Kristi Coulter 

@kristicoulter
Author of EXIT INTERVIEW: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MY AMBITIOUS CAREER and NOTHING GOOD CAN COME FROM THIS.

Woohoo, it’s my annual crabby Oscar-nom thoughts!

Eleven Random Oscar Thoughts

Thank you for this! Mangold is generally not a total lout, so even knowing nothing about the real Toshi, I found his use of the Silent Asian Wife trope really distracting--I kept thinking "if nothing else, doesn't he know how this LOOKS? Didn't anyone talk to him about it?" I even started to wonder if maybe the real Toshi had been crippl…

'A Complete Unknown': The Ballad of TOSHI
IT'S MOVIE SEASON. Have a plan.
The Cureaissance is Wrecking Me Emotionally

Great commentary from

, my friend and editor at Big Technology. I’m pretty aligned with his take: deciding to end the practice of presidential endorsements is reasonable, but everything else—the timing, the interference with an already-written endorsement, and especially Jeff’s epic failure to anticipate subscriber reaction—is just disas…

Notes On The Bezos Debacle At The Washington Post