Matthew Specktor

Truth. I’ve eaten bread there that was more or less indistinguishable from a leather moccasin, texture-wise

I just finished Matthew Specktor's The Golden Hour and if you 're at all interest in Hollywood and how the bad old world turned into the new worse world, it's pretty amazing. Great companion piece to the stellar Always Crashing in the Same Car by same. Shout out @specktor.bsky.social

Ah, man! That’s lovely. Thanks for reading, friend 🙏🏻

Yes. Amazing, no?

“We all know that Epstein was a pedophile and a close friend of mine. What this administration presupposes is… what if he wasn’t?”

It is early to post this, but I’m so excited for this. Karen’s book is so damn good

“Cheese and Onions,” “Ouch!”, etc

I dunno if I would consider that evidence that Posting Shifts Units or anything. Looked up the book b/c your feed seems thoughtful and unannoying, read a sample and thought OK, yes, this is good. Usually when I see a bunch of traffic around a book/writer it raises my suspicions. Very Gen X, I know

I just did, actually. Ordered a few days ago (hasn't yet arrived)

“Although I’ll admit, your exegeses on Michael Ovitz and the novels of Henry Fielding were impressive. Best of luck to you.”

I mean at some point it becomes less about the midterms and more about sectioning half the country, but…needs must, I guess

I’m telling you I’m VERY hard to shock, but the depravity that keeps getting recorded there (I’m thinking of the cookie batter thing I saw this morning, which is so fucking deranged it felt like AI) is upsetting beyond belief. It’s a mass sociopathy, and at some point needs to be treated as such

"Win" is a dope pick. I can't even say IAOA would be in my top fifty

Oh man that's lovely. (Although--even though I have yet to see Superman OR Eddington, and I hear the former at least is very good--one is tempted to sing: "One of these things/is not like the others")

Yep. The movies certainly deliver something that feels that much more consoling now.

I’ll be honest, I felt that way for decades and I grew up surrounded by the movies! So I get it. It’s fun when the discovery happens in any case

Oh man, what I wouldn’t give to see this AND The Conversation for the first time over the span of a few weeks. My head would be Mount Vesuvius

‘The suspension, which lasted approximately 3 hours before his account was reinstated, was explained by Instagram senior directors in an internal leaked memo that his content was deemed “too socialist,” and goes against current national US interest.’

Wow, freedom of speech in the US really is dead

This is happening in 10 minutes! Tune in: it'll be excellent

It ticks up quite a bit at the end. Those final two episodes are really good

‼️ Omg! I cannot wait to see this!

By “this crowd” you mean you, right? And me? We’re a crowd and we demand this!

Fake Danny Kirwan or GTFO

Bookmarking to see who chimes in on this, since I’d start headscratching after John Martyn…

Yes. And yet, like all things transitory, weirdly eternal too, I guess

Yeah. I finally deleted a few weeks ago, and…it’s shocking how little I miss it. It already seems far away

I mean…that excerpt there is so completely batshit I can’t blame you. I’m hooked!

Man, I have not checked in on that guy in—well, ever, I have never checked in on that guy, but this truly is a golden age of film criticism isn’t it? Wow

I mean the incredible thing is that I’ve never heard of any of these people—not once, ever—outside the context of these TWO NYT articles! Are we sure they’re real? Did David Brooks invent them?

Oh my God this is your first watch? It would not be insane to consider it FFC’s best