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I've been on "Team Hudson" since How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, a romantic comedy where she is at her best in. She's had a weird career, both better than you imagine, and less good than I thought she could have had. She's a likable and distinct actress in her physical comedy and her ability to play women who are more competent than you would imagine they are. Maybe that's incorrect, but it feels that way when you break her career down. Still, she is always a solid performer in movies, an unquestionably likable actress. (I also give her credit for being A-Rod's girlfriend during the 2009 Yankees World Series run). She was likable when she played a groupie in Almost Famous, a bride to be in Bride Wars, one half of a divorced couple searching for gold in Fool's Gold. It is the light in her face, the goofiness in her movement and the hope that she radiates in her movies. She is famous, and she is a very good comedic actress.
That continues in Running Point, a new show based on Jeanie Buss, the owner of the Los Angeles Lakers. On Running Point, Hudson plays the owner of the L.A. Waves, a famous organization once owned by her dad. (hence, it being based on Jeanie Buss). I'm into the show, and how good her outfits are, and how it takes the girl boss model and makes fun of it, while also celebrating the idea of women being successful. I think there's a trad wife trend happening within women that is not very healthy, despite how humorous it might be to me --- a Black man in America that has had his fair share of issues with white feminism. Running Point understands that it is cool to see women successful.
Check out Kate Hudson in this role!
Mar 6, 2025
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i have loved her since Ever After and she continues to choose only the best projects (i still need to catch up on some though)
Apr 12, 2024
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snubbed across the board at the Emmyโs - I know I am biased but there is not one gen X female actress fucking it up on screen like her in better call saul or coopers bar. she has range and tact and looks the patriarchal hollywood gaze right in the eye. Thereโs a reason why Vince Gilligan is obsessed with her
Jan 25, 2024
The way she marries All American girl-ness with this intrinsic depth/soulfulness. She's always had it - it's why BRING IT ON goes so hard. Her Architectural Digest also shows she's just a nerdy little weirdo. KD is the best.
Feb 9, 2024
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I'm often accused of being an "old soul", a categorization I vehemently dislike because it pretends as if my taste is because of nostalgia, as opposed to what is actually cool and compelling. (If something cool comes out now, I enjoy it, but we're in a down period when it comes to culture). But, something old about me, is that I do not care at all about TikTok ending, if does happen. If Elon takes it over from the Chinese, you might as well leave anyway, but I'm just worried at why this is a huge deal for people. It's just an app. Another one will be made. TikTok is not culture, it directly flattens culture into these ten second clips that take music, movies --- things that you need to process --- into something that is now consumed by everyone at a rapid pace, not allowing for the nuances, the style, the aesthetics to sit with us.
I have never watched something on TikTok and thought that this is something in that pushing American culture to deeper heights. I am sorry. Now I am sure they're good stuff on the app, but it's not really a necessity. Whenever I hear the words "it's blowing up on TikTok", my mind immediately growls.
I understood why X becoming overrun with Elon bots and right wingers is a big deal; X actually created things, made careers, made American life, and American events available to be seen by everyone. However, TikTok is a corrupt fantasy, chopping at the wires that make physical connection important.
Read a book! Go to the movies! Go to the restaurant of a cuisine that is unheralded, go to a baseball game. Who cares about TikTok?
Jan 14, 2025
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There's something quite startling about Martin Scorsese's 1980's period compared to the rest of his decades as one of America's greatest filmmakers. In the 80's, he was weird, strange, and making weirdly manic films that feel more New York than even some of his movies about the mob. They're movies about characters who aren't glamarous people that they want to be, but rather, are losers who can't seem to correctly fucntion in normal society. They're non-violent sociopaths. I saw The King of Comedy at Metrograph recently, and it's exhilarating, hilarious, manic, and scary. With Jerry Lewis, Bobby De Niro and Sandra Bernhard, Scorsese was able to create a world where incels who are bad at comedy are wishing for fame. Sound familiar?
This is a great movie. In 1983, it was a box office flop. But in 2025, it is magical in how it's telling the future. A future of scam artists who don't want to work to get there, and don't want to sit in their mediocrity: they want to steal to get their fifteen seconds. Go watch this masterpiece.
Jan 28, 2025
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I am a NBA boy at heart, the players who play in the Association are the greatest athletes on the planet, and everyone should check out a piece I wrote on the Knicks: https://jaysonbuford.substack.com/p/the-knicks-are-struggling-to-be-fun
But MARCH MADNESS is here. So, look, college basketball can be overly sentimental, corny, for hick Midwesterns, and it is not the smart league that the NBA is. Imagine watching Nikola Jokic or LeBron James and that not being good enough for you. NBA haters are, like, a bad financial month away from being KKK members, hiding in plain sight.
However, the NCAA Tournament objectively rules. It shows games every day, every hour, non-stop, teams that you would normally not see play, and upsets, upsets that break your bracket. Upsets happen because mid-major teams get better throughout the year, especially when they play tougher competition before the conference schedules start. It's awesome to when they pull off a shocking upset.
The games are on all day! watch them! BA BA BA BA BASKETBAKLL, GIMME GIMME GIMME THE BALL CAUSE I'M GONNA DUNK IT
Mar 20, 2025