Episode 52: 11.5.25
it's ok to lib out a little sometimes
I spent the past two months traveling abroad, crafting, drinking, playing pokemon, celebrating love, and stumbling my way through the worst spoken Catalan this side of the Sagrada Familia. It’s finally time to relax, put up my aching feet, and write that 100k RPF AO3 piece about Antoni Gaudi and his very close male companions.
I hope you all had a WONDERFUL Halloween (and election season). I’m already salivating for next year’s obscure couple’s costume. Please hold that whimsy and hope close as we head into the colder months.
NEWS FIT TO PRINT:
Kim Kardashian is shocked that sometimes using ChatGPT for her lawyer homework doesn’t actually work.
In an interview with Vanity Fair (under a lie detector test, which, just like Kimberly, isn’t reliable enough for legal settings) for her new lawyer show:
“…when I am needing to know the answer to a question, I’ll take a picture and snap it and put it in [ChatGPT]. They’re always wrong. It has made me fail tests. And then I’ll get mad and I’ll yell at it and be like, “You made me fail. Why did you do this?”
Meanwhile, she probably asked ChatGPT to conceptualize some viral underwear for this fiscal quarter, because she’s now selling merkin thongs after being anti-bush her entire influencer career. This feels homophobic.
I need a full Ryan Murphy mini-series detailing Ryan Murphy’s blood oath with Kim Kardashian and why the fuck he keeps casting her to act in literally anything when we all know her face hasn’t been natural enough to move on its own in almost a decade
The show, All’s Fair (Hulu/Disney+), currently has a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, and I think calling it “written by ChatGPT” would even do AI a disservice.
In more method acting news, Daniel Day-Lewis started yapping about how much he fucking hates Brian Cox to Big Issue:
“Listen, I worked with Brian Cox once and got somehow drawn into this handbags-at-dawn conflict inadvertently… I can’t think of a single commentator who’s gobbed off about the Method that has any understanding of how it works and the intention behind it.”
Brian Cox has mentioned many times (…in, honestly, a method acting-y way) that his Succession co-star Jeremy Strong created his flavor of method acting (derogatory) by following that of DDL on the set of Lincoln (2012) and The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005).
“But I don’t think it was like that,” said DDL. “So I don’t know where the fuck that came from. Jeremy Strong is a very fine actor. I don’t know how he goes about things, but I don’t feel responsible in any way for that.”
toxic yuri but it’s just a challengers-style threeway between Brian Cox and Daniel Day-Lewis for Jeremy Cox’s soul
Widow Erica Kirk cosplayed her own assassinated husband for Halloween while doing the Republican version of flirting with JD Vance, which is so batshit I don’t want to think about it too hard or my brain will break.
I’ve found so much joy recounting the details of David Harbour and Lily Allen’s divorce to anyone with an ear and six free minutes this week. For those of you unaware, here’s the gist:
They closed up their open(-ish) relationship for good this month with an announcement made through song and it’s actively insane.
I’ve heard on good authority that David is an absolute pill to work with on set, and Lily has bragged about sexually assaulting Zoe Kravitz in the past, so you know, what the fuck ever for both of them.
Apparently, David was hooking up with some woman in New Orleans (we have 11 instagram mutuals!), and that was the straw that broke the camel’s back of Lily and David’s rule of “fucking outside the marriage is fine, you just have to do it with unknown sex workers.”
anyway, lily allen gives the energy of lena dunham and amanda palmer if they were born into British money
The Young Chicago Pope subtweeted Dasha this week for being Catholic for internet clout.
couldn’t catch me in chicago or being catholic, but I do fuck with some Dasha-bashing The Times of London reached out to some rando named Bill de Blasio for his thoughts regarding Mamdani’s mayoral campaign. Unfortunately, it was not actually ex-mayor Billiam, and instead, some random guy from Long Island named Bill, who said:
“I never once said I was the mayor. He never addressed me as the mayor,” de Blasio told another journalist investigating the story. “So I just gave him my opinion.”
the times of london just gave some rando new yorker the best story of his life. He’s gonna kill at his local VFW
Summer bop sweetheart Zara Larsson admitted last week that she was offered the opportunity to do Eurovision, but refused the opportunity, saying:
“it’s a super big stage, over 100 million people watching, but I didn’t feel like I could go on that stage and stand for those who competed, Israel. It didn’t feel right there and then. […] I’m not sad I declined and I would do it 100 times over.”
nothing feels as good as a european boycott
Jimmy Fallon keeps rattling our hold on reality. Fuck fascism, but he needs to be stopped.
NOW LISTENING:
I know this is the fourth (?) time I’ve brought her up but i stg she’s on her way to being Chappell Roan-level famous within the year (after opening for Demi Lovato this spring!). Her entire non-skip EP (The Provocateur) is perfect for cardio background.