Alissa Wilkinson

That is to be treasured

Our grampas may have frequented the same tavern, who knows

(I think welder because his sons, my uncles, became welders and worked on the Big Dig. They’ve got stories and wicked great accents to deliver them in, as you might imagine)

If not a welder, something to that effect, in Dorchester (Boston that is)

One got a job after high school at an insurance company as a mailroom clerk, worked his way up to vice president, and ultimately retired from that company; the other quit school in 8th grade and was, I think, a welder?

I did think of that but I was afraid someone would think it was a dirty joke

Badumshhhh

One of two new movies with petulant man-boy-princes named Titus who ought to be curb-stomped

‘Hoppers’ Review: Animal Magnetism

There is a joke so hilariously macabre in HOPPERS that I simply have to mildly stan (also I enjoy lugubrious beavers, so sue me)

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/m...

only very vaguely!!

I mean we get it

How many Fords do you people have

-- which when you are heavily referencing Bonnie & Clyde -- a movie from the 60s, using classic Hollywood techniques, in which the characters watch a film from 1933 -- as well as Fred Rogers/Ginger Astaire movies, but also getting really graphic is, at least, fun for a very particular kind of freak.

And this one is all about the way the movies try to make the men more interesting when the women are always the cool ones --

It's so nice to see Christian Bale having fun

Greta Gerwig is better at this re-reading of texts and speculating at how they were pushed around by the means of their production (the brilliance of her Little Women flew over so many heads) but there's a little of the same attempt in here, which is, at least, very interesting, if not solidly done

The Grande Dame of the Epstein Files Peggy Siegal, once the most powerful publicist in New York, defends herself.

Did not fully expect, though it kind of tracks, that Peggy Siegal and Woody Allen would be the central Hollywood figures in Epstein's disgusting saga.
nymag.com/intelligence...

I think Tim's sentiments are basically mine, with some added interest in the many layers of (not quite coherent) thoughts about authorship and amusement at the overstuffed homage to 1930s pre-Code films? I would like to see it again.

have seen multiple films involving women who have Had Enough who call themselves The Bride and petulant man-boys named Titus lately (one of which is technically a man-caterpillar)

Anyhow, always read Jack

(Cf this data on “exvangelicals,” from 2025, for just one slice of the “nones” pie)

prri.org/spotlight/ex...

It’s worth noting that around 50% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters identify as Christians, and perhaps more significantly, 70% of religious “nones” identify as Democrats, a not insignificant portion of whom — I’d wager, if I were a wagerer — would resonate with Talarico’s rhetoric as well.

I kept thinking this too, this morning, because it felt like all of the headlines were framed this way. Very revealing, and not exactly of the campaign.

I just need a couple sentences to jog my memory usually!! But they’re invaluable for that (and impossible to find elsewhere)

Oh yes it is totally a positive! Except when it isn’t

something to do with water, and incest

(joke)

Who? ;)

Sort of thing I had nightmares about in grad school now that I think about it

Also you write several papers every week. The difference, I point out to them, is they publish mine in the New York Times and if I get something wrong I don’t get points docked, I just get emails from all the people who saw it