Janet Maslin
@janetmaslin.bsky.social
Board President, Jacob Burns Film Center. Longtime NYT critic.
Cancellation Week just got easier! Bye, Vox! Bye, NY Magazine.
If these guys had had parents who loved them we’d be living in a different world.
Strike Force Five leaves in triumph. And that’s it for Paramount plus.
Cancellation week begins now. No more fusty 30 year old subscriptions to MSM outlets and publications I no longer trust. I’ll sub them out for smaller, harder-working news orgs that are that’s more reliable and easier to trust. Bye, Bari. When Colbert goes so do I.
Do they have any idea what superstars Colbert and maybe Kimmel will become if/when they leave their respective networks? No? Well, they’re about to find out.
90% of what’s on here comes from pitchers, influencers, attention-seekers and plagiarists. Just give us all a break and put your less urgent thoughts in a notebook. And keep them for yourself. That world of self-promotion will be gone soon anyway.
Anybody remember how Sergei Brin arrived here as a refugee and was sponsored by charitable groups until he became a self-supporting billionaire who chose not pay taxes? Because i sure do. www.forbes.com/profile/serg...
Sergey Brin
Sergey Brin is #3 on Forbes' 2026 Billionaires list. Read more about Sergey Brin, their experience, their asset summary, and more here.
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Here’s my Desert Island disc—the video, not the records. For decades you had to comb YouTube to find barely watchable video of this. Releasing it in 2021 changed everything for those who’d seen the shows but couldn’t convey the sheer ecstasy of them. I hear Bruce had a very smart manager.
Christophe Chartreux@libreavanttout.bsky.social · 7mo agoBruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Sherry Darling (The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts) youtu.be/eFE78WbrZjc?...
Easter book: “The Easter Parade” by Richard Yates Easter decor: blaze in fireplace on a rainy day. Easter bonnet: forget it. Easter foliage: forsythia, Cornell azaleas, many flowering trees about to bloom. Easter mood: get him out before he does more irreparable damage. NOW.
As these sites become less enjoyable that problem may solve itself.
evacide@evacide.bsky.social · 6mo agoPeople will react to news of major security vulns with "The only way to stay secure is to live as a hermit and throw your devices into the sea" and then keep chattering on the internet in a deeply unhermitlike manner while not throwing their devices into the sea.
Goodbye to Chip Taylor, best known for writing “Wild Thing” and being Jon Voight’s brother. He also wrote this very funny song you may not know. I’m pretty sure it was prompted by a Kris Kristofferson interview. youtu.be/3Nuj4gG87ks
I Read It in Rolling Stone
YouTube video by Chip Taylor - Topic
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When the world is hemorrhaging money, conspicuous displays of loot hit differently. Sure, audiences love all that borrowed bling. I’m glad you felt special and looked good. But think about the message you’re sending.
Being the vainest party guy and biggest spendthrift in government may not be the best idea right now. That’s somebody else’s job.
Eric Anderson sings his "Thirsty Boots" at the Phil Ochs Memorial Concert in 1976. As Eric says, this is "very heavy." youtube.com/watch?v=YvQt...
Eric Andersen - Thirsty Boots (Live at the Phil Ochs Memorial Concert, 1976)
YouTube video by Boot Leg
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Please give us 10 days’ worth of news about the weather. We’ll like it. Promise.
The National Society of Film Critics has an award for the best film awaiting U.S. distribution. If you’re in a film-related voting group, consider doing this. And congratulations to Lucrecia Martel, who just won it for her documentary “Nuestra Terra.” It will be called “Landmarks” here.
Stay on these sites and you’ll have the attention span of a mayfly. Try to read, walk, visit. Do anything else.
Two films I greatly admired, David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds and Ron Howard’s Eden, have eligibility problems when it comes to 2025. Both opened commercially in the U.S. in 2025 but were screened elsewhere last year. As the awards game goes increasingly global, it’s too easy for this to happen.
Awards season is only a week old and it’s already exhausting. The Oscars are nearly three months away.
Good name for that big honking trophy.
Patrick Sullivan@atlsoccerpast.bsky.social · 9mo agoZombies Clawing for the Last Meatball