Matt convinced me to see this v v good movie and I convinced my bestie to see it with me. The entire cast is phenomenal but a special shoutout to Ashley Shelton, whose Bethany is in like three scenes and all of them iconic.
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Matt convinced me to see this v v good movie and I convinced my bestie to see it with me. The entire cast is phenomenal but a special shoutout to Ashley Shelton, whose Bethany is in like three scenes and all of them iconic.
Okay, but A LITTLE PRAYER is v v good.
I fear I’m gonna miss most of the Osaka/Gauff match because I already had plans to go see a small indie film I’ve kept reading raves about. [Larry David shrugging vibes]
I think about this character a lot because she's literally the only character who meets Cooper trapped in Dougie Jones's body and actually expresses out loud that something is fucking wrong. And it's a real mood for the last fucking decade.
I am once again reminded of Sara Paxton's brief, but incredible, work on TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN, for some reason.
God, I want to go to Night Arby's
When the corner laundromat is empty save for me, the manager, and one dude just playing games on his phone.
“Storrowing” is a uniquely joyous spectacle because of the multiple levels of hubris one needs to pull it off. Not only must you ignore traffic signs and the advice of local universities, but you have to believe you need a moving truck’s worth of stuff for your dorm room. Icarus had more sense.
I’ve put so much work in the last 20 years to teach myself how to cook that it’s adorable to remember a time when I did not know the difference between a cucumber and a zucchini
“No problem!” I said, laughing, but really I had only problems
There’s so much I love love love about tennis but the culture of silence around asshats stands out as the big thing I hate
In Moorrgs’s man we trust.
I just checked the schedule for tomorrow and I cannot believe Coco/Naomi is the mid-day Ashe session. What do you mean that's not a 7 PM Ashe opener? (Sinner vs Bublik should be scheduled after, not for 7 PM with Anisimova after THAT)
Tomorrow I will do laundry and see a movie and make chili. It is decided.
I had all these lofty plans to do *things* this weekend but really I've just been sleeping, sitting, watching tennis, and playing video games.
[I survived bitch meme]
I’m joking. I’m not joking. Am I joking?
The Bublik/Alcaraz 2025 US Open final is gonna be so much fun
Rooting for Bublik because besides being the funniest interview on tour, he is the only person besides Alcaraz to beat Sinner recently.
thank you felix auger-aliassime 🎾
lol. Last Friday, he walked by a group of us chilling by the practice courts and I was like, “Oh, Felix is here. What’s he been up to? Haven’t heard a lot from him. Hope he does well.” And tonight!
Oscar Isaac looking hot, babygirls Bublik and Tommy Paul playing Ashe, Felix up a break on Zverev. The boys are SERVING tonight.
Honestly how fucking dare he
She’s got the goods but then just gave it away lol
I literally just yelled out loud, “Kalinskaya, you’re such a doofus!” A beautiful doofus, but a doofus nonetheless to have Iga on the ropes at 5-1 and then to lose the same set in a tiebreak.
Thank youuuuu 🥹
Right??? I made it to potentially sell with my other little pumpkin dishes but when it came out of the kiln, I was, “No, I need this for me.” Perfect soup bowl!
I know it’s technically a stew, not a soup, and it’s technically still summer, not autumn, but cackles in soup in my pum’kin bowl
I do respect that he gave, "Somehow Palpatine returned," the exact line reading it deserved.
Labilliebu!
Gonna go crazy and make soup today.
I know I drank too much rosé last night because I impulsively signed up for a SoulCycle class tomorrow. So let that be a lesson to you all.
Mark Feuerstein????? (No clue)
TAYLOR TOWNSEND!
I don’t.
That tee rules
It’s 2025. Don’t get your hopes up for anything outside of the joy you get from your people.
Thanks for the suggestion!
*Should add that I get picky about calendars, too, so like...no offense if I don't pick your suggestion. There are many variables in my equation
Putting out a very non-urgent question into the cosmos: As someone who loves a good wall calendar, are there any indie artists or sites who are selling cool, printed ones for 2026? I'm currently rocking one of those art of ASOIAF, but it would be fun to discover/support someone directly
So I *should* keep buying stuff in bulk on sale but also buying and storing more of it…cool
Feeling very much like I just want to sip seltzer, rosé (but not together), and play Zelda tonight.
It's been a while since I shared some bumblebear 🐝🐻
I’m so sad.
🙏
Shelton injured, Tiafoe on the ropes, protect Fritz at all costs
He’s moving to New Jersey because his wife got a job and the commute is too much. I am still in the city, but further uptown now
Also, according to Mo, who is fluent in Serbian, Novak is usually saying some pretty nasty shit in his native tongue on the court 😆
It’s the last happy hour with one of my all-time fave bartenders on the UWS and we’re - me, a tennis fan, him, a guy whose family’s from Montenegro - are laughing at Novak Djokovic’s bungee training routine. “That’s some Serbian shit,” he said 😂
now why did my brain go to the end of Sharp Objects?
This piece is so great and highlights yet another angle of how sports betting is designed to make me, personally, mad.
