Paul can play her oblivious husband, and Zouks can be the crazy magical relative who’s the cause of every 22-minute problem JDR has to solve. Get Jessica St. Claire in there, too, as a wacky neighbor. Maybe she can be married to Rob Huebel. Just cast the whole thing with HDTGM all-stars.

So what do you think happened, June?

If anyone hasn’t seen it, I highly recommend Death Becomes Her. Not only is it an absolutely hilarious movie with groundbreaking effects that still mostly hold up well, with Willis killing it in an against-type role, but after his condition was revealed, the movie’s ending now takes on an incredibly moving new meaning…

Listen, if anyone can be trusted to deliver a script about media pandering, it’s South Park, the ancient franchise that’s been pandering nonstop to mediocre edgy white dudebros for a quarter century.

She worked overtime not to use a pronoun in her statement....

Yeah, if domestic violence is the problem, that wouldn’t be the best look.

Create a Thunderdome style dueling arena way out in the Nevada desert. Give free tickets to each person’s biggest supporters on social media. Opening bell of the fight drop an asteroid on the whole site.

“I feel like I was very quick to distance myself from him when I started making more serious films. But the reality is that, like, he’s the reason I have everything I have.”

“you know we probably could have done better than Ezra”

The guy has to say this. He wants people to come and see the film. Then whether it makes money or not he will tell the execs “you know we probably could have done better than Ezra” and that is how Muschietti will try and save future jobs directing for Warner Bros.

So either:

I...don’t understand how you can read anything about that’s come out about Marilyn Manson and come away thinking ERW is the villain lol.

All of our work is ebb and flow. The successes pay for the time when things aren’t going well. Sometimes they go well and sometimes they don’t, but you can live off of the time that you wrote something that had a lot of residual [fees paid out]. It’s always been a tenuous career. But if you take away most of the…

the AMPTP’s refusal to meet the Guild’s demand has more to do with maintaining consolidated power and high salaries for those at the top of the heap than actually being financially efficient.

A reminder that a nasty side effect of the last writer’s strike was the horrible stain on society that is Reality TV.

A great example for journalism students about why/how the context of an interview matters. Sometimes all you can do is a phone interview, and it is what it is. But you risk missing a lot. Would Tharpe have caught on that Mulaney was high if the interview were in person? I think it’s likely. And the interview also…

I would appreciate a deep dive on motion smoothing. History/background, etc. Because for something so universally reviled, it was still something that someone deliberately invented and (likely) served a purpose at one time.

I hate all of this so much.  

Writers moved from the GMG union to the NewsGuild union. 

Sounds like a positive opportunity going forward. I’d like to see a second golden age for Lifehacker.