Catherine Rhodes
@catherinerhodes.bsky.social
Editor & Publisher. Owl Mama. Proud Angeleno. Reader of books, baker of cakes. Amateur historian. Satoshi is female. Music from Radiohead to Chappell Roan to Mahler. Give Andor the Emmy. Slava Ukraini.
I rest my case about the 90s. Damn.
The Billboard Modern Rock tracks from 30 years ago
Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ
January 5, 2026 at 2:37 AM
I rest my case about the 90s. Damn.
I’m trying to think of another movie that had the emotional power and deep catharsis of Hamnet, and coming up empty.
Hamnet is a masterpiece. Give Jessie Buckley the Oscar.
Hamnet is a masterpiece. Give Jessie Buckley the Oscar.
January 4, 2026 at 5:44 AM
I’m trying to think of another movie that had the emotional power and deep catharsis of Hamnet, and coming up empty.
Hamnet is a masterpiece. Give Jessie Buckley the Oscar.
Hamnet is a masterpiece. Give Jessie Buckley the Oscar.
Yup. Worrying that you’ll sleep thru the alarm. Say no to early flights.
You know that thing where you have an early flight and have to get up at 4 am and now you can't sleep because you have to get up?
Yeah, that
Yeah, that
January 4, 2026 at 5:41 AM
Yup. Worrying that you’ll sleep thru the alarm. Say no to early flights.
Geese keeps popping up on “10 Best Albums” lists for 2025, and I just don’t get it.
Geese is like middling Radiohead, but if Thom Yorke were a donkey.
Geese is like middling Radiohead, but if Thom Yorke were a donkey.
January 2, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Geese keeps popping up on “10 Best Albums” lists for 2025, and I just don’t get it.
Geese is like middling Radiohead, but if Thom Yorke were a donkey.
Geese is like middling Radiohead, but if Thom Yorke were a donkey.
Just watched If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, about an exhausted mother at the breaking point.
What I don’t understand is why the Rose Byrne character, a therapist with a military officer husband, wouldn’t hire someone to help her. What about family or friends? Seems she’d have some kind of network.
What I don’t understand is why the Rose Byrne character, a therapist with a military officer husband, wouldn’t hire someone to help her. What about family or friends? Seems she’d have some kind of network.
December 30, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Just watched If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, about an exhausted mother at the breaking point.
What I don’t understand is why the Rose Byrne character, a therapist with a military officer husband, wouldn’t hire someone to help her. What about family or friends? Seems she’d have some kind of network.
What I don’t understand is why the Rose Byrne character, a therapist with a military officer husband, wouldn’t hire someone to help her. What about family or friends? Seems she’d have some kind of network.
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
At the Disney Hall, we were treated to a delightful orchestral version of Duke Ellington’s interpretation of “The Nutcracker.” Such fun to hear jazz played with a full orchestra.
December 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
At the Disney Hall, we were treated to a delightful orchestral version of Duke Ellington’s interpretation of “The Nutcracker.” Such fun to hear jazz played with a full orchestra.
Does The Jesus and Mary Chain count as Christmas music?
(Their seminal album Psycho Candy was released in 1985, but my fav record is Damage and Joy from 2022. Love that a band is doing their best work IMHO 37 years after their first album. I could listen to the track “Los Feliz” on endless loop.)
(Their seminal album Psycho Candy was released in 1985, but my fav record is Damage and Joy from 2022. Love that a band is doing their best work IMHO 37 years after their first album. I could listen to the track “Los Feliz” on endless loop.)
December 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Does The Jesus and Mary Chain count as Christmas music?
(Their seminal album Psycho Candy was released in 1985, but my fav record is Damage and Joy from 2022. Love that a band is doing their best work IMHO 37 years after their first album. I could listen to the track “Los Feliz” on endless loop.)
(Their seminal album Psycho Candy was released in 1985, but my fav record is Damage and Joy from 2022. Love that a band is doing their best work IMHO 37 years after their first album. I could listen to the track “Los Feliz” on endless loop.)
Fav movies of the year (so far), have all been in the horror genre:
Weapons
Sinners
28 Years Later
Oh, and One Battle After Another
(a different brand of horror).
Weapons
Sinners
28 Years Later
Oh, and One Battle After Another
(a different brand of horror).
December 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Fav movies of the year (so far), have all been in the horror genre:
Weapons
Sinners
28 Years Later
Oh, and One Battle After Another
(a different brand of horror).
Weapons
Sinners
28 Years Later
Oh, and One Battle After Another
(a different brand of horror).
Trevor Noah has a stand-up bit about how traffic lights and pedestrian walk signals in South Africa are more suggestion than law.
After two weeks in Cape Town, can verify.
After two weeks in Cape Town, can verify.
December 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Trevor Noah has a stand-up bit about how traffic lights and pedestrian walk signals in South Africa are more suggestion than law.
After two weeks in Cape Town, can verify.
