I quietly warned everyone off the clam chowder at least. Some cousins and I slipped out to a Kroger to “buy ice” and ate a pile of junk food in the parking lot. Somehow no one got food poisoning as far as I know.

Groceries left on the counter for ages. Veggies that would be served uncooked chopped on a board that had just held raw meat. A giant pot of clam chowder cooked the night before and left on an unlit stove overnight.

Apparently the secret ingredient in all his food was salmonella.

One uncle in my mom’s giant Irish Catholic family is considered “the good cook” in that he has heard of spices or at least uses enough salt.
One time I stayed at his house the day before a family event he was cooking for and discovered that he does not know or care about food safety.

Was it @grammar-girl.bsky.social?

Dessa is definitely beloved by copy editors and librarians.

Dessa!

I was gonna say “new profile pic” but you’re way ahead of me!

MAN that show was good. I went two or three times and I wish I’d gone more. I also saw a “Macbeth” he worked on that had Banquo’s ghost popping in and out from nowhere, a cauldron producing way more than it could contain and a version of the Buster Keaton-through-a-wall trick.

Pretend that says “every wrong he thought his ex committed.”

I don’t mean to imply it’s a perfect parallel. But it’s two guys trying to get me to read thousands of words about what a bitch they think their ex is by promising that there are important revelations buried in there somewhere.

Yeah I don’t like the gauzy interview either and no one here seems to have the moral high ground. But picking a format where there’s no chance of someone else’s perspective getting in, plus the length, the effort to make it go viral … it feels familiar.

Obviously, yes, they are all trying to make themselves look good. But there’s a difference between, like, giving an interview that gets your side of the story out there and putting it all in a blog post where no one can fact-check you or add any context you don’t want.

I don’t want to defend Nuzzi. She has admitted to, at minimum, a breach of journalistic ethics that I think should be career-ending. Maybe she also did everything he has or will accuse her of, I don’t know. But I think we can infer part of his motives and I feel wary as I watch people lap it up.

I hadn’t thought of AI or Swifties either but I guess that does make sense. It’s possible I am doing too good a job ignoring some things.

That lines up with my memory, which was that it was definitely in the online discourse before 2020 but it surged to the foreground after John Mulaney went to rehab and people got real weird about his personal life. Still a surprising pick to me in 2025.

I read the first headline and thought this post was going to be about the ambiguity of the word “shoots”