Phillip Maciak
@pjmaciak.bsky.social
TV Critic @ The New Republic //
DAD: A POP HISTORY (Plume 2027) //
teaching @ Wash U in STL //
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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, sixers
DAD: A POP HISTORY (Plume 2027) //
teaching @ Wash U in STL //
https://linktr.ee/phillip.maciak
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, sixers
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@pjmaciak.bsky.social
· Apr 16
I'm writing a cultural history of the DAD! With Plume! Get ready for Father's Day 2027, friends! This is what's happening now! @duttonbooks.bsky.social
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Check out my latest profile of Cool Jacket Man, the middle aged fascist. And yes, if you read closely, I do subtly pushback.
January 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Check out my latest profile of Cool Jacket Man, the middle aged fascist. And yes, if you read closely, I do subtly pushback.
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my most woke opinion is that about 70% of the QTs of this are actually reactionary
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
my most woke opinion is that about 70% of the QTs of this are actually reactionary
It's very "Boston Media Mafia" that the Ringer has posted a long feature whose organizing idea is basically: "The Boston Celtics are bad — how could that possibly be?" www.theringer.com/2025/11/14/n...
OK, So What Are the Boston Celtics?
When you mix Mazzulla Ball and a lottery-level roster, the results are decidedly mixed
www.theringer.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
It's very "Boston Media Mafia" that the Ringer has posted a long feature whose organizing idea is basically: "The Boston Celtics are bad — how could that possibly be?" www.theringer.com/2025/11/14/n...
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November 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Maciak, 42, lives in a tiny house where lizards crawl into his kitchen. There's lizards everywhere in there, actually, on every surface. One lizard is on the dining room table reading aloud from the King James Bible but changing parts of it to be more relevant to lizards. Lizards in the toaster, liz
November 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Maciak, 42, lives in a tiny house where lizards crawl into his kitchen. There's lizards everywhere in there, actually, on every surface. One lizard is on the dining room table reading aloud from the King James Bible but changing parts of it to be more relevant to lizards. Lizards in the toaster, liz
THE BEAST IN ME, which came out yesterday on Netflix, is a mystery show about a New Yorker profile writer who gets IN TOO DEEP with one of her subjects, and it seems far fetched until you read a profile like this where it's like, did you guys do a murder together? Maybe dial that shit back.
you can’t be putting this in the paper (gift link but i do not recommend you use it www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/s...)
November 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
THE BEAST IN ME, which came out yesterday on Netflix, is a mystery show about a New Yorker profile writer who gets IN TOO DEEP with one of her subjects, and it seems far fetched until you read a profile like this where it's like, did you guys do a murder together? Maybe dial that shit back.
Move over, bananas. It's strawberry time.
www.youtube.com/shorts/MpClx...
www.youtube.com/shorts/MpClx...
The New York Times Coming Up With Emails To Send You
YouTube video by please don't destroy
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Move over, bananas. It's strawberry time.
www.youtube.com/shorts/MpClx...
www.youtube.com/shorts/MpClx...
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one reason for "elite" as a category of analysis is to account for this flavor of thing. Nuzzi may not herself be a titan of industry or heiress to a ketchup fortune or whatever, but she's getting the impunity treatment because she's invited to those people's parties
November 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
one reason for "elite" as a category of analysis is to account for this flavor of thing. Nuzzi may not herself be a titan of industry or heiress to a ketchup fortune or whatever, but she's getting the impunity treatment because she's invited to those people's parties
I'm a middle-aged man, so I get to write a little essay about MJ Lenderman. pjmaciak.substack.com/p/we-all-got...
We All Got Work to Do
The Chair Company / MJ Lenderman / The Debut of HAT CHAT
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November 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I'm a middle-aged man, so I get to write a little essay about MJ Lenderman. pjmaciak.substack.com/p/we-all-got...
A cool thing about E. Gordon Gee is that he gutted WVU like a fish before the federal government was even exerting financial pressure on universities to do so. www.chronicle.com/article/univ...
E. Gordon Gee: ‘Universities Have Become Isolated and Arrogant’
The former university president on how the sector got into trouble.
www.chronicle.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
A cool thing about E. Gordon Gee is that he gutted WVU like a fish before the federal government was even exerting financial pressure on universities to do so. www.chronicle.com/article/univ...
Couple weeks ago, I saw one college dude approaching another college dude, and the one dude, smiling, starting saying, "uh oh, oh no, oh shit, bad optics. I can't be seen with this guy, BAD OPTICS BAD OPTICS," and they bro-hugged and started chatting, and I thought, ok, this is positive masculinity.
November 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Couple weeks ago, I saw one college dude approaching another college dude, and the one dude, smiling, starting saying, "uh oh, oh no, oh shit, bad optics. I can't be seen with this guy, BAD OPTICS BAD OPTICS," and they bro-hugged and started chatting, and I thought, ok, this is positive masculinity.
Task Rabbits alert: I spy State Trooper Lizzie Stover in this trailer!
