Andy Beckerman
@andybeckerman.bsky.social
I host the Beginnings & Couples Therapy podcasts. TV writer. Former philosophy professor. Casiopop king. Figuring out dystopia.
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
Great talk with Steven Brown of Tuxedomoon! World War IV & Theologies of Liberation, Ray Harryhausen, San Francisco in the 1970s, Dionysian rites + MORE!
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Great talk with Steven Brown of Tuxedomoon! World War IV & Theologies of Liberation, Ray Harryhausen, San Francisco in the 1970s, Dionysian rites + MORE!
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January 16, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
Great talk with Steven Brown of Tuxedomoon! World War IV & Theologies of Liberation, Ray Harryhausen, San Francisco in the 1970s, Dionysian rites + MORE!
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Great talk with Steven Brown of Tuxedomoon! World War IV & Theologies of Liberation, Ray Harryhausen, San Francisco in the 1970s, Dionysian rites + MORE!
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You know things are trending in a positive direction when I realize I made some version of this joke seven years ago.
January 15, 2026 at 10:19 PM
You know things are trending in a positive direction when I realize I made some version of this joke seven years ago.
Two years from now, this guy is going to introduce a bill that demands the Zyklon-b they use in the death camps be FDA approved
January 14, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Two years from now, this guy is going to introduce a bill that demands the Zyklon-b they use in the death camps be FDA approved
FYI ‘STOP to quit’ don’t work
January 14, 2026 at 1:51 AM
FYI ‘STOP to quit’ don’t work
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
The wonderful Kassie Carlson of @guerillatoss.bsky.social joins me to talk dealing with narcissists, growing up in Cape Cod, church radio, the creative upside of being hypervigilant + MORE!
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The wonderful Kassie Carlson of @guerillatoss.bsky.social joins me to talk dealing with narcissists, growing up in Cape Cod, church radio, the creative upside of being hypervigilant + MORE!
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January 9, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
The wonderful Kassie Carlson of @guerillatoss.bsky.social joins me to talk dealing with narcissists, growing up in Cape Cod, church radio, the creative upside of being hypervigilant + MORE!
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The wonderful Kassie Carlson of @guerillatoss.bsky.social joins me to talk dealing with narcissists, growing up in Cape Cod, church radio, the creative upside of being hypervigilant + MORE!
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Please permit me my tiny joys in this life
January 7, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Please permit me my tiny joys in this life
Excited to announce my latest novel was shortlisted for the FIFA Award for Excellence in Literature, which was previously awarded to both Thomas Pynchon and SCC Berlin mascot "Hans the Pretzel"
January 6, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Excited to announce my latest novel was shortlisted for the FIFA Award for Excellence in Literature, which was previously awarded to both Thomas Pynchon and SCC Berlin mascot "Hans the Pretzel"
A lot of people said 2025 wasn’t a great year for film, but my Letterboxd year in reviews proves we still have a vibrant culture of cinema
January 4, 2026 at 10:14 PM
A lot of people said 2025 wasn’t a great year for film, but my Letterboxd year in reviews proves we still have a vibrant culture of cinema
Ok, trying to purge one other thing I can't help thinking as I am trying to watch the film.
January 2, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Ok, trying to purge one other thing I can't help thinking as I am trying to watch the film.
I am trying to watch If I Had Legs, I'd Kick You, but all I can think about is this for some reason, and I am praying making it will purge it from my brain and allow me to watch the film untroubled by the churning of my mind.
January 1, 2026 at 10:15 PM
I am trying to watch If I Had Legs, I'd Kick You, but all I can think about is this for some reason, and I am praying making it will purge it from my brain and allow me to watch the film untroubled by the churning of my mind.
“Hey, do we need to get the font approved?”
“”Who gives a shit? It’s just a stupid font!”
“”Who gives a shit? It’s just a stupid font!”
December 30, 2025 at 2:39 AM
“Hey, do we need to get the font approved?”
“”Who gives a shit? It’s just a stupid font!”
“”Who gives a shit? It’s just a stupid font!”
You all mock and sneer at AI, yet thanks to it, I was finally was able to live out my creative dream of putting Yoda in Meet the Fockers, and it only poisoned 18 Texas municipalities!
December 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
You all mock and sneer at AI, yet thanks to it, I was finally was able to live out my creative dream of putting Yoda in Meet the Fockers, and it only poisoned 18 Texas municipalities!
FYI, production design on War of the Roses was done by a Toast of London character
December 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
FYI, production design on War of the Roses was done by a Toast of London character
I always felt @naomiekperigin.bsky.social had an all-time bit with this one that, depressingly, is more and more relevant every day.
December 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I always felt @naomiekperigin.bsky.social had an all-time bit with this one that, depressingly, is more and more relevant every day.
