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INSIDE OUT should have won Best Picture in 2015. It was not nominated.

🏆Congratulations to POLITICO’s Kelsey Tamborrino & E&E News' Cyril Zaneski & Amy Carlile for being named by Washingtonian 🌸 as three of Washington’s 250 most influential people—outside of the government—who’ll be shaping the policy debates for years to come. bit.ly/2ZQRUPJ

Annual reminder:

“In the Guatemalan highlands, where one is born into the choice between abject poverty and migration, it was a glimpse into the thin line between the lucky and the dead. The mourning was for the dead, but it was also for the choice.” washingtonpost.com/world/interact…

how poorly I do in learned league is actually part of my innate charm

Billy Joel’s The Stranger: banger banger banger banger banger banger banger ok no

I’m officially at the age where a girl who accidentally stumbled into my freshman dorm room drunk and crying is on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list

“In what disorder we lived, how many fragments of ourselves were scattered, as if to live were to explode into splinters.” (The Story of the Lost Child)

“We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were." The greatest. nytimes.com/2021/12/23/boo…

Paul Schrader casually dropping the most romantic scene of the year right in the middle of one of the angriest films he’s ever made. Whatta guy

Thinking about this Andrew Lloyd Webber recollection today. nytimes.com/2020/06/03/art…

Back on my bullshit: blogging about my favorite movies of 2021! shutupanddeal.tumblr.com/post/679915171…

I'm a pretty modest guy, but I will take credit for the headline on today's POLITICO Playbook politico.com/newsletters/pl…

Happy Oscars night. The news everybody’s been waiting for…my personal favorites of 2022! shutupanddeal.tumblr.com/post/711628453…

Keep Calm And Border Collie's

As war engulfed an upscale neighborhood in Sudan's capital, residents desperate to escape had just one option: a battered taxi driven by two penniless students. A tale of two heroes. nytimes.com/2023/05/05/wor…

I’ve never seen Shark Tank, but I couldn’t fall asleep last night because I was too busy laughing at this being a stand-alone paragraph on Barbara Corcoran’s Wikipedia page

Oppenheimer winning at the Oscars tonight is a foregone conclusion. For some real suspense, you’ll have to click to find out which was my favorite movie of 2023: shutupanddeal.tumblr.com/post/744593832…

Maybe not the shot of the decade but an image I think of a lot

.Amanda Seyfried brings out the dulcimer and sings a cover of Joni Mitchell’s “California”! #FallonTonight