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WOODY GUTHRIE SANG ABOUT B-E-E-T-S, NOT B-E-A-T-S.
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Worst of 2018
Sorry to Bother You I left the theater (Alamo, during wide release but late in the cycle) having successfully avoided my companion’s friends, who had just happened to be in the same screening, talking about needing to pick their jaws off the floor and brains out of the carpet and willing to give the kind…
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I tried to imagine a fella smarter than myself. Then I tried to think, “what would he do?”
So someone who works for a magazine that was profitable for decades solely due to subscription stuffing done by cutout intermediaries noticed that publishers try to game the numbers. I can’t properly qualify that claim — it was told to me at least ten years ago by some publishing industry wonk about a practice ten…
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We Need to Talk About John
One of the odder maxims of old YM was to never ‘report on’ conversations that happened during casual gatherings. I believe I was the progenitor and the logic was something on the order of extending a courtesy of privacy so that people need not be guarded for fear of some lazy gotcha down the road.…
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