Love her (even when I don't love her movies). Glad she survived the backlash. Used to read her blog when she was a poor, not-famous woman being funny on the internet. It was so obvious she was going to get herself in trouble once she became a public figure, because she was just a normal, fucked-up person like…

A few years ago I bought Gilmour's memoir, The Film Club, for my father after hearing about it somewhere in the N(PR)ewYork(er)Times-verse. Later I was offended when my pop said he hadn't liked the book. "Try reading it yourself," dad suggested. So I did. What an awful slog. Gilmour is a pompous, self-congratulatory…

This and the prior piece about UA have had me in a special orange-alert state of ineffectual anger-surprise. So today I sent a Facebook message (below) to just about the only student who's named in the original Crimson White article, Melanie Gotz. I tried to purge it of anything that could be or feel creepy (I'm male…

How many maws does death have?

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It is really proofreader time. Along with 360, Good Hates, stands out in bas relief, etc., I think you mean the nadir of the parabola, not the apex. Although it's a very strained metaphor in any case. And do you mean the "omnipotent cosmic rulER of all things"? (as opposed to "ruling"). Nick Denton: you're not running…

This was so funny (despite deeply implicating me and my perfect monster child - fuck you, TEM, you hateful judgmental genius I love you just wait and see your child will publicly shame you in ways you cannot yet conceptualize) that I wanted to read all of Tracie Egan Morrissey's articles in one giant procrastinatory…