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I'm always thinking about this a little bit
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I wrote about a camp, 27 girls who drowned due to astonishing failures to plan, and hundreds of families going back anyway.
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"Early on in our collaboration, I remember him calling to ask if I could cover his fugue-like guitar part on 'China Cat Sunflower.' When the tune was originally penned, Garcia sang and Bobby noodled around Jerry’s pentatonic bounce. It only made sense that Bob would need that part played by someone else, now that he was holding it down on lead vocals. 'Got ya covered,' I answered, eagerly. Bob’s guitar part was still ringing in my ears from basement jams in high school — seemed like an old friend to me. The beautiful part of this is Bob never acted like I should know it — he was just happy to share it with me. In other words, a fuckin’ mensch." Josh Kaufman of Bonny Light Horseman has penned an ode to his friend @BobWeir in our latest issue. countyhighway.com/archive/vo…
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AI companies should be funneling billions of dollars into vanity culture projects such as print magazines and free studios and basic income for visual artists
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Today we launched L.A. Material — a new, independent L.A. news site — and I hope you'll check it out! Much more to come. lamaterial.com/
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🚨NEW FOSTERTALK 🚨 NEW FOSTERTALK 🚨 NEW FOSTERTALK 🚨 readfostertalk.com/p/foster-…
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I know I'm not the only one who has fatasized over the years about what if Washington had a tabloid. Since we don't, I'm going to start imagining how one would play the news. Starting with today's (which you can hear us talk about on @CityCast_DC here: dc.citycast.fm/)
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There's gotta be enough weed and OnlyFans ad money to support a good alt weekly in most cities, right? Come on.
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RT @AshleyRParker: We are witnessing a murder at The Washington Post. This massacre will be the enduring legacy of Jeff Bezos and Will Lewi…
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Sling it, @AshleyRParker "Lewis, who has already earned a reputation for showing up late to work when he showed up at all, did not join the Zoom." theatlantic.com/politics/202…
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if you claim to be religious and can’t condemn ICE murdering people in broad daylight you are a fraud. jesus was an asylum seeker you fucking idiot. if the sancity of human life means so much to you then how can you be silent in good conscience
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I can count on one hand the number of written works that have made me cry, and this essay is among them newyorker.com/culture/the-we…
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The juxtaposition of the Nuzzi/Lizza/Bobby Kennedy circus and this absolutely heart-wrenching essay from Kennedy's cousin, Tatiana Schlossberg, is pretty profound newyorker.com/culture/the-we…
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Anyone who has ever met Tatiana Schlossberg knows what a generous person she is and you can't write something like this without a spirit that remains so persistently generous in the face of everything newyorker.com/culture/the-we…
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19 Mar 2025
164 pages of In-Yun. Celine Song's Academy Award-nominated script for Past Lives now in Screenplay Book form. a24.shop/PastLivesScreenplay…
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April 8, you can come watch @tomhanks and I do competing Bob Zemekis impressions! 92ny.org/event/tom-and-e-a-h…

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A24 Screenplay Books 013-015: Past Lives - March 19, 2025 The Whale - Summer 2025 Priscilla - Fall 2025
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