Emily "Babe" St. James
@emilystjams.bsky.social
Writer! TV: Yellowjackets. Novel: Woodworking (out now). Podcasts: Arden. Journalism: Vox, A.V. Club, NYT, etc. Like a large language model but for my formative trauma. Newsletter here: https://episodes.ghost.io/
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Today is Woodworking's PUB DAY. I'm so proud of this book, and I'm so glad to hear how many of you have bought and enjoyed it already!
You can buy it here if you're so inclined: bookshop.org/p/books/wood...
And now, the hardest sell I can think of, this book's biggest advocate has thoughts:
You can buy it here if you're so inclined: bookshop.org/p/books/wood...
And now, the hardest sell I can think of, this book's biggest advocate has thoughts:
We get fast food, and it’s one of my favorite traditions.
what do you folks cook for Christmas Eve? We do tamales and chili in our family.
Cannot recommend Christmas Chili enough
November 24, 2025 at 6:57 AM
We get fast food, and it’s one of my favorite traditions.
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You Are Witnessing A Great Becoming, Charlie Brown
October 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
You Are Witnessing A Great Becoming, Charlie Brown
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This is very good. Clear, calm, factual, and devastating for proponents of bans on puberty blockers for trans youth.
theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...
theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...
Puberty blockers: why politicians overriding doctors sets a dangerous precedent
The government’s ban on puberty blockers undermines clinical expertise and targets trans youth with a policy that lacks evidence, consistency and fairness.
theconversation.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
This is very good. Clear, calm, factual, and devastating for proponents of bans on puberty blockers for trans youth.
theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...
theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...
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“Frog, can you be as wonderful as this?” said Toad as he danced all over the stage.
There was no answer.
There was no answer.
November 23, 2025 at 5:37 AM
“Frog, can you be as wonderful as this?” said Toad as he danced all over the stage.
There was no answer.
There was no answer.
Watched the new Fantastic Four, and it’s fascinating how both it and Superman independently arrived at the same conclusions about how to get around superhero fatigue, with vastly different ideas about how to execute that. I preferred Superman but liked what F4 was going for.
November 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Watched the new Fantastic Four, and it’s fascinating how both it and Superman independently arrived at the same conclusions about how to get around superhero fatigue, with vastly different ideas about how to execute that. I preferred Superman but liked what F4 was going for.
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Watching the Sabrina Carpenter stream again (for my sins), and she just had a cameo from Maya Rudolph. Many of the tiny children in the chat kept asking who she was, and one person just all-capsed "SHE IS MINNIE RIPERTON'S DAUGHTER," which is such a funny way to identify Maya Rudolph.
November 23, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Watching the Sabrina Carpenter stream again (for my sins), and she just had a cameo from Maya Rudolph. Many of the tiny children in the chat kept asking who she was, and one person just all-capsed "SHE IS MINNIE RIPERTON'S DAUGHTER," which is such a funny way to identify Maya Rudolph.
Watching the Sabrina Carpenter stream again (for my sins), and she just had a cameo from Maya Rudolph. Many of the tiny children in the chat kept asking who she was, and one person just all-capsed "SHE IS MINNIE RIPERTON'S DAUGHTER," which is such a funny way to identify Maya Rudolph.
November 23, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Watching the Sabrina Carpenter stream again (for my sins), and she just had a cameo from Maya Rudolph. Many of the tiny children in the chat kept asking who she was, and one person just all-capsed "SHE IS MINNIE RIPERTON'S DAUGHTER," which is such a funny way to identify Maya Rudolph.
Wrote about this 10(!!) years ago: episodes.ghost.io/episodes-the...
November 23, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Wrote about this 10(!!) years ago: episodes.ghost.io/episodes-the...
Rewatching some of Capra's Why We Fight docs, so I can touch on them briefly in the book, and it's striking how deeply they commit to the idea of America's strength coming from its place as a pluralist society where many diverse kinds of people come together to accomplish great things.
November 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Rewatching some of Capra's Why We Fight docs, so I can touch on them briefly in the book, and it's striking how deeply they commit to the idea of America's strength coming from its place as a pluralist society where many diverse kinds of people come together to accomplish great things.
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Skipped Part 2 so the universe acted as the great equalizer and had the man behind me in line at the pharmacy have a speakerphone convo about the five Ws of his STD contraction.
November 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Skipped Part 2 so the universe acted as the great equalizer and had the man behind me in line at the pharmacy have a speakerphone convo about the five Ws of his STD contraction.
Convinced my kid to watch the Ms. Rachel potty training video by telling them it was Emmy nominated, in case you were wondering if they were my child.
November 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Convinced my kid to watch the Ms. Rachel potty training video by telling them it was Emmy nominated, in case you were wondering if they were my child.
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Thrive House Shelter is the way trans women have safety. #translives
November 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Thrive House Shelter is the way trans women have safety. #translives
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Trump is a diehard believer in human inequality. He sees the wealthy as superior, yes, but even more than that, he sees people with charisma — "stars," people "out of central casting" — as a kind of unofficial Elect that walk among the rest of the hoi polloi. He reacts to ppl accordingly.
November 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Trump is a diehard believer in human inequality. He sees the wealthy as superior, yes, but even more than that, he sees people with charisma — "stars," people "out of central casting" — as a kind of unofficial Elect that walk among the rest of the hoi polloi. He reacts to ppl accordingly.
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TRUMP: and this Daniel, he went into the den?
