@thisisnow
A non-consumerist documentary project drifting through the spectacle, noting the marginal, and refusing to let belief limit surprise. watch -> https://thisisnowshow.substack.com/ NYC Producer at VICE, CNN, DISCOVERY, MTV, 2WAY, BIG THINK, yada yada
My friend Ethan is launching a genuinely important show. Chances are someone you know would benefit. Help it find the community it’s meant for. open.substack.com/pub/ethansup...
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Andor isn’t just the best thing Star Wars has done—it might be some of the most vital art of the 21st century. A radical story about revolution, sacrifice, and ordinary people as history comes knocking. Creator Tony Gilroy talking revolutionaries ;)
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I’m producing and co-hosting Random Offense with Ethan Strauss, launching 5/23. It’s a live video call-in show on sports, culture, politics—whatever callers bring. Unpredictable, a little wild. Subscribing helps (you might even get on): www.youtube.com/@randomoffen...
"It doesn’t open with spectacle exactly—just the rumor of a dead body, a bizarrely on-point Bette Davis line, and a setup so perfect it begged for an NSFW joke. We’re not back to explain the world. We’re back to be in it."
Some people thought Series Two might never see the light, especially after everything that unraveled post-DNC Chicago. But This is Now was never about sticking to the script.
Will Jonas ride for teammate Matteo or take it for himself?
"We have seen the optimism of Russia opening up, and the tragedy of it closing down."
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I said it then, I’ll say it again. If you weren’t pro-Occupy Wall Street, you were anti-democracy.
America is finally being run like a business: a business acquired by private equity, leveraged to the hilt, its assets gutted, workforce slashed, and pensions raided before it gets offloaded in a fire sale. Hope you like working gig jobs for stock options in a company that won’t exist in five years.
If curious about sound 🔊
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Fall Back Friday
Thoughtful article examining how two seemingly incompatible novels "True Grit" and "The Crying of Lot 49" immerse their protagonists—and us—in systems that are unstable, inscrutable, and often indifferent. #booksky 💙📚
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First come the tariffs, then the saber-rattling, and before you know it, someone’s calling in airstrikes over a truckload of Canadian unpasteurized cheese.
Throbbing Gristle
Rudimentary Peni
Agnostic Front
Crass
Einstürzende Neubauten
Cool show
Nervously explaining to ChatGPT that I'd like to try out the newer, shinier bot has turned our relationship into something akin to AI Seinfeld.
"In terms of references, the film’s mix of thrills, humor, and “very moving” emotion recalls Jonathan Demme’s 1986 screwball comedy road movie gem Something Wild as well as Alex Cox’s 1984 sci-fi black comedy Repo Man"
VINELAND!
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Trump is as American as apple pie.
Spooky
