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i've got style, miles and miles | researcher for the show ‘blank check’ | writer for 'check book,' the ‘blank check’ newsletter | phd in movies from the university of wisconsin-madison

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CMYK @cmyk.games · 3h

We just launched TWO new Magenta titles: the instant classic I'm Out and the 20+ year old classic No Thanks!

No Thanks: www.cmyk.games/collections/...

I'm Out:
www.cmyk.games/collections/...

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JJ @jjdotbiz.bsky.social · 4h

Hey look at this cool article I just found.

Bill Cosby Looks Back on the Folk Scene That Inspired ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’

The comedy legend describes the Greenwich Village folk scene -- depicted in the new film "Inside Llewyn Davis -- that inspired a movement,

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JJ @jjdotbiz.bsky.social · 23h

In this week’s issue of Check Book, I wrote about a Yiddish tutor, Arthur Gopnik’s lost glasses, Richard Kind’s trip to Fort Worth, the Tilda Swinton equation, and American cinema’s ultimate overweight, pushy, rabbinical sex guy: Sy Ableman.

Check Book: Diane Keaton

An appreciation.

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JJ @jjdotbiz.bsky.social · 1d

DAVID: (speaking to a frequent guest) Is this episode sponsored by Indeed? Because JJ's gonna have to check in there... now that he's SO FIRED

DAVID: (speaking to a famous person) Our researcher, who does incredible work and is very handsome as well, in fact he even keeps up with contemporary music

JJ @jjdotbiz.bsky.social · 2d

Griffin really freaked the intro.

JJ @jjdotbiz.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to the Milwaukee Brewers and also to my mom, who is my favorite Milwaukee Brewer.

JJ @jjdotbiz.bsky.social · 2d

Marc Maron's on the episode of Blank Check that comes out tonight. How crazy is that

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JJ @jjdotbiz.bsky.social · 3d

Just had a very powerful exchange of head nods with a fellow dad also wearing Adidas-branded Oasis merch.

JJ @jjdotbiz.bsky.social · 3d

Life is worth living as long as you are around 💜

Picture of my beloved Baba’s Olive Tapenade Hummus

JJ @jjdotbiz.bsky.social · 4d

Huge get.

JJ @jjdotbiz.bsky.social · 4d

I think the Giannis story is pretty simple: he plays one last season in Milwaukee, putting up some of the craziest numbers of his career for a team that doesn't go anywhere and giving the city a chance to celebrate/mourn him, and then he's off on a new journey next year.