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Staff Writer . Bylines at Current Affairs, The Guardian, New Statesman, Globe and Mail, LRC, & others. Commission me: lukewatsonsavage [at] gmail

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    17 Dec 2018

    I wrote a somewhat personal essay for about the role growing disgust with liberals and liberalism in general played in anchoring me on the left

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  3. I like how even in a biologically-powered free roam game literally plugged into the spine they don't escape the most basic tropes of gaming like one-dimensional exposition characters and contrived random events that are obviously just part of the story

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  4. That Cronenberg movie eXistenz scared the shit out of me age 12. Watched it again tonight and...still good.

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    11 hours ago

    You've probably wondered why in HALF-WITS HOLIDAY (1947), Jerome "Curly" Howard disappears during the climatic pie fight. Alas, it is because he suffered a debilitating stroke on set -- a fact that was surely swirling through brother Moe Howard's head as he filmed this scene:

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  6. Just spent an hour playing Red Dead Redemption with . The horse fell into some weird chasm during a bounty mission and now the game's physics are fucked up everywhere you go. But it kinda rules.

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    11 hours ago

    This week on the Michael & Us podcast, and I look at Mike Nichols' Primary Colors (1998), starring John Travolta as FakeBillClinton. Like all Hollywood political satire from the '90s, it is bad.

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  11. This is maybe the best description of Bill Clinton's political appeal I've encountered

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  12. We also read from this excellent essay by , which was among my favourite magazine pieces in 2018

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  13. The film inadvertently did a good job showcasing the way 90s liberalism elevated bullshit artistry and amoral compromise into superlative political virtues

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  14. For this week's ep of Michael and Us, and I watched Primary Colors: a fictional, cartoonishly middlebrow account of Bill Clinton's 1992 candidacy (amusingly celebrated upon release for its supposedly "brutal candour").

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  15. Amazing that you can spend two years talking about how the sitting president was elected illegitimately and is possibly the pawn of a foreign power then get mad when someone throws a swear in his direction

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    Jan 1

    Early populists didn’t want to dispense with democratic norms—they wanted to adapt them in order to confront the excesses and cruelties of monopoly capitalism.

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    Jan 2

    These folks did something both brave and important and far too few Canadians know about it. If you have anything to spare, please consider donating to their GoFundMe

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  21. Jan 3

    Apparently the composer was a big time session musician who played with the Everly Brothers and others. A shame no one has ever heard of him cause he was obviously super talented. This version of Mood Indigo was the B-side.

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