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Tommy @strangestrings.bsky.social · 12h

I remember cracking up in the theater when Al Pacino beat up Henry Rollins because it was the peak of the body builder constant MTV presence Rollins.

Tommy @strangestrings.bsky.social · 1d

They’ll regret it when Trump opens a Planet Hollywood in the space.

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Tommy @strangestrings.bsky.social · 2d

@jhoberman.bsky.social On the off chance you weren’t aware, you get kind of a funny shout out in today’s Fresh Air interview with Guillermo del Toro

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Tommy @strangestrings.bsky.social · 2d

His memoir is worth reading. He writes about the experimental underground and pop music in exactly the same way as if he really doesn’t see a distinction, he just likes what he likes. It makes perfect sense when you listen to Soft Cell.

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Tommy @strangestrings.bsky.social · 10d

He’s mocking Ackman for his notoriously tldr tweets. He mocked them in one of his videos, too.

Zohran mocking Bill Ackman with a fake Ackman tweet reading “We can't buy elections like we used to. But we have our ways. One trick is to tell stories that don't go anywhere. Like the time I caught the ferry to Sag Harbor. I needed a new heel for m'shoe. So l decided to go to Montauk, which is what they called Sag Harbor in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt. Which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Gimme five bees for a quarter, you'd say. Now where was I... oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion tied to my belt, which was the style at the time. You couldn't get white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...”

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Tommy @strangestrings.bsky.social · 12d

I’ve seen a lot but the existence of domestic policy is a conspiracy was new to me.

Tommy @strangestrings.bsky.social · 14d

I never understood how the loud proclamations that they were among the select group who saw through others’ behavior didn’t qualify as performative virtue signaling.

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Tommy @strangestrings.bsky.social · 22d

That definitely plays at Christmas Adventurer parties.

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Tommy @strangestrings.bsky.social · 27d

I assume it’s the fake tag at the bottom that led to the misleading tab.

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Tommy @strangestrings.bsky.social · 27d

I would watch the Rat Wars streaming series.

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Tommy @strangestrings.bsky.social · 28d

Truly a scene that is culturally fascinating and does nothing for me musically.

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Tommy @strangestrings.bsky.social · 29d

Should have been with Chotiner.

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Tommy @strangestrings.bsky.social · Sep 22

Yeah, it’s one thing to suffer for a Brando. Should have kept Gosling.

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Tommy @strangestrings.bsky.social · Sep 18

Such an interesting film, where you can feel the Hollywood to come in the next few years pushing against the constraints of actually existing Hollywood.

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Tommy @strangestrings.bsky.social · Sep 13

Please, please also ask for other, better analysis than Angela Nagle

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Tommy @strangestrings.bsky.social · Sep 12

Does it engage at all with how he has sadly gone off the rails post New Yorker with his involvement in the Seth Rich debacle and multiple stories that haven’t held up to scrutiny?

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Tommy @strangestrings.bsky.social · Sep 7

Is the last one about a COINTELPRO style operation to destroy a group of college activists?

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Tommy @strangestrings.bsky.social · Sep 5

Nixon resigned a few days later so my guess would be Watergate was on everyone’s mind those final days.

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Tommy @strangestrings.bsky.social · Sep 5

This could really strengthen relations between the Saudis and Turkey.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Sep 5

Breaking News: An effort to get Eric Adams to drop out of the New York City mayor's race is said to involve a plan for President Trump to nominate him as ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

Talks Between Adams and Trump Adviser Center on Saudi Ambassadorship

The discussions are said to be part of an effort to get Mayor Eric Adams to end his mayoral campaign in New York City, clearing a path for Andrew Cuomo.

nyti.ms

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Tommy @strangestrings.bsky.social · Sep 1

It had started before, I remember Ed Is a Portal live really marking the change.

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Tommy @strangestrings.bsky.social · Sep 1

For a stretch they were the best live band I’ve seen. They would switch genres multiple times within a song and it all worked. When they got into being more of a jam band it just wasn’t my thing but I am so glad to have seen those earlier shows.

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Tommy @strangestrings.bsky.social · Aug 31

Sadly it looks like he didn’t say it

Muz @muz.blacksky.app · Aug 31

According to Marlon, he never said this, he won't even say he agrees with the statement:

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Tommy @strangestrings.bsky.social · Aug 28

It’s a long tradition

Once a Politician, Always an Actor (Published 1974)

www.nytimes.com

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Tommy @strangestrings.bsky.social · Aug 27

He’s Catholic.

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Tommy @strangestrings.bsky.social · Aug 27

That looks like the cover of a reggae compilation.

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