if we’re betting on a team to upset the celtics in the playoffs, it’s the knicks, right?

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my 4-year-old’s idea of a light monday morning conversation starter:

“daddy, what existed before there was anything?”

I shriveled into a skeleton reading this post

turning on inside man for the first time in years and this cast is so stacked

denzel
clive owen (in one of his best Movie Star roles)
jodie foster
christopher plummer (never enough)
willem dafoe
chiwetel ejiofor (doesn’t even make the first 5)

fascinating dynamic, a scandal involving the biggest baseball player in the world appears to be unfolding before all of our eyes and the powers that be have every incentive to make it go away

Some good news as we head into the weekend:

vox.com/future-perfect…

five years ago, i would have spent the whole day hyping this analysis cc Adrianna McIntyre (@adrianna.bsky.social)

commonwealthfund.org/publications/f…

lotta overlap between my ballot and the Academy’s, it was really a wonderful year for film

best Oscars in some time

as an admirer at a distance of Wes Anderson, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar is maybe my favorite thing he’s ever done

(and Asteroid City was pretty exquisite too)

my top 10:

1. Oppenheimer
2. May December
3. Past Lives
4. Godland
5. The Zone of Interest
6. The Holdovers
7. Ferrari
8. Killers of the Flower Moon
9. Anatomy of a Fall
10. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

HM: Blackberry, Infinity Pool, Talk to Me, Godzilla -1, Poor Things

past lives is one of those remarkable movies where i had heard all of the hype and still found myself sobbing in the final five minutes

feel like the mexican war’s importance in us history is very underdiscussed

I’m neutral on Bradley Cooper and it still bums me out that we’ve built a society that feels perfectly comfortable deciding whether someone’s emotions are sincere or not and mocking them if we decide their feelings are somehow “wrong”

here’s the difference between the New Internet and the Old Internet:

these days, we’re all chasing *likes* and *followers*

back in the day, we were trying to rack up *posts*