simply incredible hypothetical from child’s 7th grade health class textbook
PAPPADEMAS
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PAPPADEMAS
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culture editor @gqmagazine. next book FRIENDS OF THE DEVIL w/ Joan LeMay Fall 2026 from Penguin Random House. used to think that the day would never come.
- saddest line in Kilmer’s book is his last thought on turning down the lead in BLUE VELVET: “Maybe it’s not too late. Maybe one day we can finally work together. A character who lives up on Mulholland and doesn’t speak much? David, I am so sorry I never explained myself.”
the gradual reveal that Pete is the wokest person at the company is one of the show's many masterstrokes- everyone who got into magazine writing after, like, 2007 reading this
I'm screaming. - Replying to @PAPPADEMASthis book does ask some genuinely important questions, such as: if you’re home alone and splatter bleach in your eyes, should you tough it out, or call your parents, like a narc
- [Levon Helm first verse of “Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” voice] “Michael Caine is the name and I’m very afraid of Bane”
- every third thing on the timeline being an ad for like a rejected Shark Tank product is actually amazing, it’s like we’re tweeting on daytime TV
- recommending NIGHT MOVES, a great downbeat 70s thriller with Gene as the type of PI who’s down for a little postcoital fondue
- this is quite literally what I get for downloading something tagged as a Megalopolis screener—honestly well played, hats off
- he’s gonna make it through this year then he’ll kill you
- Patrick Bateman’s music takes were a parody of ‘80s Rolling Stone record-review clichés, in 2024 he’d be like “Hip to be Square is a perfect Sad Boi Summer bop that holds space for trauma”
- Croz looks like he thinks he’s hallucinating Tom Jones being thereTom Jones sits in with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and cranks up "Long Time Gone" to eleven. You’ll never hear a more rockin’ version.
00:00 - Replying to @caitiedelaneywe’re just curious about what Sheldon was like when he was young
