Looking for great IP? Read the Optionist on Substack. Also wrote The Shadows of Youth, UVA Phd, lapsed college prof, retired fencer, once on KUWTK
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Declining quality of Twitter ads🧵 Since the Tesla guy took over the ads on my TL have gone downhill. I can now climb my shower wall, repel down a burning building, laugh at the humping dog charger, secretly save $ on Amazon and be ready for the coming food crisis and more
$9.12 millon for a comic book. Smashed the old record which was for Action No. 1, the first appearance of #superman @HeritageAuction
The record for a comic is $6M. This is at $8.4M w/a few hours left in the auction! It has a heartwarming backstory: It was found by 3 brothers in an attic after their recently deceased mom bought it as a young girl living in SF's Chinatown. #superman hollywoodreporter.com/lifest…
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The record for a comic is $6M. This is at $8.4M w/a few hours left in the auction! It has a heartwarming backstory: It was found by 3 brothers in an attic after their recently deceased mom bought it as a young girl living in SF's Chinatown. #superman hollywoodreporter.com/lifest…
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For Veteran's Day, I wrote about how Alan Alda wore the real dog tags of two WWII soldiers on M*A*S*H. He alway wondered who they were. I found them and told their stories. It's a moving, inspiring story of two anonymous GI's with a bit part in TV history. theankler.com/p/secret-histo…
For Veteran's Day, I wrote about how Alan Alda wore the real dog tags of two WWII soldiers on M*A*S*H. He alway wondered who they were. I found them and told their stories. It's a moving, inspiring story of two anonymous GI's with a bit part in TV history. theankler.com/p/secret-histo…
Liam Neeson originally set to play Robin Williams' Oscar winning role in Dead Poets Society until Dustin Hoffman screwed it up. Really! What wild Hollywood tale!
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Liam Neeson was originally cast in Robin Williams role in Dead Poets Society. What a different movie that would have been!
theankler.com/p/katzenberg-m…
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The great producer Jon Landau (Titanic, Avatar) passed away last year but not before completing a memoir. Full of fun stories from an almost Dead Poets Society w/Liam Neeson to McConaughey's Titanic fail audition to Michael Mann using live bullets on set
theankler.com/p/katzenberg-m…
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Trans rights are human rights and in the end human rights will prevail. You on the other hand will just be remembered as a bigoted dipshit
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I was there and can attest that Thunderbolts is the best MCU in a while and it does everything — action, humor, heart— well and sets up what's to come perfectly. #Thunderbolts #MarvelStudios
Rock concert energy at the THUNDERBOLTS premiere as the large cast, Sebastian Stan and Florence Pugh included, get rock star introductions.
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Thunderbolts is the best MCU movie in a long time. It does everything well — action, humor, heart, grapples w/big issues and it effortlessly sets up what's to come next #thunderboltsmovie #MCU
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Boston Marathon was far different when Bill Rodgers won in 1975 bostonglobe.com/2025/04/18/s… via @BostonGlobe
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@Ask_Spectrum I called today to cancel my service. The operator kept harassing me to change my mind, wouldn't proceed to cancellation. Felt abusive. Unfortunately for them I'm a journalist and am thinking about writing a story about how this experience was.
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The person who owns this social media app is a hate filled divisive piece of shit nytimes.com/2025/01/03/world…
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