Glen Weldon
@ghweldon.bsky.social
Author, THE CAPED CRUSADE, NPR’s PODCAST START UP GUIDE. Unauthor, SUPERMAN: THE UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY. Host, POP CULTURE HAPPY HOUR.
Plus it’s funny and every episode doesn’t take a random detour into “the bowels of a pleasure den” just to show boobs. Imagine!
January 16, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Plus it’s funny and every episode doesn’t take a random detour into “the bowels of a pleasure den” just to show boobs. Imagine!
If, like me, you spent the 2010s putting up boring non-fiction/literary fiction-only folks dismissing GoT because it was about “dragons and fantasy shit,” tell them to check out A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS and pretend it’s alt-history.
www.npr.org/2026/01/16/n...
www.npr.org/2026/01/16/n...
'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' is 'Game of Thrones' for the haters
There are no dragons, no maps and no internecine family trees in this Game of Thrones prequel about an underdog knight and his would-be squire.
www.npr.org
January 16, 2026 at 2:17 PM
If, like me, you spent the 2010s putting up boring non-fiction/literary fiction-only folks dismissing GoT because it was about “dragons and fantasy shit,” tell them to check out A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS and pretend it’s alt-history.
www.npr.org/2026/01/16/n...
www.npr.org/2026/01/16/n...
Yep! 1996. That story’s the prologue of the thing I’m working on now.
January 15, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Yep! 1996. That story’s the prologue of the thing I’m working on now.
See now I suggested Molly Mondays and the squares in the NPR newsroom just clucked their tongues and stroked their beards.
Update — Here is what the new apparent CBS News segment "Whiskey Fridays with Tony Dokoupil" may look like:
January 14, 2026 at 12:27 AM
See now I suggested Molly Mondays and the squares in the NPR newsroom just clucked their tongues and stroked their beards.
Anyway yeah that’s why I’m writing a fantasy novel, because reality just lets you down. Eschew it.
January 10, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Anyway yeah that’s why I’m writing a fantasy novel, because reality just lets you down. Eschew it.
I decided I would name it Ronny Robot, and I remember thinking maybe this whole school thing wasn’t as boring as my brother told me it would be.
Then she handed out these flat manilla bits of nonsense and the stomach-dropping disappointment I felt in that moment lingers still.
Then she handed out these flat manilla bits of nonsense and the stomach-dropping disappointment I felt in that moment lingers still.
January 10, 2026 at 3:21 PM
I decided I would name it Ronny Robot, and I remember thinking maybe this whole school thing wasn’t as boring as my brother told me it would be.
Then she handed out these flat manilla bits of nonsense and the stomach-dropping disappointment I felt in that moment lingers still.
Then she handed out these flat manilla bits of nonsense and the stomach-dropping disappointment I felt in that moment lingers still.
In first grade the teacher told us she was giving each of us our own folder that would hold our papers & that we had to be careful not to lose. It was a huge responsibility, she said.
I imagined we were each getting our own tiny robot; we’d hand it our work & it would fold it for efficient storage.
I imagined we were each getting our own tiny robot; we’d hand it our work & it would fold it for efficient storage.
January 10, 2026 at 3:21 PM
In first grade the teacher told us she was giving each of us our own folder that would hold our papers & that we had to be careful not to lose. It was a huge responsibility, she said.
I imagined we were each getting our own tiny robot; we’d hand it our work & it would fold it for efficient storage.
I imagined we were each getting our own tiny robot; we’d hand it our work & it would fold it for efficient storage.
That Love Island Traitors dude is giving Guy You Crushed On From Afar In High School But Then Actually Met And He Was The Heat Death of Charisma And You Were Like Oh
January 10, 2026 at 12:36 AM
That Love Island Traitors dude is giving Guy You Crushed On From Afar In High School But Then Actually Met And He Was The Heat Death of Charisma And You Were Like Oh
The PCHH newsletter drops in a few minutes, and everything I review and recommend this week has been engineered to offer an infusion of joy, of humor, of, essentially, Not This.
Sometimes this job feels like a calling. This week, especially.
Sometimes this job feels like a calling. This week, especially.
January 9, 2026 at 9:37 PM
The PCHH newsletter drops in a few minutes, and everything I review and recommend this week has been engineered to offer an infusion of joy, of humor, of, essentially, Not This.
Sometimes this job feels like a calling. This week, especially.
Sometimes this job feels like a calling. This week, especially.
F and I have the flu - he’s upstairs in bed, I’m downstairs in my office.
Whenever I cough - always honking, always twice - I wait a beat and hear him do the same. As if in response.
It’s like we’re a pair of geese out in the wild, only you know, phlegmier.
Whenever I cough - always honking, always twice - I wait a beat and hear him do the same. As if in response.
