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.
Rob Reiner goddamn better be in the In Memoriam segment at the next Grammys.
December 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Rob Reiner goddamn better be in the In Memoriam segment at the next Grammys.
It's wild to think of a world where ELECTRIC NEBRASKA was Bruce Springsteen's first important dud and NEBRASKA is just now seeing the light of day as the bonus demos hooking a reputation-burnishing deluxe reissue.
December 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
It's wild to think of a world where ELECTRIC NEBRASKA was Bruce Springsteen's first important dud and NEBRASKA is just now seeing the light of day as the bonus demos hooking a reputation-burnishing deluxe reissue.
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Respect to "It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas" for being the rare holiday song to openly acknowledge that kids are a pain in the ass.
December 15, 2023 at 6:19 PM
Respect to "It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas" for being the rare holiday song to openly acknowledge that kids are a pain in the ass.
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Whoever okayed the recording and release of "Santa Baby" by a 17-year-old Taylor Swift did not have her best interests at heart.
December 23, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Whoever okayed the recording and release of "Santa Baby" by a 17-year-old Taylor Swift did not have her best interests at heart.
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There's so much focus on "scary ghost stories" that we blaze right past "tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago," as though Grandpa Cyrus is regaling everyone with a swashbuckling yarn of sailing the high seas with Santa for plunder hoarded by the dastardly Yule Imp.
December 14, 2024 at 5:58 PM
There's so much focus on "scary ghost stories" that we blaze right past "tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago," as though Grandpa Cyrus is regaling everyone with a swashbuckling yarn of sailing the high seas with Santa for plunder hoarded by the dastardly Yule Imp.
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The Luigi Mangione case is the trolley problem.
December 12, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The Luigi Mangione case is the trolley problem.
The Luigi Mangione case is the trolley problem.
December 12, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The Luigi Mangione case is the trolley problem.
Won't let Mickey Mouse slip into the public domain, willing to do this. Spending billions on both.
Disney is making a $1 billion investment in OpenAI and will let the AI platform use its characters to make social-media videos.
Disney to Invest $1 Billion in OpenAI, License Characters for Use in ChatGPT, Sora
The three-year licensing deal will let users generate videos of more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Star Wars and Pixar characters.
on.wsj.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Won't let Mickey Mouse slip into the public domain, willing to do this. Spending billions on both.
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Last year, I was asked to write about the ten best versions of "Winter Wonderland." Because I take my job very seriously, I listened to 150 of them first. So you know this is definitive.
The 10 Best Versions of ‘Winter Wonderland’
The idiosyncratic yet charming classic that everyone from Ella Fitzgerald to Selena Gomez can agree on.
www.vulture.com
December 15, 2023 at 7:50 PM
Last year, I was asked to write about the ten best versions of "Winter Wonderland." Because I take my job very seriously, I listened to 150 of them first. So you know this is definitive.
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Like them or loathe them, you've gotta respect Mannheim Steamroller and Trans-Siberian Orchestra for recognizing that there was a market for Christmas music that sounds like belligerent snowmen laying siege to your city by shelling you with sleigh bells shoved into mortars.
December 5, 2023 at 3:41 PM
Like them or loathe them, you've gotta respect Mannheim Steamroller and Trans-Siberian Orchestra for recognizing that there was a market for Christmas music that sounds like belligerent snowmen laying siege to your city by shelling you with sleigh bells shoved into mortars.
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This is your annual reminder that the song where Chuck Berry sings "Run, run, Rudolph" is titled "Run, Rudolph, Run."
December 7, 2024 at 2:34 AM
This is your annual reminder that the song where Chuck Berry sings "Run, run, Rudolph" is titled "Run, Rudolph, Run."
[Captain Beefheart chipmunk voice]
Ell-la Mc-Kay
Ell-la Mc-Kay
December 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
[Captain Beefheart chipmunk voice]
Ell-la Mc-Kay
Ell-la Mc-Kay
One of many, many great things about this is that Arnett reached out in the normal sympathetic manner, and then Conan signaled to everyone involved how they could help him at this time and they all ran with it, out of love.
Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.
December 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
One of many, many great things about this is that Arnett reached out in the normal sympathetic manner, and then Conan signaled to everyone involved how they could help him at this time and they all ran with it, out of love.
