Nate Jones

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Senior writer at Vulture and New York Magazine.

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This story is like Forrest Gump for the year 2020. It's all in here: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Can't spend one more second worrying about a well-meaning but moribund institution torn between ripping it up or and soldiering on --- I'm going to go watch Gareth Southgate's England.

Dropping out isn't enough. For the good of the nation, Biden must commit ritual seppuku on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. My column:

There's an Orbán on the Hungarian team and a Hoxha on Albania. I know it's probably a coincidence but I love to imagine an unofficial UEFA policy for relatives of notorious autocrats.

What's the over/under for Chappell Roan songs at the Mermaid Parade

My old building!

Some very nice examples of midcentury brutalist architecture on Roosevelt Island, NYC r/brutalism

I married into a swimming family, which means I am currently enjoying the Sorkin-ass names of the US Olympic Trials.

more like kathy yokel

I bring the same weary determination to bagging up the recycling that Tom Ripley does to covering up murder.

There is the world of "is," and the world of "should be." And since he showed up, Donald Trump taught Americans to live in the world of "is."

In the mag this week, some colleagues and I came up with the New Rules of Hollywood Stardom. If you like a blurb, that means I wrote it; if you didn't, it was someone else! www.vulture.com/article/how-...

21 Ways to Hack Stardomwww.vulture.com After a dry period, a new crop of A-listers is rising in Hollywood — and doing it differently this time.

The latest dispatch from the Tortured Bloggers Department: www.vulture.com/article/all-...

All 245 Taylor Swift Songs, Rankedwww.vulture.com There are at least ten stone-cold classics in her discography.

She hoyt on my schermer till I horn

I have lived long enough to see footage from my last day of high school somehow become fodder for a YouTube nostalgia account: youtube.com/shorts/VfaXo...

School 1 year before Facebook became popular #2005 #nostalgiayoutube.com

Tired: Challengers needs more sex. Wired: The male characters need to switch names. www.vulture.com/article/thes...

The Guys in Challengers Should Have Switched Nameswww.vulture.com Mike Faist is clearly a Patrick Zweig, while Josh O’Connor is a total Art Donaldson.

Sometimes you pitch a dumb story just for fun: www.vulture.com/article/who-...

Who Would Win an Actual A24 Civil War?www.vulture.com A24’s Civil War never gets into specifics about its divided America, so we imagined our own A24 civil war.

Surveying the vibes, today might be the last day in which it was possible to publish this post, so read it while it still applies! www.vulture.com/article/how-...

How Taylor Swift Won Back the Publicwww.vulture.com The reputation era was the last time the pop star let someone else define her. Here’s how she rebuilt her image.

Turns out the whale kills them all, who knew

"I met the author of The Bad Take and found them unimpressive" is the prestige-media equivalent of "I never liked the Canceled Artist's work anyway."

I got lunch with David Krumholtz the day after the Oscars, and this story has everything: a gigantic plate of pork, candid talk about career highs and lows, and a cameo from an '80s pop legend. www.vulture.com/article/davi...

David Krumholtz’s True Hollywood Storieswww.vulture.com The Oppenheimer actor wasn’t invited to the Oscars, but he’s still got a lot on his plate.

This whole Kate Middleton mishegoss has really illustrated the Internet's ability to be terrible and invasive to someone while at the same time pretending you're on their side.

Politics is crazy. My 80-year-old father-in-law knows who is Grimes is.

Oscar predictions, including a case for why Jonathan Glazer should thank Emmanuel Macron: www.vulture.com/article/osca...

Vulture’s Final 2024 Oscar Predictions in Every Categorywww.vulture.com Oppenheimer looks likely to win a bunch of trophies, but some major races are still up in the air.

in-office productivity breakdown: 40 percent: working 30 percent: eating snacks 15 percent: getting up to get snacks 15 percent: getting up to throw away remnants of snacks.

I'm beginning to think these Fremen might be a metaphor for something.

Man goes to see Tenet rerelease. Leaves confused. Goes to doctor. Doctor says, "Read the Vulture explainer." Man bursts into tears. "But doctor ... I wrote the Vulture explainer." www.vulture.com/2020/09/tene...

A Beat-by-Beat Explanation of What Happens in Tenetwww.vulture.com Turns out the plot of Christopher Nolan’s new movie is also a mystery to people who have seen it.

Today is the day I became old. Spent a lot of money on a new phone, without asking if it had a headphone jack. Because why wouldn't it have a headphone jack? Now I am thrust into the world of Bluetooth earbuds. "One more thing to charge, one more thing to lose," I say in the voice of my father.

Madame Web is the kind of bad you only get at the end of a once-thriving genre. So many smart people had to train themselves to ignore their instincts for years to create something this stupid.

One downside to the slow death of Facebook is there's no longer an easy way for all your friends and acquaintances to know it's your birthday without the aid of Young Ones memes.