Matt Denner
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Do you want new wave, or do you want the truth?
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Wow, reading the Brooklyn Paper story about Fifth Avenue small business owners, I realize that today's reporters in desperate need of Gersh Kuntzman's photo primer, which is old, but still accurate. "Gersh Kuntzman: Regional Treasure since 1989." docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Taking photos
›HOW TO TAKE GOOD NEWS PHOTOS A good photo can get your article read by the largest number of people (no one reads anymore, didn’t you hear that?), but too many reporters think, “Oh, photos — not my ...
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April 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Wow, reading the Brooklyn Paper story about Fifth Avenue small business owners, I realize that today's reporters in desperate need of Gersh Kuntzman's photo primer, which is old, but still accurate. "Gersh Kuntzman: Regional Treasure since 1989." docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Brian Eno's "Ambient 1" only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it went on to start an airport.
February 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Brian Eno's "Ambient 1" only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it went on to start an airport.
@jennylsq.bsky.social have SiriusXMU peeps been mentioning that "Yesterday's World is a Circulatory System cover? Love that band so much and want them to keep getting the love they deserve! www.reddit.com/r/tvgirl/s/w...
From the tvgirl community on Reddit: Brad reveals that Yesterday's World is a cover of a song of the same name by The Circulatory System.
Explore this post and more from the tvgirl community
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February 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
@jennylsq.bsky.social have SiriusXMU peeps been mentioning that "Yesterday's World is a Circulatory System cover? Love that band so much and want them to keep getting the love they deserve! www.reddit.com/r/tvgirl/s/w...
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When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.
February 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.
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Please, please, please don't do this. Eventually, someone you adore will let you down, too, and you need to be ready to hold them accountable.
January 15, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Please, please, please don't do this. Eventually, someone you adore will let you down, too, and you need to be ready to hold them accountable.
What's the best alternative to facebook messenger that isn't whatsapp? My friends and I use messenger for most of our group chats now.
January 10, 2025 at 11:47 PM
What's the best alternative to facebook messenger that isn't whatsapp? My friends and I use messenger for most of our group chats now.
Regular reminder: Andor is the best of all modern Star Wars media and one of the best TV shows in a decade or two at least.
Disney’s $645 Million ‘Andor’ Budget Shows How It’s Lost Control Of ‘Star Wars’
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Disney’s $645 Million ‘Andor’ Budget Shows How It’s Lost Control Of ‘Star Wars’
The future of Disney Star Wars remains unclear, but this latest bit of news about Andor must produce a reckoning inside the company of what exactly they’re doing here,
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December 26, 2024 at 8:31 PM
Regular reminder: Andor is the best of all modern Star Wars media and one of the best TV shows in a decade or two at least.
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Harrison Ford is 82 years old, which means he’s older now than he was when he starred as Indiana Jones in the classic 1981 feature film “Raiders of the Lost Ark.”
December 17, 2024 at 11:33 PM
Harrison Ford is 82 years old, which means he’s older now than he was when he starred as Indiana Jones in the classic 1981 feature film “Raiders of the Lost Ark.”
It's 2 p.m. on a Wednesday. I'm updating my resume.
What possible reason is there for me to have Cheech and Chong's "Basketball Jones" in my head right now?
What possible reason is there for me to have Cheech and Chong's "Basketball Jones" in my head right now?
December 17, 2024 at 7:56 PM
It's 2 p.m. on a Wednesday. I'm updating my resume.
What possible reason is there for me to have Cheech and Chong's "Basketball Jones" in my head right now?
What possible reason is there for me to have Cheech and Chong's "Basketball Jones" in my head right now?
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sure, everybody hates snake oil — until their snake starts squeaking
December 15, 2024 at 1:04 PM
sure, everybody hates snake oil — until their snake starts squeaking
Seeing Daft Punk's Interstella 5555 in a theater was amazing. The AI looked like absolute shit, and I hope no one restores a movie this way ever again. But the sound was very good.
December 13, 2024 at 3:28 AM
Seeing Daft Punk's Interstella 5555 in a theater was amazing. The AI looked like absolute shit, and I hope no one restores a movie this way ever again. But the sound was very good.
