Gonna maintain this cursed account for voyeuristic purposes but will no longer post here— I should have ditched a long time ago, but have never been known for my self-control. You can find me on Bluesky (which seems to be popping!), Threads and Instagram, under the same name.

I had a blast pulling an all-nighter with Jesse Eisenberg and Meredith Scardino while they magically speed-wrote a musical:

My essay about the brilliant, pioneering & shockingly forgotten showrunner-pioneer Gertrude Berg, who invented the family sitcom (pre-Lucy!), then got eaten by the blacklist in the 1950s — a story with disturbing modern parallels .

RT @NewYorker: In 1951, Gertrude Berg, the creator behind “The Goldbergs,” won an Emmy and was poised to become one of TV’s greatest lumina….

RT @NewYorker: @JenLouiseWilson @EyalPress .@emilynussbaum remembers Gertrude Berg, the first “showrunner” of any gender and a life-style i….

The main thing I do think is that institutions, newspapers & politicians should 100% not only have Twitter accounts: they should double-post on ALL the other places, otherwise they’re cementing this site’s twisted monopoly over information. And we all know how well that’s gone!.

I read Threads, too; I like Insta; I read Reddit. Clive loves Mastodon. I genuinely enjoy social media, but life got better when I wasn’t hanging out in a creepy sewer run by a malevolent dork. Just posting this bc in case you’re thinking of leaving, you can, there are options.

I still keep my account here but I don’t post. I’m a regular on Bluesky, which I’m seriously digging— I don’t find it humorless & while it can be an echo chamber, so is this. Bsky is solid for both news & cultural conversation & full of great posters who aren’t here anymore.

I actually *do* understand why people are still here – I stayed for a long time, I like contact with people I disagree with, I’m a rubbernecker who enjoys a good trashfire. But after Musk became part of the government, I left, because it felt unjustifiable! And I’m glad I did….

“Last Wednesday, as I watched Grok bring up white genocide in response to an anodyne query about the Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Max Scherzer’s career earnings, I couldn’t shake the question: Why are people still using this website?”

Warning: this Mari Heller profile contains two (2) bad dreams, a sky that turns orange, methods for directing cute toddlers, Amy Adams, Maria Bamford, a Weird Al deep cut, marital strife related to SNL & a Sharon Olds poem containing the word colostrum.

RT @NewYorker: @samanth_s @jengonnerman .@emilynussbaum profiles the director Marielle Heller ahead of the release of her new film, “Nightb….

My profile of the sharp, insightful director Marielle Heller (Diary of a Teenage Girl, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood), whose newest movie Nightbitch comes out in December:

RT @michikokakutani: “Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crack….

RT @KirkusReviews: The 2025 #ALA_Carnegie Medals for Excellence shortlist has been revealed, including works by Percival Everett, Kaveh Akb….

RT @JuddWinick: Pedro Zamora died 30 years ago today. I’ve been thinking about this post for awhile, and I had hoped/assumed it would be a….

RT @MPLSKerrBear: People can analyze, hypothesize, blame Dems till they are blue in the face. None of it matters. This is the game right….

Just watched The Apprentice, which did a solid job explaining how a vapid nepo-baby brine shrimp turned into a sociopathic sea monkey in the brackish waters of 70s/80s Manhattan. Strong was excellent as Roy Cohn. Sure hope nothing like that happens in real life.

RT @annkpowers: So sad. Please read her writing. She brought so much power, vulnerability, courage and love to the literary world. One of t….

RT @tv_scholar: FX on Hulu's SAY NOTHING is phenomenal, one of the best shows you'll watch this year. My thoughts for my monthly "Appointme….