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Annie Berke @sayanniething.bsky.social · 2d

if they'd just LISTEN, they'd realize i, i mean, you, i mean, one, was right all along

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Annie Berke @sayanniething.bsky.social · 2d

never.

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Annie Berke @sayanniething.bsky.social · 6d

Um, it didn't, but that's an exciting lead! Thank youuuu

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Annie Berke @sayanniething.bsky.social · 6d

The world is on fire: who wants to read my thoughts and feelings (all positive) on Ted Danson?

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 9d

this felt too informative not to share

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 12d

"The suspension of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel felt more like an omen." @tvbookstvbooks.bsky.social on censorship, the FCC, and the television industry over time. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/indecent-disposal-fcc-and-the-censoring-of-late-night/

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Annie Berke @sayanniething.bsky.social · Aug 25

are you looking for books about film and media, or pleasure reading to take you away from your work, or something in the middle?

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Annie Berke @sayanniething.bsky.social · Aug 25

um, hello, hi, thank you! :)

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Alison Laurence @dinostalgia.bsky.social · Aug 16

My take on the new Jurassic in the LARB! Spoilers ahead.

Credit to @sayanniething.bsky.social for a great edit. As for the title... thanks/apologies to Tennyson. I imagine he'd have written the loveliest verses about suspect food dye and other modern confections, e.g. genetically-engineered wolves.

Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · Aug 16

"'Rebirth' is the first 'Jurassic' film born into a world where de-extinction of prehistoric life is a contested but credible reality." @dinostalgia.bsky.social reviews "Jurassic World: Rebirth." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/nature-red-40-in-tooth-and-claw/

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Annie Berke @sayanniething.bsky.social · Aug 13

Science has always been, and is now ESPECIALLY, political and subject to the culture wars. This professor may think he is “safe” if he sells out the humanities, but clearly someone hasn’t been reading the newspaper.

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Annie Berke @sayanniething.bsky.social · Aug 7

GILDED AGE and BUCCANEERS both ending their seasons (so long summer)… what should my next period drama be?

**extra points for soap and camp!**

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · Aug 2

“In ‘Other Lives Our Own,’ Weiss wants to awaken readers to all the daily experiences they are not absorbing or even registering.” Caroline Hagood reviews Jason Weiss’s “Other Lives Our Own.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/bringing-back-new-concepts-to-this-mad-city/

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · Jul 1

The summer of submission starts now. LARB Quarterly, no. 45, Submission is finally here, with new essays, fiction, and poetry on the ways we all choose to submit: to our bodies, our families, ourselves, and each other. https://lareviewofbooks.org/membership/

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Defector @defector.com · Jul 27

The enduring appeal of 'Clueless' defector.com/ugh-as-if-ta...

I was part of a girl gang that invaded suburban homes across the top half of New Jersey. We left our clothes strewn across various surfaces in your carpeted basements, ate your Snackwells in the wee hours, and wrote weird notes to your awkward eldest sons. Some of us stayed up all night, laughing and plotting, and some of us, inexplicably, wanted to go to bed at 9:00 p.m. For days afterwards, you would catch the faint smell of Bath & Body Works warm vanilla sugar.

It was the age of the pre-teen slumber party, and you could hear us coming from the synth riff of Kim Wilde’s “Kids in America.” It’s the song that opens Clueless, which was the preferred VHS rental for the coolest sleepovers I attended. We were the kids of America, even if we were closer to Nickelodeon’s definition than MTV’s, and Clueless offered a hopeful glimpse into life beyond middle school. We all wanted to be Cher Horowitz—beautiful, popular, rich, and, yes, even kind—and we weren’t the only ones.

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Annie Berke @sayanniething.bsky.social · Jul 28

If I went around wearing a t shirt that said “I Told You So,” would you think I was referring to Epstein or HBOMax? To be clear, I would mean both.

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Annie Berke @sayanniething.bsky.social · Jul 25

Millennials may be getting older, but our pop culture stays *the same age* (fun, I mean, HELLO, we're the kids of America)... making my DEFECTOR debut with a review essay on "Clueless"

-- many thanks to my editor @brandyjensen.bsky.social for her Cher-like guidance

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‘Ugh! As If!’ Takes On The Enduring Appeal Of ‘Clueless’ | Defector

In the mid-to-late ’90s, I was part of a girl gang that invaded suburban homes across the top half of New Jersey. We left our clothes strewn across various surfaces in your carpeted basements, ate you...

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Annie Berke @sayanniething.bsky.social · Jul 21

Doing some research… what are some (other) books like NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT THIS and THE MOBIUS BOOK, which is to say novels with two somewhat discrete halves that sort of overlap or connect but you need to do the work to figure out why?

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Annie Berke @sayanniething.bsky.social · Jul 15

What a perfect recap. This episode is going to stay with me for a long, long time.

Annie Berke @sayanniething.bsky.social · Jul 9

Can I ask, different how? Or is it too complicated to explain here?

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Annie Berke @sayanniething.bsky.social · Jul 9

Maybe it’s a midlife crisis… maybe it’s Maybelline 💄

Annie Berke @sayanniething.bsky.social · Jul 9

I know I’m avant-grade, ahead of the curve, visionary here but I’ll just say it: I think I need to rewatch GIRLS

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Annie Berke @sayanniething.bsky.social · Jul 8

While I'm asking questions, would anyone like to pay me $50 a year to *not* start a Substack, because honestly, I feel like it'd be a win/win for all of us?

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Annie Berke @sayanniething.bsky.social · Jul 8

Why should I bother composting my exfoliation wipes now that Leo went to Bezos' wedding?

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Annie Berke @sayanniething.bsky.social · Jul 1

I don’t know about rightly ;)

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