan if need be…

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

Give me denim or give me death. I’ve been waiting patiently for this moment!

Thax Douglas and Daniel Knox! This is such a throwback!!

An email starting with “for your consideration: Nuremberg”

This studio awards-season email is really matching the current mood in a way I’m not sure they intended.

This is a great story, and yet another reminder that -- for something that felt like a fun goofy feature when it launched -- as we lose more and more actors, the AV Club's "Random Roles" has turned out to be an amazing oral history project.

Great piece from Fiona on the general enshittification of podcasts, thanks to a paradigm shift towards video. Very good insights as well from @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social and Eleanor McDowall of @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social.

My favorite restaurant in all of Chicago.

I’m with you. The seismic increase in social engagement the Chicago Fire have seen after signing Mbekezeli Mbokazi shows there’s a wildly untapped market there and genuine interest, but they haven’t shared any highlights from AFCON yet. Part of me wonders if it’s a rights issue with any footage?