let's all say our favorite dan radcliffe stories. mine is that he worked as a real fact-checker at the new yorker to prepare for his role in "the lifespan of a fact" and would just casually call places, not say who he was, and confirm teeny tiny details of menus & stuff
my favorite Daniel Radcliffe story is that he once went on a Bachelor recap podcast, did not mention his acting career even once, and gave the incisive analysis of the episode only a truly studied fan could
Seema telling Carrie she can't spend an entire summer with mushy coupled-up friends for her own sanity is perhaps the most relatable thing
#AJLT
has ever, EVER shown
I think this (correct) take also explains why the Gen Z Gossip Girl never hit— everyone was way too moral. the whole point of the original is that everybody was a monster and that’s why it was FUN
the last time i tried to say why a gen z girls wouldnt work it started a small civil war, but i will use this very smart thread to make this point: Girls knew its characters were the worst, racist, meant to be made fun of and i think gen z would want a sincerity Girls lacked
oh NO! a museum that I know for a fact charges tens of thousands for private events has a little spray paint on the outside and a pane of broken glass after hosting a transphobic hate group solely for profit and despite outcry?! HOW SHALL WE AS A CITY EVER RECOVER?!?!?!?
@wulverzwitz
in the new yorker piece he calls spots and deadass goes "hi, this is dan with the new yorker" but STILL, wouldn't you recognize his voice!
I found this to be a gorgeously written & beautifully considered review of the Tortured Poets Department by
@CraigSJ
, who really dives into the optics Taylor likely wants to present vs. the optics she actually does present!
if the tie-dye "I am kenough" sweatshirt is not on sale within the next few days and available for me, personally, to buy with my money, then what was all of this even for
@lindaholmes
@svershbow
when I tell Lux “time for bed!” she jumps onto my bed and makes a little nest for herself under the covers and it’s my favorite thing in the world.
@fifimcfae
fae I was trying to be nice but like… YEAH… congrats I GUESS erin 🫠 glad you locked down a rare good man who’s also charming and cute as hell
this piece by
@jpbrammer
has made me feel a tiny bit less horrible about being single during COVID which, honestly, is a pretty enormous step these days
@emilynussbaum
Daniel stealing Bridget’s line about Kafka’s Motorbike being “positively Vonnegut-esque” - which is then repeated by Salman Rushdie - might be my favorite tiny moment of that movie.
I just pressed play on Emily in Paris Season 4 because I hate myself. can't wait to see how not a single one of these bozos ever faces a single consequence for everything ever bc this show does not understand what conflict is!
@PhillyPartTwo
@vulture
this is frankly an annoying thing to say! he was clearly overwhelmed and not expecting to win! sorry that he didn't pass your smell test!
well I watched
#FireIslandMovie
and fully cried and it’s PERFECT and it reminded me that I still know all the words to “Sometimes” by Britney Spears. also, Bowen Yang should win an Oscar for this movie.
@bigchaunc64
@emilynussbaum
yes!! there’s so many good things happening in this movie that nobody mentions how sweet and lovely Chris Cooper is; the scene where he quietly listens to Beth play music is one for the ages.
I am going to say this on main and I don’t care: it’s so fucked up that there’s no concrete pain management for IUD procedures beyond “take some Tylenol.”
Aaron Sorkin no longer believes the Democratic Party should select Republican Senator Mitt Romney as its candidate in the 2024 presidential race: “I take it all back. [Kamala] Harris for America!”
@ntaddei
@TomHoefWrites
it feels so clear that he picks roles because he just vibes with them and is always trying to push himself further - which leads to delightful shit like his dance sequence in Miracle Workers or a farting corpse movie
I’m not saying Scheana’s defense that she can’t form a fist because of her nails isn’t true. I’m just saying it’s the funniest fucking defense I’ve ever heard in my life.
#pumprules
the NYT loves to compare people being mildly inconvenienced to people whose tents are being firebombed in the middle of the fucking night. jeeeesus christ
fun fact: I have Charles Barkley's autograph because when I was born he happened to be at Pennsylvania Hospital and wanted to give an autograph to the youngest baby. I was said youngest baby
@offbeatorbit
I’m 33 and have been a serial monogamist throughout my limited dating years— and now I’ve been fully single for almost a year and have absolutely no idea what I’m doing. it’s hard. I feel you.
in my FIRST EVER piece for
@IndieWire
, I do a deep dive on whether or not the HIMYM finale still sucks! it does, actually!!!!!!!! thanks to
@ErinStrecker
for this opportunity!
this entire tragedy is so gutting and was so avoidable if drivers weren’t such absolute pieces of shit. philadelphia doesn’t do nearly enough to protect cyclists and pedestrians.
The cyclist struck and killed while riding near Rittenhouse Square last night has been identified by family as Barbara Friedes, a doctor at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
@TimHerrera
it’s so baffling to me that anyone needs a wedding right now! if you’re worried about not wanting to get married still in like two years....... you should not! be getting! married! in! the first place!!!!!
while we're all talking about Colleen Hoover's weird prose and bizarre details btw may I offer up this passage that lodged itself in my frontal lobe the second I read it
My friend and I once tried to read It Ends With Us together and it’s very bad in a lot of ways. For example, why does Colleen Hoover keep mentioning marine-grade polymer? It comes up so many times. It’s so funny. Why is she doing this
in the midseason premiere of EMILY IN PARIS, Emily leaves her suitcase 10 feet away from her in the middle of Paris, has a lengthy conversation with her ex, cries, and stares at the snowy sky. during this entire thing, nobody steals the suitcase. GIVE. ME. A FUCKING. BREAK
I am not in any way pretending that there aren't horrible, awful things going on all over the world right now, but jesus christ... the saltiness over someone who provided joy to a lot of people being named Person of the Year is very very sour to me.
hey guess what I got to write a SECOND piece for
@IndieWire
! (thank you again,
@ErinStrecker
!) if you haven't watched You're the Worst, now's the time
I am so so so thrilled to say that my first
@vulture
byline is on a piece discussing the weirdest element of It Ends With Us; thank you to
@MelissaHLeon
for her guidance and impeccable edits!
Lux is very high, home, and being a diva about soft food. thank you guys for your good thoughts. she’s got a two week recovery ahead but should be okay.
today in new york a guy overheard me make a comment to my friend and he turned around and said “that was really bitchy, but really good.” I have leveled up to my final form
you can fuck off for SEVERAL reasons. chief among them: Tyler Boebert is a legal adult and I guarantee he felt like he could get away with this shit, and you supporting bombing *actual* little kids in Gaza. you're never, ever, ever getting my vote again.
This is a family in crisis and the recreational cruelty I see on social media needs to be out of bounds.
I know the impact this has on children. I'm calling for restraint because cruelty has substantial collateral damage.
We can't ever forget that they didn't sign up for this.
I know someone who was told that she was “very shy and weird and mostly talked to the adults” and the kids didn’t like her and I was like wow. I have exactly one thing in common with taylor swift
my brother’s coworker went to school with her and they confirmed everyone just thought she was a weirdo
so like i completely get why it was so important to her to take over the world
just want to say that the number of women using the men’s bathroom at the
#PhillyTSTheErasTour
on Saturday (and probably the other nights) was a beyond solid argument for gender neutral bathrooms in that everyone peacefully coexisted as we peed between Phoebe and Taylor