James Wolcott
@jwolcott.bsky.social
Writer still in quest of the perfect keyboard
"What in Gods Holy Name Is This?"
Rm Brown takes a magical mystery tour into the wacky world of NY Times YouTube. Featuring Erika Kirk, Ben Shapiro, and that loony bird Palantir guy with the flyaway hair.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK7k...
Rm Brown takes a magical mystery tour into the wacky world of NY Times YouTube. Featuring Erika Kirk, Ben Shapiro, and that loony bird Palantir guy with the flyaway hair.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK7k...
Bizarre Video Rabbithole feat Erika Kirk
YouTube video by Rm Brown
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December 15, 2025 at 6:53 PM
"What in Gods Holy Name Is This?"
Rm Brown takes a magical mystery tour into the wacky world of NY Times YouTube. Featuring Erika Kirk, Ben Shapiro, and that loony bird Palantir guy with the flyaway hair.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK7k...
Rm Brown takes a magical mystery tour into the wacky world of NY Times YouTube. Featuring Erika Kirk, Ben Shapiro, and that loony bird Palantir guy with the flyaway hair.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK7k...
I'm surprised they didn't slide Coleman Hughes or Glenn Loury in there just for the optics.
There are no black people at the Erika Kirk Town Hall hosted by Bari Weiss and CBS.
This is a mistake that should be impossible for any network to make.
This is a mistake that should be impossible for any network to make.
December 14, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I'm surprised they didn't slide Coleman Hughes or Glenn Loury in there just for the optics.
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Tom Verlaine at CBGB, 1978. Recently I bought a book from the carts outside the Strand, where he stopped almost every day. (He had so many books they’re still being sold.) As I paid his song Kingdom Come came on my headphones 🤔
December 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Tom Verlaine at CBGB, 1978. Recently I bought a book from the carts outside the Strand, where he stopped almost every day. (He had so many books they’re still being sold.) As I paid his song Kingdom Come came on my headphones 🤔
The Christmas season doesn't officially begin until Kylie breaks out the sparkles and snowflakes and this be-ith that day.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B5Z...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B5Z...
Kylie Minogue - XMAS (Amazon Music Original) (Official Video)
YouTube video by Kylie Minogue
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December 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The Christmas season doesn't officially begin until Kylie breaks out the sparkles and snowflakes and this be-ith that day.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B5Z...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B5Z...
"Can Erika Kirk help mend a divided America?" asks CBS in all insincerity. I mean, have you listened to this woman being interviewed? Pausing to gaze unto the heavens, Kirk can barely complete a sentence much less unite divided factions. As for Bari Weiss: behold our new Barbara Wah-wah.
December 11, 2025 at 10:12 PM
"Can Erika Kirk help mend a divided America?" asks CBS in all insincerity. I mean, have you listened to this woman being interviewed? Pausing to gaze unto the heavens, Kirk can barely complete a sentence much less unite divided factions. As for Bari Weiss: behold our new Barbara Wah-wah.
Whatever one thinks of Candace Owens, the potency of her chaos magic is not to be denied. She has fissured the alt-right into pissy factions.
December 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Whatever one thinks of Candace Owens, the potency of her chaos magic is not to be denied. She has fissured the alt-right into pissy factions.
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Can We Stop Talking About Olivia Nuzzi... charliesykes.substack.com/p/can-we-sto...
Can We Stop Talking About Olivia Nuzzi...
...and start asking questions about RFK, Jr.?
charliesykes.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Can We Stop Talking About Olivia Nuzzi... charliesykes.substack.com/p/can-we-sto...
The canonization of Charlie Kirk is a futile mission--he's already faded as a Christ martyr--and Bari Weiss assembling a town hall in his memory is more evidence of how bubbled up and tone deaf she is.
The right wanted civil war after Kirk's death & can't take nah for an answer.
The right wanted civil war after Kirk's death & can't take nah for an answer.
December 4, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The canonization of Charlie Kirk is a futile mission--he's already faded as a Christ martyr--and Bari Weiss assembling a town hall in his memory is more evidence of how bubbled up and tone deaf she is.
The right wanted civil war after Kirk's death & can't take nah for an answer.
The right wanted civil war after Kirk's death & can't take nah for an answer.
Paul Dano was terrific in Escape at Dannemora and held his own with Benicio del Toro, no small task, so maybe Tarantino ought to button it up a bit.
December 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Paul Dano was terrific in Escape at Dannemora and held his own with Benicio del Toro, no small task, so maybe Tarantino ought to button it up a bit.
Among other things one can glean from Bari Weiss hosting a town hall starring Erika Kirk is that the term "town hall" has become utterly meaningless, a media catch-all.
If Weiss wants to go nova, she should have Candace Owens make a surprise appearance at the top of a ramp flanked by fiery torches.
If Weiss wants to go nova, she should have Candace Owens make a surprise appearance at the top of a ramp flanked by fiery torches.
December 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Among other things one can glean from Bari Weiss hosting a town hall starring Erika Kirk is that the term "town hall" has become utterly meaningless, a media catch-all.
If Weiss wants to go nova, she should have Candace Owens make a surprise appearance at the top of a ramp flanked by fiery torches.
If Weiss wants to go nova, she should have Candace Owens make a surprise appearance at the top of a ramp flanked by fiery torches.
