Nick Tangborn

Maybe I Shouldn’t Be In The Pit Before My Neurosurgery Appointment Seeing Tear Dungeon with an Torn Tendon

Maybe I Shouldn’t Be In The Pit Before My Neurosurgery Appointment
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Ian Moore Can't Speak Not Drowning, Waving

Ian Moore Can't Speak
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Gouache painting of a white cat with black tipped ears that has a large big mac in its mouth on a green background. Sparkles surround the cat

Burger 🍔

#art

Head To Head With ConAgra Batter Blaster visits the Grocery Manufacturers Association of America

I wrote about my old company Batter Blaster and how we went up against Con Agra and the other massive CPG conglomerates in 2012 and still won the (prestigious?) GMA Award for Innovation and Creativity. open.substack.com/pub/areyouex...

The Elephant In The Data Center There’s a hoary old joke about the circus.

The Elephant In The Data Center
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There is a special place in hell for people who want to return things on eBay that they clearly have destroyed/“lost”/damaged themselves. Especially ones who say “oh I know it’s always someone else’s fault.” They belong with despots, warlocks and egotistical swim instructors

Are You Experienced? | Nick Tangborn | Substack How to feel young and relevant when you're over 50 and everything hurts. Career, purpose, media and culture through the lens of an aging hipster. Click to read "Are You Experienced?", a Substack publi...

I've been busy over at areyouexperienced.substack.com writing about things that appeal to me, or bother me, depending on the week and my general temperament. Lately it's been generative AI, the Quatermass series, self-publishing, ghosts, magick and horror movies.

The Jackpine Social Club I'm Not Ghosting You, I'm Just 55

Wrote today about my old record label, home to Jesse DeNatale, Tom Heyman, Kelley Stoltz, Oranger, and a host of others.

Bureau of Reclamations A ballad of Minneapolis music writer and news journalist Burl Gilyard

Bureau of Reclamations
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Not Dark Yet Horrible bosses, Robot shenanigans, Writers I like

You probably need to read this uncharacteristically light Substack from the king of mid tempo ballads and mildly disturbing transparency

Do you choke up when Kirk/Shatner breaks on “he was the most…human” or are you dead inside

Famous Last Words If A Bridge Burns During SXSW, Does Anyone Smell It?

I wrote about the intersection of personal and professional, and what happens when someone texts you "Fuck you!" Toda on Substack! open.substack.com/pub/areyouex...

I wrote a piece about horror movies and job hunting. I don't know if there is a horror movie about job hunting but I don't think I'd want to watch it right now. Unless there's a good one! open.substack.com/pub/areyouex...

Yeah baby!

Talking about magick with a k on the Substack. You know you wanna. areyouexperienced.substack.com/p/lets-magic...

All My Rowdy Friends The Best View In Any City...

I have written over 40,000 words since I started this, which is a pretty big number. For me, at least. This past week I wrote about redefining my relationship with alcohol. In past weeks I've dug into all sorts of digital stuff via the lens of this jaded Gen Xer. open.substack.com/pub/areyouex...

The Invisible People Where We Go When We Get Old, But We Don't Die

I wrote this week about my great, late friend Matt Harris, bass player for the Posies, Oranger, Ian Moore, Spiral Stairs, Roky Erikson and many others, and where addiction and aging meet.
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This could be you but you playin

Yoda’s first name is Minch

They don’t really put a warning sign on Hereditary, do they? “Now Streaming On MAX. Know What You Are Getting Into”

Argh the O and I are so close tigether

Hey all you new follower types, O wrote this weekend a piece about being trapped under a 60lb steel pot of rotting lobster carcasses in a 98 Jetta. How can you afford NOT to read it? open.substack.com/pub/areyouex...

Kirby Saturday

Nick Tangborn - Music, Movies, Media, Marketing Music, Movies, Media, Marketing

I like talking about horror movies, comic books, music and other pop culture that is good, not the crap kind. So hi everyone who is just now joining. This is my personal site and yes I was COO at Batter Blaster, the lamented aerosol pancake batter in a can. nicktangborn.com

I also am Chief of Staff at Eknonomisk Mgmt (Andrew Bird, Alan Sparhawk, My Brightest Diamond et al) and I run marketing for The Small Bow, a recovery and sobriety substack, podcast and soon-to-be app from AJ Daulerio (Gawker) and Garrett Kamps (Rhapsody, Third Bridge) ekonmgmt.com

Bluesky seems to be waking up again as the Meta fact-checking terrifies everyone. I write a 1500 words every week about culture, media and writing after 50. It's called Are You Experienced and is over on Substack. I recently started a vintage comics and ephemera store at www.ebay.com/str/quaterma...

I see dead people. open.substack.com/pub/areyouex...

The Week The Superman Trailer Took Over the World - Book and Film Globe The new Superman trailer confidently asserts we are most assuredly in comic-book land. This is the main vanguard of the NEW DC invasion, headed by James

I have a couple new pieces up today for your reading pleasure. First up, I deconstruct the new Superman trailer from soup to nuts. Dog nuts! bookandfilmglobe.com/film/the-wee...