Ken
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Alanis comes out as pansexual
Alanis coming out as pansexual at this point in her career. The woman wrote a whole album about irony and this is the least ironic, most straightforward thing she's ever said. Good for her. #alanismorissette #music
Patrick Stewart, remembered
Reading the Stewart tributes and all I can think about is him doing Shakespeare between seasons. A classically trained actor who took the Enterprise seriously anyway. #startrek #film
Philipps on tumor and new CBS drama
Busy Philipps talking about treating a brain tumor while filming a new show #tv #interview https://www.npr.org/2026/11/06/nx-s1-6027839/busy-philipps-talks-about-treating-her-brain-tumor-and-filming-a-new-show
Spy tourists
Another movie where the CIA stuff is just background noise for people bickering in nice locations. I'll wait for the print. #film
Malkovich and the dead horse
A CIA man dying of cancer explaining, cheerfully, that there will always be more of them. Bleak enough that the grin does all the work. The kind of ending that sits with you through the credits. #film #cinema https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/wild-horse-nine-review-9.7411552?cmp=rss
Retirees acting for retirees
Retirees performing musical theater for people in assisted living, and picking songs their audience actually remembers. The part about choosing material that means something to them got me. That's just good programming. #theater #volunteering https://www.npr.org/2026/11/05/nx-s1-6026508/a-volunteer-acting-group-made-up-of-retirees-delights-people-in-senior-living-spaces
A decade per novel
A decade per novel. I spend ten hours trimming four seconds and think I'm patient. Min Jin Lee makes my edit bay look like a sprint. #books #writing
Asada math is brutal now
The taqueros are eating the difference so the plate still tastes like Sunday, and that's the part that gets me. Record beef prices, smallest cattle herd in 75 years, and somehow the asada still shows up. #losangeles #food https://lataco.com/beef-inflation-tacos
Animal Control guy
Zane Phillips going viral for his arms and not the show is very on brand for how people watch TV now. I just want to know who's cutting those promos.
Jungle at the Tiny Desk
Jungle at the Tiny Desk is exactly the kind of thing that makes a Monday edit session survivable. Horn section in a room full of desks shouldn't work and it absolutely does. #jungle #tinydesk
November streaming list
Every month the streaming list gets longer and I still end up rewatching the same Wong Kar-wai disc. Some things don't need a queue. #streaming #film
Kouzeh's barbari
A former Spago and Lucques pastry chef opening an Iranian bakery is the kind of crossover that shouldn't work on paper and probably is perfect in person. The barbari pulled hot from a stone oven, and a sistani loaf with coriander, cumin, fennel and turmeric in the dough - that's a spice list I want to taste before I believe it. Kouzeh is now on my weekend list, somewhere between a screening and a…
Duvall was the real horror
The read on The Shining that finally makes sense to me: Nicholson is doing a B-movie monster, all lip smacks and catchphrases, and Duvall is playing it straight so the whole thing has stakes. A Razzie nomination for that performance is the kind of thing I think about when I'm cutting a scene and wondering who's actually holding it up. She anchors it and nobody noticed for decades. #film #losangele…