One way in which I am getting saltier as I get older is I think this man should be banned from ATP and WTA events because this is fucked up, unsportsmanlike shit.
Now we just need to ban the guy who stole the hat from matches forever.
Spoke to James Fraser's parents about their big, steamy, romantic moment this week...
Allons-fucking-y! decider.com/2025/08/29/t...
That's fair! I was referring more to the lush romanticism of Brian and Ellen's story.
Having only seen the first two episodes, my primary memories of this show are Andre Holland handsome and that I took an improv class with the nurse who gets electrocuted.
Right? I almost reposted it with the note that this would be all I ever talked about if I was her.
I was LOOKING for it, damn it.
Juilliard, for when you need an actor to seamlessly transition from Clark Kent to Superman.
If nothing else, Trisha Biggar gave us the most EXTRA extras.
Folks, if you're on the fence about this timey-wimey Outlander prequel, may I offer this week's super romantic, incredibly Celtic, very dramatic episode as my last argument for why this is just great, fun escapism?
Welcome to cool kids club!
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
That’s it. This Gauff/Vekic match is bumming me out way too much. I’m going to Hyrule, aka firing up TOTK.
And Donna’s arm is about to fall off. It’s bummer city.
I mean, in her case, it's been 8 seasons. My unpopular opinion is modern casts stay TOO long, thereby making it harder and harder for newer folks to make a dent + for the show to feel young and fresh and nimble.
I actually started to think about this and realized for a person who doesn't hit a lot of concerts, the ones I do tend to be pretty fucking cool.
*christine mcvie voice* show me guys, show me weird little guys
Feels like a three-way tie between catching a then-unknown Florence + the Machine playing to a disinterested SoHo crowd, Lorde's first American show, or Ingrid Michaelson's private Greenwood Cemetery chapel show, which 1989 era Taylor Swift also attended for half a set.
The sluttiest thing a man can do is to repeatedly ride a zipline into a pool. Especially if he’s doing cool spin moves when he lets go.
I was profoundly moved by the performances and moral meditations in HBO's TASK and also frustrated by some really baffling choices when it came to plotting and pacing. A fascinating mixed bag still worth watching.
It's pretty bananas that they just see rich blonde woman marrying man and think she's gonna be barefoot in the kitchen doing chores the rest of her life and not building a massive entrepreneurial empire with this man, who always publicly defers to her as the smartest woman in the world.
1000%. The cast is so glorious even if the show is unfocused.
When I interviewed Fabien Frankel last summer for Hot D, he mentioned getting really into Philly cheesesteaks while working on this show. He tried to describe the delicacy to Matt Smith, saying it's served on a "baguette," which is the nicest, funniest way anyone has ever described a hoagie bun.
I was profoundly moved by the performances and moral meditations in HBO's TASK and also frustrated by some really baffling choices when it came to plotting and pacing. A fascinating mixed bag still worth watching.
Earlier this summer, someone in the foreign tennis press called Ben Shelton's girlfriend "Tiffany" in a post-match presser, so it's been really fun to watch the American media act like this about Trinity Rodman showing up at the US Open.
Honor states I gotta tag @erikadams.bsky.social anytime I see him out here like this
Joan Holloway in Mad Men. But it’s very much back, btw.
And yet Arthur Rinderknech is seeded in my heart. Explain that, science.
I finished the chapter, emailed it to my accountability pal, and she ate it up so fast that I'm like, "Fuck. Now I've got to do that all over again."
Playing the most dangerous game: writing smut at the local
“Can a technology really be overhyped if it’s powerful enough to kill somebody?” is the kind of thought you have right before you take a six-month sabbatical to a cabin where you have no phone and no internet, just whittling, foraging and playing the recorder for a small group of woodland creatures.
Mr. Steal Your Girl. #CaughtStealing @sonypicturestv.bsky.social
(I convinced my friend to come see it with me on Monday)
The only Cracker Barrel sign I've cared about thus far.
He’s smart enough to know it’s okay that she’s book smart in a way he’s not! In fact, it’s hot, even!
👀
Boy Kavalier mixing up Asimov and Clarke is a great bit. I wonder if anyone other than Hitler has been as widely and specifically mocked in film as Elon Musk.
I still think Coco can take the whole match, but Ajla is having muscle memory in real time of that time she retired Serena.
Got to talk to Sydney Chandler about petting a [SPOILER]. 🥹
I kind of love how Ajla Tomljanovic ups her level when she's playing America's Sweetheart on Ashe during a night session, when the entire crowd's against her. I dig public displays of masochism.
Also, fuck, now I need to write it.
My friend also sent me an email asking for the next chapter of my WIP “asap” because she likes it and that is what actually matters 🥹
Now that she's getting married, I suppose it's safe to reveal the guy Taylor Swift was singing about in all those songs was named Robert Gray, better known as Bob Gray, better known as Pennywise the Dancing Clown. Although that was not his name, either.
Best work slack update?
I actually don't get much hate mail so when I do, it's mostly like, huh...and this is a real head scratcher.
Someone sent me a nasty email today about - checks notes - an SEO post about whether or not THE GILDED AGE was on this past Sunday. I'm sure they're fine inside.