The Joe Gross

‘Do Admit’ and ‘Spent’ Top PW’s 2025 Graphic Novel Critics Poll For the third consecutive year, it's a tie for the top spot on PW’s annual Graphic Novel Critics Poll, highlighting the breadth of this category.

very nice to see SIMPLICITY (in bookstores everywhere fyi) on the pw critics' poll~ www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Same!

Less than you’d think OR my hearing is just shot. I am genuinely unsure which it is.

Pearl Harbor and Interstellar are way up there.

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The Jameson Tapes, Side A with Isabel Bartholomew, Anna Kornbluh, Caleb Smith, Robert Tally, & Fredric Jameson

Something that boggles my mind a little is that in 1977 Fredric Jameson gave a series of lectures to 25 or so people in Minnesota & one of them had a cassette recorder. And this year we remastered those cassette tapes & around 14,000 people in 53 countries heard those lectures.

Today is the Day, full burn

ICE trying to ORDER a church to REMOVE A NATIVITY SCENE is one of the most astonishing First Amendment violations I've seen in ever

RT if you agree (or whatever it is called here).

Well, SOMEONE isn’t voting for the popist

I think what the GOP Congress don't understand, or don't care about, is the extent to which:

a) the removal of the ACA's premiums credit will wreck consumer spending if those ACA users try to cut $ corners to afford health care, and

B) ACA users think of that hike as a possible death sentence.

Raul Malo, the soulful tenor and frontman of The Mavericks, has died at age 60 Malo was battling colon cancer and later leptomeningeal disease, a rare complication when cancer spreads to membranes around the brain and spinal cord.

Listening to a lot of The Mavericks today in honor of the passing of Raul Malo, a simply unforgettable singer who was one of the great male voices in pop music. He was 60. RIP. apnews.com/article/raul...

Jimmy Fallon: And you say you have a bridge to sell?

Guest: That's right. The Brooklyn Bridge.

Audience: *halfhearted claps*

Fallon (nodding at the audience): It's a famous bridge.

Fallon (turning back to guest): That's amazing! Wow!

Coca-Cola, jazz and Christmas: 60 years of Charlie Brown Christmas The cartoon debuted on Dec. 9, 1965, and was anything but a sure thing. Coca-Cola, a jazz artist, and bunch of kids helped pave the way for a 60 year legacy for a little boy and his dog.

60 years of Peanuts holiday specials. A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS debuted December 9, 1965.

www.kcra.com/article/60-y...

Pediatricians reject CDC advisers’ guidance, plan to continue vaccinating all newborns against hepatitis B

Hospitals and health departments across the country say they're not planning to change their vaccination policy.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

oh, dear

Peace to my man Barry Louis Polisar for getting that good, good Lay's synch ad money.

Impressed and repulsed by the cartoonish supervillainy at work here.

He told them to put the whiskey in the jar

Stylish but illegal monkey found roaming Toronto IKEA

Oh shit, it's Stylish But Illegal Monkey Day

Dems won't be able to block a Netflix Warner Brothers merger. Our regulators and courts have been hollowed out like Pumpkins. But you might be able to stop Larry Ellison, Jared Kushner, and Donald Trump from buying up all media and turning us into Hungary.

Users of Gen AI climb on the backs of actual creators and stick flags between their shoulder blades, treating them like territory. Us and our work are just ladders to them. The only work they really want to do is to climb over us and claim our talent and abilities as their own.

This review *also* mentions America’s new favorite character, Recapricorn.

Well, this is a tremendous list

oh just toughen up and dive into that hellscape

Look, man, you fix air travel, you could be President. But this is bullshit and you know it.

I would prefer protection from predatory pricing and mandated easy refunds, thanks!

I wonder if there has been a spike in road rage incidents at night now that we are several years after the introduction of LED headlights.

Sometimes alphabetical order creates little juxtapositional epiphanies. Just slotted a Todd Rundgren record in between Roxy Music and the Rutles, and thought "yes, that is the perfect place for him to go".

Kudos to HBO’s I LOVE L.A. for making me happier to be born prior to, say, the Carter administration, than anything I have encountered in a good long time.