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Dan Hershfield
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Writer, because "aspiring fromager" don't pay the pickle man!

https://uppingthetempo.substack.com
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I've started a Substack called "Upping the Tempo" where I'll be writing a weekly column about the Toronto Tempo and "related matters." (We'll see where my mind goes!) My first post is live, so come check it out, and if you want more, subscribe!

open.substack.com/pub/uppingth...
Dr. Layup, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the WNBA
Upping The Tempo: Level 1
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Reposted by Dan Hershfield
I went to the Trump Kennedy Center Honors Cursed By The Monkey’s Paw and all you got were these 1500 words of observations www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Trump’s Very Weird Night at the Kennedy Center Honors
The president and I both got our heart’s desire. But something felt wrong.
www.theatlantic.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I would've thought a FIFA Peace Prize was worth about the same as a Chuck E. Cheese Oscar... but then I remembered what the E stands for, so better luck next time, soccer!
December 6, 2025 at 3:21 AM
He wrote some truly wonderful plays... and bad taste be damned, I wish this headline had been "Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and Tom Stoppard are Dead."
November 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Can't believe they had to change their name to Southsouthern!
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university

Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Reposted by Dan Hershfield
There has literally never been a universal basic income trial program that didn't deliver real and measurable results above and beyond any other form of social welfare, and every time another concludes with the same findings the powers that be go "interesting! Anyway," and pretend it wouldn't work.
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Guess she has plans for January 6th.
BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene announces she is resigning from Congress. Her last day in office will be January 5, 2026.
November 22, 2025 at 1:36 AM
November 20, 2025 at 2:40 AM
In my imagination, he said that to Miss Piggy and she karate-chopped him.
November 19, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I've started a Substack called "Upping the Tempo" where I'll be writing a weekly column about the Toronto Tempo and "related matters." (We'll see where my mind goes!) My first post is live, so come check it out, and if you want more, subscribe!

open.substack.com/pub/uppingth...
Dr. Layup, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the WNBA
Upping The Tempo: Level 1
open.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Reposted by Dan Hershfield
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Maybe more people would get vaccinated if we called it "winning an immunity challenge"?
November 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Mamdani is going to implement Sha Na Na law. Everyone's going to have to spend a memorable few days in upstate New York, even if it doesn't seem like they belong there.
Mamdani is going to implement Sharona law. All Monk episodes with Natalie Teeger will be banned.
Mamdani is going to implement Sheri Oteri law. Everyone in NYC will now have to dress like this:
November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Reposted by Dan Hershfield
If he is saying billion, with a B, that's about 400 pounds per person, which seems like an unhealthy amount of weight to lose. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
Oz: We thought it was 125 million pounds. Our estimate is Americans will lose 135 billion pounds by the midterms
November 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
...is it possible the whole motive for destroying food security for poor people is to make sandwiches too valuable to throw?!
November 4, 2025 at 6:23 PM
All told, the loss of Western civilization was worse... but factor in recency bias...
November 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
It's my fault.
At least if it goes long enough, we'll get one of those stressful hours back!
November 2, 2025 at 4:36 AM
At least if it goes long enough, we'll get one of those stressful hours back!
November 2, 2025 at 4:04 AM
My poor tummy.
November 1, 2025 at 3:16 AM
November 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Happy to be watching the Jays instead of dressing up... but a little sad the world will never see my only-timely-this-year Diane Keaton tribute Dannie Hall!
October 31, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I know we've all got a lot going on right now, but just a reminder that this is the year Ruth Fisher dies or died.
October 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Me, around 2:50 a.m. last night:
youtu.be/Ni56f2WcOGA?...
I wanna see how it ENDS
YouTube video by Giannis1983
youtu.be
October 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
THERE'S NOTHING IN THE RULEBOOK THAT SAYS A DOG CAN'T PITCH!
October 28, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Worried this game could become my longest relationship...
October 28, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Me, getting dressed today:
"Okay. Okay. Blue jeans. Blue jeans. Let's. Get. On!"
October 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM