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Is the two-hour clip-show memorial tribute to Barb going online before or after the "Stranger Things" finale?

This looks like the porno spoof of TRON. PRON.

Look, it's NYE and I'm a couple drinks in and haven't fully thought this through, but I think the rise of AI slop is a direct byproduct of the slow and steady decline in support for the arts and arts education in the last several decades (all the funding cut to programs at schools, specifically)

I'm not going to be anywhere near Times Square tonight, which makes living in Minneapolis feel exactly the same as living in New York City on New Year's Eve.

2026 IS GOING TO BE AMAZING YALL OH MY GOD YES

guys: I’m already in 2026, and thus far, everything looks good

No matter how many times I watch this, I always lol when Sally says she’s leaving the NYE party because of “the thought of not kissing someone” at midnight, and Jess cuts her off and is like, “I’ll kiss you,” right in front of his wife, Marie. Oh really, my dude??? 😂

No matter how many times I watch this, I always lol when Sally says she’s leaving the NYE party because of “the thought of not kissing someone” at midnight, and Sal cuts her off and is like, “I’ll kiss you,” right in front of his wife, Marie. Oh really, my dude??? 😂

Going to get Tex-Mex and flush this turd of a year down right. Shiner Bock and fajitas and fuck you, 2025, die screaming, you shit year.

both ironic and extra offensive that they'd use the work of Japanese artist Hiroshi Nagai for this evil horseshit

Bring it on 2026 you hot bitch

I don't know about Nancy Drew and Greta Garbo, but poor Ms. Boop is about to get dragged through a deep AI-fed trough of soul-crushing hardcore gymnastics in every category of pornography known to Christendom. It will be as relentless as it is inevitable, as yes, she was drawn that way.

Try to be positive in 2026! Instead of waking up and asking "Is he dead yet?" wake up with a smile on your face knowing, either way, we're all one day closer.

This is such an extraordinary reaction shot, no notes, perfection

My New Year's resolution is the same as it was in 2018. Time to go back to being much more positive on main & spending less time doom saying. More time in my hobby garage, less time online. More fulfilling side projects, less thoughts about what will sell. More movies, less videos on politics.

Headed into 2026 like

For those of you wanting to start a new project in the new year but afraid you're gonna suck, heed the words of the ancient texts:

watched dune part 2 on a plane and am a little surprised I never heard about them recasting zendaya with this jellycat but I think it mostly works

Here's a fun thing that's happening in 2026.

Having the annual "what if they didn't spoil the surprise before the release of TERMINATOR 2? How would that have affected box office and audience reactions?" discussion at our household.

Oh hey, the notebooks arrived a day early. NOW we can greet 2026 properly.

I really would not like ChatGPT to be in schools. Would prefer it no longer in society, but especially not in schools.

Nonprofit files misconduct complaint against federal judge www.npr.org/2025/12/30/g...

No "u" in "exaggerated". Never. How?! Why are my fingers so sure there is? Also, "hestitated". Every time. Why type that?!

I'll post my top 10 movies tomorrow. I still have a few hours to fit one or two in before the year turns, maybe. Most likely though, I'll just watch WHEN HARRY MET SALLY.

Gonna do one of those "things I wrote this year" thread before it's too late. 2025 was a year of tremendous highs and lows! Let's revisit them, for funsies!

Because of the music playlist I worked up for Kingkiller the algorithm still kicks me some great stuff. youtube.com/watch?v=A0Dk...

I’ve always hated New Year’s Eve, because the expectations were too much: the sum up and celebration of a year, and all the goals for the next one. I don’t do it anymore; now I just sort of swim in the turn of the year, hoping the water isn’t so full of sharks over there ffs

I can’t tell you how much I’m looking forward to a quiet, cozy NYE at home

My buddy @davechen.bsky.social and I did a ~60 episode series called WRITE ALONG a few years back all about writing.

Write even more! That kind of electric energy only comes along once in a while. Ride that wave and make something that scares you a little. If you're not scared to put it out there, is it even art?

Many of you are psyching yourself up to start that dream project in 2026. AWESOME Just keep in mind that devoting your free time to achieving your dreams is not the same as Hustle Culture. Keep your mind on you and your art and don't fall into the trap of thinking every minute should be monetized.

Huh. It actually IS.

Is "ambien" named after the fact that it leaves you feeling good in the morning?

My bartender friends have always called this AMATEUR NIGHT, the night when people who don't know how to drink suddenly think they're fucking Hemingway and "know how to drive drunk." That's who we're up against tonight on the roads. Love you all and will see you all here first thing tomorrow morning.

