Marc Hirsh
@spacecitymarc.bsky.social
Boston Globe, sometimes EW, others. I basically do homework for a living. He/him/his. Available in dad since 2015. My love language is replies, not likes.
The summer I was 23, some teenaged girls started frequenting my improv shows, and one of them made a hard play for me.
How old are you?
[very confident] "I'm 18."
Are you in college?
[still confident] "I'm going in the fall."
And I was like "...nope." We had THE ENTIRETY OF COLLEGE BETWEEN US.
How old are you?
[very confident] "I'm 18."
Are you in college?
[still confident] "I'm going in the fall."
And I was like "...nope." We had THE ENTIRETY OF COLLEGE BETWEEN US.
November 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The summer I was 23, some teenaged girls started frequenting my improv shows, and one of them made a hard play for me.
How old are you?
[very confident] "I'm 18."
Are you in college?
[still confident] "I'm going in the fall."
And I was like "...nope." We had THE ENTIRETY OF COLLEGE BETWEEN US.
How old are you?
[very confident] "I'm 18."
Are you in college?
[still confident] "I'm going in the fall."
And I was like "...nope." We had THE ENTIRETY OF COLLEGE BETWEEN US.
The guy's a real psycho, a loser weirdo with a tenuous grip on reality. Anyway, he called me his hero, and here's a smiling picture of the two of us.
A Nuzzi PS:
June 2011, CitiField, NYC. This is seven years after this psycho Bobby Kennedy called me up at MSNBC and said I was his hero 🤷🏼♂️This might have been the first sign he was losing his mind
(and no, the cane is for a broken foot; I was only old, not oldER, yet)
June 2011, CitiField, NYC. This is seven years after this psycho Bobby Kennedy called me up at MSNBC and said I was his hero 🤷🏼♂️This might have been the first sign he was losing his mind
(and no, the cane is for a broken foot; I was only old, not oldER, yet)
November 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The guy's a real psycho, a loser weirdo with a tenuous grip on reality. Anyway, he called me his hero, and here's a smiling picture of the two of us.
"John Barleycorn" is the greatest of all English folk songs because it's simultaneously a murder ballad, a ghost story, medieval torture porn and a recipe for beer.
November 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
"John Barleycorn" is the greatest of all English folk songs because it's simultaneously a murder ballad, a ghost story, medieval torture porn and a recipe for beer.
They just all sound so goddamn BORING, by which I mean they sound like 15-year-olds who have decided that nobody in human history has ever felt so deeply save perhaps for the four poets they've read.
November 18, 2025 at 4:31 AM
They just all sound so goddamn BORING, by which I mean they sound like 15-year-olds who have decided that nobody in human history has ever felt so deeply save perhaps for the four poets they've read.
One of the fifth-graders in my improv class today takes about how his dad pulled the Wii out of the basement and they played with it this weekend, and the other kids had no idea what that was. Forget about not knowing what kind of system it was; they didn't even know that it WAS a videogame system.
November 18, 2025 at 2:28 AM
One of the fifth-graders in my improv class today takes about how his dad pulled the Wii out of the basement and they played with it this weekend, and the other kids had no idea what that was. Forget about not knowing what kind of system it was; they didn't even know that it WAS a videogame system.
I once had to tell the folks I was doing a Christmas show with that they had to nix the joke about "Kwanzaa, whatever the hell that is," and you will/won't be surprised about how much I had to push on that.
hey hot take but people purposely fuckin up m. night shyamalan's last name is super racist actually
November 18, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I once had to tell the folks I was doing a Christmas show with that they had to nix the joke about "Kwanzaa, whatever the hell that is," and you will/won't be surprised about how much I had to push on that.
me, at the 27-minute mark of a 28-minute video essay about how movies don't feel "real" anymore: "Oh, it's a fucking ad."
November 18, 2025 at 2:04 AM
me, at the 27-minute mark of a 28-minute video essay about how movies don't feel "real" anymore: "Oh, it's a fucking ad."
anyone, ever: "Hey, you got a haircut, I like it."
me, always: "Here's why it's Not Good Actually,
me, always: "Here's why it's Not Good Actually,
November 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
anyone, ever: "Hey, you got a haircut, I like it."
me, always: "Here's why it's Not Good Actually,
me, always: "Here's why it's Not Good Actually,
Bari Weiss takes over CBS News and less than two months later, 60 MINUTES directly says "The Russians are the best. What makes them so good?"
(video starts precisely at the moment in question, though it runs through the end, couldn't figure that part out)
(video starts precisely at the moment in question, though it runs through the end, couldn't figure that part out)
Chess boxing: a sport where brain meets brawn
YouTube video by 60 Minutes
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November 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Bari Weiss takes over CBS News and less than two months later, 60 MINUTES directly says "The Russians are the best. What makes them so good?"
(video starts precisely at the moment in question, though it runs through the end, couldn't figure that part out)
(video starts precisely at the moment in question, though it runs through the end, couldn't figure that part out)
So if I understand this correctly, Spike Lee went to the Vatican expressly to shit talk the Bulls to da Chicago Pope.
