22 March 2024

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My pitch for a show now that Curb is ending: it’s High Maintenance meets Curb Your Enthusiasm where it’s J.B. Smoove’s show, but he’s like The Guy” from HM so the focus is never really on him and he can just improv his way through episodes like he does in Curb.

21 March 2024

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If you ended up here via Ben’s [SIC], consider checking out my newsletter, foofaraw.

21 March 2024

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While I wait for a writer co-op to come out of the ashes of Pitchfork, I’ve made a quick list of places that are writer-owned, with multiple writers, and not VC funded over on the newsroom blog.

21 March 2024

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🧑‍🔬 Welcome to Sequencer

Another exciting co-op media company, this one is a digital science magazine and newsletter run by four journalists whose writing covers all corners of science, the lives affected by it, the people doing it, and the craft of writing about it.” I’m going to need to create a database to track all of these sites.

19 March 2024

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🐻 What the Keenan Allen trade means for the Bears offense and the No. 9 pick — Athletic

More Bears… I wonder how Allen feels now that he’s going to have a rookie QB.

19 March 2024

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🐻 Bears trade QB Justin Fields to Steelers — Sun Times

Old news at this point, but I had to capture for prosperity. Given they are drafting Williams, it’s probably the right move.

19 March 2024

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🎹 Musicboard — App Store

Letterboxd for music and it’s pretty smooth so far. Going to keep it around for a bit. I’m @humdrum, as always.

19 March 2024

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🙃 The Flipbook Experiment — The Pudding

Cool project from The Pudding, although Are.na already did it 😝.

19 March 2024

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🌐 Issue 03 — The HTML Review

Always one of the coolest things on the web. Stoked to dig into the new issue.

14 March 2024

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Whelp, I went and did it. Follow along the behind-the-scenes of the foofaraw newsroom. I finally made the jump to Pika Pro now too.

14 March 2024

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Been thinking about setting up a behind-the-scenes/change-log/making-of blog for foofaraw. I do some of this already in my Grub newsletter, but I think it’d be cool to have a record of trying to build a newsletter/zine thing from the ground up, as one person, with essentially zero dollars.

13 March 2024

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⛹️ The N.B.A.’s Rulebook Problem — New Yorker

I agree with a lot of this, but ultimately, it still comes down to the players. They should be docked a games worth of pay for every four calls they argue and are wrong about.

13 March 2024

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🏀 Zion Is Looking More Like Zion. And the Pelicans Are Looking More Like Contenders — Ringer

Some positive news in the world of basketball! I haven’t been watching much, but Zion being Zion means sometimes good things can happen.

13 March 2024

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😅 Amazon Tells Warehouse Workers to Close Their Eyes and Think Happy Thoughts — 404

Look at that, they’ve solved the worlds problems. Just close your eyes and it’ll be all better.

13 March 2024

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🔭 Space Camp and The X-Men-ification of Trans People — TPA

Stop treating us like mutants, especially if you can’t bring yourself to understand that the mutants in X-Men were the ones being persecuted.

This shit is so depressing to read about. The vitriol from some people over others merely existing is just so sad.

13 March 2024

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🍋 After Testy Interview With Elon Musk, Don Lemon Says His Deal With X Is Canceled NY Times

Lemon:

His commitment to a global town square where all questions can be asked and all ideas can be shared seems not to include questions of him from people like me.

I mean, yeah, we all knew that was the case. But good for Don in (likely) grabbing another paycheck while not having to do any work along with his CNN payout.

12 March 2024

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👮 Ari Aster’s Next Film at A24 Eddington’ to Star Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Pedro Pascal, and Austin Butler — IndieWire

This is too good to hold for the newsletter! Beau is Afraid was my #1 movie last year and to have Joaquin back alongside Stone and Pascal in the next one is mind-blowing to me.

12 March 2024

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🛝 App Demo — Muddy

SharePoint + Slack + Arc = Muddy..? I don’t know. This app is definitely not for me, especially since I’m not looking for collaborative tools, but there’s some interesting stuff in there. The group surveillance aspect is pretty off-putting though.

11 March 2024

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I got foofaraw listed on The Submission Grinder. I’m hoping this will help bring in some fiction contributions to the newsletter, and expanding what we can do with it.

10 March 2024

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📺 President Biden’s reaction to seeing MTG before the speech is all of us. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Chris D. Jackson on Twitter

Meant to drop this in with the other SotU posts yesterday…

10 March 2024

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😰 My Anxiety — New Yorker

My work suffers, of course. How could it not? I’m sadly not a perfectionist but, rather, an avoider and a regretter. There are periods when I will respond to e-mails at a reasonable pace, and then there’s the e-mail about a potentially lucrative project that I ignored for months. I haven’t even opened it; I don’t know what it says.

Boy, do I feel seen. Don’t even get me started on the getting out of bed” section…

9 March 2024

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👽 Spawn, Scorched, and More — Humble Bundle

Second humble bundle I’ve linked to this week. I’ve always wanted to go back and read old Spawn. $20 for 43 volumes of Spawn and Spawn related books. Now I can.

9 March 2024

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🎵 What Makes an Album the Greatest of All Time? — Pudding

Really great stuff as always. I definitely think the biggest factor was the change/addition of panelists. I still think Sgt. Peppers deserves the 1 spot though.

8 March 2024

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📣 So Much for Sleepy Joe”: On Biden’s Rowdy, Shouty State of the Union — New Yorker

Biden wasn’t exactly a happy warrior on Thursday night, but he was a forceful one. He seemed unfazed by the occasional word salad that he made of his script. He was definitely not soporific. The speech kept one part of the evening’s traditions intact–it was terribly long, more than an hour–but the general vibe was different than most State of the Union addresses I can recall–sharply confrontational, intensely divided.

8 March 2024

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🥊 Joe Biden comes out fighting against Donald Trump — Economist

Mr Biden not only attacked his opponent but goaded Republicans in the chamber and scolded the justices of the Supreme Court, who sat before him, for their decision to overturn Roe v Wade. Coming from this president, an institutionalist who reveres such traditions, that in itself was a signal that he recognises Mr Trump has shifted American politics onto new terrain, and that Mr Biden intends to take the fight to him there.


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