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RIP @Salon. It's where in 1999 I wrote the Letterman piece I'm most proud of, part of their "Brilliant Careers" series. salon.com/1999/07/20/letterm…
That effin’ Trea Turner. The pop-ups, his infuriating throw-the-bat-away swing, and nobody in the Phillies org has the guts to move him.
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one day in like 15 years Cliff Lee is going to show up to alumni weekend looking like Ted Kaczynski and all he's going to do is grab the mic and say how much he hates Ruben Amaro Jr. then leave.
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Sinopse de A Odisseia:
"Jason Bourne perdeu-se no mar por anos. Sua esposa, Mulher-Gato, encontra-se desolada e está sendo cobiçada pelo Batman. O filho de Bourne, Homem-Aranha, foi procurar o pai com a ajuda do Justiceiro".
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Listen to @kentucker of @NPR ’s @nprfreshair explain why Gary Stewart: I Am From the Honky-Tonks is a must-read.
More than a music biography, it offers a vivid portrait of Southern working-class life and a fascinating slice of American history.
Listen now: link in bio 🔗
Listen to my new @nprfreshair review of @JimmymcdonoughA 's fantastic book 'Gary Stewart: I Am from the Honky Tonks' here: npr.org/2026/06/09/nx-s1-585…
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In Scarface, when Tony comments on a news broadcast about legalizing drugs, screenwriter Oliver Stone used this moment to slip in his own political views on the war on drugs. Stone explains…
"Three or four grams of coke [went] for $12 in Ecuador: it was so pure you’d fall asleep it was so good, [although] they’d cut it and cut it and cut it by the time it got here. It was a big business, and the DEA made it bigger by making it more [so] by getting more involved and raising their own budgets, by passing the RICO Act.
The RICO Act was just crap; the [government] used it politically, I mention it in the script: I have Tony say they ought to legalize drugs if they had any brains. The RICO Act is one of the precursors to the Patriot Act; that was the mentality—you turn drugs into a monster, et cetera. So, for me there was a political motive." 1/2
Quote comes from Ken Tucker's book Scarface Nation
nytimes.com/2026/04/20/books… Are you kidding? Until about a year ago no @nytimes editor wd have green-lit this piece.
Ruben back in the Phillies booth w the same old: “he just kinda SMOKED it!” “He tried to get a piece of cheese past him” “Harp” “Marshy”… I’m muting already.
RIP James Van Der Beek. In my 1998 @EW Dawson review I wrote "[He] has handsome features attached to a face shaped like a cereal box." Years later, he told me he was "haunted" by that, & had a good laugh. ew.com/article/1998/01/23/da…
Copyediting, a lost art. "He often wrote under the pen name 'William Boot,' a self-deprecating homage to Evelyn Waugh’s supercilious journalist in her 1938 novel, Scoop." That Waugh, whatta dame...
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