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Looking at the industrialization of culture while figuring out how/who I want to be online after writing a media theory manifesto
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Why Don’t You Have a Seat: Primetime and the Rise of the Meme Biopic (opens the original)
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I don’t even remember the exact moment I discovered that Robert Pattinson — who has been on quite the box office streak in recent years — was playing Chris Hansen, the former Dateline NBC host of the outrageous show, To Catch a Predator, which ran from 2004-2007 and so many millennials know from our misspent years of binging cable.
The Big One (opens the original)
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The truth is, behind the scenes, some hard things have been happening. I sometimes use this space to elaborate on my Person on the Internet stressors — and occasionally I’ll cryptically refer to family issues, but those are slow burns. A sudden change has occurred, and I've been doing what I always do when everything seems to go aflame — escape by plane to elsewhere. Years ago, it was Europe, which ushered me into a much better, but now concluding chapter. This time, I’ve run to LA, where a frie
The Kardashians are Selling Food and Drink to People Who Don’t Eat (opens the original)
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Kim Kardashian’s launch campaign for Update, the caffeine-free energy drink she co-founded in February, went up on Thursday. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="983" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UhdK!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl
15 Takeaways from Rewatching the First Three Seasons of Entourage (opens the original)
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Earlier this month I escaped to Portland and LA to see my best friends amid a difficult time. Now I’m back in Brooklyn, behind on work and already longing for LA, so I put on Entourage, which I’d been meaning to revisit for a long while. The show is incredibly Read more
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