It’s like we’re a pair of geese out in the wild, only you know, phlegmier.
January 7, 2026 at 4:24 PM
F and I have the flu - he’s upstairs in bed, I’m downstairs in my office.
Whenever I cough - always honking, always twice - I wait a beat and hear him do the same. As if in response.
It’s like we’re a pair of geese out in the wild, only you know, phlegmier.
Whenever I cough - always honking, always twice - I wait a beat and hear him do the same. As if in response.
It’s like we’re a pair of geese out in the wild, only you know, phlegmier.
Max Dugan will return in Avengers: Doomsday
January 7, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Max Dugan will return in Avengers: Doomsday
the week of circling back …
… it begins
… it begins
January 5, 2026 at 2:45 PM
the week of circling back …
… it begins
… it begins
Trying to purge things by watching Robyn and David Byrne doing Dancing on My Own on SNL50 and what should be a cathartic experience is undercut by the shots of egregiously white people clapping on the 1s and 3s.
January 4, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Trying to purge things by watching Robyn and David Byrne doing Dancing on My Own on SNL50 and what should be a cathartic experience is undercut by the shots of egregiously white people clapping on the 1s and 3s.
Alex you’ve cracked this whole thing wide open
January 3, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Alex you’ve cracked this whole thing wide open
This is how we get to PFT. Stages.
January 3, 2026 at 10:50 PM
This is how we get to PFT. Stages.
Is the universe make-a-wishing me? Am I ok? Are there test results I don’t know about?
January 3, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Is the universe make-a-wishing me? Am I ok? Are there test results I don’t know about?
One time in the early days of twitter Hodgman and Urbaniak mentioned they were having lunch together and I was like CONFLUENCE OF AWESOME: NERD NABOBS NOW NOSHING but this though. This.
January 3, 2026 at 10:47 PM
One time in the early days of twitter Hodgman and Urbaniak mentioned they were having lunch together and I was like CONFLUENCE OF AWESOME: NERD NABOBS NOW NOSHING but this though. This.
KUMAIL on TASKMASTER.
I’s calling it: The all too rare CONFLUENCE OF AWESOME.
www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/8613...
I’s calling it: The all too rare CONFLUENCE OF AWESOME.
www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/8613...
Taskmaster Series 21 line-up revealed - British Comedy Guide
Amy Gledhill, Armando Iannucci, Joanna Page, Joel Dommett and Kumail Nanjiani will take part in the twenty first series of Taskmaster.
www.comedy.co.uk
January 3, 2026 at 10:43 PM
KUMAIL on TASKMASTER.
I’s calling it: The all too rare CONFLUENCE OF AWESOME.
www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/8613...
I’s calling it: The all too rare CONFLUENCE OF AWESOME.
www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/8613...
Can’t wait tau faurget saume auld acquaintances. THEY KNAUW WHY.
December 31, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Can’t wait tau faurget saume auld acquaintances. THEY KNAUW WHY.
Gonna head outside at midnight because I want my face to be the last thing 2025 sees before it dies.
December 31, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Gonna head outside at midnight because I want my face to be the last thing 2025 sees before it dies.
Michael Jay, your persona on here is perfect. Distilled to its essence. Devoutly to be wished. You are doing this the way it is meant to be done.
December 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Michael Jay, your persona on here is perfect. Distilled to its essence. Devoutly to be wished. You are doing this the way it is meant to be done.
The week between Christmas and New Years is the calendar’s perineum.
December 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The week between Christmas and New Years is the calendar’s perineum.
I may have wanted it to stay a hot guys hook up show. That was never in the cards.
December 28, 2025 at 4:07 AM
I may have wanted it to stay a hot guys hook up show. That was never in the cards.
The cottage isn’t a cottage it’s a lake house.
That’s first.
Also I loved that the mom pivoted to Shane’s endorsements immediately and adroitly. Because she would. She should.
Also, it was always gonna default to schmoopy doe-eyed love because genres are defined by their parameters.
That’s first.
Also I loved that the mom pivoted to Shane’s endorsements immediately and adroitly. Because she would. She should.
Also, it was always gonna default to schmoopy doe-eyed love because genres are defined by their parameters.
December 28, 2025 at 4:05 AM
The cottage isn’t a cottage it’s a lake house.
That’s first.
Also I loved that the mom pivoted to Shane’s endorsements immediately and adroitly. Because she would. She should.
Also, it was always gonna default to schmoopy doe-eyed love because genres are defined by their parameters.
That’s first.
Also I loved that the mom pivoted to Shane’s endorsements immediately and adroitly. Because she would. She should.
Also, it was always gonna default to schmoopy doe-eyed love because genres are defined by their parameters.