In True New York Fashion, Spike Lee Gifts First American Pope With His Own Knicks Jersey
While invited to the Vatican, Spike Lee gifted Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S. Pope, a personalized New York Knicks Jersey.
www.blackenterprise.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:52 AM
So if I understand this correctly, Spike Lee went to the Vatican expressly to shit talk the Bulls to da Chicago Pope.
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"Hey, Marc, how was John Fogerty?"
Review & setlist: John Fogerty shows perseverance at MGM Music Hall
John Fogerty played with energy and excitement in Boston on Friday, as if he was riding a high that had been far too long in coming.
www.boston.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
"Hey, Marc, how was John Fogerty?"
This thread has very strong "That's not pedophilia, that's ephebophilia" vibes.
My mistake has been trying to explain what "fascism" is to people who don't care what it is.
So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise.
If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1
So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise.
If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1
November 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
This thread has very strong "That's not pedophilia, that's ephebophilia" vibes.
"I love this pumpkin bread because it's made of real, whole ingredients," the recipe YouTuber says as she scoops a can of pumpkin into the bowl.
November 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"I love this pumpkin bread because it's made of real, whole ingredients," the recipe YouTuber says as she scoops a can of pumpkin into the bowl.
"Hey, Marc, how was John Fogerty?"
Review & setlist: John Fogerty shows perseverance at MGM Music Hall
John Fogerty played with energy and excitement in Boston on Friday, as if he was riding a high that had been far too long in coming.
www.boston.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
"Hey, Marc, how was John Fogerty?"
I genuinely wonder if one of the reasons that other journalists haven't run Nuzzi out of town on a rail is because to do so -- to really shame and shun and blacklist and exile her -- would be to invite the possibility, no matter how remote in their own mind, of the same happening to them someday.
I will no doubt read and enjoy all your very good Nuzzi jokes, but I also want to say earnestly, so many of us (myself included) are on the verge of being pushed out of this industry and it's genuinely so dispiriting to see the worst among us, ethics-wise, get such preferential treatment.
November 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I genuinely wonder if one of the reasons that other journalists haven't run Nuzzi out of town on a rail is because to do so -- to really shame and shun and blacklist and exile her -- would be to invite the possibility, no matter how remote in their own mind, of the same happening to them someday.
Good thing I don't have an interview at 1:30 to prepare for.
I don't think either one of us said anything about any fucking updates when I decided to restart you, computer.
November 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Good thing I don't have an interview at 1:30 to prepare for.
I don't think either one of us said anything about any fucking updates when I decided to restart you, computer.
November 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I don't think either one of us said anything about any fucking updates when I decided to restart you, computer.
1) The instant I clocked what I was looking at here -- right after we switched to 10-month old Charlie -- I gave a full-body shudder.
2) How much do you want to bet that the actress who plays the grandmother acted everything out herself in the traditional manner, rather than letting AI generate it?
2) How much do you want to bet that the actress who plays the grandmother acted everything out herself in the traditional manner, rather than letting AI generate it?
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
1) The instant I clocked what I was looking at here -- right after we switched to 10-month old Charlie -- I gave a full-body shudder.
2) How much do you want to bet that the actress who plays the grandmother acted everything out herself in the traditional manner, rather than letting AI generate it?
2) How much do you want to bet that the actress who plays the grandmother acted everything out herself in the traditional manner, rather than letting AI generate it?
Literally an immigrant stealing opportunities from Americans.
This is insane. The President of the Boston University College Republicans isn't even an American!! He's a Brit in the States on a Track and Field scholarship!
goterriers.com/sports/mens-...
goterriers.com/sports/mens-...
November 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Literally an immigrant stealing opportunities from Americans.
The timeline has a little fun with it.
November 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The timeline has a little fun with it.
End of shutdown kicked things off, feel neutral about it.
Turning on ABC News Prime. If the top story is weather, I swear to God
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 AM
End of shutdown kicked things off, feel neutral about it.
Turning on ABC News Prime. If the top story is weather, I swear to God
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Turning on ABC News Prime. If the top story is weather, I swear to God
I've had decades to connect with Talking Heads' MORE SONGS ABOUT BUILDINGS AND FOOD, and the new Super Deluxe Edition still hasn't made it happen. But hats off to the book, which shows that they sent out branded pocket protectors as promo items at the time. Gotta admit, they knew their audience.
November 12, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I've had decades to connect with Talking Heads' MORE SONGS ABOUT BUILDINGS AND FOOD, and the new Super Deluxe Edition still hasn't made it happen. But hats off to the book, which shows that they sent out branded pocket protectors as promo items at the time. Gotta admit, they knew their audience.
Reposted by Marc Hirsh
POINT OF ORDER: The Ramones were canonically, foundationally, definitionally a four-dork band.
Sustainable band lineups include four cool people (Ramones), four dorks (Weezer), or two cool people and two dorks (Cheap Trick). Unsustainable band lineups include one cool person and three dorks (Pixies)
November 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
POINT OF ORDER: The Ramones were canonically, foundationally, definitionally a four-dork band.