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TV and film critic for the Chicago Tribune https://www.chicagotribune.com/author/nina-metz/ Newsletter: Nina Watches Everything https://buttondown.com/NinaWatchesEverything

There’s this idea that “friction” is inherently bad and needs to be eliminated, instead of it being something that usefully forces you to consider the merits of what you’re doing, and I think we really need to interrogate that assumption

God, I remember when "what did this person eat and how did they eat it" was a profile-writing cliche back in the '90s, to the point where there was an apocryphal quote of a politician of, "get out your menus, boys, here comes Newsweek!" But I thought it died with Lynn Hirschberg's truffle fries.

apologies to everyone who thought they had a coolass name but