I'm staying on this sinking ship til the bitter end, but if you wanna keep up with me in the beyond, I'm officially setting up shop at beginning Friday, December 2nd 💌
I took a vacation day yesterday and ate a very good meal and saw a very sweet movie and walked around outside very slowly for a very long time in the sunshine while wearing a great outfit (that five people stopped me to comment on!) and it really did a lot for my brain.
I'm still stuck on
@bonappetit
paying Sohla $50,000 salary in New York City, as talented and experienced as she is.
She turned carbonara into a dessert.
I've watched a few Denzel, Julia Roberts, and Tom Cruise films somewhat recently, and it's got me thinking a LOT about who and what a real movie star is. I don't get that real movie star feeling (yet) from too many people under 40, but Keke Palmer is really it to me.
im not arguing that arts institutions like the Guggenheim are beacons of artistic or moral purity but something about seeing an ad projected onto a museum feels kinda ghoulish
I cannot possibly understand how this man is still standing, still able to speak after the loss he experienced, is still experiencing. A loss he may not even get the basic respect of processing in real time.
Less than 24 hrs after
#Israeli
strikes killed his wife, son Mahmoud (16), daughter Sham (7) & grandchild Adam (18m), the voice of
#Gaza
,
@WaelDahdouh
is back in front of the camera to report the ongoing Israeli offensive on the besieged enclave.
This is his response to them.
I watched the Brooke Shields doc last night and Drew unearthed stuff in this convo that the doc didn't. Yew, Drew was also a child star, but she locks in like this with all of her guests. It's a very challenging thing to accomplish as an interviewer, and pretty stunning to watch!
The most perplexing piece of
#AndJustLikeThat
critique I've seen that Carrie shouldn't be a part-time podcaster with a boss, that she should have a GOOP-like lifestyle brand... y'all Carrie was many things, but she was not a rise-and-grinder my girl liked to CHILL
My heart is absolutely broken for Kelis and her family. 37 is so young. She has been through so much, and they seemed to be genuinely, deeply in love. I really hope she finds the peace she so deserves.
I had two appointments outside my home yesterday, one at 930 and one at 3, in different locations, with meetings at home in between and I have never felt more physically broken down. I used to leave home EVERY! DAY!
Shiv’s costuming is perfect for two reasons: 1) It communicates just how unsure she is of herself. She sees focusing on her appearance as frivolous (def a response to her mother!)… but she also probably doesn’t even know what she likes, so she always looks a little wrong.
I am not surprised by TS popularity but as someone who was raised on Madonna, Jewel, Sinead, Celine, Gwen etc as the main white pop girls I do see her main pop girlie status as… interesting.
Ellen Pompeo says she & Denzel Washington fought when he directed an episode of
#GreysAnatomy
:
“He was like, 'I'm the director. Don't tell [the actors] what to do.' I said, 'Listen, motherf‑‑‑er, this is my show. This is my set. Who are you telling?.'”
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I have BLACKBIIRD thoughts I'm not gonna get fully into on here but I will say that I wish Brittney, Reyna, Tiera, and Tanner had been featured more, at least long enough for us to get to know their voices and style individually
When I was 26-27 I kept spare clothes, shoes, and travel toiletries at my work desk for mornings after I stayed out too late and had to crash at a friend's or date's home. I was outside-outside. THOSE WERE THE DAYS.
It’s interesting to see younger hive confront the fact that Kelis’s money, life, and legacy are not dependent on remaining silent in the face of Pharrell or Beyoncé.
I liked Kim's outfit lol
She is one of our most impactful cultural exports as a nation, and the natural culmination of all of our specifically American isms. She didn't need to dress up, or even be seen, her very presence is on theme.
Vanessa Hudgens tells Kelly Clarkson she has 'the ability' to talk to ghosts:
“I’ve accepted the fact that I see things & I hear things. The unknown is scary. But I recently was like, ‘No, this is a gift & something that I have the ability to do, so I’m going to lean into it.’”
I should really be above such pettiness, but yesterday I found myself chuckling, holding a copy of the Times Arts section with my face on it, remembering the ex-boyfriend who always said I wasn't funny. Y'all be easy!
What is the word for being a Black journalist and having a pitch rejected for being “unimportant” or “too niche” and then watching millions of people fall in love with said story a little later, once the same topic is covered by a major print outlet or turned into a documentary?
im not scandalized by h*bermans alleged cheating and being terrible to women. i *am* interested in the way his therapy-speak delivery perhaps provided cover for sinister behavior, and how that feels like an increasingly common communication pattern for men, esp young men.
One more thing: when Eric says “infinitely hard”, it’s impossible to explain just how dark that time was. Their pushback thickened the air.
I’m eternally grateful to Eric and the rest of the organizing committee for pushing and fighting so faithfully on behalf of all of us.
That time was INFINITELY hard for me. There’s more but this is already long. I don’t know what happens next. I’m annoyed that I have to talk about this. There are some producers at RA whose work I cherish. I’m not asking you to stop listening to their show.
