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A Human Experience | Christopher Bell Muntadhar al-Zaidi discusses his famous protest, its consequences, and the world the war on terror created.

Happy to present my debut for @thebaffler.com... an interview with Muntadhar al-Zaidi, the man who threw both shoes at George W. Bush
thebaffler.com/latest/a-hum...

Going broad and selling out, The Moment imagines the end of an Eras Tour Charli xcx's mockumentary The Moment satirizes what brat might have looked like if she had tried to reach the biggest possible audience.

When Brat Summer took off, Charli xcx didn't sell out and go broad. What her new movie imagines is...what if she did?

Presenting a reading series musing on a timeless staple of digital media: The viral, narcissistic or delusional confessional essay...

Returning to my War on Christmas to humbly offer my own failures and to take inspiration from “Lil Timmy Tim” Chalamet: open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

In 2025, TV finally reflected the lingering effects of living through COVID-19 In 2025, TV finally reflected the lingering effects of living through COVID-19

Yesterday my final piece as an AV Club staff writer went up. I’ve been musing over post-pandemic tv since the beginning of the year and personally found it under discussed at the COVID 5-year mark. Really proud of how it turned out❤️ www.avclub.com/2025-tv-covi...

Emma is such an incredible writer with elite taste & I am so bummed we are not coworkers anymore!!! a huge loss for us at AVC!

Last month, I was laid off from The A.V. Club. Still trying to figure out what comes next after officially becoming a #MediaLayoffVictim, but in the meantime feeling very thankful to have spent 3 years writing for a publication I grew up reading and loving <3

Fleshed out this argument—about arrested development culture and Christmas—in a new essay, which you can read here: open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

I’m so very sad that I don’t get to work with MK & I encourage everyone to read her beautiful writing!!! It’s a stark reminder of what The A.V. Club is losing out on:

Everything dies baby that's a fact / We keep singing even so Another digital media worker joins the unemployment line, ponders the meaning of everything

Earlier this month, I got laid off from The A.V. Club after 3.5 years. It changed my life and I’m going to miss it so much. Don’t know what’s coming next but I do feel more committed to the work than ever. I wrote about it on Substack if you care to check it out ❤️

open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

a woman making a funny face next to another woman in a cheerleading uniform ALT: a woman making a funny face next to another woman in a cheerleading uniform

Just remembered that how you spend your days is how you spend your life

my phone broke over the weekend and I can't get into a single account on my laptop because everything now requires I verify with an SMS code... the apps have become too secure... the cure is worse than the disease...

rest in piss

I took half a semester of macroeconomics in college

The reason everything seems like a “recession indicator” is because we’re in a recession. If not depression. Btw

So good

Where’s a deus ex machina when you need one!!!

There's nothing chaotic about the race! The runaway winner of the Democratic primary has a comfortable ongoing lead in the polls! The only chaotic element is the mind-traffic of the small circle of self-appointed civic elites melting down over their refusal to accept a straightforward situation.

What's the greatest action franchise of all time? Round One: Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to follow along in our 32-combatant tournament to find the best action franchise.

Here's the first round of what I've been working on for the past few months: A 32-combatant tournament bracket to determine the greatest action franchise ever made. There's also a reader poll if you want to correct our choices www.avclub.com/best-action-...

I’m in Cabo

Get ready for a weeklong slugfest at The A.V. Club: Starting Monday, September 1, the biggest action film franchises will be battling it out in our bracket. You can have your say in the reader poll.

I think planned obsolescence is really wack!!!

Roundtable: Why are we falling so hard for The Summer I Turned Pretty's love triangle? Roundtable: Why are we falling so hard for The Summer I Turned Pretty's love triangle?

The New York Times recently reported that the primary audience of The Summer I Turned Pretty is 25- to 54-year-old women… three of us weighed in on what makes the YA love triangle so irresistible! Cc: @emmakeates.bsky.social & @salonig.bsky.social

www.avclub.com/the-summer-i...

We love jb pritzker

Vitamin water needs to step into its queendom and meet the zero sugar electrolyte moment

Roundtable: We try to figure out how And Just Like That… went so wrong Roundtable: We try to figure out how And Just Like That… went so wrong

this AJLT series finale roundtable with @salonig.bsky.social @drewupdates.bsky.social and other AV Club staff really got me #thinking

A horrible show that I would have gladly watched 12 seasons of <3

and just like that, @danettechavez.bsky.social, @salonig.bsky.social, @drewupdates.bsky.social, and I chat about this bad bad show

I would never attend something call a “poop cruise.”