Joe Berkowitz
@joeberkowitz
Writer. Not too annoying. Books: American Cheese, Away With Words, You Blew it. Bylines: Many of the good places.
Took a while but I finally realized who elected Republicans remind me of lately.
They could've said Andor. They could've said some Bourne movies. They said Michael Goddamn Clayton let's goooooo
I just don't want to go home. What's waiting for me at home is really bad.
I love my new non-woke, post-cancel culture, hypermacho military, where lackluster grooming gets you in deep shit with the Secretary of Defense.
Never knew until now that Madness looks like a bunch of nice boys who Simon Cowell captured and is selling.
Crimson Tide ends with a post-script that was probably a lot more comforting back in 1995.
"But Mr. Nimoy, you didn't make the highest grossing film of 1987" Leonard Nimoy:
Feast your eyes on the actual title card from the highest grossing film of 1987.
A vanity plate that telegraphs what kind of driver you are, gotta respect it.
Didn’t think opening these cards would feel so much like going back in time.
Quite late to Emily Nussbaum’s awesome profile of Boots Riley but this bit about Michaela Coel is wild.
Props to the art team for capturing the essence of “these batteries taste terrible” but x’s for eyes implies death.
My working theory is Nick Bilton was created in a lab to make bluesky mad.
babe what’s wrong you haven’t touched your Huey Magoo’s chicken tenders.
Reading this description from the Wikipedia summary of Cat People in the cadence of the slogan for Lucky Charms.
Hard to overstate how much this looks like a fake Woody Allen movie from an episode of Difficult People.