Katherine

We tried to warn you months ago. But you were worried about the hockey 🤭❤️‍🔥

A great way to remain healthy is to avoid hospitals unless necessary.

Needles are like helicopter rides: one take one if you need it.

Hollywood’s Cheesiest New Star? Parmigiano Reggiano Reportedly Signed By UTA for Film and TV Placement The agency will reportedly work with the Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium to get "the king of cheeses" product placement in Hollywood projects.

Proud to be repped by the same agency as one of my favorite cheeses @peter23.bsky.social www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Novembo

LMAO this is so true.

Its been picked up my HBO Max in the US, no need to subscribe to crave

yessss

Ha! maybe the same reason Maureen Dowd still has a column

FLOVE penzy’s great gift idea thx

I have been thinking about this line today, on the value of editors, from the late great John Bennet, for no reason in particular.

Philip Roth it is not

THIS IS BIG

For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.

“If I swallowed every drop of water from the tower above your house,” Olivia had written, “I would still thirst for you.”

Reader, this is shit prose.

Zoe!!!! 😀

the vacuous prose reveals how little she reads. and most likely how little her VF editors read as well. gross, baby.

Ilya is a brilliantly drawn, fully formed character. I get you. I have not watched BL

We are phasing out the terms “extant” and “extinct” from our exhibits and will now refer to species as either “Darwinners" or “Darlosers.”

The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative. Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is above all an invocation. When cinema is authentic, it does not merely console, but challenges. It articulates the questions that dwell within us, and sometimes, even provokes tears that we did not know we needed to express.

Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.

Yes, THAT Pope.

so the two things I am posting about just now are (1) a rich, scholarly account of the art treasures that were looted from Benin in 1897, and (2) this exasperated, and accurate, screed against the horny magazine profile, they are both at flaminghydra.com and that's why you should subscribe

My Novembo writing hack: the Vellum draft

Doing a full retype of 370p—great way to cull shit words and ponder the narrative turns on my way to a complete MS.

It’s a boost to see my story in book form, oooh the white spaces. It also forces the “one task” mindset.

@printrunpodcast.bsky.social

They talk about women as if they were dogs that needed broken. Despicable

Epstein’s advice, the way he diagnosed women’s responses, as if they were newly broken in horses. A generation of our leaders were okay with this.

Expose them all.

You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out that what a country values can change over time. Sometimes, though, there’s a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you’ve actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word – but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass – and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island – even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Yes! I’d told my brother don’t worry about all the complexity hype, the storyline is linear, and to this day he’s still annoyed that I “spoiled” it for him.

the democratic party establishment hasnt learned a damn thing since they voted to allow george w bush to invade iraq. not one thing.

This point absolutely correct and I will add that Mamdani demonstrates that an insurgency, even one with real moral clarity and anger at the status quo, can still be cheerful and inviting.

this is literally never not accurate

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This review! “Happy people really don’t live here. Sorrow floats above them like the cemetery ghosts, unmoored and occasionally angry, everything framed within a madcap murder mystery…Sparks is a clever writer who has, by melding conventions from several genres, created a perfect hybrid”

a man in a striped jacket is standing in a hallway . Alt: a man in a striped robe is standing in a hallway and saying go home

MAGA owned this shutdown. Why now? Sorry to vent. I've spent years organizing, lying I guess, about the existential stakes. Turns out, only took forty days and a secret caucus. Undermined last Tuesday too. What-ever.