Funny how Tim Miller is in sharp focus while Olivia Nuzzi is lemony aglow as if shot through a Doris Day filter.
this is extraordinary. too many people in my profession have circled the wagons around someone who lacks the moral sense of a child
@timmiller.bsky.social: "He's being nominated to HHS Secretary…You had information that you could have shared…and you didn't share anything about him. Why? Did you still love him?"
Olivia Nuzzi: "I don't know how to responsibly handle this on camera." lnk.thebulwark.com/4ozkaz8?utm_...
Olivia Nuzzi: "I don't know how to responsibly handle this on camera." lnk.thebulwark.com/4ozkaz8?utm_...
December 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Funny how Tim Miller is in sharp focus while Olivia Nuzzi is lemony aglow as if shot through a Doris Day filter.
Ryan Lizza, the rat fink's rat fink.
December 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Ryan Lizza, the rat fink's rat fink.
"We have opened the creaking Gates of Hell to bring you this awesome lineup..."
It's like a meeting of the Legion of Doom.
New: Hillary Clinton will be speaking at an event hosted by Israel Hayom (Israel's most read newspaper, run by Israeli-American billionaire & Trump megadonor Miriam Adelson).
She'll join John Fetterman, Eric Adams, Trump UN Ambassador Mike Waltz, Biden official Amos Hochstein, and Israeli officials
She'll join John Fetterman, Eric Adams, Trump UN Ambassador Mike Waltz, Biden official Amos Hochstein, and Israeli officials
December 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
"We have opened the creaking Gates of Hell to bring you this awesome lineup..."
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The worst annual event in American journalism. I refuse to click on this
November 27, 2025 at 11:18 AM
The worst annual event in American journalism. I refuse to click on this
Jesse Pinkman voice: "She wasn't covering the RFK jr campaign, she was covering *for* the RFK jr campaign."
November 27, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Jesse Pinkman voice: "She wasn't covering the RFK jr campaign, she was covering *for* the RFK jr campaign."
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Candy Darling was born 81 years ago today.
November 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Candy Darling was born 81 years ago today.
As a columnist at Vanity Fair who served under four presidents (I mean, editors), I ought to have some residual insight as to what’s going on at that wacky spacecraft but, nope, not a clue.
November 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
As a columnist at Vanity Fair who served under four presidents (I mean, editors), I ought to have some residual insight as to what’s going on at that wacky spacecraft but, nope, not a clue.
Maureen Dowd flitted through my mind because Thanksgiving is coming up, so I'm told, & that's when she annually turns the Times column over to her MAGA brother, whose turkey stuffing is between his ears. Will MoDo be slumming it again this Thanksgiving or will an editor finally say Enough already?
November 23, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Maureen Dowd flitted through my mind because Thanksgiving is coming up, so I'm told, & that's when she annually turns the Times column over to her MAGA brother, whose turkey stuffing is between his ears. Will MoDo be slumming it again this Thanksgiving or will an editor finally say Enough already?
Maureen Dowd has been around so long that her influence appears to have been diluted but she's had an absolutely dire effect on political journalism, helping produce a corn field of Mini-Mo's.
November 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Maureen Dowd has been around so long that her influence appears to have been diluted but she's had an absolutely dire effect on political journalism, helping produce a corn field of Mini-Mo's.
I never trusted Ryan Lizza's smirk. I always assumed that as a political journalist he was another Mark Halperin in the making, and two of them is two too many. Halperin, after his #MeToo fall, oozed back into standard pundit hackery while Lizza is oozing in every direction.
November 23, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I never trusted Ryan Lizza's smirk. I always assumed that as a political journalist he was another Mark Halperin in the making, and two of them is two too many. Halperin, after his #MeToo fall, oozed back into standard pundit hackery while Lizza is oozing in every direction.
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The soul-stirring high of putting on a new pair of pajamas.
November 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The soul-stirring high of putting on a new pair of pajamas.
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Turner Classic Movies is airing an 11-film exploration of trans identities in movies hosted by the authors of Corpses, Fools, & Monsters (great recent history of the topic) starting tomorrow at 8
Trans Images on Film
November 17 & 24 | 11 FilmsWith the recent publication of “Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema,” Turner Classic Movies sheds light on the various perspe...
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November 16, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Turner Classic Movies is airing an 11-film exploration of trans identities in movies hosted by the authors of Corpses, Fools, & Monsters (great recent history of the topic) starting tomorrow at 8
Yes, agree, and needless to say Molly Haskell is never wrong.
One of the best film studies books about a topic that has been overlooked for too long. Highly recommend.
It's transgender awareness week, and if you ever wanted to learn more about the history of transness in cinema, you could pick up our book CORPSES, FOOLS AND MONSTERS at your local library or purchase a copy. We wrote this book for trans people like us. Thank you.
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bookshop.org/p/books/corp...
November 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Yes, agree, and needless to say Molly Haskell is never wrong.
Not digging PLURIBUS, if I'm savagely honest. Whole project seems off--overscaled, overconceptualized, overchoreographed (those delivery trucks), the set pieces show-offy self-contained & strangely weightless. It's all blatantly schematic, which Gilligan's always avoided, & the dialogue is crud.
November 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Not digging PLURIBUS, if I'm savagely honest. Whole project seems off--overscaled, overconceptualized, overchoreographed (those delivery trucks), the set pieces show-offy self-contained & strangely weightless. It's all blatantly schematic, which Gilligan's always avoided, & the dialogue is crud.