movies
Episodes Monday Rundown March 24 - 30 2025
Including assorted Taylor Swift movies, the new Japanese Breakfast album, and Severance season 1.
rundown
Episodes Monday Rundown Feb. 3 - 9 2025
What do Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show and the movie Companion have in common? I watched 'em both this week!
movies
A Complete Unknown complicates the biopic antagonist
Is Bob Dylan the antagonist of his own biopic? Maybe!
music
My 11 favorite songs of 2024
This list is far from authoritative.
music
Chappell Roan and our ever more parasocial world
In 2024, we're all living out Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation -- on both ends.
mailbag
August mailbag
What are the most influential TV episodes of all time? And what's my song of the summer?
pop music
The glorious theater kid energy of the modern pop star
So many pop stars are theater kids now. What can we make of this?
mailbag
December mailbag!
This month's topics: lesser watched TV dramas of the 20th century, music to write to, and 2023 top 10 lists!
florence and the machine
How Florence and the Machine convinced me to call myself disabled
On concert parking lots, important doctor's appointments, and the casual ableism of the everyday