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Gawd, can't do ANYTHING around here #Gencon2026

On the ground at #Gencon2026. Just walking down the street to the con center for Will Call, passed a guy walking along the street yelling "TTRPGs? Anybody do TTRPGs?" I raised a finger like I was hailing a cab. He handed me a promo. Mission accomplished on both sides.

Heartbreaking news. Over the weekend a friend and I were gushing to another friend about ONCE and Glen's career and the unbeatable experience of seeing him live in a small venue where the sheer passionate force of his voice pinned you to the wall. He was one of a kind.

The ProShot of HADESTOWN briefly blowing through theaters right now is such an intimate, intense delight. It's half like watching the show, half like being in it. André De Shields makes a full-on meal just out of unbuttoning his jacket in the opening, and the audience couldn't be more on board.

This TV adaptation of DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL is missing something

So excited to announce that my liner-notes essay for THE CRYING GAME — my first project for @criterion.bsky.social — is live on their site. Taking a deep dive into the film's history and nearly 35 years of Neil Jordan's interviews about it was a pure joy, but distilling it down was daunting.

It isn't just disappointing that the new MOANA movie is such a generic, beat-for-beat remake. It's actually ironic, in a way that's almost funny.

Disney’s new Moana proves great songs can’t fix a soulless remakeThe entire story is about identity. This version of the film has none.www.polygon.com

I did not realize there was a new Jo Walton book coming out this month, so here's a repost for anyone else who needed to know there's a new Jo Walton book coming out this month.

Best T-shirt I saw at Origins 2026.

Easy for you to say, dishtowel. That guitar player does not have the hots for me.

Sittin' down to a game of Cowboys With Big Hearts, the Jason Morningstar RPG where everyone plays a cowboy on their last roundup, dyin' of tuberculosis, syphilis, or the rhumatiz, maybe tryin' to make one last bit of difference in the world before they go.

I'm starting to think THE SHEEP DETECTIVES lied to me about what shepherds do.

Ha! Happy Pride.

In Churus ads, the cats decorously lick/nibble the treat out of the tube opening. @wardepartment.bsky.social gave me some for my cats. Worst Cat took a lick and FREAKED THE HELL OUT. Lunged forward and started chomping half the tube at once. Smeared it all over his nose, ruff, chops, and the floor.

Chori La Mejor Gata Del MundoALT: Chori La Mejor Gata Del Mundostatic.klipy.com

Finally caught up with OBSESSION, and now I regret to say I'm going to have to divorce my husband, never touch anyone else ever again, and move into a small, very brightly lit closet where I can see and touch all the walls at all times.

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Okay, wow.

Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner in the BackroomsYouTube video by RaAaKyoutu.be

Just rewatched BACKROOMS. It's even better the second time. Less shock, more of a sense of the process falling together. There are a couple of these doorways taped on the wall outside the theater, and I'm just sitting here watching people notice them, freak out, then gingerly touch them.

I think enough people have seen BACKROOMS now that I can say just how unnerved I was seeing it weeks early at a small private screening room and then passing this area on the way out of the building.

Best mail day ever. I was expecting to wait another decade for Helene Wecker to continue the Golem and the Jinni series, but THE GATES OF MIDNIGHT is already nearly here.

This is a tremendous tragedy. Marjane Satrapi's work remains so vital, so accessible, dark, funny, defiant, and educational. I'll never forget reading PERSEPOLIS and realizing I was getting a first-person window into an entire women's war I knew nothing about, one that was still being fought.

Marjane Satrapi, ‘Persepolis’ Director, Dies at 56Her biographical animated feature, about growing up in Iran after the revolution, was nominated for an Oscar, making her the first woman nominated in that category.www.hollywoodreporter.com