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Marc Hirsh@spacecitymarc.bsky.social |
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Boston Globe, sometimes EW, others. I basically do homework for a living. He/him/his. Available in dad since 2015. My love language is replies, not likes.
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I decided I want to start therapy for a bunch of reasons, one substantial one of which is that I feel like I've lost a great deal of my motivation. The difficult process of finding and selecting a therapist has thus resulted in one of the great ironies of my life.
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Also, saying "creeps have no talent" directly implies "talented people can't be creeps," which is a major way that creeps get away with being creeps for so long.
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FWIW I'm in Chatham, Massachusetts, and this morning's parade included this (with a campaign bus right behind), and it received ZERO response from the crowd.* The Chatham Democrats got cheers. The was, notably, no Chatham Republicans presence, a change from the past.
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*It's possible that literally everyone who gave a shit was marching.
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FWIW I'm in Chatham, Massachusetts, and this morning's parade included this (with a campaign bus right behind), and it received ZERO response from the crowd.* The Chatham Democrats got cheers. The was, notably, no Chatham Republicans presence, a change from the past.
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The person they're saying is too old to do the job is doing the job.
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It's bigger than I imagined (hence the "truck," I suppose), and that somehow made it look worse!
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I JUST SAW A CYBERTRUCK IT LOOKED SO DUMB
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I knew J.J. Abrams before Graci- oh wait, OH NO
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I read KILL THE BOY BAND by Goldy Moldavsky on mine. I didn't have nightmares, I just thought we were sharing.
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Good ol' Diamond Joe.
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So it's the guillotine, then.
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"Hey, Marc, how was Justin Timberlake?"
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"Hey, Marc, how was Janet Jackson?"
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"Hey, Marc, how was Justin Timberlake?"
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"Hey, Marc, how was Janet Jackson?"
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I would genuinely notify the authorities if I saw this on my feed.
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They keep saying that terrestrial radio is a dead medium, but as someone who just heard a Hebrew-language version of "Then He Kissed Me," I am here to tell you that it is NOT.
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No better place, amigo.
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"There's nothing like eating hay when you're faint," he remarked to her, as he munched away. 'I should think throwing cold water over you would be better,' Alice suggested: "or some sal-volatile." "I didn't say there was nothing better,' the King replied. "I said there was nothing like it."
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Fishwife.
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Kiss 108 will occasionally come out of a song and be like, "Justin Bieber still blah bling blah bloo, can you imagine?," and then some rando on the phone will be all "I know! It's the weirdest etc.," and I'm always like, "Who is this person and why are they calling in just to talk about this?"
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"Hey, Marc, how was Zach Bryan?"
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I don't know, but it's reminding me of "Forget That Day," one.of my favorite Go-Go's songs, from TALK SHOW, my very favorite Go-Go's album, which features a harmony vocal in the chorus that is lower than the melody, rather than the more traditional other way around. It sounds far sadder as a result.
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It's about ethics in theme-hotel journalism.
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Excuse me: "sparkling compensation."
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No, no, bribery is only bribery if you're paid BEFORE you do the thing. That's just physics.
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Oh, this is just the short version. I can go and have gone long:
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You're Wrong About blithely ignored all of that. Didn't even attempt to justify their argument, just blithely skipped past it. Seemed rather a large thing for You're Wrong About to be wrong about! There was something else about as egregious, but I can't remember what it was.
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They were an absolutely dominant group (country or otherwise) until they were blacklisted. Two albums diamond and one on its way until country radio dropped them. (It had already sold six million and they were still in the midst of the cycle.) Awards are sympathy. Careers don't thrive on sympathy.
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It has been a very long time, but one of them was essentially "It didn't even hurt their career! They won Grammys for their next album and are still touring today!" Which is such a willful or incompetent disregard for how thoroughly their sales cratered that it's breathtaking.
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Kids crave boundaries. That's why I've had M write me a report on the geopolitical ramifications of the establishment of Iraq from the partition of the Ottoman Empire.
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Podcast nothing, this is four-hour YouTube GOLD, baby.
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I noped out on You're Wrong About after their episode on the Chicks, where there were at least two substantial things that they were very wrong about. But at least they got to be snarky while they put forward inaccuracies.
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Have you tried using AI to create your next hour out of an electronic slurry of your previous ones? Just a suggestion, I am a thought leader.
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His legs are somehow longer than his whole body, including the legs.
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Sorry, my mistake. The obvious correct response was "[pinches fingers and thumb together, shakes them underhand] That's-a lot-a Hunyaks!"
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Clearly, this Means Something.
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That's a lotta Hunyaks.
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This is like "THE CIVIL WAR WAS ABOUT STATES' RIGHTS!" Stained glass of WHAT, exactly?
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No worries. Part of me knew that someone night read it the way you did but I thought "SURELY my writing couldn't POSSIBLY be misconstrued." But yes, STARGATE: hit, BUFFY: flop.
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And not even a hit film like STARGATE, a straight-up flop.
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None of this, I stress, is meant to tromp on anyone else's good time. If you had fun last night, that's great and probably more important than what I thought. I can only share and explain my own experience. Which in this case was pretty positive for half the bands, including the headliner.
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BNL I've swung back and forth on over the years, and last night (my fourth time seeing them), they seemed very off, just sour and forced. (Maybe the rain delay threw off their game?) And McCain I've never liked, and neither his songs, his performance or the presentation worked for me at all.
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I did! Hootie is distinctly not my thing and never was, but just about everything last night worked for me on every level except the material; the band was solid and engaged and I appreciated Rucker's star power at last. Same, mostly, for Collective Soul, with better songs and a doofier frontman.
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v. proud of the first words of this review being "Just like Nirvana," btw.
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"Hey, Marc, how were Hootie & The Blowfish, as well as Barenaked Ladies, Collective Soul and Edwin McCain?"
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There's a difference in usage between the two that I could not possibly articulate, but I would absolutely know which one to use in any given situation.
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My version of this is that H wants relatively sure things when we pick a new show or movie to watch b/c life is fleeting and her time is valuable, whereas I'm like, "I wanna know more about this thing I've heard about, could be great, could be terrible, feed it to the Great Brain File regardless."
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