Carolyn Kellogg

The french fry shop from the 1966 Jacques Demy film, Les Demoiselles de Rochefort.

I want to go to the french fry shop, you know, the one with the cocktails and beer and espresso. This one.

US-Israel war on Iran live: Israel launches wave of attacks ‘in the heart of Tehran’ as interim successor to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei named Alireza Arafi joins Iran’s president and chief justice on temporary leadership council to fulfil supreme leader’s role until successor is chosen

I studied International Relations quite a while ago, but from what I recall bombing a historic city is not a good route to winning hearts and minds. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Apropos of nothing, except a happier time.

When I was a college dropout I still lived near campus and one day a friend told me to go see a speaker whose work I'd never read and when I got to the smallish lecture hall there was an interlocutor and translator and the guy that's how I got to hear/discover Derrida.

Trump vies for Bush’s crown for worst foreign policy decision in history The US president upended half a century of US foreign policy in an eight-minute video with another attempt at Middle Eastern regime change

Thank you to The Guardian for keeping me sane. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A yard with dry grass, two chairs, a table, the corner of a house and a blue sky above.

Going to sit here reading for a bit.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

What a loser. On the wrong side of everything.

It would be cool to have a legislature that acted to defend its own constitutional prerogatives and, maybe as a treat, the interests of the people it represents too.

It took only seconds. Join me in calling on Congress to act.

Why are the Democratic leaders in congress not out calling for a stop to this? No joke, the last @schumer.senate.gov posted here was 10 hours ago and he was complaining about RFKJr and grocery prices.

This was a premeditated attack with no conceivable emergency: the choice to do this is Congress not President. Waging war on Iran is an obvious violation of the Constitution, no different than enacting tariffs (raising taxes) or defunding USAID (spending programs).

Iran launches retaliatory strikes after major US-Israel attack – live Donald Trump says ‘major combat operations’ under way as explosions reported across the Middle East

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

A screenshot that does not do the outfit/hair/makeup justice of Alan Cumming in a bejeweled blue cape witb blue fur trim and hia hair askew in The Traitors.

So much is terrible save for Alan Cumming dressed as Evil Bejeweled Cookie Monster in this episode of The Traitors.

It's funny I get the LAist email and every one begins with "we noticed you're not an LAist member" and every time I think, you wouldn't exist if I hadn't been editor. And found Tony to replace me when I went to grad school.

Best painting title ever:
Men fighting and women ignoring them
Mughal, 18th C

I had this crazy thought that Mitch McConnell and his Senate buddies are going to turn on Trump and bring all this to a swift end.

If I get to pick my fighter I’m definitely going with Danny McBride.

Vegetarians have ‘substantially lower risk’ of five types of cancer Study shows lower risk for multiple myeloma as well as pancreatic, prostate, breast and kidney cancers

There are so many reasons not to eat animals. Here’s another, but it doesn’t even matter if it’s true.

Kitty Kelley was assigned a review of my Judy Blume biography, but did she read it? The best-selling biographer of Sinatra and Jackie O. filled her review of my book with invented quotations, possible hallucinations, and assorted Mad Libs

Two things: Kitty Kelley was alleged to have made shit up in her Sinatra bio, so it’s sort of poetic that she does so in her book reviews. But also: Kitty Kelley is alive and well and reviewing books?

markoppenheimer.substack.com/p/kitty-kell...

Give Koreatown a try. They have a ton.

!!! Usually when they say “caught handing checks” to bribe lawmakers they don’t mean, “in this photograph."

You would think with 0 national publications left-of-center some enterprising person would think there may be a business opportunity there!

uuuuuuuuuggghhhhhh

Me too! But they can take that advice for free.

If I were running Netflix, with the Oops no Warners money I'd: throw a few million at 5-10 micro studios, seriously invest in theaters nationwide, underwrite physical media rental/sales shops in key cities and start a print movie magazine. Build up the ecosystem and it will flourish.

Someone please get John Oliver on a plane back to England, stat.

Good point.

I imagine there are much more cocaine-y pictures of them.

He looks dapper in the coat and tie!