scott topics™️
@scottpb.bsky.social
writer of books • founder of magazines • soon-to-be professor of NYU students • learner of things • listener of tracks • viewer of flicks • tired of everything
Today I learned people pay 80 bucks to take a photo with a celebrity at conventions. I been racking my brain since learning that, trying to think if there’s anyone in the world I’d pay to take a photo with. I simply can’t 🤷🏽♂️ Is there someone or some amount you’d pay?
I’ve decided not to say anything else about the durags and bonnets at Tuskegee. Mostly because I love Black people more than I love debating about us in public and partly because I wore jeans and Timberlands to my Michigan job talk 🫣 🤷🏽♂️
It’s time for a break lol I can’t hear another word about Emily Wilson or the Odyssey or IMAX or Black Panther casting or MCU or Gen X or Gen Z or respectability or durags or bonnets and I find myself scrolling and saying “shut the fuck up” to many running-off-at-the-mouth “content creators” lol
The career criminal who spent 30 years in jail before winning the $167 million Powerball got arrested for allegedly breaking into a home and stealing $12,000 Now that’s a whole fucking vibe lol
I miss the days when I didnt have to hear sooooo many weird and half-assed and unserious and parasocial opinions about the casting…. of an actor…. in a movie. More names and words to add to the “hidden” list, I guess.
so, I been watching old eps of Password on Buzzr Contestant comes on, slim white guy named Eric Garber, from Keystone Heights, FLA. Says he’s spending the summer writing a play with a friend Maybe it’s the weird historian in me but sometimes I google folks on old shows to see where they ended up
hmmm, seems like all these folks pointing out how supposedly “funny” Lindsey Graham was, describing his “world class sense of humor,” is the closest they can get to talking about his queerness. especially the closeted ones.
Can anyone tell me why so many IG reels that come up in my feed have that “view Instagram profile” thing on the page, blocking subtitles and shit, when one could easily click the account’s name to…view the profile? Is there no way to remove that?
rewatching season 1 of House of the Dragon before I watch seasons 2&3 It’s been 4 yrs and I still wonder why no one ever asks Cole why he killed some guy during a royal wedding dinner I’m also remembering that I never quite got a handle on Alicent. I hope she makes more sense this time 🤷🏽♂️
The only Odyssey adaption that I care about is the flop 1976 Yul Brynner/Joan Diener musical, the exquisitely titled Home Sweet Homer #TheaterSky
I’ve never completely understood all the debate between Paul vs John or the love for either of them when Ringo was clearly the cutest one in the band 🤷🏽♂️
Peppa Pig will forever be so diabolically real for this 😂😂
Almost every time I open a video to watch on this app, it doesn’t allow me to click on/pause/fwd/rewind/close it once it starts playing. I have to just close the app and restart it. Does this happen to anyone else or it just maybe my phone?
I wonder how much attention the four other closet cases in the US Senate are giving to the send-off their hypocrite colleague received and I wonder what they’re thinking. Oh yeh, I know: “Whew! At least I got a wife!”
So which Democrat senators *haven’t* prostrated themselves on the plush bed of civility and privilege in honor of that awful closet queen who just died?
Writing about The Gilded Age and A Place in the Sun and I need to corral a list of books and films—from any era or genre—about or significantly featuring characters who are social climbers. Anything come to mind? Thanks.
I am always gonna block any Black folks on here calling a record a “white people song” 🤷🏽♂️
Based on what l’m seeing today, I guess we need to gird ourselves for an outpouring of praise-filled eulogies from Democratic elected officials when that orange lummox in the White House finally shuffles off this mortal coil 🙄😒
Just saw Graham posts from Coons and Warren and Booker and Kim and it feels like these fucking losers are trying hard to one-up each other with praise for that closeted monster and it’s fucking gross.
Do they still make artists like Harry Chapin and Jim Croce and Cat Stevens?
