Scott Tobias

[*Burgum's 100yo mom covers face with hands*] Burgum: "Oh shit, where did my mom go?! Call 9-1-1!" Burgum's mom: "Peek-a-boo!"

FWIW, our decision to move The Reveal from Substack to Ghost recently was very scary because the newsletter is a big chunk of our livelihood. But the transition was seamless and we got a significant subscriber bump for doing it, too. Win-win!

"He's not allowed to tweet as a condition of his bail." Congrats to Graham Linehan for that Hall of Fame-level bad-poster achievement.

Surprisingly big weekend for movies in August: @kphipps3000.bsky.social dug the new Jane Schoenbrun, TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH IN CAMP MIASMA, and I wrote about the very good biopic TONY and the very very bad ONE NIGHT STAND. thereveal.film/in-review-te...

For my latest Extremely Online column, I look back at Miranda July's ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE YOU KNOW, and its perceptiveness about human connection in the digital age. ($) thereveal.film/extremely-on...

My slight tweak to ONE NIGHT ONLY is that it should take place in a world where only a tiny fraction of people are even *capable* of having sex. And they’re forced to do so in a club while “sex negatives” watch. Also the sex is unsimulated.

It’s a little like the Velvet Underground. Only 149 followers, but every one of them started a grift.

This is the sort of mealy-mouthed bullshit you write *before* allowing Bari Weiss to turn your news division and your flagship magazine show into an organ of right-wing ideology. (Though it is funny to see a cherub-cheeked failson like Ellison use the phrase "like most Americans.")

@emilystjams.bsky.social Assume you saw this today, right? From the Slate crossword:

This weekend's parenting achievements: 1. The 18yo saw POPSTAR and is now looking for Style Boyz sweatshirts on the internet. 2. The 15yo is doing capoeira like Tina on Bob's Burgers.

Wrapping up my coverage of the Apple TV version of CAPE FEAR @vulture.com by reporting that the finale of this up-and-down venture finally pays for the accumulated sins of its plotting. www.vulture.com/article/cape...

Today for The Reveal, I reviewed the new SPIDER-MAN, who joins Mando and Supergirl in our Summer of Franchise Fatigue, and Gregg Araki's latest bubbly provocation, which I dug: thereveal.film/in-review-sp...

Did you know that they tried to turn SOME LIKE IT HOT into a TV show? I didn't, until Keith wrote about it for us. Fascinating and funny piece of cultural flotsam. ($) thereveal.film/less-than-pe...