MBC
matthewbriancohen.com
MBC
@matthewbriancohen.com
I wanted to be John Carmack and Joe Meno, but I’m just me.

book of short stories at https://stupidwaytodie.com

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/authors/matthew-brian-cohen
Spending Yom Kippur reading Refaat Alareer:
October 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Business people love turning verbs into nouns when they need to sound like experts about something they don’t understand
September 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
In retrospect it probably wasn’t a good idea to build economy around a company that looks like this
August 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
America as a sentence
July 25, 2025 at 3:43 AM
I'm reading an essay at this great show Saturday at 8! Tickets here - www.eventbrite.com/e/comedians-...
June 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
April 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I love how misleading and dull this obvious LLM caption makes one of the greatest movies of all time sound.

LLMs rob art of all its freneticism.
April 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
December 24, 2024 at 2:58 PM
December 19, 2024 at 6:49 PM
Genuinely love whenever this guy shows up on screen, but I can’t get over his name is Louis Cancel Me
December 14, 2024 at 4:17 PM
The Duracell Battery Family is your typical swing voter. Obama 08, forgot to vote 12, Trump 16, died of COVID 2020
November 15, 2024 at 4:04 PM
Christmas Is For Bosses.

Read the 'zine.

www.functionallydead.com/Functionally...
December 14, 2023 at 3:55 AM
Best two texts I’ve ever gotten from my wife
November 30, 2023 at 3:27 AM
I have decided to occasionally write essays about things I like, why I like them, and what they mean to me. It is called Stuff I Like There on Substack. The first post is about the video game Disco Elysium. Enjoy.

matthewbriancohen.substack.com/p/true-love-...
November 12, 2023 at 10:03 PM
Just downloaded Now and Then. Incredible that the Beatles made something like this. Looks and sounds nothing like their previous work. Why didn’t they use Rosie O’Donnell sooner? Nevertheless, a masterpiece.
November 2, 2023 at 9:27 PM
First look of Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein
August 16, 2023 at 2:52 PM
🎵I’m just a simple southern farmer who’s a bit irate / that commies like Paul Krugman think the corporate tax rate / should go up from 21% to 25 / how’s the C-suite at Wells Fargo gonna ever survive 🎵
August 13, 2023 at 10:23 PM
New episode of And Just Like What, the only podcast that analyzes #AndJustLikeThat as outsider art. @msnadiaosman.bsky.social reads Miranda as a stand-in for America's acceptance of our declining empire! I talk about jizz!

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/and-just-like-what/id1693007861
July 10, 2023 at 4:25 PM