Mark Blankenship joins me to talk about Mark Yarm’s oral history of grunge.

Butterflies aren’t always free.

Again With This, Emmy oversights, and the Girls’ Bike Club’s sad prescience.

Managers, Watchmen, and more stuff I’m thinking about.

The French Connection has kept itself in the classic-films discussion for the better part of five decades based on a single car chase.

A hooker with a heart of poppies.

Eddie Martin’s portrait of Aussie skate champs Ben and Tas Pappas, All This Mayhem, is edited well enough that it takes a while to realize how little it’s telling you.

It’s hard to describe what I found so appealing about Jerre Mangione’s The Dream And The Deal.

I know poppy-fu.

I wondered, at a certain point in Nathaniel Philbrick’s detailed narrative of Custer’s Last Stand, why he was spending such a long time on other soldiers in another company, on another hill, trying to survive …