My good friend Rebecca Godfrey passed away before she could see the excellent Hulu adaptation of her book Under the Bridge. It is wonderful.

My hometown is full of geniuses.

I have some complaints…

You’ve seen my martini face, but have you seen my watch-examining face?

First photo courtesy of Mark Cho. Watches pictured are by Tokyo
Genius Naoya Hida.

The worm that ate Kennedy’s brain died of malnutrition.

Yesterday I was whining about how strangely un-erotic Challengers proved to be.

Today I’m going back to Mary McCarthy’s The Group and you practically have to use birth control as you read it.

On the sub that stacks (link in bio) I celebrate the beginning of the Summer of Gary! And also, the beginning of my yearly struggle with Steve the Groundhog.

Challengers could have been about a juicy tenure battle with nonstop sex. Instead the sex was sublimated into sports. How is this director even remotely Italian?

70 mins in, Zendaya has gotten on top of young prince charles, but instead of sex they are discussing more tennis and their bottomless ambition.

Ok, an hour in some kissing after a long talk about career choices and the Stanford course catalog.

Is this what I paid my $7 for?

40 mins into Challengers, still no sex, only tennis.

Can someone tell netanyahu that jail isn’t that bad and that he’s probably not going to serve long anyway?

If you haven't read about me getting hella drunk yet, this is your chance.

They must be casting for Police Academy 5: Kampus Patrol

Damn, how many animals did that woman kill? And does she now have a taste for human blood?

Woke up from a long quasi-nightmare in which a very limited nuclear exchange took out both Tucson and Tver.

Everyone was like, 'This is terrible, but it could have been a lot worse.' And 'Is that the one with A.S.U or the Univ. of Arizona?' And 'I always got the spelling wrong.'

Do reporters get a thong carve-out on the nude cruise? Asking for a meatball.

Guardian: glass is half full.

Times: there is no glass anymore. Biden broke it because it fell out of his feeble old hands.

I’m sorry but your services are no longer needed.

This is an amazing look at upper middle class russia