@lukevburns.bsky.social
Writing funny stuff/weird stuff. New Yorker, McSweeney's, NY Mag, etc. Translator of MASTERS OF THE NEFARIOUS, on shelves now. https://lukevburns.tumblr.com/writing (He/Him) Header image by Lucas Adams
Fieri: A Life in Four Diners, Drive-ins and Dives
24.11.2025 05:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Paul Schrader's Diners, Drive-ins and Dives
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Udo Kier seen on a dingy little smudged screen in the back of a cab, having a video call with Keanu in Johnny Mnemonic
24.11.2025 04:09 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Paul Schrader's Diners, Drive-ins and Dives
24.11.2025 04:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Edward Hopper's The Penguin
23.11.2025 05:30 — 👍 19 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0oh look a fun and cute thing I wrote
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Photograph of a television showing a frame from a TV show. We see a blue sign with white lettering that reads "John Carpendar Hospital." The sign is by a road and there's a lot of very green foliage in the background.
Get me John Carpenter!
He's unavailable.
Then get me his non-union hospital in a British TV show equivalent!
On paper Quintet sounds like it will at least be fun because of how bonkers it is, but no it's just completely boring.
18.11.2025 16:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Very excited to launch a new bracket on @literaryhub.bsky.social this morning all about Literary Twitter! Voting’s open!
Which social media drama do you think should win?
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A Newsletter of Humorous Writing: The thing you've got to understand is, when we read [REDACTED], we were blown away. We had never seen anything like it before. No one was doing that! It was an entirely new format, which, frankly, is what the humor writing world was in need of. We were so impressed by not just how funny it was, but how technically difficult it was to pull off. [REDACTED] read this at our show and absolutely killed.
James: I remember that!
Brian: So funny!
Luke: He was great!
A Newsletter of Humorous Writing: Yeah, what they said. Anyway, it's a great piece. Give it a read.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:epsvaud5wlsara6exmuwvmkc/bafkreidacn4lg75ufyyicvvw4z2xdfw2uaphd665jmooo6u4zjykfouaca@jpeg)
Screenshot of text: A Newsletter of Humorous Writing: The thing you've got to understand is, when we read [REDACTED], we were blown away. We had never seen anything like it before. No one was doing that! It was an entirely new format, which, frankly, is what the humor writing world was in need of. We were so impressed by not just how funny it was, but how technically difficult it was to pull off. [REDACTED] read this at our show and absolutely killed. James: I remember that! Brian: So funny! Luke: He was great! A Newsletter of Humorous Writing: Yeah, what they said. Anyway, it's a great piece. Give it a read.
If you want to read the short humor piece we're talking about here, click on through and check it out!
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In this week's newsletter @jamesfolta.com and I round up funny writing by Carly Silverman in @pointsincase.com, and Emily Berge, Fletcher Michael, and @kevinseccia.bsky.social in @mcsweeneys.net!
Plus, a recent piece by James for @literaryhub.bsky.social
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I saw this at Anthology Film Archives two years ago! So good. Nigel Kneale, man.
11.11.2025 15:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If it's "M-A-R-E" then Winslet you'll see
If it's Mayor with a Y, it's Renner you'll spy
In our Newsletter this week, @lukevburns.bsky.social and I highlighted funny writing by Ria Sardana, Gracie Beaver-Kairis, & Taylor Garron on @mcsweeneys.net, and Susan Mulcahy on @newyorker.com!
Plus a new piece from me in @airmail.news!
Subscribe below -- there's much more in our archives, too:
Oh for the love of
Sharing, since I just googled these so I could leave angry voicemails telling these motherfuckers to hold the line
Schumer's DC office number: 202-224-6542
Gillibrand's DC office number: (202) 224-4451
Lark!
Lark!
Screenshot of text on a wikipedia page: Below are the original French lyrics along with a literal English translation. Refrain: Alouette, gentille alouette, Alouette, je te plumerai. Refrain: Lark, nice lark, Lark, I will pluck you. 1. Je te plumerai la tête. (×2) Et la tête! (×2) Alouette! (×2) A-a-a-ah Refrain 1. I will pluck your head. (×2) And your head! (×2) Lark! (×2) A-a-a-ah Refrain
Singing Alouette but with wikipedia's literal translation of the lyrics
05.11.2025 14:37 — 👍 62 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 1"Mayhaps" implies the existence of "perbe."
05.11.2025 13:16 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0the dream
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Kevin Costner in a courtroom scene in JFK, looking incredibly focused and intense, wearing glasses, surrounded by diagrams
Once you conclude the magic sandwich could not create all seven of those wounds, you have to conclude that there was a second sandwich
04.11.2025 16:57 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0arguably the mets are the heroes of this film
04.11.2025 05:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0he's not a great lieutenant
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You may also be interested in: hot-thai-kitchen.com/laab-moo/
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Shot from the end of Bad Lieutenant -- Harvey Keitel sitting in a car parked outside of Penn Station with an ad for the Trump Plaza in the background
Just in: The Lieutenant has endorsed Andrew Cuomo
04.11.2025 04:23 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Still thinking about this
03.11.2025 21:33 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0ahh yeah here she comes, big double c, charlotte corday herself, looks like she brought information about the Girondins, smart
02.11.2025 23:49 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0ahh yeah here she comes, big double c, charlotte corday herself, looks like she brought information about the Girondins, smart
02.11.2025 23:49 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Not to mention he goes down to ape hell and fights the monkey devil
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