Unmarried people can't have sex, unless it's done on one specific, government-approved, Purge-style night. This is how your script gets on the Black List. Of course, in the confounding, oblivious One Night Only, it is, quite intentionally, never adequately explained how the United States
A Pool Day is different from a Pool Morning. Pool Morning is when I go to the West Hollywood Aquatic Center at 6am for the purpose of exercise. It's a habit but not a pleasure. On Saturday, when it was quite hot, after I had spent the morning
Last week, Alonso, who likes for me to share in the miserable information he finds online, sent me a link to WorseOnPurpose.com It's an addictive and depressing site devoted to brutal facts about corporations that run the planet and how everything you buy is worse than it
* Behind me in line at the grocery store checkout, she said, "You've only got one life, you have to do something with it. Our brains were made to absorb infinite information. The scientists say we're meant to live eternally. Well, the ones who are Christians
Fiume o morte! is a slyly entertaining film about a dreadful subject, but don't feel too left out if you didn't know it existed. It went from film festivals in 2025 to a European release to a very limited North American theatrical experience earlier this year.
Something took my phone on a Prefab Sprout algorithm tour. Which came first, Hayley Williams and Romy singing the song "Wild Horses," and the video hitting everywhere at once, or my friend Aaron mentioning them in a reel, or two other people talking about them elsewhere? I don&
I'm taking my A-List Stubs Card status to see the Olivia Wilde/Seth Rogen/Penelope Cruz/Edward Norton movie about heterosexual swingers. I'm going to the AMC Grove 14 because it's the one that's closest to my home. I want to
NEW/OLD is what I call pieces where I talk about older films (2025 back to whenever) that I've seen for the first time. Now you know. On the next episode of Linoleum Knife, Alonso and I will be talking about Rose of Nevada, the latest film from
Nothing goes as planned. I baked a coconut cake for Alonso and then he got a mild variation on The Summer Cold. I put the layers in the freezer for later use and made him drink a lot of hot chicken broth. Then I cancelled on the friends who were
With this feline person's consent – they also paused and posed, sweeping the blue velvet cape up front for better documentation – I used my shitty iPhone 8, the one that's about to get me locked out of an increasing number of Los Angeles parking lots that are
* Taken at a stop light on Ventura Blvd after driving a friend to the doctor. I don't drink alcohol very often, but I thought, "Which liquor will I enjoy? None of them. But I do want to buy. It's time." The clock, fully functioning,
Have you read this? Why not? Keep up. 8. The You, Me & Tuscany tea towel that fucking sucks - We have some tablecloths. Three tablecloths. One of them is very Christmas, so that one is out of commission for most of year. The other two are in rotation for when