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Kevin Smokler
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Arts journalist who writes books/makes documentary films about pop culture. Hobbies include people and everyday magic. linktr.ee/smokler
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Join us for “Our final “1972 in Music” 🎶 ☮️ 🎵 ✌️ in 2022!” with , , Farah Darliette, DJ Nowhere, , and Recordhouse. Thursday, Dec 8 at 6:30 PM EST in .
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Look, at some point Black people need to learn that anti-Semites hate us too.
If you can't join the coalition for moral reasons, for fuck's sake, join it for self-interested ones.
Yes, I am talking about Kanye and Kyrie and LeBron's lil deflection too.
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Without Christine McVie, there is no "Don't Stop" and most likely, no Clinton Presidency. Let that sink in while we consider the life and work of an extraordinary musician. #RIP
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Well I was only about 85 years late to seeing any live footage of Sister Rosetta Tharpe performing. But in case you were curious what singing and playing the guitar like the almighty sounded like...
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EVERYBODY in America passed on The Beatles. Nobody “heard it”. Except for Vivian Carter & Jimmy Bracken a married Black couple, whose independent label Vee-Jay released Please Please Me.
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If I am, please answer with the name of a mammal.
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If not, please answer with the name of a reptile
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Am I doing it right?
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I don' t know how to do a twitter thread. A thread
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This right here is a boss idea. The idiot question (idiot being me) is how to I arrange these threads in such a way where I could just read them in a scroll. Or as a journal?
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Since Twitter is structured to be ephemeral, my new pinned tweet will be a thread of threads, gathering many of my previous tweets about rare book collecting, working with rare book dealers, and other FAQs. Here we go:
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Have you seen this movie? If you grew up in 1980s America, you must. It's very sad but worth it #GENX
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PARIS, TEXAS played to sold out crowds @FilmForumNYC this weekend! Still a chance to catch this limited run: bit.ly/3FbgX5h
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I love waffles but I don't have "comfort foods." Is this a mathematical impossibility?
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Climate Change From A to Z - Longreads. Totally worth reading but if you get through it, or even halfway through it, you are a braver soul than I
All of these statements are 100% true.
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So someone decided to lay out the NYT 100 Notable Books of 2022 like so. Which means you are effectively deciding what to click on based on whether the 4 word title is charming to you.
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Everyday should feel like #bandcampfriday
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UBER paradox: If it was a pleasurable experience to take a taxi, UBER wouldn't exist. If it was a pleasurable experience to visit a movie theater (for everyone who does not have a nearby) streaming would not have gotten the toehold it did. Start with the problem
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For a lot of us, the communal big-screen experience is a religion. But for many people, it was...something they liked. A basically fun thing that many factors--pricing, convenience, the rudeness of strangers--turned into a net neutral, and that Covid turned into a net negative.
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So I count 67 days until the new Go! Team comes out (Feb. 3, 2023). Meaning ya'll got about 2 months to get on the good foot with so we can start being friends as the lord intended.
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#DYK? There's a thing called The Birthday Paradox which stipulates how many people you would need in the same room in order to have two with the same birthday. Spoiler: It is a A LOT fewer than you think. See for yourself.
Eh please explain. Or are as a city gonna do this "results of elections really don't mean anything" BS say Arizona Republicans like to pull?
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Fridays on Great Highway Park are under threat!
Despite massive support for Prop J (and opposition to Prop I), some Supervisors are listening to Great Highway Park opponents who want to take away the Park on Fridays.
Save Fridays by sending an email now: tinyurl.com/GHPpilot
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ITS ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA has been on the air what, 79 seasons now?
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So there's a website someone just pointed me to called Long Form Articles.net and I am mid-petition changing the name to "Goodbye Life of Mild Productivity.me" Will report back on my progress. Or I may just be swallowed up reading.
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Apparently its celebrating a birthday today but I have absolutely no memory of Superman Peanut Butter. Do any of you?
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You can't be tough on crime if you're not tough on guns. And yet, media rarely question or contextualize politicians who run campaigns by stoking fears over crime while doing anything to limit the amount of guns people use to commit crime.
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The Go! Team will be releasing new album in February. If that is good news to you, you are and I are already friends.
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The Go! Team - 'Get Up Sequences Part Two'
Over their six albums @the_go_team have taken sonic day trips to other lands - musically dipping into other cultures. But on their seventh - they’ve bought a round-the-world ticket.
via @memphisind
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Working on a label for #GENX ers who aren't parents. First Attempt: Generation Iona in honor of the glorious Annie Potts in Pretty in Pink
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“If a book is tedious to you, don’t read it; that book was not written for you.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (via )
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From the department of “The 90s” just means “a long time ago” to young folk, without looking, what year did “Just like Heaven” by The Cure come out?
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Dirty Dancing but without the lift.
Update: Twitter HR is now telling everyone who does not sign the ridiculous new pledge they have resigned. Employment law does not work that way. You cannot deprive people of unemployment benefits and wrongful termination cases by saying that they resigned. Nice try though!
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FX’s Fleishman Is In Trouble. Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Claire Danes, Lizzy Caplan and Adam Brody, this drama is based on the New York Times bestselling novel. Now Streaming. Only on Hulu
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