On tour for the 35th anniversary of Home Alone, Macaulay Culkin said his kids love the movie, but don’t know he’s Kevin . They’re only three and four years old, so this makes sense, but it’s still hilarious. And while they will even get excited when they see the young
Rebecca Solnit: A Year on From Trump’s Victory, Resistance Is Everywhere . “There has, in fact, been a tremendous amount and variety of resistance and opposition and it’s mattered tremendously.”
Atul Gawande of Harvard’s School of Public Health: The Trump regime’s destruction of USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children” .
A long profile of comics legend Alan Moore . “For the first time in his 45-year career, Alan Moore is alone on the page.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
I’m still working on the KDO gift guide for this year. In the meantime, here’s the 2024 edition , which has aged well and includes these popular Japanese nail clippers .
“ Australia is on course to meet a target of eliminating cervical cancer by 2035 , which, if achieved, will make it the first country to do so.” This is due in large part to their HPV vaccination campaign. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
About thirty years ago, Jerry Shereshewsky invented “Cyber Monday” as an alternative to Black Friday. The idea was that you’d wait until you got to work on Monday after the Thanksgiving break (where there was high speed internet and you wanted to avoid doing drudge work) to do
As hard as it may be to believe, some of us have never seen a movie belonging to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. If you’re one of those uninitiated, none of the countless clips incorporated into the Like Stories of Old video essay above will tempt you to get initiated. Nor will