Post your favorite first-watches of December 🍿

Many of you are sore at yourself today because you didn't make the self-imposed deadline to finish your manuscript by the end of the year. I'm here to tell you it's okay. Take tomorrow off. Get your head back in it. And hit 2026 ready to get to THE END. You've got this.

Can’t wait tau faurget saume auld acquaintances. THEY KNAUW WHY.

gonna do some Phantom Thread role play later tonight (going out on New Year’s despite feeling too tired to go out on New Year’s)

Hearing some complaints that Sheba didn’t make the Christmas card and might send this out as errata

I feel like every company saw Spotify Wrapped and collectively decided “yeah, we’re doing that” and now my therapist sending me “Your Top 5 Unresolved Issues: 2025 Edition”

not the real answer but my personal favorite will always be the time I sent my friend Eva a photo of my outfit for some event and she said “you look like Tár AND like someone Tár isn’t allowed to email anymore”

The greatest and often unreported irony here is that the Alt-Right's WHOLE FUCKING PITCH to young men was "get your shit together, hit the gym, help us turn this country around, and you will be swimming in women" only for "Who did you vote for in '24?" to be the inflection point of their loneliness.

If you think about the amount of work involved in planning these things, executing them, covering their tracks, etc., in terms of hours, sounds like these guys would be better off just getting a regular job!

My all-time ranking of stand-up specials by people who I suspect can do multiple pull-ups: 1. "Kumail Nanjiani: Night Thoughts"

Also, as we're doing year end, I realized I will not write something better for 2026 better than I wrote for 2024. (the newsletter's coming back, it just lay fallow because John underestimated the stress of "go from murder trial to showrunning to pilot" in 2024.) buttondown.com/kungfumonkey...

2025 was a wild one career wise. I put out 3 films (THE GORGE, BLACK PHONE 2, MAN FINDS TAPE), a novella (ALL THE ASH WE LEAVE BEHIND), appeared in 2 anthologies (HAUNTED REELS 2, THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT), appeared on THE LAST DRIVE-IN, in X-MEN #17, and joined the Masters of Horror.

FWIW, I've never had a year typify "You do not rise to the level of your goals, you fail to the level of your systems" more than 2025. Emotionally and energy wise --fires and fascism factored in -- I've never been more punched out. But I worked and lined up more work based on old habits saving me.

Take a cup o’ kindness yet.

don’t forget tonight to set your calendars ahead a year

and forgive us our emails, as we forgive those who email against us

As we celebrate the end of the year that The Rocky Horror Picture Show turned 50, five independent theaters around the world reflect on the strange journey that has the raucous musical keeping the moviegoing experience electric. Read the full story on Journal: boxd.it/2U4

Someone in my building just sent a ticked-off open letter to the HOA board absolutely stuffed with the most ironically and aggressively deployed emojis I've ever seen. I mean, these smiles and flowers were ❤️weaponized❤️.

Dangerous Nights Crew, today is the day we LIVE for

Most of all that it would appear that she is totally oblivious to his father's standing in the industry she's wrecking, jesus fucking christ these people

That placement of THE KILLING

I’m not going to a movie today (wish I was) so my moviegoing for 2025 is over. I saw 170 films in theaters this year, way up from 2024, which is pretty heartening considering I live in the suburbs with zero art-houses nearby without venturing into NYC. Hoping for more in 2026!

As we wrap up 2025, here are some lists from me and @ajhan.bsky.social: Our Top 10 lists: www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/best-t... Our list of 10 Great TV Performances: www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/best-t... Our list of 10 Great TV Episodes: www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/best-t...

as we bid it farewell, a mild hot take from me: the MetroCard was punk trash, it has always sucked, and I am glad it's gone. BYE LOSER

BTW, while ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is the best movie of the year, the best movie I *saw* this year is a toss-up between NEAR DEATH and ASPEN

Identify your most insufferably superior friend by showing them this one chart:

One of the rep cinemas I follow is screening BOOGIE NIGHTS today but at like 3pm and COME ON, cue that bad boy up at 10:45 or whenever you have to press play so that Little Bill blows his brains out at midnight, you’re not even TRYING

I only know that the USPS has reduced its workforce in recent years via cuts and early retirement. Other ways to stay up on USPS news is its site as well as the American Postal Workers Union’s website (apwu.org/news/) and the website Save the Post Office (www.savethepostoffice.com/implementati...)

