@nickyotissmith
@shalashaska098
You don't mention the (successful!) April Fool's prank I pulled on you when you were in middle school. I said Tarantino had punched his ticket and your jaw dropped. I immediately fessed up.
Via
@ToddSeavey
: Trump for all his deranged and dangerous deviations, makes it all seem sort of effortless, like Frank Sinatra missing various notes in a Vegas show but usually looking very relaxed and natural while doing it.
Mine: A buddy of mine since 1979 passed away at 71. Michael Yockel, a Baltimore pop culture fixture for decades, was a fine writer and editor, brooked no sloppiness, and though opinionated, was always polite. Today, a rarity.
@MoustacheClubUS
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Mine: MSM doesn't believe 1st Amendment applies to everyone, evidenced by almost no coverage of Backpage sentencing last week. Only
@reason
and
@stephenlemons
followed the disgraceful trial.
@MoustacheClubUS
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New
@nickyotissmith
:
@NickPinkerton
on The Sweet East, swindlers, diminished expectations, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and the state of American cinema in the 2020s.
Mine: There are two rules for the 1st Amendment: those that Beltway pundits champion, and... well that's it. MSM ignores Backpage trial and Jim Larkin's suicide.
@MattWelch
wrote well about it.
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Mine: The death last week of Jim Larkin, victim (along with Mike Lacey) of government persecution for championing the First Amendment, shows there are 2 sets of rules in America. I knew Jim since '79, and he was a journalistic giant.
@MoustacheClubUS
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New
@stephenlemons
: On the fifth anniversary of their arrests due to their former ownership of Backpage, Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin still refuse to bow before the federal government.
There are many publications/websites I don't like, but when there are layoffs at liberal sites, it's rude for conservatives to rejoice. It'd be more decent to hold your tongue when somebody loses their job.
Mine: Nasty people all over. Had a day without power because a tree fell on a garage and owner wouldn't permit removal. No courtesy at Safeway or ATM machine.
@MoustacheClubUS
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@TomJoyceSports
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She never made another song I liked, but this one will forever, and rightfully so, capture a part of the 1980s. Cyndi Lauper—Girls Just Want To Have Fun. via
@YouTube
Mine: Taking a cue from
@jasongay
, I wrote about little league umpires getting abused by hyperactive parents, and the contrast between today and LL in my youth. Pic below is of my son's team. What year is it?
@MoustacheClubUS
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@TomJoyceSports
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My latest: It’s a rhetorical question, but when did people, now living in cocoons, become so nasty? The answer is the beginning of time, but living in the moment, there are several monkeys to get off my back.
My latest: It's just a matter of time before Democratic media, specifically NYT, take off gloves and editorialize that Biden MUST retire, "for good of country" and, goes without saying, democracy.
My latest: Picayune complaint, but the "acknowledgements" in books drive me nuts if they're the length of a short story. Nash Jenkins' okay novel "Foster Dade" is guilty; Emma Cline's excellent The Guest isn't.
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Mine: Pretty in Pink (1986), written by Hughes, might be the worst of those “teen” movies of the 1980s. It’s a silly "class division" story in what I’d suppose was “penetrating” social commentary for the Reagan Years.
@MoustacheClubUS
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@TomJoyceSports
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Mine: The best “quite literal” theory was that Musk was limiting Twitter “reading limits” because of the mayhem in France. That was a Jack Benny/Eric Bogosian/Jackie Mason/Mrs. Maisel routine.
@MoustacheClubUS
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@TomJoyceSports
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Mine: On rare occasions I'll read an Atlantic story and they usually blow. But a survey of "Great American Novels" was a decent time-killer. And my fave novel so far in 2024 is
@ColinBarrett82
's Wild Houses.
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@TomJoyceSports
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Mine: The ongoing NPR controversy is thin. I agree that public money shouldn't go to the network, but "defund!" critics are apoplectic over a trifling sum. Amtrak and USPS are better targets for cutting off the spigot.
@MoustacheClubUS
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@TomJoyceSports
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My latest: I never trusted any journalist in the Robert Redford-1970s who didn’t, at least twice, pop some quarters into a “adult bookstore” video booth or spent an evening out at a low-rent strip club.
