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Jim McDermott
@jimmcd.bsky.social
Writer, Fan, Part-Time Imaginary Tiger. 🏳️‍🌈

Find me writing about theater, comics, TV, pop culture and other stuff at American Theater, Popverse, NCR, Sojourners, and JimMcDermott.substack.com
Tell us what you really think about the Mamdani win, NYT.

(And clearly, some dumb ideas don't ever die, at least on your homepage.)
November 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
SOLD
November 5, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Attention bluesky

Show me the X-Men
November 5, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Someone’s NYCC is like, so over.
October 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Scott with Maddie. She told me everyone thinks she’s Jean.
October 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
And so it begins! #NYCC25

That sky blue is so pretty.
October 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
If you haven't read the @brianmbendis.bsky.social and @alexmaleev.bsky.social book Scarlet, this would be a very good time to check it out.
September 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
hey I’m standing right here
August 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Audra getting ready for that amazing scene in the #GildedAge finale tonight.
August 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
This is a hate crime and needs to be removed before everyone’s parents from the Midwest move into Hell’s Kitchen.
July 31, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Welcome to the E train.
July 31, 2025 at 10:27 PM
RIP One of the great Chicago comedians. He went to the Wisconsin Jesuit boarding school Campion, which was later sold and turned into a prison.
May 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Pour one out for Champions.
May 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Zuck: The average American has three friends.
May 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Rest in peace, Francis. Thank you.
April 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
So so so so many questions about this image.
April 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I’m also pretty sure I heard “Saint Balenciaga” in there, which makes me very happy.
April 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The fact that Francis chose for his casket to be a plain wooden box says it all.
April 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
April 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Who do I talk to about pitching a Shondaland show set on Chandrila? #AndorSpoilers
April 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM
March 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Just finished Ed Brubaker and @seanphillips.bsky.social’s Pulp. Good Lord. What an incredible piece of work.
March 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Just caught up on White Lotus. Going into tonight's episode literally like this.
March 24, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Please accept this photo of my parents’ puppy Max showing he’s the best boy.
March 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Today the International Trumpet Guild Journal has published my story about the trumpeter Glenn Drewes, who has been playing on Broadway and in New York clubs for a long time. He's a legend, and also an incredibly nice human being.

Find the piece in the March Journal here:
trumpetguild.org/journal
March 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM