scott topics™️

scott topics™️

@scottpb.bsky.social

writer of books • founder of magazines • professor of NYU students • learner of things • listener of tracks • viewer of flicks • tired of everything

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Not only was Neagley really entertaining, but it also had the impeccable taste to use Elvis Costello’s lovely “All this Useless Beauty” as a powerful and resonant needle drop in its emotional final act ***chef’s kiss***

Today I found out that the Fort Hood shooter who will be publicly executed is paralyzed from the waist down (after being shot by responding police officers) and uses a wheelchair. Wow.

I am halfway through season 4 of Reacher and really disappointed in how awful it is, compared to the first three seasons. But I’m still in the mood for some kind of thriller, something with action and suspense. Recommendations? Anyone watch the second season of Hijack? Or The Terminal List?

Folks talking to news reporters about how hard their lives are now, while the chyron names them as “three time [47] voter” sound and look like utter fucking imbeciles.

just saw *another* clip of a woman wasting her time talking bout how she’d NEVER EVER date a bisexual guy and I said out loud, as I always do, “ma’am, trust me, you already HAVE dated a bisexual guy!” 🤷🏽‍♂️🤭

The irony of Bret Stephens, truly one of the most basic-ass prose stylists at the NYTimes opinion page, complaining about DEI, clutching pearls about whether or not the nat’l book prizes are going to good writers (as opposed to colored and queer ones) is hilarious and rich Such a fucking loser lol

Okay, you know Noah Wyle is a true Dreamgirls (and Broadway) fan because of the song he sang with Sheryl Lee and the names he dropped 😍✊🏾 (And also because he called it a “cast album” and not a soundtrack lol)

I mean, Jacob Soboroff seems like a nice enough guy, even if he is close friends with Taty Kur, but what made anyone at MSNow think he could carry, alone, a three hour show both days of the weekend? 🤷🏽‍♂️

When Stanley Crouch passed away it was my first experience with mourning the death of a (well-known) friend who’d done some important work, while also reading on social media the critiques of that person for not somehow being enough. I can only imagine how Gloria Steinem’s friends feel today.

For some reason the predictive text on safari on my iPhone has stopped appearing/working when I type things into the search window Anyone else experience this? How’d you fix it? Or is those new iPhone quirk?

Sam Stein asking Kai Bird if Roy Cohn’s closeted sexuality contributed to his “scoundrel” behavior sounds 🤦🏽‍♀️🙄 Bird: “There were plenty of powerful closeted gay men in the 1950s who did not become Roy Cohn.”

I’m know I’m old school because I don’t understand young queers getting on social media and telling all our business Straight people don’t need to know every damn thing 🤷🏽‍♂️