Vince Mancini

2 weeks ago | vincemancini.substack.com | Vince Mancini

Welcome to The #Content Report, a newsletter by Vince Mancini. I’ve been writing about movies, culture, and food since the late aughts. Now I’m delivering it straight to you, with none of the autoplay videos, takeover ads, or chumboxes of the ad-ruined internet. Support my work and help me bring back the cool internet by subscribing, sharing, commenting, and keeping it real.

2 weeks ago | gq.com.mx | Vince Mancini

Para vencer a un niño pequeño en casa, tienes que pensar como un niño pequeño. ¿Así de simple? Sabemos que no es tan sencillo, pero con motivo de la celebración del Día del Padre, comenzaremos dándote este consejo para papás como un adelanto de lo que encontrarás en las líneas de esta columna. Cuando estaba en la universidad, mis roomies y yo tuvimos durante un tiempo un cerdito miniatura.

2 weeks ago | gq.com | Vince Mancini

Read all of GQ's Father's Day 2025 stories, including our series of counterintuitive advice for dads, here. When I was in college, my roommates and I briefly owned a miniature pot-bellied pig. The purchase was not mine, but I supported it, partly on account of having always read that pigs were much smarter than dogs. Being a rural only-child dog-lover, that sounded great to me. I’d trained many dogs. Pig training must be a breeze! Or so I assumed.

2 weeks ago | vincemancini.substack.com | Vince Mancini

This past week I was offered the opportunity to speak with this season’s Top Chef finalists — Bailey Sullivan, Shuai Wang, and Tristen Epps. This being The #Content Report, I’m always loathe to turn down an opportunity for #content, so I said yes. I don’t generally love interviewing more than one person at a time, which makes it harder to have a natural conversation, but I figured it would be nice to have some additional Top Chef material leading up to this week’s finale.

2 weeks ago | vincemancini.substack.com | Vince Mancini

Welcome to The #Content Report, a newsletter by Vince Mancini. I’ve been writing about movies, culture, and food since the late aughts. Now I’m delivering it straight to you, with none of the autoplay videos, takeover ads, or chumboxes of the ad-ruined internet. Support my work and help me bring back the cool internet by subscribing, sharing, commenting, and keeping it real. —I used to feel like I was powerless to resist Wes Anderson’s bullshit.