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Joe Bernstein retweeted
.@tysonbrody is the only person who can end the 2016 democratic presidential primary
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Dud of the Week: "You Can See Everything," a mockumentary glorifying felon Elizabeth Holmes and fellow narcissicist filmmakers, perverts truth, justice and class issues for Gen-X media-illiterates. Read how: nationalreview.com/2026/10/t… @A24 #YouCanSeeEverything
*looking in mirror* “Hey, uh babe. Yeah, can you come over here? Sorry I know you’re trying to work. Would you say I’m more shtetl type or brown? Not gracile, right? No, no definitely not. Just wondering.”
The kids in my son’s first grade class scare each other by screaming “look out! Michael Jackson is behind you!” ????
One thing that is poorly understood is the extent to which this store is very much a magic shop. And apparently magic shop clerks are supposed to be hostile to outsiders. So what Kelly Clarkson interpreted as snobbery, was actually classic magician in-group out-group behavior.
Paul Rudd was spotted visiting Art of Play, the Brooklyn curiosity shop that recently made headlines following Kelly Clarkson’s very public dispute with the store. 📸@BackgridUS
Perhaps you’re familiar with Nolita Dirtbag, the king of the arch neighborhood posters on Instagram? He’s getting a little antsy. My profile of a meme savant who wants to be “Rupert Murdoch” but “not a tiny Australian chud.”
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Joe Bernstein retweeted
I spent a year working the apps for DoorDash, Uber, Amazon and more; saw disturbing things; brought people single cookies; probably delivered drugs; smashed up my nose; met people who made insane journeys to get you pad thai; wondered what we’re doing here simonandschuster.com/books/D…
Joe Bernstein retweeted
I haven’t seen the movie yet but I confess the kinds of questions about truth and performance that people seem so interested in seem to me to be straightforwardly tedious
This is the most satisfyingly analytical essay I've read about literary style... ever?
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Joe Bernstein retweeted
Sacrificed the best regular season in sports so that 8-4 Big Ten teams can lose by 13. Awesome stuff.
They're saying Tom McCarthy has a tedious idée fixe. They're saying he's obsessed with repetition and recursiveness at the exclusion of pleasure. They're saying his wry intellectual games have grown stale. They're saying failed transcendece is no longer rich territory for a novel
Tom McCarthy’s latest novel, “The Rhyl Poster,” does, in some ways, resemble a legal thriller—sort of like a John Grisham paperback written by Georges Perec. Yet when you look closer, Max Callimanopulos writes, you’ll realize that the book is nearly identical to McCarthy’s last two novels. “It seemed designed to deflect any of the pleasures I associated with reading,” Callimanopulos continues. “The sentences, packed with jargon, beat me down with their elaborate banality.” For decades, McCarthy has subverted the conventions of the realist novel. Has he exhausted his set of themes, images, and preoccupations? Read more about the strange novel: newyorker.com/books/under-re…
They’re saying DC is the coolest city, that has never tried too hard to be cool, to ever exist. They’re saying other cities can’t compare to DC’s effortless cool.
DC pizza spot La Merna has an espresso martini that comes with a cigarette for an extra $3 (or a pack for $30).
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