This is a weekly (sometimes) list of people I am mad at. This is the list for November 14, 2025.
My dad keeps returning laptops. He’s on his fifth. I asked him why he’s doing this over and over, to which he yelled, “I AM A PRODUCT OF MY TIME.” Then got mad at me for “wasting paper” (using a single Post-it).
Thinking a lot about the discourse around whether it’s embarrassing to have a boyfriend. It is, but only if you’re really fighting to keep him at all. Otherwise, it’s like owning a dog. Some people like having dogs, and it’s entirely their choice to have someone’s wet nose dig into the small of their back while they sleep. But you can’t be out here begging the dog to like you. You can’t put in emotional work into a dog. It is mortifying to, say, worry over the dog’s fondness for you while in therapy or to take the dog to a pet-psychic to understand why he keeps ripping up your shoes. You can feed the dog and pet the dog and be patient with the dog, but you can never be caught doing more emotional work than him. Like, he’s a dog. Liking you is literally his entire thing.
Ben Affleck. I don’t need to see Kiss of the Spider Woman to know it’s all somehow his fault.
I’m sure I’ve said this before, but if Isaac Chotiner called me, I would sandpaper off my fingerprints and get a head transplant. And yet! People keep taking his phone calls to have their lives fundamentally upended by his very basic questions about the most mundane and reasonable civil liberties.
Still mad at Anderson Cooper for not defending Kathy Griffin.
All’s Fair is pretty bad, as many of the reviews have already stated. My only question is if the budget was so big, why did they have to go into the 20th Century Fox archives and dig out the Mrs. Doubtfire wig for Glenn Close?
Scamfluencers is on an encore week, but we’ll be back soon with new episodes. In the meantime, can I offer you a Wayne LaPierre story during this trying time?
My latest at Slate—a profile of Kathy Griffin and a tour through her bonkers Malibu house—is a good read if you’re looking to avoid work. Which you shouldn’t be. We are in a recession.
Have you seen that new magic heist movie? I sure have.
