An absolute legend.

Big Weather doesn't want you to know about the

Perhaps the most transparent thing about FIFA right now is the desperation with which they're attempting damage control.

Film studies job alert apply.interfolio.com/188579?fbcli...

Happy Canada Day to all who celebrate

You've Jammed your last Pearl

Chuck Wendig@chuckwendig.bsky.social · 2mo ago

You’ve Nailed your last Nine Inches

More grist for the book #2 mill variety.com/2026/biz/new...

Michael Caine’s AI-Generated Voice to Narrate ‘The Odyssey’ Audiobook Ahead of Christopher Nolan’s Movie

The AI audio firm is using Caine’s voice to anchor a roughly 13-hour version of “The Odyssey” weeks before Christopher Nolan’s film hits theaters.

variety.com

Please tell me a Knicks championship means we get to launch James Dolan into the sun.

Meanwhile, the kids menu includes a hate crime against Gen X.

RIPper

Anthony Head: Buffy and Ted Lasso actor dies at 72

The British actor, who also appeared in Merlin and Little Britain, died of complications from pneumonia.

bbc.com

I know why mainstream media is interested in Tilly Norwood but the public has basically moved on. The videos went from a million views to very little (the 50k one was when it said it was deactivating on April Fools; the 70k one only went viral because it combined the footage with Demi Moore).

@thrasherxy.bsky.social sent us Schitt's Creek onesies when our kiddo was born so it only seemed right to go straight from Blue Heron Books with Steven's incredible new work The Overseer Class to the nearby Rose Apothecary and Café Tropical. Congratulations, Steven! We're extremely proud of you!

Developing story: The Jolly Green Giants and The Shitty Beatles have withdrawn from Donald Trump's America 250 Celebration

Jason Herbert@herberthistory.bsky.social · 3mo ago

BREAKING: the banjo player from Deliverance has withdrawn from President Trump's America 250 Celebration

RIP Marcia Lucas, whose skill as a film editor and storyteller made a clunky independent film called STAR WARS greater than the sum of its parts. Rightly referred to as "Lucas's secret weapon," Marcia had an uncanny talent to see a film from the perspective of an audience--and won an Oscar for it.

Flo Rida waking up this morning like

Confused John Travolta Meme

ALT: Confused John Travolta Meme

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A real who's who of who's left

We are deeply sorry to learn of the death of anthropologist and poet Renato Rosaldo, author of "The Day of Shelly's Death" and "The Chasers." buff.ly/dX7W4ZH

He-Man "I have the powder!" donut.

The brain worms were so close to getting away.

Rav@rvbdrm.com · 3mo ago

There’s a non-zero chance he ate them.

I commented on the shady world of influencers in politics for @latimes.com this week explaining impose harsh penalties are needed when paid content is not disclosed. “Ultimately, it’s a wild west at the moment if there are no repercussions for not doing it,” I said. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

As influencers rise in politics, some call for tighter regulations on payments

Some campaign finance advocates are concerned that voters could increasingly be influenced by social media posts that they don’t know are sponsored.

latimes.com

Jon Greenaway expertly captures the horror of The Tonight Show's empty niceness under Fallon, which imposes on audiences "a present so forcefully flattened, so aggressively 'fun,' that [the show] has exorcised history entirely..." www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban...

The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon

Under the sterile blue lights of his studio, Fallon laughs endlessly at the same pseudo-jokes, rubs elbows with Trump and Sam Altman, and ushers in the death of culture.

currentaffairs.org

I'm so proud of the tremendous work my Ontario Tech University colleagues Emilia King and Zenia Kish have put into launching our trailblazing Creator MA program. Looking forward to working with our first cohort this fall! news.ontariotechu.ca/archives/202...

Ontario Tech launches new master’s degree for content creators

Ontario Tech University's new Master of Social Media Communication in Online Creators (The Creator MA) is a first-of-its-kind graduate program in Canada designed to professionalize work in the creator...

news.ontariotechu.ca

A very sad WORLD GOTH DAY to all who mournfully celebrate

Don't let the bastards get you down.

Stephen Colbert threw an emotional, absurdist, strangely moving cancellabration. [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/a...

Stephen Colbert’s Last Show: Laughing Well Is the Best Revenge

nytimes.com

The Boys calling on that most famous of storytelling principles in its series finale: Chekhov's ball gag.

With James Bond finally casting, I'm resharing -- now paywall free! -- this piece I wrote last year on whether the character is even relevant to Gen Z audiences. Free for everyone! thefilmmaven.com/james-bond-c...

Bond, Gen Z, and the Fading Movie Star

Or why casting Tom Holland isn't gonna make Bond any better

thefilmmaven.com