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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 10h

Very worried a rumination on pop culture outrage is going to tumble out of me before the sun rises tomorrow

Algorithmically foisted Facebook post to TMZ. Social copy reads “Fans have launched a petition to replace Bad Bunny with George Strait for the Super Bowl
Halftime Show 😳”

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 10h

We’d be less likely to read them if they were called “dooks”

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 19h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 10h

Remember their Inception-style suplexing of DJ Envy from Breakfast Club to their own program. What a time.

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 10h

The acrimonious Desus & Mero split is secretly one of the media events of the last five years I privately got somewhat parasocial about. I found out after sampling food for the menu of our wedding party and it deeply bummed me out. They were so funny together

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 10h

Desus highkey fell off

Poster for Zohran livestream rally featuring guests including, pursuant to the point of my comment, The Kid Mero

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 13h

What Zohran's victory (God willing) may mean (God willing) is a shift away from empty capitulation. There is enough for all of us. Not a single one needs to be left behind. You can win without compromising who you are

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 13h

it's the last line of the ad that keeps playing in my head: "In a time of darkness, New York must be the light." This is who a few anonymous cops quoted in The Free Press are afraid of.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 15h

1. As some Democrats have run from transgender rights, Zohran Mamdani is showing what so many others have lacked: courage to lead with his values over pandering to focus groups.

The ad is one of the best things I've seen from a politician on transgender people.

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As Some Dems Run From Trans People, Zohran Mamdani's Latest Ad Shows Real Support

The 2 minute ad features Sylvia Rivera's story, Mamdani's commitment to transgender people, and even music from the legendary late trans artist SOPHIE.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 15h

This is why I still haven’t seen the latest Jurassic movie, after two attempts to do so in theaters were beset by transit delays and inclement weather

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 16h

My God damn WIFE

Nicole Spiezio, acting in 2020 right before the damn COVID thing

Nicole and Tony Award winner Cole Escola in Netflix’s THE CHARACTERS

Nicole and John Early in a funny YouTube video called “Neither Will Moo”

And finally, Nicole and I, married 11/15/2020

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 16h

They’re also gonna think there’s two n’s in “Mamdani”

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En Sabah Neurodivergent @spearhafoc.bsky.social · 16h

Let's split the difference and give a holiday to Iron Eyes Cody.

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 16h

I don’t think any reportage of, say, the downfall of Nixon put The Washington Post in the headlines, let alone a glorified Substack like Barold Weiss’. You should not be this washed before the paint dries on your new management sign

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 17h

CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports

The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.

www.cbsnews.com

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1d

how much you think people who post like this donate, and is it somehow a negative number

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1d

AUSTIN, TX: Controversial billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has died after a ketamine overdose while creating his first TikTok post, in a trend of unclear origin called the “Jack Sparrow challenge.” He was 54 years old.

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Kristen Immoor @kristenimmoor.bsky.social · 1d

Enjoyed the New Yorker interview with Tim Curry, a free-wheeling conversation in which there were several sensitive questions about his paralyzing stroke. But oh my goodness, why was there no follow-up at all to this staggering answer? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Screenshot of text from the interview:

You’ve always been an incredibly physical performer: your strut during “Sweet Transvestite” in “Rocky Horror,” or the way you run around unfurling the mystery at the end of “Clue.” Do you still feel that in your body? Does that live somewhere in you still?

I think it does, but it’s angry. My mobility is angry to get out. But it’s not happened yet. I do a certain amount of physical therapy. I did a whole bunch of it at Cedars-Sinai, and I got very close, I think, to walking. That was tantalizing. For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw. And I have a visiting physical therapist now, but I can only really do exercises from my bed, which is pretty pathetic. It’s not going to get me walking, I don’t believe.

[I have underlined the sentence "For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw."]

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 2d

I think I’ve seen maybe three of Succession and literally only the finale of GoT, which was hilarious cognitive dissonance (fantasy epics on land generally aren’t my thing, but I wouldn’t be crazy enough to think everyone agrees)

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 2d

My eighth grade history teacher once put on the soundtrack to the first Star Wars prequel during an assignment. I was a score fan but knew no others, and said so when turning in my work. He smiled and said, “You’ll find people with different tastes when you’re older.” I never forgot that.

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 2d

No prison bleaker than the mind that’s confident that no conversations are being had out of earshot

Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 2d

I’m currently at a pop culture convention with 120k+ attendees where there’s Game of Thrones stuff literally everywhere, and the Marvel TV panel was so overpacked they had to shut down the floor. But I will agree people do not talk about Succession quite as often as when it was airing every week.

Nobody really talks about Succession anymore. Or Game of Thrones. Sort of confirms my thesis that, with rare exceptions, television does not really matter.

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 2d

However the president meets his maker, sad to say it’ll never be in the most preferred manner (eaten by the MGM lion)

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 2d

Incidentally, that’s been one of the biggest challenges for seasons 2 to 51 as well

Entertainment Weekly @ew.com · 2d

'Saturday Night Live' boss Lorne Michaels reveals that one of his biggest challenges during season 1 involved the show's music: 'The television audio guy was not thrilled.'

'SNL' creator Lorne Michaels reveals his biggest fight during show's beginning (exclusive)

'Saturday Night Live' boss Lorne Michaels reveals that one of his biggest challenges during season 1 involved the show's music: 'The television audio guy was not thrilled.'

bit.ly

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 3d

Please tell me that’s not a real quote

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 3d

YES! Thank you—serves me right to have just written down the band name

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 3d

Long shot here, but: I read and took note of for my weekend streaming column the digital delivery of something—perhaps from the recent box set?—by the band The Go-Betweens. Is this ringing a bell to anyone? It was a repost in my feed, I’m almost positive.

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 3d

Easily part of the reason why I found the Taylor rollout exhausting (and as someone who wrote something this week, guilty as charged). By contrast, I think @sterlewine.bsky.social wrote about the Billy Joel doc weeks after it came out and it was one of my favorite things on it

Jeff Giles @jefito.com · 3d

100 percent. The editorial culture based around “winning the search” has conditioned us to believe that any take arriving more than 24 hours after the event isn’t worth reading. It’s insane and bad for us overall.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3d

look no offense to this person specifically but i do think ‘are we still talking about this’ as a response to an essay about something from a couple weeks ago is pretty silly. we should expect thoughtful writing to take time

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 3d

When you go next you GOTTA let me know

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