James Poniewozik

James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 00:51 UTC

I tried that, it made people assume I was ogling someone like in a Tex Avery cartoon

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 00:46 UTC

You know how TV and movies would use a 555 prefix for fictional phone numbers, so they wouldn’t end up using an actual person’s number? We need that, but for not using the default iPhone alarm noises because it STRESSES ME OUT

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:57 UTC

OK I'm not saying this is anything but I feel I must inform you that the B-story of the "West Wing" brokered convention episode in season 6 involved a rescue mission to the International Space Station abcnews.go.com/Technology/n...

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 01:35 UTC

They’re not! I was just joking that by quoting I was violating the spirit of her saying that she wanted to lock her post. I don’t think she or any sane person actually minds it!

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 23:38 UTC

I am trampling Emily's wishes by quoting, but I'd add: We need to get past the idea that any time you post on social media, you are obligated to have a dialogue with literally anyone in the world. Not everything has to be a conversation! (Don't make me close the replies LOL. I'll do it!)

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 14:56 UTC

*crowd cheering* *band takes stage* "Thank you thank you ladies and gentlemen! We are... Collective Action Problem! One! Two! Three!" *band members look at each other* *each member waits for someone else to start playing first* *no one starts playing first* *band quietly leaves stage*

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 01:42 UTC

So we’ve… discussed plenty about The Bear season 3 lately, but I’m rewatching season 2 with my son right now. The moment when Tina apologizes for not giving Carmy’s knife back and he says, I don’t recall asking you for it back? Kills. Me. Dead. Every time.

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 18:20 UTC

I decided a couple years ago (with occasional shameful lapses) that social media is about the worst place in the world to discuss anything remotely serious and maaaaaaaan has the last couple weeks not changed my mind

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 20:55 UTC

So many journalists going to be spending their time in leftist brasseries interviewing voters and trying to figure out how they missed this movement

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 17:04 UTC

My body: *listens happily to the English Beat cover of The Tears of a Clown* My brain: “Fun fact! This cover is more than twice as old as the original was when you listened to it in high school! In fact it’s almost four times as old now as the original was when it came out!” My body: *becomes dust*

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 17:33 UTC

To work this quote into the NYT, I had to rely on a technique I like to call "Match Game-ing"

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 16:43 UTC

"Fuck this fancy fuck, I want my shit."

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 03:05 UTC

What if I were to tell him that one of them exists in a context

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:36 UTC

My one contribution to the Current National Debate is to point out that the brokered-convention episode of The West Wing took place AFTER Aaron Sorkin left the show

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 21:45 UTC

I also think he has a bit of the John Kerry factor, where people look at him and think “Oh this is the kind of guy who OTHER people like to vote for!” But that’s just more of a guess

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 21:43 UTC

Honestly, I think it’s partly because he does a shit ton of TV. If you’re a Resistance Dem who watches a lot of cable news, he’s like a favorite character from your shows, and they’ve seen him do a lot of articulate dunking on people they hate

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 14:28 UTC

Also too MANY Faks!

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 14:09 UTC

Tastes great, less fulfilling. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/a...

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 12:14 UTC

"Our lives had not prepared us for extremity, to mobilize or to be as focussed and energized as I can see, in retrospect, we would have needed to be. We were not prepared to drop everything in defense of a system that was, to us, like oxygen: used constantly, never noted." tinyurl.com/y867ctkr

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 12:08 UTC

Fortunately, presidential crimes are still subject to the ultimate punishment: anonymous statements in the press from senators who are “uncomfortable” about the actions they just acquitted you for

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 20:50 UTC

IYKYK, but the final scene of the series finale is... quite something right now.

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 19:36 UTC

We may need to update that second one

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 19:35 UTC

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRF3...

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:00 UTC

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvOZ...

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 20:48 UTC

(If only FOR ALL MANKIND had answered the question for us.)

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 20:42 UTC

Is the argument that LBJ would have beat Nixon? If Robert Caro says so I’ll listen!

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 16:34 UTC

I've shared this story before, but one of my formative TV memories was how my older sister used to tape episodes of Fernwood 2 Night for me--taped ON AUDIOCASSETTE because this was pre-VCR--because I wasn't old enough to stay up for it. RIP to a master. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/a...

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 22:53 UTC

Raising a lot of questions already answered by the T-shirt

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 21:10 UTC

Wait, this is from the Richard McGuire book? I don’t think I ever read the full length book, but the original comic has haunted the back of my mind for years.

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 19:05 UTC

Starting to think that my most contrarian TV-critic opinion is being fine with The Bear dropping its seasons all at once

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 20:01 UTC

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 18:06 UTC

“We kindly request that you simply praise our show without providing any substantiating evidence. (If you pan our show without providing any substantiating evidence, we will try to have you fired.)”

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