For a cold and rainy Sunday afternoon in NYC, here's a January 1968 photo of Broadway Joe Namath, NY Jets quarterback, watching TV with his left leg elevated. The leg was in a thigh-to-ankle cast to reduce strain on his chronically inflamed knee.

I don’t live in Los Angeles, but I like to imagine that sending your screenplay to a guy you’re not interested in would be a great way to get him to leave you alone.

Yes! And: I once saw a vision-impaired person on here *very* nicely ask a movie account for alt text and get blocked. Afterward she said sadly that she just wanted to join the fun. You see something like that and unless you're heartless you start adding the alt text. (Scolding, OTOH, doesn't work.)

My wife forebore to make herself clean today, but continued in a sluttish condition.

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

early 1870s, Japan. Matsusaburo Yokoyama in Hakodate took a picture of his younger brother Matsukura

Mr. Dreyer's astounding powers of recollection aside, this post of his about the calming power of list-making, with its lovely coda, gave me some good feelings. I will make some lists today.

Modi's anti-Muslim oppression is so underreported in the West, which is a big reason dumbass Islamophobes will tell you that no one is oppressing Muslims, they're the ones who want to conquer us.

This picture by Adnan Abidi seems to sum up 2026. A woman fighting disenfranchisement of Muslims in a country being ruled by a would-be autocrat who wants to make India into an ethno-nationalist state

He was terrible but I find him fascinating. I wrote a loooong piece about him at my substack a few years ago; paywalled because it involved a lot of work, but it was good to sort out my thoughts.

I know.

Ha ha, yes!

You cannot possibly look at Sissy Spacek’s performance in Carrie and not be wowed by the ways in which that movie gets you to care about her, to root for her, and to imagine against all reason that it might work out for her. If you don’t get that, you have simply lost the plot.

October 10, 1977

October 10, 1947: Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical "Allegro" premieres at Majestic Theater NYC for 318 performances.

I’m so sorry. Loving that movie says very good things about your mom.

Finally, someone CLASSY