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
Nice talk with musician Amy O! I love her albums a ton & we talk Back-to-the-land hippies, the ego death of parenthood, grief & creativity, art & commerce + MORE!
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Nice talk with musician Amy O! I love her albums a ton & we talk Back-to-the-land hippies, the ego death of parenthood, grief & creativity, art & commerce + MORE!
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December 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
Nice talk with musician Amy O! I love her albums a ton & we talk Back-to-the-land hippies, the ego death of parenthood, grief & creativity, art & commerce + MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsAmyO
Nice talk with musician Amy O! I love her albums a ton & we talk Back-to-the-land hippies, the ego death of parenthood, grief & creativity, art & commerce + MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsAmyO
Some good news! I'm excited to announce I will be writing and directing an It's Complicated legacyquel for Paramount+'s new "Fifth Reich" division!
December 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Some good news! I'm excited to announce I will be writing and directing an It's Complicated legacyquel for Paramount+'s new "Fifth Reich" division!
mmmm.... hamnet
December 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
mmmm.... hamnet
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
Great talk with experimental musician Claire Rousay! Where a composition starts, the Times Square Olive Garden, being the jailer of your own emotions, evangelical hypocrisy + MORE!
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Great talk with experimental musician Claire Rousay! Where a composition starts, the Times Square Olive Garden, being the jailer of your own emotions, evangelical hypocrisy + MORE!
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December 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
Great talk with experimental musician Claire Rousay! Where a composition starts, the Times Square Olive Garden, being the jailer of your own emotions, evangelical hypocrisy + MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsCl...
Great talk with experimental musician Claire Rousay! Where a composition starts, the Times Square Olive Garden, being the jailer of your own emotions, evangelical hypocrisy + MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsCl...
Both David Lynch and David Cronenberg were in the running to direct Return of the Jedi, but Stanley Kubrick actually had the job for about a day until George Lucas fired him.
December 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Both David Lynch and David Cronenberg were in the running to direct Return of the Jedi, but Stanley Kubrick actually had the job for about a day until George Lucas fired him.
I'm not sure what to think about this transcript Ryan Lizza published of a call between Nuzzi and RFK Jr. that he secretly taped.
December 5, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I'm not sure what to think about this transcript Ryan Lizza published of a call between Nuzzi and RFK Jr. that he secretly taped.
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
It's the 700th episode & I'm celebrating with the wonderful @brianmbendis.bsky.social! Control issues & radical acceptance, Marvel & father issues, being addicted to collaboration + MORE!
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It's the 700th episode & I'm celebrating with the wonderful @brianmbendis.bsky.social! Control issues & radical acceptance, Marvel & father issues, being addicted to collaboration + MORE!
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December 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
It's the 700th episode & I'm celebrating with the wonderful @brianmbendis.bsky.social! Control issues & radical acceptance, Marvel & father issues, being addicted to collaboration + MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsBMB
It's the 700th episode & I'm celebrating with the wonderful @brianmbendis.bsky.social! Control issues & radical acceptance, Marvel & father issues, being addicted to collaboration + MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsBMB
I've been thinking about this for days... we live in such an ignorant time & yet I still can't believe that any layperson would have the gall to say that Kurt "Incompleteness Theorem" Gödel might not know what the fuck he's talking about when it comes to problems in the logic of a series of rules
December 5, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I've been thinking about this for days... we live in such an ignorant time & yet I still can't believe that any layperson would have the gall to say that Kurt "Incompleteness Theorem" Gödel might not know what the fuck he's talking about when it comes to problems in the logic of a series of rules
“You boy, what day is it? Uh-huh. Tuesday! Oh my, I *must* buy one of those newfangled calendars one of these days. While I have you here, do you remember the name of that be-snouted alien that eats cats? No, his real name! Willie named him ALF! He has a different name on Melmac. Gordon something.”
December 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
“You boy, what day is it? Uh-huh. Tuesday! Oh my, I *must* buy one of those newfangled calendars one of these days. While I have you here, do you remember the name of that be-snouted alien that eats cats? No, his real name! Willie named him ALF! He has a different name on Melmac. Gordon something.”
I'd like to thank the Committee for Behaving Like a Normal Person at a Party for this award for not once bringing up American nazis, Covid or neoliberalism to a single person at the party I was at last night. It was an honor to discuss UK Celebrity Traitors & not bird flu's 50% mortality rate.
November 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I'd like to thank the Committee for Behaving Like a Normal Person at a Party for this award for not once bringing up American nazis, Covid or neoliberalism to a single person at the party I was at last night. It was an honor to discuss UK Celebrity Traitors & not bird flu's 50% mortality rate.
Tried to shop here today, and the salesperson looked me up and down, and said, “Are you lost, boo? The 99¢ store is two blocks east.”
November 27, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Tried to shop here today, and the salesperson looked me up and down, and said, “Are you lost, boo? The 99¢ store is two blocks east.”