Garrett Martin

Garrett Martin

@garrettmartin.bsky.social

Games editor at A.V. Club. Formerly Paste Games and Endless Mode. Writes about games, pinball, theme parks, travel, and more. Somewhere near Atlanta.

4,329 Followers 866 Following 5,671 Posts Joined Jun 2023
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this would fix all of Six Flags’ attendance problems

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hearing Dolly rode this car all the way back to Nashville

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1 hour ago

I hear you used AI to see what ‘80s actors who are still alive would look like today

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1 hour ago

Eli and I talk about Marathon (in writing) (it’s a podcast for your eyes)

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Crosstalk: Can Marathon survive where so many other live-service games failed? It's tough out there for live-service shooters, but that hasn't stopped Bungie from releasing Marathon. Does it have what it takes?

In our latest Crosstalk, we dig into Marathon, cyberpunk cliches, and anti-capitalist rhetoric from massive corporations.

www.avclub.com/bungie-marat...

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5 days ago
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Another great NYT story today, this one about Richard Hell's apartment in the East Village, a dumpy cramped tenement flat that he's lived in (rent controlled, obviously) since 1974!

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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15 hours ago

my wife likes to relive the time that, while we were in the theater for Strays, I said aloud to a woman having a conversation on her phone, “shut up! we paid fifty dollars to watch these dogs cuss!”

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15 hours ago

my in-laws’ dog just turned seven and what even is time

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15 hours ago

I want you to write about Ratatouille the ride

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15 hours ago

hey, Marvel: it’s skranking time

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17 hours ago

It does not touch on Hendrie’s brief mid ‘00s move to extreme conservatism. was it legit? was it an ill-considered parody of talk radio’s resolutely hard right nature? who knows.

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17 hours ago

but Catholicism is its own weird thing if you were raised Protestant like me

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17 hours ago

Bob Hope converted to Catholicism at the age of 93, which is an especially insane age to do that

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18 hours ago
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the Phil Hendrie doc spends maybe 70 seconds on his show at WSB in Atlanta but that’s enough time for this typo

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18 hours ago

the worst. absolute worst.

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18 hours ago

shit, there’s a Greaseman jump scare in the first five minutes. heard way too much of that guy on Z93 in @thebstardsback.bsky.social’s car on the way to school.

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18 hours ago

starting the Phil Hendrie doc. randomly heard him one night during his short stint in Atlanta in the early ‘90s, became a regular listener, and didn’t know until a decade later that most of his guests were just him doing a character. hope it explains his gross “Bush Is God” phase in the ‘00s.

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18 hours ago

turns out the Dollywood hotels get insanely busy the night before Dollywood opens for the season

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21 hours ago

bought some readers. for posting.

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21 hours ago

whiskers?

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21 hours ago

if you’re the only go-karts in town you’d advertise yourself as the only go-karts in town not the fastest

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22 hours ago

the coolest thing about a billboard for the fastest go-karts in town is that it means your town has multiple go-kart places

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22 hours ago

the hell is “anout”? do I need glasses?

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22 hours ago

Garry Marshall probably called them “rolly coasters”

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1 day ago
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Kermit goes east: How a Hollywood landmark wound up in Atlanta The Kermit The Frog statue that stood in L.A. for 25 years arrives at its new home in Atlanta at the Center For the Puppetry Arts

wrote anout the Center For Puppetry Arts in Atlanta www.avclub.com/kermit-frog-...

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1 day ago

somebody should write a book like Otto Friedrich's City of Nets but focusing on the '50s instead of the '40s

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1 day ago

the best live band, and the one I have seen more than any other (perhaps excluding some friends’ bands)

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1 day ago

get a Ham Fighters one

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1 day ago

a good rule. so Charleston and Knoxville (a city, not even a town) are out.

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1 day ago

hey, Southern Living, just cuz a town has a college don’t make it a college town

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