"Why do you always wear a button-down shirt?," asked one of my fifth-grade improv students, who always wears a dress.
December 9, 2025 at 12:18 AM
"Why do you always wear a button-down shirt?," asked one of my fifth-grade improv students, who always wears a dress.
Brandi Carlile: "Hey, Boston, I'm excited to play the TD Garden on February 12!"
this guy: "Are you gonna comp me? No? You can see why I'm upset, then."
this guy: "Are you gonna comp me? No? You can see why I'm upset, then."
FYI this is an immediate block. You’re under no obligation to pay for my or anyone else’s work, but you won’t come onto my feed to complain about us earning a living.
December 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Brandi Carlile: "Hey, Boston, I'm excited to play the TD Garden on February 12!"
this guy: "Are you gonna comp me? No? You can see why I'm upset, then."
this guy: "Are you gonna comp me? No? You can see why I'm upset, then."
On tonight's annual rewatch, I've suddenly realized that ELF is essentially the exact same movie as ENCHANTED.
December 8, 2025 at 4:41 AM
On tonight's annual rewatch, I've suddenly realized that ELF is essentially the exact same movie as ENCHANTED.
This could've been avoided if only BEN AND KATE had run for 4+ seasons.
This is more embarrassing than the comedians doing the festival cause at least they were getting paid
December 8, 2025 at 4:39 AM
This could've been avoided if only BEN AND KATE had run for 4+ seasons.
"Hey, Marc, how were the Holiday Pops?"
Review & setlist: Even in a show without Keith Lockhart, Holiday Pops brings seasonal spirit to Symphony Hall
Guest conductor Brian Eads led the Pops at Symphony Hall on Friday, while Lockhart and his contingent were performing in Worcester.
www.boston.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
"Hey, Marc, how were the Holiday Pops?"
Today's Cine2Nerdle Reverse is extra-salty, and I'm here for it.
Cine2Nerdle
Solve unique, grid-based puzzles designed to test your film knowledge daily, or challenge your friends, family or film nerds from across the globe in head-to-head film linking battles.
www.cinenerdle2.app
December 6, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Today's Cine2Nerdle Reverse is extra-salty, and I'm here for it.
This is all the more baffling when you realize that what the impossibly wealthy want more than anything in the world is to be loved and adored. Their grand tragedy is their inability to do the things that would all but guarantee it, driven instead to do everything in their immense power otherwise.
Just thinking about how fucked up mega-rich people must be, because they can't even enjoy their money properly, because the most enjoyable thing to do with money is to use it to fix people's problems.
December 6, 2025 at 5:04 AM
This is all the more baffling when you realize that what the impossibly wealthy want more than anything in the world is to be loved and adored. Their grand tragedy is their inability to do the things that would all but guarantee it, driven instead to do everything in their immense power otherwise.
He's the biggest boy!
December 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
He's the biggest boy!
It was a nice enough surprise that Badfinger's "No Matter What" came on in the grocery store. The deli guy singing along with it under his breath is what made it actual magic.
December 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
It was a nice enough surprise that Badfinger's "No Matter What" came on in the grocery store. The deli guy singing along with it under his breath is what made it actual magic.
There was a time when I would have laid cash money down on my ability to tell the difference between the sounds of a child being abused by his parents and one being told that he can't have a fourth pancake, and I would have been poorer for it.
December 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
There was a time when I would have laid cash money down on my ability to tell the difference between the sounds of a child being abused by his parents and one being told that he can't have a fourth pancake, and I would have been poorer for it.
"But do you recall the most famous reindeer of all?" feels like one of those questions that answers itself.
December 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
"But do you recall the most famous reindeer of all?" feels like one of those questions that answers itself.
I spoke with director Taibi Magar and playwright (and certified MacArthur genius) Sarah Ruhl about the American Repertory Theater's production of the new musical based on R.J. Palacio's WONDER.
‘Wonder,’ an ‘empathy machine’ of a story, heads to the stage - The Boston Globe
The new musical, which ART brings to the Loeb Drama Center this month, aims to translate R.J. Palacio's beloved book's emotional power to a new medium.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I spoke with director Taibi Magar and playwright (and certified MacArthur genius) Sarah Ruhl about the American Repertory Theater's production of the new musical based on R.J. Palacio's WONDER.