Every time I shuffle my liked songs now it plays the same songs in the same order for up to a week at a time :)
Every time I shuffle my liked songs now it plays the same songs in the same order for up to a week at a time :)
if you live in nyc you should come to this next week!!!
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Happy to present my debut for @thebaffler.com... an interview with Muntadhar al-Zaidi, the man who threw both shoes at George W. Bush
thebaffler.com/latest/a-hum...
When Brat Summer took off, Charli xcx didn't sell out and go broad. What her new movie imagines is...what if she did?
Presenting a reading series musing on a timeless staple of digital media: The viral, narcissistic or delusional confessional essay...
Returning to my War on Christmas to humbly offer my own failures and to take inspiration from βLil Timmy Timβ Chalamet: open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...
Yesterday my final piece as an AV Club staff writer went up. Iβve been musing over post-pandemic tv since the beginning of the year and personally found it under discussed at the COVID 5-year mark. Really proud of how it turned outβ€οΈ www.avclub.com/2025-tv-covi...
Emma is such an incredible writer with elite taste & I am so bummed we are not coworkers anymore!!! a huge loss for us at AVC!
Last month, I was laid off from The A.V. Club. Still trying to figure out what comes next after officially becoming a #MediaLayoffVictim, but in the meantime feeling very thankful to have spent 3 years writing for a publication I grew up reading and loving <3
Fleshed out this argumentβabout arrested development culture and Christmasβin a new essay, which you can read here: open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...
Iβm so very sad that I donβt get to work with MK & I encourage everyone to read her beautiful writing!!! Itβs a stark reminder of what The A.V. Club is losing out on:
Earlier this month, I got laid off from The A.V. Club after 3.5 years. It changed my life and Iβm going to miss it so much. Donβt know whatβs coming next but I do feel more committed to the work than ever. I wrote about it on Substack if you care to check it out β€οΈ
open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...
Just remembered that how you spend your days is how you spend your life
my phone broke over the weekend and I can't get into a single account on my laptop because everything now requires I verify with an SMS code... the apps have become too secure... the cure is worse than the disease...
rest in piss
I took half a semester of macroeconomics in college
The reason everything seems like a βrecession indicatorβ is because weβre in a recession. If not depression. Btw
So good
Whereβs a deus ex machina when you need one!!!
There's nothing chaotic about the race! The runaway winner of the Democratic primary has a comfortable ongoing lead in the polls! The only chaotic element is the mind-traffic of the small circle of self-appointed civic elites melting down over their refusal to accept a straightforward situation.
Here's the first round of what I've been working on for the past few months: A 32-combatant tournament bracket to determine the greatest action franchise ever made. There's also a reader poll if you want to correct our choices www.avclub.com/best-action-...
Iβm in Cabo
Get ready for a weeklong slugfest at The A.V. Club: Starting Monday, September 1, the biggest action film franchises will be battling it out in our bracket. You can have your say in the reader poll.
I think planned obsolescence is really wack!!!
The New York Times recently reported that the primary audience of The Summer I Turned Pretty is 25- to 54-year-old women⦠three of us weighed in on what makes the YA love triangle so irresistible! Cc: @emmakeates.bsky.social & @salonig.bsky.social
www.avclub.com/the-summer-i...
We love jb pritzker
Vitamin water needs to step into its queendom and meet the zero sugar electrolyte moment
this AJLT series finale roundtable with @salonig.bsky.social @drewupdates.bsky.social and other AV Club staff really got me #thinking
A horrible show that I would have gladly watched 12 seasons of <3