this would fix all of Six Flags’ attendance problems
hearing Dolly rode this car all the way back to Nashville
I hear you used AI to see what ‘80s actors who are still alive would look like today
Eli and I talk about Marathon (in writing) (it’s a podcast for your eyes)
In our latest Crosstalk, we dig into Marathon, cyberpunk cliches, and anti-capitalist rhetoric from massive corporations.
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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!
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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!”
my in-laws’ dog just turned seven and what even is time
I want you to write about Ratatouille the ride
hey, Marvel: it’s skranking time
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.
but Catholicism is its own weird thing if you were raised Protestant like me
Bob Hope converted to Catholicism at the age of 93, which is an especially insane age to do that
the Phil Hendrie doc spends maybe 70 seconds on his show at WSB in Atlanta but that’s enough time for this typo
the worst. absolute worst.
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.
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.
turns out the Dollywood hotels get insanely busy the night before Dollywood opens for the season
bought some readers. for posting.
whiskers?
if you’re the only go-karts in town you’d advertise yourself as the only go-karts in town not the fastest
the coolest thing about a billboard for the fastest go-karts in town is that it means your town has multiple go-kart places
the hell is “anout”? do I need glasses?
Garry Marshall probably called them “rolly coasters”
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somebody should write a book like Otto Friedrich's City of Nets but focusing on the '50s instead of the '40s
the best live band, and the one I have seen more than any other (perhaps excluding some friends’ bands)
get a Ham Fighters one
a good rule. so Charleston and Knoxville (a city, not even a town) are out.
hey, Southern Living, just cuz a town has a college don’t make it a college town