how it feels watching alysa liu win gold after knowing her for two weeks

It says something about the visual impact of the movie Prisoners that any time it rains while snow is on the ground I find myself thinking of it.

So weird that I also have a full time job, a child, multiple pets, a part time job running a business, and a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage and yet I am able to put aside sometime to read, too. Am I a superhero or something?

I can’t even count how many times my jaw actually dropped during this routine.

It’s funny how we are constantly having the “should writers have to read?” discourse, when the question should be “why are you even writing stories if you don’t like them?”What made you want to create something you’ve never enjoyed?

I fear we as a country forget that for a time there was a TV show that was basically a House M.D. riff where Tim Roth plays a brilliant but off-kilter human lie detector who solves crimes, taking “everybody lies” to a new level.

It was just a hockey game.

Fun fact: While filming The Prestige (2006) Christian Bale would dress up like a bat at night and beat up poor people. Christopher Nolan was so inspired that he created the character Batman and cast Bale in the role.

every time another actor’s name enters the HEAT 2 discussion

Ain't gonna lie seeing glitter graphics like this in 2026 is like seeing a cave painting…lost art form 💕

Will never not rankle when people discuss this situation as if the IDF just decided to attack Gaza one autumn day out of the blue for no reason.

"Show, don't tell," is advice that knocked the breath out of American literature. It's good advice against a specific sort of literary sin where the author turns fiction into an essay, but it's been taken to the extreme that any hints of interiority or direct description of

Deal isn’t even done and we’re already getting good news.

This is incredible.

"Can we get rid of this ayatollah T-shirt? Khomeini died years ago." "But, Marge, it works on any ayatollah-- Ayatollah Nakhbadeh, Ayatollah Zahedi. As we speak, Ayatollah Razmara and his cadre of fanatics are consolidating their power." "I don't care who's consolidating

Let’s see who grieves for that garbage.

M Street and Wisconsin in Georgetown taken over by a large crowd of celebrating Iranians, chanting USA USA … not what I was expecting during my run today.

Two Ayatollahs: Dead Salman Rushdie: Alive.