Alec Kubas-Meyer
@alecjkm.net
Aspiring multi-hyphenate doing little to get myself there. Writer of The Week I Review newsletter: https://newsletter.theweekireview.com/
For my last newsletter of the year, I reviewed @juliusgoat.bsky.social's The Revisionaries, which helped me understand why I have so much trouble reading Fantasy/hard sci-fi: newsletter.theweekireview.com/archive/issu...
Finally understanding my problems with Fantasy
A few years ago, I was sitting on a train talking to the second-most-interesting person I’ve ever met: a guy who had some genuinely compelling story about...
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December 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
For my last newsletter of the year, I reviewed @juliusgoat.bsky.social's The Revisionaries, which helped me understand why I have so much trouble reading Fantasy/hard sci-fi: newsletter.theweekireview.com/archive/issu...
I'm bothered by the of the Oscars' shift from broadcast to streaming in large part because streaming is where I am and where I am isn't where awards should be... and that has a bunch of terrible implications about the future of the medium as algorithms collapse the divide between slop and cinema. :(
The Oscars and I Shouldn't Share a Platform
So the biggest story in Entertainment today is the announcement that starting in 2029, in its 101st year, the Oscars will not just be available on streaming...
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December 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I'm bothered by the of the Oscars' shift from broadcast to streaming in large part because streaming is where I am and where I am isn't where awards should be... and that has a bunch of terrible implications about the future of the medium as algorithms collapse the divide between slop and cinema. :(
Wake Up Dead Man real good newsletter.theweekireview.com/archive/issu...
When Your Fun Murder Mystery Gets God In It
Some of my reviews assume you’ve seen the movie and talk openly about the whole dang thing. This one does not. I don’t like how much time I spend thinking...
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December 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Wake Up Dead Man real good newsletter.theweekireview.com/archive/issu...
I listened to my top artist more than all but 81 people in the world this year. On the one hand: very cool! On the other hand... kinda weird, right?
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How should I feel being daine's #82 fan?
Getting the woke shit out of the way: Spotify bad, but I’ve been paying for other people's subscriptions for years through a family plan, and most will not...
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December 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I listened to my top artist more than all but 81 people in the world this year. On the one hand: very cool! On the other hand... kinda weird, right?
newsletter.theweekireview.com/archive/issu...
newsletter.theweekireview.com/archive/issu...
hi @deezerdevs.bsky.social why don't the mobile and desktop apps stay in sync and also why the accusatory "You can't use Deezer in two places at once" message when I switch between them? I don't want to use it in two places at once. I want to use it wherever I am on whichever device I'm using.
December 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
hi @deezerdevs.bsky.social why don't the mobile and desktop apps stay in sync and also why the accusatory "You can't use Deezer in two places at once" message when I switch between them? I don't want to use it in two places at once. I want to use it wherever I am on whichever device I'm using.
I have officially relaunched my YouTube channel as an email newsletter. Hooray!
I started it off with (technically) a review of a movie that makes me feel a whole lot of things: newsletter.theweekireview.com/archive/issu...
I started it off with (technically) a review of a movie that makes me feel a whole lot of things: newsletter.theweekireview.com/archive/issu...
The Friends We Make Just for a Day
A month and a half ago, I spent a day with a woman I had never seen before and will almost certainly never see again. It was a great day – among the best of...
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November 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I have officially relaunched my YouTube channel as an email newsletter. Hooray!
I started it off with (technically) a review of a movie that makes me feel a whole lot of things: newsletter.theweekireview.com/archive/issu...
I started it off with (technically) a review of a movie that makes me feel a whole lot of things: newsletter.theweekireview.com/archive/issu...
My cat has stopped jumping down over me and started jumping down onto me. I'm very glad we put her on a diet.
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
My cat has stopped jumping down over me and started jumping down onto me. I'm very glad we put her on a diet.
I think everyone who has to sit within six rows of a baby on a plane should get a 10-60% discount on their tickets, depending on proximity.
November 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I think everyone who has to sit within six rows of a baby on a plane should get a 10-60% discount on their tickets, depending on proximity.
I may post a handful elsewhere, but I'm using my own website to host the highlight photos from my monthlong trip throughout Asia:
www.alecjkm.net/photography
www.alecjkm.net/photography
Photography — Alec Kubas-Meyer Dot Net
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October 26, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I may post a handful elsewhere, but I'm using my own website to host the highlight photos from my monthlong trip throughout Asia:
www.alecjkm.net/photography
www.alecjkm.net/photography
My favorite thing about Taiwan is that it's a country. My least favorite is that Americans I met in HK told me there was Pooh/CCP merch everywhere and there's not.
(Sorrynotsorry to a future self that wanted to visit China, a completely separate place with no legitimate claim to authority here.)
(Sorrynotsorry to a future self that wanted to visit China, a completely separate place with no legitimate claim to authority here.)
October 18, 2025 at 1:54 AM
My favorite thing about Taiwan is that it's a country. My least favorite is that Americans I met in HK told me there was Pooh/CCP merch everywhere and there's not.
(Sorrynotsorry to a future self that wanted to visit China, a completely separate place with no legitimate claim to authority here.)
(Sorrynotsorry to a future self that wanted to visit China, a completely separate place with no legitimate claim to authority here.)
A man told me that I give off really positive energy so clearly I've been on vacation too long.
October 17, 2025 at 11:44 AM
A man told me that I give off really positive energy so clearly I've been on vacation too long.
I'm utterly baffled by how the traffic lights work in Bangkok. This light was red for literally-not-figuratively FIVE minutes and then was green for 30 seconds and has been red for at least five minutes since. Like what the actual fuck. How is anyone supposed to get to make a reservation here.
September 26, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I'm utterly baffled by how the traffic lights work in Bangkok. This light was red for literally-not-figuratively FIVE minutes and then was green for 30 seconds and has been red for at least five minutes since. Like what the actual fuck. How is anyone supposed to get to make a reservation here.
I have been working on this script for two and a half years. A lot has changed in that time... much of it quite bad. But the video is good, so I'll take that: youtu.be/JmsZhpDHWsE?...
Algorithms called me autistic.
YouTube video by The Week I Review
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September 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I have been working on this script for two and a half years. A lot has changed in that time... much of it quite bad. But the video is good, so I'll take that: youtu.be/JmsZhpDHWsE?...
Christopher Nolan should really bring an IMAX camera to these SpaceX launches so he can use the inevitable explosion in a future movie.
June 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Christopher Nolan should really bring an IMAX camera to these SpaceX launches so he can use the inevitable explosion in a future movie.
Used Perplexity this morning to find out what generative systems say my politics are so I know what to expect next time I talk to CBP.
I look forward to requesting a lawyer.
I look forward to requesting a lawyer.
May 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Used Perplexity this morning to find out what generative systems say my politics are so I know what to expect next time I talk to CBP.
I look forward to requesting a lawyer.
I look forward to requesting a lawyer.
A German tourist popped into the @50501newyork.bsky.social march earlier and asked me some questions about the context in which we were. (First question: is the Democratic Party involved in the organization?)
And whatever, I did my best to form good answers, but his last question hit pretty hard:
And whatever, I did my best to form good answers, but his last question hit pretty hard:
April 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
A German tourist popped into the @50501newyork.bsky.social march earlier and asked me some questions about the context in which we were. (First question: is the Democratic Party involved in the organization?)
And whatever, I did my best to form good answers, but his last question hit pretty hard:
And whatever, I did my best to form good answers, but his last question hit pretty hard:
I don't recall any film prior to Sinners having, like, visibly Color Graded IMAX film (Nolan, etc. films always go for a much more "normal" look), and I think that's very cool.
April 19, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I don't recall any film prior to Sinners having, like, visibly Color Graded IMAX film (Nolan, etc. films always go for a much more "normal" look), and I think that's very cool.
Nothing like fucking up your leg and needing a cane, even temporarily, to make you realize how fundamentally inaccessible places are.
Jeez.
Jeez.
April 8, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Nothing like fucking up your leg and needing a cane, even temporarily, to make you realize how fundamentally inaccessible places are.
Jeez.
Jeez.
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we believe we are special and we simply are not
March 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
we believe we are special and we simply are not
Are marketing departments saying "From the guy behind Suicide Squad" because they assume people will think of the actually good James Gunn movie and not the absolutely fucking awful movie they're really talking about?
March 20, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Are marketing departments saying "From the guy behind Suicide Squad" because they assume people will think of the actually good James Gunn movie and not the absolutely fucking awful movie they're really talking about?
At first I was surprised that ~95% of the people at the Stand Up for Science rally have jobs directly impacted by the federal funding cuts, but then I remembered that most of the folks like me whose jobs aren't affected... are currently at those jobs.
March 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
At first I was surprised that ~95% of the people at the Stand Up for Science rally have jobs directly impacted by the federal funding cuts, but then I remembered that most of the folks like me whose jobs aren't affected... are currently at those jobs.
Funny to have watched Oppenheimer on the big screen again on the day that the US president showed the world unequivocally that he is a Russian asset.
March 1, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Funny to have watched Oppenheimer on the big screen again on the day that the US president showed the world unequivocally that he is a Russian asset.
My actual favorite movie for several years and still a favorite.
December 25, 2024 at 7:48 PM
My actual favorite movie for several years and still a favorite.
Yesterday a colleague said we were "Blue-skying" in the sense of having wild ideas and I said "No that's called skeeting" and he believed me and now I'm terrified he's going to say that in a professional context not knowing.
November 12, 2024 at 4:47 PM
Yesterday a colleague said we were "Blue-skying" in the sense of having wild ideas and I said "No that's called skeeting" and he believed me and now I'm terrified he's going to say that in a professional context not knowing.