Ok let’s try this again

If you're looking for more horror inspo on New Year's Eve, here are 10 hidden gems you might've missed this year:

Ten non-review pieces I'm especially proud of from this year. (1) On the films of the great Frederick Wiseman (on the occasion of the three-city retrospective of his work), and also Instagram Reels, with particularly terrific art: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/m...

Shout out to Marie Claire. If y'all wanna start 2026 with love and laughter, feel free to watch "Clean Slate". We got healthy servings of both waiting for ya and whatnot.

Great piece on being a music lifer in a town that isn't NYC or L.A. oxfordamerican.org/magazine/iss...

Fuck these hacks. To me, they embody CNN's ongoing acquiescence to Trump. @kathygriffin.bsky.social was dumped from this broadcast but you can see MAGA sycophants like Scott Jennings every day. A shithole network.

Gonna head outside at midnight because I want my face to be the last thing 2025 sees before it dies.

The time has come

The pinnacle of the art form. youtu.be/djV11Xbc914?...

thinking about them 🎆

Grateful to everyone who listened to our podcast this year. Closing out 2025 with some wishes and a game!

the thing is, “differing political views” used to be about what percentage to tax high earners and not whether brown people are humans

honestly vlad’s first inning home run in the first playoff game against the yankees, which single-handedly banished some lingering playoff ghosts and signaled a special post season both for him personally and for the jays

realizing that Sergio St Carlos’ ethos is essentially “Let’s walk down, and fuck ‘em all.”

The sixth annual #Japanuary Challenge is here, courtesy of Letterboxd member brazyben 🇯🇵 Find how to participate here: boxd.it/QNiBQ

one of the underlying premises of One Battle After Another is that revolutionaries are people, not political archetypes, and they are flawed—cowardly,selfish, impatient, short-sighted—in the way people tend to be flawed

Rare sighting of a late genius

My dollar store rain gauge was shockingly accurate during the last downpour, so I reset it for today’s showers

The “you can and will show everything but the navel!” Hollywood costuming of the 1960s fascinates me

Yearly reminder that you CAN just become a different person, you're not as imprisoned in your life as you think. You can just be the one who dresses nice or exercises or reads a lot, or whatever. You can just start doing it, some people might make fun of you but they don't really care.

In 2026 we have a choice: we can choose to be surprised by art, to be humbled by how difficult and insane and divine to create something new; or we can choose what we already know, the dull comfort of algorithms and AI prompts and well-trod paths, living shadow lives, anesthetized souls in Hades

Look, I get it, but also… enough.

Topical humor in the 1926 comedy MIGHTY LIKE A MOOSE. An Irishwoman attempted to shoot Mussolini and injured his nose.

I spent 2025 promoting my book so in 2026 I would like to never tell anyone anything about myself ever again, I would like to become so unknowable that I become only a rumor, a whisper, a story half-remembered and rarely recalled except on rainy, strange days

Four Favorites with Vicky Krieps, on New Year's Eve in honor of Phantom Thread ❤️🧵 Father Mother Sister Brother is now playing in select theaters.

PETA was in the news, so I rushed to see if they were on Bluesky so I could get them to block me again but, gasp, no account here and they are still on Twitter. Well, well, well.

florida gov. ron desantis has appointed urban meyer — yes, that urban meyer — to the board of trustees of new college, pending confirmation by the state senate

MTV is officially ending all of its music channels. In honor of that, what's your favorite music video? youtu.be/tPytYrYqDbA?...

I've been too busy over the past couple of weeks with holiday prep and end-of-the-year work stuff (which will continue tonight... I'm covering the Stranger Things finale) that I haven't had much time to reflect an old year ending and a new one beginning. 1/2

Ugh, going to be forced into the company of the family drama llama. No personality of their own, so conflict is the only way they can feel anything or be interesting.

I don’t have a favorite, but recently I was at dinner with some younger friends who were talking about the development around their apt building and I said, “oh, it’s like the music video for ‘Thank You’” and they had no idea what I meant, and I very quickly said “I guess that’s an old sentence”

Midnight is the deadline to make a gift in 2025! Let's start this next chapter strong 🤝 Your donation right now means more Tiny Desk concerts. ✅ More podcast episodes. ✅ More of the trusted, freely accessible reporting you and your community deserve. ✅ Give here before midnight: n.pr/4pCcFIx

I only encountered this for the first time (by way of another piece that draws on it) quite recently, and I think about it all the time.

[chappell roan voice] baby pop-tarts in your toaster made by kellanova taste so good to me

LOL, I also re-read my own book in full for the first time since finishing it (because I recorded the audiobook) and there were a few times where I was like wow, I wrote that? wwnorton.com/books/978132...