Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Mike Redmond | Pajiba Love | August 31, 2026
Because the collective psychosis calling itself social media has declared open season on Gal Gadot for being Israeli, it’s easy to forget that the first Wonder Woman was a billion dollar hit and largely considered a feminist tour de force at the time. So, it fully tracks that James Gunn was interested in getting Wonder Woman 3 off the ground with Gadot still in play. However, she saw want went down with Henry Cavill and decided it was time to pass the lasso, so to speak. (The Wrap)
A Met Gala mess. (Lainey Gossip)
Oh, so now William & Kate want to work? (Celebitchy)
Pete Hegseth has his own Pentagon troll army. (Wonkette)
You gotta hand it to Mel Gibson. He somehow finds new ways to be a garbage human being that you’ll never see coming. (Variety)
Today I learned Jennifer Garner was almost in The West Wing. (EW)
I don’t love the phrase “ACAB,” but holy sh*t does it apply here. (The Guardian)
Big news for Wallace & Gromit fans, and man, why can’t the Lego sets I want be this affordable? Lucky jerks. (Polygon)
No snark. You did the right thing, Brittany. (TMZ)
And being deadly serious again: If you happened to pet some baby goats in North Carolina recently, you might want to read this. (NBC News)
Last week the world lost Tim Curry, but earlier this year elderberry wine listened to him narrate his memoir, Vagabond. “This autobiography is unusual in that it focuses solely on his career, not his personal life, and I think is all the stronger for it.” Which role of Curry’s do you particularly treasure? (Cannonball Read 18)
So many of these stories end with “she cut a check right then and there.” Every story about Trump, Musk, etc is “he said he’d pay for it and never did.”
— Brandon Bird (@brandonbird.bsky.social) August 25, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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