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Poor, obscure, plain, and little. Writer, critic, comms & events at The Sidney Poitier New American Film School. Former books editor with too many bylines at USA TODAY and The Arizona Republic.
2025 watch #113: The Quilters. A really lovely short documentary on Netflix about incarcerated men making quilts for foster children as part of a prison program. So much common humanity on display, the desire to do good for others even when society has defined you by the bad you've done.
this is a great example of what happens when unserious, nihilistic people get in charge of actual institutions whose ostensible job it is to provide real services to real people. these people are LARPing their way through everything. trolling as govt bc they have no respect for the work of it.
"Will the president consider giving the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Big Balls?"
Post one of the most haunting shots in movie history from a film made before the year 2000
Post one of the most haunting shots in movie history from a film made before the year 2000
The job market has never been better for shills, stooges, and toadies of all stripes. Linkedin absolutely buzzing if you're a sycophant, a flunky, or even an unctuous little worm
spending $8.45 billion to watch another man fuck my wife.
Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.
Albert Spica, the monstrous gangster in THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER portrayed by the great Michael Gambon at one point is in the restaurant and says "Gold! Everything should be sprayed gold!"
This has been on my mind of late.
It’s been 2 years since I left and I still have so many conflicted feelings, but mostly I’m just so sad that so many avenues for cultural critique and conversation have been and are continuing to be demolished
It was incredibly painful to get to a position I was so proud of, believed in so deeply, as a champion of books who could help bring great reads to a bigger audience, and feel it disintegrate on my hands because of short-sighted and cutthroat metrics.
Every book I wanted to write about that wasn’t a celebrity tell-all, I had to make a metrics case to justify the labor. I was told by a high-up numbers guy “We shouldn’t even have a books section, we lose money on every books story.”
When I started as books editor at USA TODAY, I had to commission a certain number of reviews a month. I had a healthy freelance budget and a whole roster of novelists and writers I could commission for literary criticism.
Four years later, I had no freelance budget and had to fight for every review
It's profoundly saddening to read that AP will no longer be assigning or running book reviews because readers don't engage with them enough and they take too much effort to plan and assign. People complain about critics as gatekeepers; wait until all that's left is marketing.
