Head to the afterparties: Fritzes 2026

Last year I managed to publish very little to the blog in general because life. This year I hope I made up for it with *…counting…* 14 posts across three months and more than 70,00 words of analysis, neologisms, and celebration. It was a rich collection of movies. I’m not done. I already have more posts and analysis scheduled for later this year. While I did all of that, I got caught up in making some improvements to the site. I fixed a lot of special-character typ0z and missing images. (n.b. Many, but not all.) I got rid of a lot of “update” posts—as opposed to that aren’t really relevant now. (Even this one may get chopped in time.) Claude helped me write some WordPress shortcode for forward-looking links that announce in text when a post is scheduled, and that automatically convert to a link once it goes live. This saves me from having to remember to go back and update links. I also switched to a service to let readers know where a given show can be watched, and it is true as of…

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