Five for the Weekend

Rebecca Marx

13 Feb 2026 — 1 min read

A brief weekly round-up of some things that are good.

The Bald subreddit may be the most supportive place on the internet.

Kevin Smith posted this clip of James Van Der Beek and it's very funny, and I will take funny in the wake of this very sad loss. (h/t David)

I was today years old when I learned that the dearly departed Bud Cort had a bit role in Pumping Iron, and that the cut footage is on YouTube.

Ex Hex, always a good antidote to existential malaise.

I think I need a tomato lamp.

Five for the Weekend

A brief weekly round-up of some things that are good. This week I learned that, per the photo above, John Steinbeck was not only a towering figure of 20th-century literature, but also pretty hot! (Thanks to Laura for inadvertently alerting me to this fact.) As if I couldn't

in the movie wuthering heights, cathy leans against a wall patterned to look like her skin

About 'Wuthering Heights'

It was towards the end of "Wuthering Heights" that I began to suspect I was going to hell, no matter that Jews don't believe in it. Cathy was on her death bed, expiring from septicemia, and Heathcliff was professing his love and sorrow. The woman next

ernie hudson and rebecca demornay in the hand that rocks the cradle

Five for the Weekend

A weekly round-up of some things that are good. The U.S. women's hockey team declined Trump's invitation to come visit him not once but twice because they know that they (and we) deserve better. Claire Keegan is a stone-cold boss of the novella, and Foster

About the Liberation of Shapeless Winter Sweaters

Hello from the aftermath of the Great New York Snowpocalypse. There's almost two feet of snow on my balcony, but we're still in the grace period before the city turns to a noxious soup of blackened slush and uncollected dog shit, so for now, it'

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Five for the Weekend

About 'Wuthering Heights'

Five for the Weekend

About the Liberation of Shapeless Winter Sweaters