You want me to remember your “name”? An artistic decision made by a straight person?
Chris Schleicher
@cschleicher.bsky.social
TV writer/performer: DANG!, Mindy Project, Never Have I Ever, Saved by the Bell, and more. I’m young and I love to be young.
If I were Penelope, my challenge for the suitors would have been OTEV.
I'm invoking Zeus's law next time I show up at the afters.
At the end of the day, I think the Toy Story franchise is so successful because it’s about something we can all relate to — the horrors of immortality.
As someone who devoured British literature in my youth, I assumed I’d spend much more of my life recovering at a friend’s estate for weeks after I was rained on a little bit.
No one ever chooses “deformed recluse who rings the bells of Notre Dame” for Career Day and I think it’s a shame
It's always "SING TO ME, O MUSE!" and never "How's YOUR day, O Muse?"
It's Oscars weekend! Which means it's time to drop my top 10 films of 2025, something I only do after seeing every movie nominated in every category (forgive me, I'm ill). This year I saw 108 features released in 2025. These were my faves. If I left off your fave, choose to believe it was #11.
Last Olympics I was so done with figure skating but Alysa Liu has made me fall in love with the sport again 🥹 Read my thoughts over at Slate! slate.com/culture/2026...
Alysa Liu Just Changed Figure Skating Forever
In a sport that can be scary and stressful, she proved it doesn’t have to be that way.
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Ladies short program had thrills and heartbreak and Alysa Liu is now my mental health role model slate.com/culture/2026...
Alysa Liu Is So Mentally Healthy It’s Terrifying
When she says she's skating just to enjoy herself, I actually believe her.
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The pairs free skate was so good and I got to hear the score to Gladiator TWICE! Read my thoughts over at Slate! slate.com/culture/2026...
The Figure Skating Curse at These Olympics Is Finally Over
All thanks to Japan's Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara.
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New piece is live! Pairs short program lifted me out of my post-Malinin blues! slate.com/culture/2026...
I Would Like to Request Funding to Study Pairs Figure Skaters’ Brains
They are American Ninja Warriors on ice.
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New piece up! The unthinkable happened! Nothing is certain! I may never live this down! slate.com/culture/2026...
I’m Still Trying to Process Ilia Malinin’s Olympic Meltdown
The sadness of watching the Quad God fall apart.
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I'm now learning that there's such a thing as "jinxing" something. New piece coming tonight after I wipe all this egg off my face.
Chris Schleicher@cschleicher.bsky.social · 8mo agoslate.com/culture/2026... Decided to be extra bold with my predictions after the short program!
This is the FINAL time I will explain the difference between ice dance and pairs. Ice dancers have wider, U-shaped snouts, while pair skater snouts are more pointed and V-shaped. Pair skaters prefer saltwater habitats, while ice dancers inhabit freshwater marshes and lakes.
Finally worked up the courage to write a piece about ice dance even though I am but a simpled minded pair skater: slate.com/culture/2026...
The Big Upset in Ice Dancing Shows Why the Sport Is So Enticing
The team that triumphed showed what the art of the sport really is.
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slate.com/culture/2026... Decided to be extra bold with my predictions after the short program!
As a Figure Skating Expert, It Is My Responsibility to Tell You That Ilia Malinin is Unbeatable
When the Quad God wins gold, remember I told you so.
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I’m covering figure skating for Slate during the Milan Olympics! Check it out and take a peek inside my brain, which has surely been damaged by Zamboni fumes. slate.com/culture/2026...
The U.S. Figure Skating Team Has a Chance for an All-Time Great Olympics
The U.S. figure skating team has a chance for an all-time great Olympics.
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Need more stories about celebrities who met a fortune teller as a child and were given a haunting prediction that didn’t come true in the slightest.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon is circling back in January; Things fall apart; the inbox cannot hold
Sometimes you enter a space and you can just tell that no one here has seen Morvern Callar.
British people absolutely went off with “Father Christmas.” Like yes, that’s exactly what they would call him.
It’s crazy that I can’t get an Ella McChicken at McDonald’s.
I fear this will cut the box office receipts in half, but I need to let you know that Ella McCay does not do the shoe thing from the poster in the movie. I deliberately did not take a bathroom break because I was scared I would miss the shoe thing and then there was no shoe thing.
