Tim Marchman

Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 12:19 UTC

For Business Insider, a story I spent four months on: Joe Arden is the romance audiobook world’s biggest narrator, a bestseller maker and a bona fide star. Now, his sexting scandal is having a huge fallout that almost no one outside the industry knows about: www.businessinsider.com/joe-arden-ro...

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 19:24 UTC

Philly radio station that ran an interview in which Biden was asked White House-written questions says host who did it went rogue, is no longer with the station wurdradio.com/2024/07/07/a...

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 16:32 UTC

Saw “Blood In Blood Out” for the first time in a long time last night, and what’s stuck with me is how much of “House of the Dragon” is just a worse-written and -acted version of the scenes where La Onda argues over whether to move first against the Black Guerrilla Army and Aryan Vanguard.

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 20:14 UTC

In this instance, you absolutely can blame the president. Shouldn’t be hard to keep these people’s weird, stunted offspring out of meetings, freelance diplomacy, etc. www.politico.com/news/2024/07...

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 18:03 UTC

Hangry Joe’s, the newly ubiquitous chicken chain; I stopped by on a whim and they are not messing around

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 17:15 UTC

On the one hand, legally no one can do anything about it if the president decides to drop a nuclear bomb on Topeka and if you want to build a house every bored dipshit within a square mile gets a line item veto; on the other I just got lunch at a Korean halal place that serves fried okra. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 16:49 UTC

I see it’s time for me to submit my essay “You Shouldn’t Get High and Make Peanut Butter and Potato Chip Sandwiches in Your Pantry” to the Times op-ed page.

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 16:48 UTC

I’m liking what this guy is laying down.

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 14:02 UTC

Did you know: the word “neighbor” means you can say anything you want and have it carry tremendous moral weight

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 14:01 UTC

The most fundamental problem with Philly is probably that people like this have structural power when they should just be laughed at and told to buy the land and develop the fucking building themselves if they want this much say www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 21:18 UTC

Congratulations to the guy who got a ticket after telling me to write him a ticket. (I’d pointed out to him that parking in a crosswalk is a dickhead thing to do and endangers pedestrians and drivers.)

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 20:58 UTC

I think that’s totally right and one advantage to reading it relatively quickly is you get a feel for when you’re supposed to be a little lost and for when you’re struggling because it’s kind of boring, as opposed to you in either case missing something.

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 20:55 UTC

The summary really helps there. Excited to see how you get along! I’m … considering reading it again soon. It’s just completely unlike anything else I’ve ever read, totally alive.

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 20:47 UTC

On this reading I kept little notes on the cast and it was amazingly helpful. I don’t think it’s really a difficult book; the sheer size makes keeping things straight hard and the narrator is a little opaque about things like time passing, but some notes to orient yourself go a long way.

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 20:43 UTC

This is also an amazing companion book, highest recommendation as it’s really helpful with the many passages where Proust goes on about some painting:

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 20:40 UTC

This site is incredibly helpful, especially when you find yourself wondering “Wait that was whose aunt again?” or whatever: proustproject.blogspot.com/p/day-by-day...

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 20:38 UTC

Just start reading! I just reread it straight through and tried to hit 50 pages a day; I didn’t quite hit that as I had a job change and such, but I finished in three months, which was quick enough I could keep everything straight in my head.

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:45 UTC

I know it’s the internet, but still seeing a remarkable number of people who are absolutely certain what will come next if various nearly or actually unprecedented things happen.

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 14:32 UTC

YOUTH DISPATCH: Young Brits find the Labour/Tory meme war “pathetic” and “embarrassing,” wish parties would stop trying to be relevant www.wired.com/story/the-me...

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 17:22 UTC

I will never be convinced that Pennsylvania isn’t the Midwest.

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 15:09 UTC

The antidote to vibes-based analysis is the proper noun.

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 15:07 UTC

A really great thing for journalists to do is ask and hopefully answer questions like “How would this happen?” and “What would happen if it did?” and “Who specifically is in charge of this?”

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 14:34 UTC

This is the weird thing to me—I don’t see any real conflict between “Harris is Selina Meyer” and “Harris is a stronger candidate than Biden and for that matter Trump.”

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