MAMDANI: The lion's den, yes
TRUMP: surely they ate him
MAMDANI: Here's the part where it gets a little Broadway: they didn't
TRUMP: Unbelievable
MAMDANI: The lion's den, yes
TRUMP: surely they ate him
MAMDANI: Here's the part where it gets a little Broadway: they didn't
TRUMP: Unbelievable
November 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM
TRUMP: and this Daniel, he went into the den?
MAMDANI: The lion's den, yes
TRUMP: surely they ate him
MAMDANI: Here's the part where it gets a little Broadway: they didn't
TRUMP: Unbelievable
MAMDANI: The lion's den, yes
TRUMP: surely they ate him
MAMDANI: Here's the part where it gets a little Broadway: they didn't
TRUMP: Unbelievable
I really don’t like this movie and have somehow seen it four times.
This week on @podcastlikeits The 2000s @emilystjams.bsky.social and I continue our Mike Nichols’ miniseries by talking Closer with @seanfennessey.bsky.social! We discuss theatrical adaptations, Natalie Portman’s 2004 and why every character in this is pretty much a terrible human being.
November 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I really don’t like this movie and have somehow seen it four times.
When I started my criticism career, I _loved_ making annual top ten lists. By the end, I realized the process was inherently flawed and biased toward whatever thing I liked that I had watched most recently, and I resented having to do it. I had a similar relationship to star ratings!
November 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
When I started my criticism career, I _loved_ making annual top ten lists. By the end, I realized the process was inherently flawed and biased toward whatever thing I liked that I had watched most recently, and I resented having to do it. I had a similar relationship to star ratings!
We're just six days away from finding out if someone left Snoopy in the vestibule.
November 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
We're just six days away from finding out if someone left Snoopy in the vestibule.
This was almost an "all food questions" edition, but we made it about half and half. Please enjoy finding out which Bible stories we would adapt in the manner of Aronofsky's Noah, though!
It's time for this month's premium subscriber mailbag!
November mailbag!
This month: Food! So many questions about food! Also, the Criterion Closet, stage plays, and Pluribus.
episodes.ghost.io
November 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
This was almost an "all food questions" edition, but we made it about half and half. Please enjoy finding out which Bible stories we would adapt in the manner of Aronofsky's Noah, though!
So many good movies listed here, but Wolfwalkers a real run don't walk situation
Thank you to our friends at Filmbot for their support in presenting this amazing series, kicking off at The Frida on Dec 12 with PIG and RED ROCKET. RELIC, THE WILD GOOSE LAKE, & RELIC on Dec 13th. THE PAINTER AND THE THIEF & WOLFWALKERS on Dec 14 🎬️
🎟️: thefridacinema.org/film-series/...
🎟️: thefridacinema.org/film-series/...
November 21, 2025 at 5:19 AM
So many good movies listed here, but Wolfwalkers a real run don't walk situation
It's Trans Day of Remembrance. I don't know a single trans person who hasn't lost another trans person in their circle. Please hold them in your hearts today, even if their names are new to you.
And remember all of us who are out here, doing the best we can.
And remember all of us who are out here, doing the best we can.
November 21, 2025 at 4:22 AM
It's Trans Day of Remembrance. I don't know a single trans person who hasn't lost another trans person in their circle. Please hold them in your hearts today, even if their names are new to you.
And remember all of us who are out here, doing the best we can.
And remember all of us who are out here, doing the best we can.
All the discourse our current age has about Aaron Sorkin we would have had times 20 for Paddy Chayefsky, who took everything good and bad about Sorkin and cranked it up to 7,000.
(Network rules and is an essential American film. Kael is also right!)
(Network rules and is an essential American film. Kael is also right!)
[NETWORK] Chayefsky, in interviews, actually claims that he has created one of the few movie roles in which a woman is treated as an equal; this can be interpreted to mean that he thinks women who want equality are ditsey little witches. (1976)
November 21, 2025 at 3:34 AM
All the discourse our current age has about Aaron Sorkin we would have had times 20 for Paddy Chayefsky, who took everything good and bad about Sorkin and cranked it up to 7,000.
(Network rules and is an essential American film. Kael is also right!)
(Network rules and is an essential American film. Kael is also right!)
Same. And you can easily watch it in a night.
my favourite Ken Burns doc is The Dust Bowl
November 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Same. And you can easily watch it in a night.
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once you go TERF, you never post normal again
once the transphobia brainworms set in it’s over, your brain is doomed
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
once you go TERF, you never post normal again
Does the Ken Burns American Revolution doc have the most stacked cast in history?
www.imdb.com/title/tt3532...
www.imdb.com/title/tt3532...
The American Revolution (TV Mini Series 2025) - Full cast & crew - IMDb
The American Revolution (TV Mini Series 2025) - Cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
www.imdb.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Does the Ken Burns American Revolution doc have the most stacked cast in history?
www.imdb.com/title/tt3532...
www.imdb.com/title/tt3532...
On its surface, this seems like a terrible pitch, but I've seen enough Christmas specials to know that this is how we will all learn that Christmas isn't about the presents; it's about the LOVE.
Will my 3-year-old see it that way? We'll just have to wait and see!
Will my 3-year-old see it that way? We'll just have to wait and see!
November 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
On its surface, this seems like a terrible pitch, but I've seen enough Christmas specials to know that this is how we will all learn that Christmas isn't about the presents; it's about the LOVE.
Will my 3-year-old see it that way? We'll just have to wait and see!
Will my 3-year-old see it that way? We'll just have to wait and see!