@Evanryt Tbh I like the inclusion of the Mormon tabernacle choir in the top 10. Totally underrated
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Alan Phelge
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Alan Phelge
@AlanPhelge
Carbon-based life form. Pays taxes.
San Diego, CA Katılım Mart 2021
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Machine Gun Kelly over Fugazi? No Clash albums but three (!) Big Audio Dynamite albums? Who wrote this?
Rolling Stone@RollingStone
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Ramones’ toweringly influential self-titled debut, we’ve compiled a list of the 100 Greatest Punk Albums of All Time. FULL LIST: rollingstone.com/music/music-li…
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@QuetzalThoughts The people complaining about Beloved are one of the following:
1) vile racists
2) genteel racists who don’t consider her one of the greats
3) non-racists who just don’t like her style
4) genuine Morrison fans who prefer another novel or think #2 is too high
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Beloved is a close contender for my favorite book of all time. Even as a teenager, I cried in a few spots when we read it in High School and her word play and choices are superb. I genuinely think that if you dislike Beloved, you don't actually care for literature
John Podhoretz@jpodhoretz
The Guardian’s panel has chosen the 100 greatest novels of all time and has put BELOVED second. That is among the most ludicrous aesthetic judgments in the annals of Western culture. Embarrassing tokenism.
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Is there a novel that is more overrated then Beloved?
Edmund@Kulambq
Works which have no business being on this list: 'Beloved' 'Wolf Hall' 'The End of the Affair' (it's one of Greene's weakest novels) 'The Remains of the Day' 'My Brilliant Friend' 'White Teeth' I can't comment on those I haven't read, for instance, 'Nervous Condition,' 'Kindred,' 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,' 'The Golden Notebook.' theguardian.com/books/ng-inter…
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@harrisondubay I can just picture two obese Nazi 20-something staffers high fiving each other as one of them hits send. Also, they only graze each other’s hands as both recoil in discomfort at being reminded of their latent homosexuality and accompanying self-hate
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Can you believe someone typed this out and hit send tweet
Ohio Republican Party@ohiogop
Ohio is home to the world's largest basket-shaped building. If Amy Acton were Governor, this is what it would look like. We can't let that happen.
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@rBillSimmonsPod Joel defender here: he’s done great “serious” long-form journalism for Slate and is solid on the Press Box pod for The Ringer. Agree though that he failed his Rewatchables audition here. He will not be market correcting Van as the token black guy
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People REALLY did not like the Tropic Thunder Rewatchables
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@RightWingCope Upon seeing this photo, I just laughed and shrugged like Howard Roark and Atlas, respectively
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@JakeWally Joel defender here: he’s done great “serious” long-form journalism for Slate and is solid on the Press Box pod for The Ringer. Agree though that he failed his Rewatchables audition here. He will not be market correcting Van as the token black guy.
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@LinkofSunshine Yeah Osborn’s doing well against Ricketts, but how would he fare against scurvy and beriberi?
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The fact that Osborn putting himself as Red every time and his opponent as Blue actually works makes me so mad lol
Dan Osborn@osbornforne
Nebraska voters have seen enough of Pete Ricketts. The numbers don't lie.
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@EmmettStinson The greatest film of all time that no one talks about. Y’all aren’t ready for that conversation.
Name a better film. Go ahead, I’ll wait.
(How am I doing on my annoying Captain Obvious Twitter engagement bait!?)
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@ianlcohen JA had some real bangers and can easily be revived via the usual multi-faceted efforts: reissue campaign (complete discography remastered box set), biopic starring A-lister (would Chalamet, Butler do it again?), viral TikTok song
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Two bands that keep popping up again and again as I interview bands for my book...
1) Jane's Addiction (they all respected Fugazi, but *worshipped* Jane's Addiction)
2) Archers of Loaf (the band that was *always* playing at the college town bars they couldn't get into)
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@JacobsFieldRBW A gas station turkey sandwich is a little better than gas station sushi 🤷🏻♂️
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Alan Phelge retweetledi
@matthiasellis Genuinely curious if Platner could be the start of a mini-trend for at least some segment of MAGA dudes post Trump: I.e. economic populism w/a “who cares” approach to culture that excises or ignores any past racism/sexism/homophobia/xenophobia, etc.
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Alan Phelge retweetledi
When my son was 10, he recognized that I was an older father and he was not happy about that, and I never considered that.
I walked into his bedroom one night, I could tell he'd been crying, puffy eyes, tears stained cheek. And I go, what's going on, buddy? Because I don't know his name. I’m never home.
My son said, I've just been thinking, I'm 10 now and you're 63. When I'm 20. You're gonna be 73. When I'm 30. You'll be 83. You won’t be around for a lot of my life. I said. Buddy buddy, buddy. What's his fucking name. I said I’ll be around for a long time. Don't you worry about that.
I'll be around when you graduate. I'll be around when you get married, when you have kids, I’ll be around for all that stuff. You just gotta make it happen in the next four years. Otherwise, yeah, you're probably right. I won't be around. He said, no, I'm serious. Dad.
Dad? he doesn't know my name either.
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@alwaysliquidd I think what had to factor into JPM’s skepticism of his story is that he’s really ugly
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The JP Morgan lawsuit is so funny.
He very clearly thought that filing this lawsuit is a calculated risk and that the details would be so salacious that JPM would just pay him like $800k to go away. He probably had a whole risk formula!
He just forgot the part where not everyone is as autistic as he is and when you say “my boss was a BDSM demon lord 🥺”they won’t just settle and go away because that’s the fastest option in the prisoners dilemma scenario you constructed in your mind and in fact, they will call you into court and make you explain yourself, at which point, you reveal yourself to be a porn-brained doofus who is just really really good at math but also retarded in every other aspect of life
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@JaycelAdkins I feel the same way about foodies and movie nerds. Like, c’mon, I get the Michelin stars and Criterion selections, but you don’t have a soft spot for like Taco Bell and Ace Ventura or whatever!?
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I’m suspicious of book people who don’t have some deep contradiction in their reading habits, likes, etc.
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@lesterfreamon Just here to say that Jonathan Tjarks (RIP) had both much better basketball takes than KOC and a much better terminal illness Christian message than Ben Sasse
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Bill Simmons has a pretty stellar hiring history across two websites but unfortunately all of that good is outweighed by his bringing Kevin O'Connor into our lives
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@sadarlo1 @AmericanGwyn Agree and thanks—always had a morbid fascination with terrible propaganda fiction which I do think is important to study as source material
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@AlanPhelge @AmericanGwyn Badly written fantasy polemic. Still think it’s essential reading in concert with identity politics writings on the left/lib — imo books from both extreme sides pf thr spectrum are rigid and lead to the same inequities we have now.
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Haven’t read this novel; don’t know anything about it. But if you want to ensure a book’s success, ban it. Immediately raises its profile & creates the kind of publicity money can’t buy. Americans love an outlaw.
(Wish someone would ban all my books. Then I could retire).
Reddit Lies@reddit_lies
r/BannedBooks celebrates over Amazon banning "Camp of the Saints" The comments are wild: "As a librarian that's not actually a book, I would remove it from my library" "I don't like book bans, but..." "It's not a book ban because it's a private company"
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