New ‘Wuthering Heights’ Trailer: Emerald Fennell’s Latest With Margot Robbie & Jacob Elordi Hits Theaters Next Valentine’s Day
New ‘Wuthering Heights’ Trailer: Emerald Fennell’s Latest With Margot Robbie & Jacob Elordi Hits Theaters Next Valentine’s Day
With “Promising Young Woman” and “Saltburn,” Emerald Fennell swiftly became one of the industry’s hottest new female directors. But her follow-up to those two films, a new take on a classic and beloved Emily Brontë novel, may define Fennell’s legacy, and whether she’ll remain a major Hollywood voice.
READ MORE: ‘Wuthering Heights’: Jacob Elordi Says Emerald Fennell’s Agonizing Adaptation Is “Painfully Beautiful” And Will “Obliterate Your Heart”
That’s because Fennell’s adaptation of “Wuthering Heights” is full of bold choices, like Margot Robbie playing a character who’s a teenager in Brontë’s novel.
Continue reading New ‘Wuthering Heights’ Trailer: Emerald Fennell’s Latest With Margot Robbie & Jacob Elordi Hits Theaters Next Valentine’s Day at The Playlist.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Task Rabbits alert: I spy State Trooper Lizzie Stover in this trailer!
Like a third of the top 100 films of the 21st century are Vines.
The thing about bringing Vine back now is the place it filled in the market has been completely demolished. Vine could only exist in the time Vine existed
Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive | TechCrunch
Jack Dorsey backs diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive of six-second, looping videos. A new app called diVine will give access to more than 100,000 archived Vine videos, restored f...
techcrunch.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Like a third of the top 100 films of the 21st century are Vines.
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it's good that there'll be a formal and (hopefully) functional archive of old Vines, but for Dorsey to do this nearly 10 years after he himself killed Vine and allowed TikTok to swallow up the short-form-video market right after after is, well,
The thing about bringing Vine back now is the place it filled in the market has been completely demolished. Vine could only exist in the time Vine existed
Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive | TechCrunch
Jack Dorsey backs diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive of six-second, looping videos. A new app called diVine will give access to more than 100,000 archived Vine videos, restored f...
techcrunch.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
it's good that there'll be a formal and (hopefully) functional archive of old Vines, but for Dorsey to do this nearly 10 years after he himself killed Vine and allowed TikTok to swallow up the short-form-video market right after after is, well,
I have a review of Matthew Rhys and Claire Danes' THE BEAST IN ME in the hopper and en route to you soon. But, meantime, if you're looking for a show that does what this show is trying to do but meaningfully better, and that maybe you haven't seen yet: DAMAGES is streaming on hulu right this minute.
November 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I have a review of Matthew Rhys and Claire Danes' THE BEAST IN ME in the hopper and en route to you soon. But, meantime, if you're looking for a show that does what this show is trying to do but meaningfully better, and that maybe you haven't seen yet: DAMAGES is streaming on hulu right this minute.
Morey got this idea from @rtrspodcast.bsky.social, confirmed.
Jared McCain has been assigned to the Delaware Blue Coats, per Sixers.
November 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Morey got this idea from @rtrspodcast.bsky.social, confirmed.
MAD MEN dropping its back catalog on Netflix while it was still on the air is an underrated event in the history of the streaming boom, I think.
Hey, look! Something is actually being *added* to the HBO Max library. And it's Mad Men finally in 4K!
November 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
MAD MEN dropping its back catalog on Netflix while it was still on the air is an underrated event in the history of the streaming boom, I think.
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Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
This, by Becca Rothfeld, is terrific. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
Review | A conservative argues we need to value ‘women as women.’ But what does that mean?
Leah Libresco Sargeant argues that we need to better acknowledge human need and vulnerability, and that valuing women “as women” is a start
www.washingtonpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This, by Becca Rothfeld, is terrific. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
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if everything is going to be this bleak and sad it's nice to see the news peppered with little slices of life like jeffrey epstein emailing himself a file called "genuiis_____ideas (3).txt" that just says stuff like "microchup. = brain ? "
November 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
if everything is going to be this bleak and sad it's nice to see the news peppered with little slices of life like jeffrey epstein emailing himself a file called "genuiis_____ideas (3).txt" that just says stuff like "microchup. = brain ? "
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ANYWAY! My 2023 book -- about systemic, institutionalized, longstanding patterns of misconduct, abuse, predation, and the enabling and even the celebration of same by the powerful -- was titled Burn It Down 🔥🔥🔥🔥 just sayin' bookshop.org/p/books/burn...
November 13, 2025 at 2:32 AM
ANYWAY! My 2023 book -- about systemic, institutionalized, longstanding patterns of misconduct, abuse, predation, and the enabling and even the celebration of same by the powerful -- was titled Burn It Down 🔥🔥🔥🔥 just sayin' bookshop.org/p/books/burn...
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Let me show you the difference between a $40 hoodie and a ~$100 hoodie. 🧵
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Let me show you the difference between a $40 hoodie and a ~$100 hoodie. 🧵
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Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
I think somebody should make a hallucinatory paranoid biopic of Nico Harrison in the style of Oliver Stone's NIXON.
November 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I think somebody should make a hallucinatory paranoid biopic of Nico Harrison in the style of Oliver Stone's NIXON.