Like yes, she is gorgeous, talented, hilarious, warm, engaging... but she also possesses that mix of charm, authenticity, and AUTHORITY that is just so rare.
well yeah the options presented are pay my own bills or pay my own bills while submitting to a hobgoblin who will almost certainly call me a bitch lololololol
@BeeBabs
They’re a scammer couple with a business called A Sprinkle of Jesus. Her content is about serving her husband, but she’s got this unhinged alpha energy… he disappears in her shadow. Every time the feds close in on them, she gets pregnant… Tyler Perry is shaking
Zendaya has yet to really have her proper film debut, but her celebrity and on-screen presence SCREAMS authority. Julia Roberts in Notting Hill really reminded me of Zendaya, I'm not taking questions at this time.
if I was JLo level famous/ rich i would not even entertain a question about-- or an apology for!-- what a newly famous young star had said about me on a[n actually very good!!!!] podcast before they were famous lol. like lets be serious here!
Here y’all go about how much you *hate* the time between Christmas and New Year’s, when work is slow or on pause, holiday food is abundant, we watch a lot of movies, and the days start to blur. I will never understand hating any of that, but go off !
While we're on the topic of podcast ownership, the
#FreeAnotherRound
conversation makes me think of this fun fact:
@eeddings
and I own not one single percent of The Nod podcast or brand. Spotify does!
Let’s do a thread! 👇🏾
I'm hesitant to engage "where is the album" Rihanna discourse because on one hand, I'd love new music, but on the other, I would also love to indefinitely pause the most tiring aspects of my career while still being pretty, rich, and beloved by all
I’m one to check out unaffordable-to-me brands in person, to examine the fabric/ stitching for my own knowledge. I recently thrifted a 90s Jones New York silk blouse — a nice but accessible department store brand — and it felt as weighty and rich as a blouse from The Row.
I wrote about why it's so hard to buy a good sweater these days. What's currently available in stores really is much worse than what you could find a few decades ago.
I know, I *know* that fault for America’s COVID disaster lay with its leaders and their inhumane and disorganized response. I know this intellectually.
But I am missing my parents this morning, and I keep seeing people on tropical vacations, and it reads as so selfish to me.
so ive been watching Frasier for the first time and i hope David Hyde Pierce is somewhere living in luxury because baybee he was the linchpin of that show
I feel like we need to put a restriction on the term "mistress"-- it gets thrown around too much. Mistresses used to get like palatial homes and floor length furs, jewelry, expensive trips etc. Like Tri$tan Thompson doesn't have "mistresses"
@BeeBabs
Yesssss my favorite Christian/ tax preparation/ hair business scammer!!!!! If she wasn’t already being investigated, I’d want her to have a reality show. Her relationship with her husband is so intriguing.
The authority part is what I think today's star-hopefuls are missing. The movie star always accepts their magnetism as a given (this is true even of someone like Keanu Reeves, who exudes modesty).
I've been getting into a good groove lately with freelancing, where I am working steadily, but not burnt out. I feel valued, respected, challenged, and stimulated. I am genuinely enjoying everything I'm working on and everyone I'm working with right now. I'm really grateful.
A finer point I want to hit on as this thread is resurrected is that some of the people working on the Reply All Bon Appetit series (people with both soft and hard power) chose to be silent or complicit as their POC and pro-union Gimlet colleagues struggled beside them every day.
Like it’s hard to explain growing up on MADONNA, coming of age during The Fame Monster, and then seeing mainstream culture choose TS as the next supreme gives one whiplash!
I ultimately had a beautiful day, but the first few hours, it was hard to shake the guilt of taking time for myself. I also noticed, when I was away from the constant cycle of meetings and emails and scheduling, just how hard I am on myself. I do not talk to myself nicely!
one of the strangest things that has popped up since I've started at NPR is listeners feeling comfortable reaching out to me to correct my grammar. It's something that had never once happened before in my previous 8 years of hosting.
I know there's way more important stuff going on, but I have really been Feeling A Way about the pandemic bringing an unceremonious end to my young life
Other than the very fair critique of the Uncle Johnny section (critique I agree with FWIW), l’m very confused about the pushback this is receiving. I’ve seen folks say this isn’t film criticism like ??? are yall okay?
I don’t mind using it for work or really large groups, and I don’t have any problems staying home (obvs I’m privileged to, but I also enjoyed it). But if we are friends, just call me, please.
I understand disagreeing with someone and doing a lil discourse, but wanting to harass and attack people behind your fave is really something. Someone with 27 year career at the top of their field can handle criticism. They don’t need you to run interference lol
I am 35 today, and I am more at peace than I’ve ever been. I have a tall/ fine husband who is the best company, cherished friends and family, work I enjoy, and my health.
2) Shiv’s uninspired, borderline matronly (at times) clothing sets her apart from the other women in her sphere, who are always, in some form, trading on their appeal to Shiv’s father and brothers. She doesn’t have to care about her outfit choices beyond baseline appropriateness.