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writer for hire. bylines at Vulture, Slate, The Ringer, and Vanity Fair. movies and tv and games and books and

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anyone else thinking about the failed 2002 fox series JOHN DOE

11.03.2026 17:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Idk what that means but I am FUN

11.03.2026 17:40 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

one of my favorite films from last year, and one I am supremely bummed isn’t in the Oscars conversation

11.03.2026 16:49 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

The toughest thing about solo is that there are missions that give you 2-3 objectives to do _in a single run_, which can feel impossibly hard if you have the bad luck of running into other players all the time but if you pull it off? thrilling as hell

11.03.2026 15:11 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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me playing marathon

11.03.2026 04:09 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Abbott Elementary has really leaned into making Gregory a real weirdo this season and I appreciate that

11.03.2026 00:52 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes easily

10.03.2026 20:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am not hungry anymore

10.03.2026 20:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

1.) kinda tasteless and gray

2.) big pub style burger

3.) seemed like white American

10.03.2026 20:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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right now, yes. Maybe ask again in a few hours.

10.03.2026 20:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
directors charles burnett and boots riley seated on the cover of film / culture magazine β€œa rabbit’s foot”

directors charles burnett and boots riley seated on the cover of film / culture magazine β€œa rabbit’s foot”

CHARLES BURNETT x BOOTS RILEY
on the cover of A RABBIT’S FOOT.

cover story by me! on newsstands 3/14.

10.03.2026 19:41 πŸ‘ 81 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

no never

10.03.2026 20:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

1) too much

2) strongly suspected, but wanted to give a neighborhood haunt a chance to surprise me

3) lettuce tomato ketchup

4) no they got hot dogs, much harder to screw up (and I’ve had em)

10.03.2026 19:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

had a terrible cheeseburger ama

10.03.2026 19:51 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0

I also talk about Oscar noms via Mitch hedburg jokes

which movie has two trees involved….

10.03.2026 19:39 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think it’s useful, and maybe even crucial, to ask β€œis this also performance?” When considering statements from artists

10.03.2026 19:22 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

mostly though I think it’s interesting when actors choose to be unguarded, or project any kind of public presence, and would rather just hear what they’re thinking over obsessing over whether or not their ideas are correct or even very smart

10.03.2026 19:06 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

in context his point isn’t about opera, it’s about struggling to advocate for the arts as an artist, a thing he says he admires from his peers but would prefer not to do. which is a fine thing to express!

10.03.2026 19:04 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

lol this rules

10.03.2026 18:59 πŸ‘ 74 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

great news went to a new barbershop and it was like home 😭

10.03.2026 18:39 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hey this was great, thank you for writing it

10.03.2026 17:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œescape will make me god” is one of the coolest sentences in a video game and they are right to milk it

10.03.2026 16:58 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

What are people talking about now lol

10.03.2026 16:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

man so many good pieces out there today. I gotta get to writing my own but spending this morning reading was very nice

10.03.2026 15:49 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

just a really great, personal write up of a book I’m going to buy the first chance I get

10.03.2026 15:48 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This was good Tim!

10.03.2026 15:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

ego is useful for getting you to your desk and then you put it back where it belongs so you can do the job!

10.03.2026 15:35 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

No idea where it’s at rn but I love the surprise ending move lol. Swagger off the charts

10.03.2026 15:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

every day I read wonderful writing that makes me more appreciative, observant, thoughtful in how I engage with the world, and every day a few hundred people spend billions to try and obliterate that from our lives. this business is being snuffed out because it is worth so very much

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