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Another thing I made this year. Pigeon history!
December 10, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Another thing I made this year. Pigeon history!
Basically the past week (and year) for me.
December 10, 2024 at 4:10 AM
Basically the past week (and year) for me.
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You know it's a bad situation when your kid has to be the one reminding you to eat lunch.
December 9, 2024 at 6:44 PM
You know it's a bad situation when your kid has to be the one reminding you to eat lunch.
Recently, I learned that "justice sensitivity" can be a feature of ADHD.
This week, I spent 2+ hours on the phone and email to try to get a $50 discount I feel I am entitled to. Mostly, on principle.
I think maybe the ADHD docs might be onto something.
This week, I spent 2+ hours on the phone and email to try to get a $50 discount I feel I am entitled to. Mostly, on principle.
I think maybe the ADHD docs might be onto something.
December 4, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Recently, I learned that "justice sensitivity" can be a feature of ADHD.
This week, I spent 2+ hours on the phone and email to try to get a $50 discount I feel I am entitled to. Mostly, on principle.
I think maybe the ADHD docs might be onto something.
This week, I spent 2+ hours on the phone and email to try to get a $50 discount I feel I am entitled to. Mostly, on principle.
I think maybe the ADHD docs might be onto something.
It's fun when people ask, "What's gonna happen?" because you work in politics, and you have to tell them, "I honestly don't know."
One fact that's highly under-appreciated is that, when it comes to politics, nobody knows anything & everyone's full of shit.
November 30, 2024 at 5:35 PM
It's fun when people ask, "What's gonna happen?" because you work in politics, and you have to tell them, "I honestly don't know."
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having exactly (1) day out of the year where every amateur chef in America attempts to cook a giant bird and not fuck it up is, honestly, a wonderful and hilarious tradition
November 27, 2024 at 3:01 PM
having exactly (1) day out of the year where every amateur chef in America attempts to cook a giant bird and not fuck it up is, honestly, a wonderful and hilarious tradition
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People hate on the Star Wars prequels but those films were groundbreaking in so many ways. For example, that was the first time in movie history that a character was named Jar Jar.
November 26, 2024 at 1:59 AM
People hate on the Star Wars prequels but those films were groundbreaking in so many ways. For example, that was the first time in movie history that a character was named Jar Jar.
Reposting so I remember to listen tomorrow instead of waking up my wife at 2 a.m. with guitar noises.
Hey, remember that really stupid idea I had a few weeks back? A six-and-a-half-hour supercut of live "Marquee Moon" solos? I finished it and wrote about it here.
November 23, 2024 at 7:55 AM
Reposting so I remember to listen tomorrow instead of waking up my wife at 2 a.m. with guitar noises.
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This story is wild. Trump Foundation donated to Pam Bondi’s political backer and magically, almost all complaints about Trump disappeared in Florida Pam Bondi is the new AG nominee www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...
The Trump Foundation-Pam Bondi scandal - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
In March 2016, CREW discovered that the Trump Foundation had broken the law by giving an illegal $25,000 contribution to a political group supporting Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi. This would set...
www.citizensforethics.org
November 22, 2024 at 3:35 AM
This story is wild. Trump Foundation donated to Pam Bondi’s political backer and magically, almost all complaints about Trump disappeared in Florida Pam Bondi is the new AG nominee www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...
I keep seeing people say "Wow, this feels like old Twitter."
OLD Twitter was the place where there were only a handful of awkward people in your city who also used Twitter and you were required to be friends with them in real life.
You're thinking of middle-aged Twitter.
OLD Twitter was the place where there were only a handful of awkward people in your city who also used Twitter and you were required to be friends with them in real life.
You're thinking of middle-aged Twitter.
November 22, 2024 at 4:21 PM
I keep seeing people say "Wow, this feels like old Twitter."
OLD Twitter was the place where there were only a handful of awkward people in your city who also used Twitter and you were required to be friends with them in real life.
You're thinking of middle-aged Twitter.
OLD Twitter was the place where there were only a handful of awkward people in your city who also used Twitter and you were required to be friends with them in real life.
You're thinking of middle-aged Twitter.