After two weeks in Cape Town, can verify.
Finally got around to seeing the new Downton Abbey movie on the 16-hour flight from Capetown to New York.
Must admit to crying at the end when Lady Sybil came on.
Must admit to crying at the end when Lady Sybil came on.
December 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Finally got around to seeing the new Downton Abbey movie on the 16-hour flight from Capetown to New York.
Must admit to crying at the end when Lady Sybil came on.
Must admit to crying at the end when Lady Sybil came on.
Me, me, me, it’s always about me.
December 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Me, me, me, it’s always about me.
He really has no idea how to be a human being.
December 15, 2025 at 4:57 AM
He really has no idea how to be a human being.
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The Soulless Train
December 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The Soulless Train
Certainly not waiting for.
And also, why is "thinking Pluribus is putting one over on its viewers" so enraging?
I feel like I'm getting a lot of posts from people who majored in film studies or visual arts and are freaking out at the one guy in class who says that maybe Godard wasn't that great.
I feel like I'm getting a lot of posts from people who majored in film studies or visual arts and are freaking out at the one guy in class who says that maybe Godard wasn't that great.
Why is Tom being singled out as someone who is not allowed to discuss media and content?
December 15, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Certainly not waiting for.
Tacky, tacky.
“Good to see you again. Yes, your table is ready. Please follow me.”
December 14, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Tacky, tacky.
This is one of the top five most complicated things I’ve ever made.
Classic beef Wellington is a technical feat in which a tenderloin is topped with foie gras or mushroom duxelles, then wrapped in puff pastry and baked. This vegetarian version is less exacting yet just as impressive. nyti.ms/4q0v4is
Vegetarian Mushroom Wellington Recipe
Classic beef Wellington is a technical feat in which a tenderloin is topped with foie gras or mushroom duxelles, then wrapped in puff pastry and baked This vegetarian version is less exacting yet just as impressive Seared portobello mushrooms are layered with apple cider-caramelized onions and sautéed mushrooms, which are seasoned with soy sauce for flavor and bolstered with walnuts for texture
nyti.ms
December 14, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This is one of the top five most complicated things I’ve ever made.
Intrusive and menacing police state tactics.
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Intrusive and menacing police state tactics.
And restore Jackie Kennedy’s Rose Garden.
I will repeat this every single day for the next three years: Any Democrat running for president in 2028 must pledge to immediately tear down/bulldoze/demolish Trump’s ballroom and fully restore the East Wing and any other piece of the People’s House Trump has or will destroy.
December 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
And restore Jackie Kennedy’s Rose Garden.
Perfect.
December 7, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Perfect.
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FBI Director Kash Patel: "When you attack our nation's capital, you attack the very being of our way of life. This FBI and this DOJ stand here to tell you we will always refute it and combat it."
Donald Trump pardoned over 1,500 rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol...
Donald Trump pardoned over 1,500 rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol...
December 7, 2025 at 1:03 AM
FBI Director Kash Patel: "When you attack our nation's capital, you attack the very being of our way of life. This FBI and this DOJ stand here to tell you we will always refute it and combat it."
Donald Trump pardoned over 1,500 rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol...
Donald Trump pardoned over 1,500 rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol...
🤦♀️
A reporter asks if Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist. Mamdani starts to give a delicate answer.
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
November 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
🤦♀️
Next up: Hell freezes over.
Q: Just days ago you referred to Trump as a 'despot.' Will you retract?
MAMDANI: We're both very clear on our positions & what I really appreciate about the president is our meeting focused not on places of disagreement but shared purpose we have
TRUMP: I've been called much worse than a despot
MAMDANI: We're both very clear on our positions & what I really appreciate about the president is our meeting focused not on places of disagreement but shared purpose we have
TRUMP: I've been called much worse than a despot
November 21, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Next up: Hell freezes over.
Is that a bruise on the side of her face? That she’s trying to cover up with sunglasses in the other shots?
Maybe Melania is advising her on renegotiating her prenup?
👀
November 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Is that a bruise on the side of her face? That she’s trying to cover up with sunglasses in the other shots?
This feeble-minded angry octogenarian is the unitary executive of the richest, most powerful nation in the history of civilization.
Republicans, if this senile cretin launches a nuclear weapon in spite, it’s on you.
Please invoke the 25th Amendment.
Republicans, if this senile cretin launches a nuclear weapon in spite, it’s on you.
Please invoke the 25th Amendment.
Folks who have experience being around the elderly with dementia will find this familiar.
Belligerence and aggression are common symptoms.
Belligerence and aggression are common symptoms.
November 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This feeble-minded angry octogenarian is the unitary executive of the richest, most powerful nation in the history of civilization.
Republicans, if this senile cretin launches a nuclear weapon in spite, it’s on you.
Please invoke the 25th Amendment.
Republicans, if this senile cretin launches a nuclear weapon in spite, it’s on you.
Please invoke the 25th Amendment.