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Ben Ellman
@heybellman.bsky.social
Radio Producer / Reporter for the likes of Engadget, NPR, Digiday, and maybe you!

Probably sent you an invite to NYC Radio Club.

I treat this site like a sassy LinkedIn™ for media people
😡😡happy for you😡😡
November 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
There were film shoot notices all over Brooklyn with the production code name “Cerulean”

And I’m like “I know exactly what that is…😏🤭”
November 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Also, how many things are people going to subscribe to?

Regional rags (said with affection) like Hell Gate and Coyote Media make sense. Then you’ve got 100 different people trying to make money on newsletters…it’s too much
November 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Step 1: Become Defector
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit
November 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
This is how I found out about the Drawing Center UFO exhibit and I couldn’t be happier
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I mean, they even both have sword names
Honed Blade
YouTube video by Gel - Topic
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November 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Alt text readers get a special surprise
November 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
This one is the cover of the extended edition with demo and live versions of the album
November 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
You're not wrong. At the same time a lot of people spend years and thousands of dollars in therapy only to make a breakthrough that can be summed up by a motivational quote in a calendar
November 6, 2025 at 12:57 AM
A wireless charger permanently installed in the Resolute desk would be grounds for impeachment in my book
November 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Here’s the clip of Kal Penn telling that story
November 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
There’s an interview with Kal Penn where he says he got the lead in The Namesake partially because Zohran (a teenager at the time) loved Harold and Kumar so much that he begged his mom to give Penn an audition
November 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Listening to Sliwa's AM morning show on the way to school is one of my earliest radio memories.

He was paired up with Ron Kuby, a left-libertarian lawyer best known for being a defense attorney for the Hells Angels biker gang. It was entertaining and thoroughly New York listening
November 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM