Sure enough, the votes were tallied, Ryan Seacrest opened the envelope or however that reveal happens, and he triumphantly said into the mic, “The winner… of American Idol is… David-“ and then the recording ended.

It’s Friday o clock somewhere

Now begins a stretch of consecutive days where I don’t know what day it is

One Winged Eyeliner

Truly very little better than a good director’s commentary

A podcaster I used to listen to correctly called it out back during the first trump administration - the point where it became clear that politics will never be the same was the first time they were accused of something that they factually did, they responded, “no we didn’t,” and nobody pushed back

The problem imo isn’t so much the essayists themselves as the people who don’t form opinions until their favorite video essayist tells them what opinion to have

Idk that’s how they described it

I had a friend who “infiltrated” a boomer Facebook group and told me that a lot of them were under the impression it means “anti-first amendment”