Yup. I grew up in a Michigan small town that swung hard from Obama to Trump and man, the number of people who in 2016 suddenly became experts on the place where I spent the first two decades of my life! It’s a national pastime!
Most people also won’t finish your 500-word article. So write at whatever length is appropriate for the subject.
Schulz should have done a Friday Night Lights style mid-run reboot, some time in the 70s. Carry over a few supporting regulars, new school kids carry the main storylines. Woodstock stays but there’s a new dog.
Doorway with “NO CRYING” written above it
PS
Your timeline told me it wanted some pictures from the delightful Wes Anderson show at the Design Museum In London
w/r/t the vacation: it is quite something else to learn that your country has launched a war via another passenger's seat-back TV whilst circling to land at a foreign airport
Forgot to post before leaving on vacation! Steven Conrad's "DTF St. Louis" packs a lot of weirdness into the overfamiliar limited-murder-series genre. I'm hoping the weirdness wins out. [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/a...
Great description
I have to figure knock out the 10 miles first thing in the morning, which would make the tacos pretty easy. The trick would be spacing out the beers. What kind are they? Alcohol %? I would be willing to drink light beer for one day for $50 million.
By far the best moment of this Traitors season was Alan pointing and screaming at Yam Yam that he’d been murdered—“YOUUUU, Yam Yam!” I would have actually died
Bari Weiss has fired the Animaniacs due to a lack of political balance
Get ready for a lot of stuff to happen for “purely financial reasons”
Anyway! I don't think I'll write about this because I have already spent too much of my precious life writing about revivals of old sitcoms, but I attempted a big swing at this general idea with the Party Down revival, which applies broadly [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/a...
I mean, that's true of many many comedies to some extent. But a difference with KOTH, I think, is for all the amazing character writing it was always super idea-driven as well, and it's also idea-driven now, but the ideas have changed somewhat to reckon with the passing of time
I guess part of it is just that Scrubs, like a lot of Bill Lawrence comedies, is driven almost wholly by pure affection for the characters and the pleasure of spending time with them. They're your friends, there's no arguing with affection! But it makes for a low ceiling in a revival imho
Conversely I have even more appreciation for the King of the Hill revival as time goes on
A little puzzled by the praise for the Scrubs revival tbh
When revivals really work -- as opposed to "good enough" work -- they work because they show some reason to continue the story beyond "I loved these people and want to spend more time with them"
I don't see that here at all
Apparently the fans voted for every Survivor 50 ep to have 10,000 commercial breaks
"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.
Leaving on vacation at the end of the week and cannot believe how excited I am to go to LONDON for the WEATHER
my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels
I like email IF the person asks targeted questions that I can concisely answer. It's less of a commitment than arranging and talking thru a 1-on-1 interview even on Zoom.
The problem is when I agree to an email interview and the questions are like "Great, please write five book chapters."
If you think of "fan" as just someone who likes a thing then I guess anyone can be one and it's kind of a meaningless term. But I think of esp social media era fandom as something more like, I guess, stan-dom
I keep wanting to write something about this. I've lazily called myself a "fan" of things before but I do think a critic can't really be one, at least in the sense that a fan is a *partisan* of a work or artist or genre, ie, wants it to "win," resists assessing its good vs its bad
Learn to decode
Tried to respond to someone in gmail, clicked a few millimeters to the wrong side and it generated an entire dumbass reply full of assertions I would never have made. I hate this! Just let me write my own dumbass reply!
NPR follows @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social in finding Trump’s DOJ has omitted or pulled Epstein pages related to accusations against the president, including regarding sexual assault of a child
