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matty karas

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musicredef guy. mtv/vh1 guy. trouble dolls guy. other things guy. perpetually confused guy.


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you may still be conflating. klobuchar dropped out before the minnesota primary (she also dropped out before the california primary, in case you were somehow arguing that she came in fourth in that one, which she also didn't)

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why are there no panicked discussions today about removing jake and dana from the ballot, or at least the airwaves, before it's too late?!?!?

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"Tapper tells him that heโ€™s asking a follow-up question, and heโ€™ll get another eighty seconds to do whatever he wants with it, like shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any unchallenged, fawning media coverage. Trump nods." THIS. ACTUALLY. HAPPENED.

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does cnn have a "stop to quit" option?

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i'm currently in favor of -- hang on a second while i find a calculator -- abortion in the 945th month

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hopefully someone is out there right now filming "karen read parking lot"

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we live in an age in which we have near limitless storage for data. unfortunately at this time we must erase all works of culture to make room for the infinite sea of machine slop

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i don't know. "you're blocking my view" is always a silly argument, especially in a place like nyc. but "stop building soulless ugly buildings next to beautiful ones" is a complaint i can get behind!

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you just know alito and thomas are quietly having drinks with (or hunting with, or whatever) friendly lawyers and attorneys general and telling them exactly what, where and, most importantly, when to file

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yup. also, using issues of standing/jurisdiction to simply punt on anything they'd rather decide in a year or two, after the election

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surely there's an "i go to extremes" episode still to come?

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halfway through season 2 of the boys. the writing is noticeably deteriorating but the billy joel content is getting better and better, so i guess i'll keep watching?

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or are they goats? either way, give 'em their own prequel series and we can get all the answers that way if we really need them

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it wasn't even all that much of a cliffhanger! it was a clean, pretty much perfect ending. i'll watch the next season whenever it shows up, but i've never actually seen the need for it

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this is personal to me. there's a lot of shitty self-promotional celebrity journalism in those archives. there's also a lot of good, smart, thoughtful writing, along with several decades' worth of first-draft pop culture history. all gone with one stroke of a number cruncher'a soulless pen

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those motherfuckers who replaced the people who replaced the people who replaced the people who replaced the people who actually cared about this network (including me) can motherfuck themselves right the fuck off

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dearest new york times: is there another coney island i don't know about?

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payton pritchard in the first half last night was on the floor for exactly four seconds took one shot scored three points and i'm wondering if that's the most analytically perfect half in the history of basketball

#NBA #NBAplayoffs

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I pledge allegiance to the Jays. Celtics legends forever.

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that's what i figured. i remain a happy subscriber ๐Ÿ˜

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to be fair (and i love your substack!), i'd suggest it's quite possible that the fact that the poetry manifested in something like eight emails in a row to subscribers could explain both halves of that

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jesus h christ. in addition to everything else that's wrong with this, why are phone companies *letting* uber (or anyone else) see my battery?

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does that mean darvin ham is back in la within a year and winning championships within four or five?

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blocking you for the next week or (if necessary) two

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i pay $60 to fetch my car from the garage and then i'm on my way!

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they came to take him away for the last time a year ago ๐Ÿ˜ฟ

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"I wouldn't even want to wait another year. Why don't we start taking steps now to address the issue of congestion?" is a fascinating collection of words to explain why you have literally decided not to address the issue of congestion

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i don't think we as a society appreciate nearly as much as we should the fact that willie nelson is still making really good records

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my favorite thing about the boston smith & wollensky is that when you walk in you're greeted with a wall-sized photo of paul mccartney, who is a vegetarian

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i get it. it's the blinding transparency of that political calculation that bothers me as a (non-suburban) constituent and voter

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ha. if you're driving recklessly and decide to buckle up just before you hit that 18-wheeler, i'll credit you for the buckling but i'm still going to charge for you for driving recklessly (i can't even imagine her not getting primaried from every possible direction)

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yes i'm aware. but if that's the political calculation, isn't it your job as governor to make that calculation in june 2023, not june 2024?

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it's possible the bigger self-own to is to flip-flop at the last minute on a policy you've been enthusiastically selling for the past year as important and absolutely necessary to the future of the city where half your constituents live

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what's the point of 275k worth of defense lawyers if your jury sees you every day in dirty, rumpled suits? you're gonna need more $$$ for dry cleaning, even if that means cutting back on the steak & sides

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dudes of nudeswirl and monster magnet, you know where to find me

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in honor of my somehow not being interviewed for this book, i hereby announce my oral history of the 80s and 90s jersey shore punk metal grunge etc world, which shall be called either "too bored to run" or "hungry fart"

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it's also worth noting, if people are going to continue to politicize the response, that a trump-appointed cdc director greenlit the 6-ft distancing recommendation, while biden's cdc director worked to relax it. weird how this never seems to get mentioned!

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i demand respect, likes and shares for this 2023 tyler childers e-ditty

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this is more indefensible than any shitty list rolling stone has ever published

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oy. i hope the lawyer you quoted about the ownership change is wrong and penske takes a bath on this. there's absolutely no defending this. the magazine made a business bet, lost the bet, and now doesn't want to pay up

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i mean no one *ever* needs to sneak a peek at xitter, but i'll note that a peek at madison mcferrin's xitter at this particular moment might provide a little dose of joy ๐ŸŽถ

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i wasn't trying to suggest that it was all good basketball! just that it was all basketball, with the coaches and the refs letting the players, for better and for worse, play it out

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and, holy cow, the last minute of celts-pacers tonite took exactly 87 seconds of real time. no timeouts. one foul. no free throws. and this was a series-deciding game that was tied when that last minute began. here's to basketballers basketballing!

#NBA #NBAplayoffs

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