Emily St. James

Teenagers are good!!

In the 3-5-year-old soccer class, the one 5-year-old is Lionel Messi.

The Olivia Rodrigo cover of "The Book of Love" is really beautiful, and I'm not just saying that because her parents are only a little older than me, which means her influences draw widely from music I thought was cool when I was her age.

Tried to play RATGAG in my word search and was informed it is not, in fact, a word, which doesn't make sense because you'd think with all the gagging of rats we do, it would have evolved from there.

I will be solely rooting for Spheeris the entire month ON THE CONDITION that the DECLINE films belong on the main feed

I really wish they would, though I wouldn't object to, like, waiting 30 years to do so.

It also predates the preferential ballot! But, yes, that race is otherwise the one I point to, right down to how the then upstart PTA is now the older, overdue legend who stands to benefit from that narrative (where the Coens did in '07).

Yes! I really thought WB would clearly favor one over the other, too, which would have bred resentment. But they seem to have just run them about as equally as possible.

It's also been nice to have a Best Picture race where the top two contenders are very good movies, whose creators clearly like each other's work. There's been minimal mud slung.

"The Marty Supreme ballots are going to decide this." I say while bringing up maps of swing counties in Arizona and Wisconsin.

I _think_ more people who have another movie at number one will have Sinners at two or three, and it will make up ground rapidly in that way, whereas the OBAA voters will be more immediately top heavy. You _probably_ want to be the latter in a race between two choices, but I could be wrong!

(Note for pedants: OBAA won the PGA, the only precursor to use a preferential ballot and, thus, one of the better predictors, though it has been wrong in years where the race is really tight and changes day to day.)

We haven't had a Best Picture race quite like this year's in the preferential ballot era, and I've been thinking about how the various voting rounds might affect the ultimate winner. My guess is if the voting goes several rounds, Sinners wins, and if it goes two or three rounds, OBAA wins.

Spheeris is who I voted for because how could you not??? but I hope they keep putting Dutch Verhoeven on the bracket year after year because I find it amusing.

This movie is better than I remembered, but also, let's talk evangelical Christianity and modern computer animation, why not?

Despite having the same last name, David Byrne and Rose Byrne are not father and daughter, as you might assume. They are, instead, best friends.

Trans Porn Is Booming. Trans Rights Are Fading We asked trans adult creators about the complicated link between desire and politics, as trans porn is booming while rights fade.

Interesting interview in Playboy with transgender adult content creators. People often point to Pornhub stats showing trans content is more popular than ever as a contradiction, as if political and sexual objectification were ever mutually exclusive

Abigail WOULD get written out of the show for running afoul of Joss Whedon......

People think Erica is the authorial self-insert, but it's actually Known Cool Adult with Good Politics Helen.

I'm so relieved that when _my_ kid's a teen or twentysomething, she's going to be, like, "Thank GOD my mom's one of the cool ones!"

One of my most firmly held beliefs is that if they just got to know me, most teens and twentysomethings would think I was pretty cool!!!

Yeah, that's why the thing I'm proposing won't happen. The shows that actually try this tend to flop.

The boys are in love!!

DRAMATIC MUSIC swells majestically, as the door slides open to reveal...

HOLY SHIT, it's PROFESSOR MAXIMILIAN ARTURO. He's HERE. He's BACK. But just in case our younger audience doesn't know that yet...

ARTURO
Hello, it's me. I'm Sliders.

I say this, and also, Hollywood should let me reboot Sliders.

I liked that approach, and I thought it was a pretty fun show.

Even setting aside class -- which I agree is a more interesting arena for story -- you could have done a "culture clash" type story around Freddie's generation's more progressive attitudes toward a host of issues, which would drive Frasier nuts, etc., but ONLY if the pov character is Freddie!

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It was what season 9 wanted to be for sure, but not enough time had passed for the younger generation to truly age into the older one, so it ended up in a weird halfway space.

The problem with nostalgia is by not releasing its grip on the past, it warps the past beyond recognition. Which can be fun in small doses but creates a culture of death worship if you overindulge.