How horrifying.

If true, a reminder that Putin orders assassinations with roughly the same regularity that our president orders FEMA relief.

“I thought my mother was an only child. I was wrong.”

Jennifer Senior is a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for her article about her aunt, Adele, who was institutionalized as a toddler because of an intellectual disability. Senior explores the life she could have lived:…

Never in my wildest dreams. I’m so honoured to have won this year’s Pulitzer Prize in Feature Reporting, for an article I wrote in The New York Times NYT Magazine.

👀

Just saw “The Fall Guy” with my 16-year-old. I’ll say just two things about it:

1. It’s insanely fun
and
2. It’s A CRIME that stuntmen and -women don’t get their own Oscar category.

#TheFallGuy

Sam turns three today and is excited to legally drink

Just learned that Mr. Met’s starting salary is $67K.

One the one hand: Cool bit of trivia.
On the other: Strikes me as criminally low.

.@Politico for the win

Saw that Boy George is trending because he's planning a concert w Squeeze this summer (YESSS).

This made me watch the original vid of 'The Crying Game.'

I then realized it's one of those paradoxical examples of a melancholy song bringing SO much joy.

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An organization, PEN America⁩, devoted to protecting the expressive rights of writers & artists doesn’t need to take a stand on issues like the wars in Gaza or Sudan, or on climate change, or on a host of issues. The writers themselves can do that. theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

LBJ and puppies:

I totally love that this guy is living his best life.

Watching Darrell Hammond field even the most insipid questions about what it was like to once host the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, I’m struck by how great comedians are, always, when they talk about what it’s like to work different kinds of rooms.

Gefilte fish is delicious. Fight me.

Happy birthday to Carol Burnett, the warmest of comic performers, who exudes good will even in sharpest satiric mode. Her parodies of classic Hollywood movies honed both my sense of humor and nascent critical sensibility. And nobody ever wore a set of curtains with more elan.

This went viral a few days ago, but I missed it, so I'm posting it for those who need it now—and every day.