Mine: Since it's hard to tell real "news" from the fake, is The Hollywood strike a hoax? I jest, but little coverage. No room with RFK Jr., still Trump and Randi Weingarten bringing brown bags of cash to Ukraine.
@MoustacheClubUS
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@TomJoyceSports
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Mine: Maybe Starbucks will circle the drain, maybe not, but it bugs me when it, Peets or “indie” cafes are credited for “introducing coffee-culture” in the 90s. Look at any movie or TV show from before the 70s and characters are drinking coffee at dinner.
New
@BillAsher18
: History requires that Harvard drive out the darkness of the present danger. Honor requires that Harvard not stop until the darkness is gone. Only then will Harvard reclaim the light. Only then will Harvard be a great institution.
Mine: It’s easy to dunk on social conservative J.D. Vance—a bad pick for Trump—but mocking the no-longer-hillbilly for wearing a shirt while swimming, as loads did after pictures surfaced last week, is stupid.
@MoustacheClubUS
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@TomJoyceSports
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Mine: British pundit Matthew Parris is strong advocate for "assisted dying," claiming old, infirm people are a burden on the state. He doesn't touch young people with fatal diseases because then he'd be called a crank.
@MoustacheClubUS
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@TomJoyceSports
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Mine: In a so-so
@NewYorker
essay about brilliant Milton Glaser, Adam Gopnik (66), shows he knows nothing about Bob Dylan. Glaser's Dylan poster made him an icon in 1967? Dylan psychedelic? The singer hated all that.
My latest: my friend
@CrispinSartwell
has bugaboo about The Atlantic; I reserve my ire for other sites. But a flash obit of Martin Amis in Atlantic was so off-kilter, I was drawn in.
@MoustacheClubUS
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@TomJoyceSports
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Mine: It's just April and a bored media, with Biden/Trump static, inventing new "narratives," such as a NYSun edit saying 2024 Dem convention in Chicago could be worse than '68.
@MoustacheClubUS
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@TomJoyceSports
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@willcollier
@NaumannErik
I went to the first Earth Day in 1970. Was in 9th grade, got off school early, listened to bands in the park, smoked some weed, mostly ignored the speakers, had a ball.
Mine: I have no animosity towards people who choose not to have kids; it's personal. Glad that I'm a dad and my parents had five boys. Pic below is the 5 of us horsing around in our cookie-cutter yard. What year is it?
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@TomJoyceSports
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@davrola
@SpliceToday2022
As a kid, I collected political buttons, still have 200 or so. I Like Ike, JFK, Nixon, Rocky, Wallace, Muskie, HHH, McCarthy, etc. A friend of my mom’s gave me a 1936 Alf Landon button.
Latest: Granville wasn’t privy to my publishing plans, but at Club Charles one night took me aside, and said: “You should sell City Paper, man, and we’ll start a paper in New York, just sleep on couches and run it guerilla-style. That’s the ticket, man.”
New
@smithapril
: I walk down the street in my “progressive” neighborhood and hear people in casual conversation say that Israel should be wiped off the map.
Mine: USA's education system is in tatters; that's why some are posting stories about teachers (or books and albums) that "changed (or saved) their life." True for a tiny minority, but otherwise hyperbole. And obnoxious.
@MoustacheClubUS
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@TomJoyceSports
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Mine: Wasn't a fan, but agree with
@JeffreyStClair3
that Jimmy Buffett's music was innocuous. But unlike other recently-departed musicians, his brilliant marketing of lifestyle sets him apart.
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My Mother's Day story from 2009: "I recall those May Sundays from the 1960s when Mom would wake up beaming, and every year she’d proclaim the batch of daffodils that my brothers and I plucked from our spotty garden as 'the best bouquet yet!'"
My latest: When I read “news stories” in legacy media, it’s not a stretch to wonder if they’re produced largely by ChatGPT, with perhaps a reporter or editor’s minimal participation.
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@TomJoyceSports
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Via D. Martin: As a too-young garbage collector, I became familiar with maggots. We were a large family and luckily the fridge was always full. If not eaten right away, leftovers could hide and might stay in the fridge until they started growing fur.