Drew McWeeny

It's heaps of fun.

I'm with Sam here.

Yup.

Oooof. Just learned both Jonathan Kaplan and Loni Anderson are gone. If you've never seen Kaplan's OVER THE EDGE, do so immediately. Anderson was a talented comic actress Hollywood never quite figured out. Both were deeply underrated.

There is a Riker-specific joke during the closing credits of this week's STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS that made me cackle. Always nice to see Frakes directing TREK.

PSA for Millennials: new advice is that HRT can begin in early perimenopause. I had my first big hot flash when I was 39 - I'll be 48 in a week.

Talk to your doctor. We want you to have the information that we didn't get (and our mothers/grandmothers didn't have).

medicine.yale.edu/news-article...

Baldwin was such a titan as a writer and a thinker.

Maybe one day I'll bump into you there! Good to know we're haunting the same place.

There is a word for women in Lakota that is so insanely beautiful that I wanted to share: winjan. That translates to “Heaven on Earth.”

I’m a guy, and I need feminism. Not “men’s rights”. Feminism. Here is why. Everything that MRAs talk about that men can’t do or are socially punished for arise directly and immediately from misogyny. Not “misandry.” Misogyny. Whether I am expressing my emotions, playing with children, baking, having sex wherein I am penetrated in any way, wearing the wrong color, talking the wrong way, moving the wrong way, being sexually harassed/assaulted, or paying too little attention to looking like I’m not paying attention to how I look, when society punishes me or derides me or marginalizes me for these things, it is happening because they are things women, not men, are expected to do, and our society at large fucking hates women. Has that sunk in yet? Men, can you even think of a single goddamned way you have ever been mocked that wasn’t related to something that a misogynist society sees as feminizing? Even when large men are mocked for their bodies, they are referred to as having “man-boobs,” for fucks sake. How do you expect to improve these things with “men’s rights?” What rights are you fighting for? I can tell you what I think you’re fighting for. I think you’re fighting for the right to contain and control misogyny, and direct it back at women, where you think it belongs. You want to maintain your privilege but erase its consequences and that’s why your movement is farcical; it’s a big feedback loop. How do you expect men to be free from the peripheral effects of misogyny when you refuse to even fucking believe it’s real?

1,000,000,000% this times 1,000,000,000 infinity.

Got all the way to the theater and learned they canceled our screening of NAKED GUN because of a sound issue. Sad trombone.

It's a Disney trick. They have done it before. They make the attached trailer part of the feature presentation.

I find the downfall of Alan Dershowitz to be objectively hilarious. If only being a Giant Shithead was a protected class...

Incredibly excited to share that I’ve been included in @vinsyn.bsky.social’s inaugural issue of its new quarterly “This is Cinématographe,” with an essay about Spike Lee’s underseen masterpiece GIRL 6.

Thank you @jlalibs.com for bringing me on to contribute!

Yeah, I have no problem telling someone that it is a genuinely bad tool that is no good for anyone, and i do judge people for using it. Harshly.

one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules

Everyone involved with the immersive WIZARD OF OZ should be forced to spend several days in an immersive RETURN TO OZ

I do indeed. Those songs live in my head whether I like it or not.

The cover of It Can't Rain All the Time, by Alisha Mughal: black, white, and gray text on a dark gray background

Title page of It Can't Rain All the Time, by Alisha Mughal, with her signature and a small crow stamp image. Black and gray on white paper.

We are packing up copies of this fantastic book on the original The Crow, signed by Toronto's own @alishamgl.bsky.social ! We are going to order more, and the pre-order link is below if you're interested:
mzs.press/SIGNED-It-Ca...

One of the best moments in the entirety of the MCU is when Vision hatches out of his coffin and he sees that Thor clearly the hottest and strongest person there has a cape and Vision is reflexively like omg that looks so cool and grows a cape for his body like a new student spotting the coolest kid

Build as many spaces for sharing joy as you can because god knows we need more of it these days. It's not insane to try to find joy in chaotic times; it is essential. So love your partner for all you're worth. Don't listen to people who are upset by joy. Win them over by sharing it.

The new podcast was very much built as a space to have people get together and celebrate what they love about my favorite art form. We've talked about so many different things, and every guest has come in swinging. The conversations are FUN, more than anything, and I always feel buzzed by it.

Caught up with THE LIFE OF CHUCK last night. Very sweet. Charming from start to finish. I love Flanagan's rolling troupe of actors. And, yes, the Wampler dedication was a fist in the gut at the end after seeing that particular film. I miss that man and his multitudes.

This is very true. And it doesn't have to just be the person that you're with that you invest that joy in. Spread that as widely as you can. Share everything that interests you. Encourage people. Use whatever reach you have to celebrate a wide array of human art and effort. It's good for you.

"Embed With Games" is full of great stories and worth your time and money.

"The Blair Witch Project at The Sphere"

Zohran didn't win by relying on standard turnout patterns. We had to fundamentally transform the Democratic electorate.

I was part of a group of NYC-DSA members that applied lessons from our previous campaigns to design the “universe” of voters to talk to. Here's how we won 🧵

Fantastic to see in the wild

A frog standing up facing away. It looks like a circle with a great dumper.

Al Pacino bellowing “She’s got a great ass!” in Heat