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Sam Hurwitt@shurwitt.bsky.social |
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Arts journalist, occasional playwright and man about what we talk about when we talk about what we talk about.
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Brooke Binkowski
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This is Stephen Miller's law firm. They're also currently repping a TV reporter suing CBS-LA for being anti-white, which as a former CBS-LA reporter I think is absolutely laughable. But they're trying to create still more legal precedent for a racist takeover, it's clear
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Sam Hurwitt
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I definitely liked it, although with the audiobook there was a lot of “wait, how did we get here? I definitely missed something.” So I may have to stick to the page.
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Shiv Ramdas
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"you're not American why do you care about the 4th of July" mate I'm Indian, any day someone got the Brits to fuck off back to their country is a national holiday for me
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Sam Hurwitt
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58. Jacobs's Year of Living Biblically was a brilliant book, documenting his hilarious quest to follow all the rules listed anywhere in the bible for a year. This one, eh. It has some interesting facts and observations about the Constitution, but it feels comparatively slight and shticky.
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Sam Hurwitt
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57. An interesting mystery set in Nigeria in which a psychologist tries to uncover exactly why a group of three students were killed by an angry mob, involving campus "cults" (a secret, violent sort of fraternity).
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G. Willow Wilson
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Definitely following up on this one
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Sam Hurwitt
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56. I couldn't tell you if I've seen the movie, though I saw a fun stage comedy of it that was rewritten last minute to The Bitter Fruit when the rights-holders slapped it down. But the book is a really enjoyable thriller from the POV of the mom whose daughter is getting more and more disturbing.
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Sam Hurwitt
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55. It may have been a mistake to read this as an audiobook, because there's SO much going on in it. Before I'd even finished it I felt like I'll have to read it again. I enjoyed it, though! The only Pratchett I'd ever read was Good Omens when it came out, & it definitely made me want to read more.
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Sam Hurwitt
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I just realized that the only thing stopping my ranking of Superman movies from being identical to the order in which they were made is Superman IV. It's been a while since I watched it, but it would almost certainly slip down below Returns.
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Don Moynihan
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Man, if it turns out that the right winger telling NY Times readers that they should follow his example and not vote did in fact vote in the last two elections, the Times should add this to the piece. Better than a retraction, since it illustrates a willful hypocrisy.
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Matt Seybold
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Mark Twain hated the Fourth of July. He was often invited to speak at Independence Day festivities. His audiences assumed that his reliably unpatriotic remarks were tongue-in-cheek jests. But he meant that shit. 1/9
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Matt Seybold
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They laughed in 1907 when he said, "The Declaration of Independence was written by a British subject…there was not an American in the country on that day except the Indians out on the plains." 3/9
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Sam Hurwitt
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I’m partial to the Pavement version, tho.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=KoJ2...
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Sam Hurwitt
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I’ve also never met anybody called “Old Pancake,” for that matter!
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Sam Hurwitt
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Ah, my mistake. Comstock Court. I guess it’s only a block long?
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Sam Hurwitt
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Far be it from me to speak ill of a postal inspector, but why the heck does Berkeley (still) have a Comstock Street?
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Sam Hurwitt
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I for one can't wait for the dawn of the Get Off My Lawn Spider-Mudgeon.
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Sam Hurwitt
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Whole lotta mythologizing and erasure in this one, but one thing TV taught us when I was a kid was No More Kings.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=WvOZ...
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Greg Pak
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NO KINGS. That's the bare minimum these days. NO KINGS. NO KINGS. NO KINGS.
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Celeste Ng
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Giving up hope is also complying with authoritarians in advance. It’s saying that fascism is inevitable, that there is no other way to be. I know it’s hard to keep hope alive, but I hope you find a way. ❤️