TODAY:
- ‘Rage bait’ named Oxford word of the year 2025
- Paramount Preparing “Hostile Bid” for Warner Bros. as Trump DOJ “Concerned” About Netflix Deal
- Donald Trump’s bleak, incoherent foreign-policy strategy (not as incoherent as the headline wants you to think)
- 15 buildings by the late Frank Gehry
I need to get around 10 pages of script and probably one rough outline out the door today. I also have 3000 unread stories in my RSS reader! Most of me is ready to curl up somewhere with a book.
Currently rebuilding the board for the newsletter, which returns on 11 January 2026.