Marc Hirsh
@spacecitymarc.bsky.social
Boston Globe, sometimes EW, others. I basically do homework for a living. He/him/his. Available in dad since 2015. My love language is replies, not likes.
As it happens, I was trying to write another story altogether when I accidentally stumbled onto a scoop. Nobody else knew about this, and they agreed to let me be the first to report it before they went public. And thus did I do something I don't think I've ever properly done: I broke actual news.
Mansfield’s Xfinity Center undergoing biggest renovation in its nearly 40-year history - The Boston Globe
The 24,000-seat venue's general manager describes the scope, aims, and timeline for the changes.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
As it happens, I was trying to write another story altogether when I accidentally stumbled onto a scoop. Nobody else knew about this, and they agreed to let me be the first to report it before they went public. And thus did I do something I don't think I've ever properly done: I broke actual news.
I could go the anecdotal route and say that I was also this guy's age and can confirm that this is a nonsense position. Or I could point out that the idea that Big Star could have been so foundational and vital to college/alternative rock while the Beatles were eyerolled is utterly absurd.
As someone who is this guy's age I can tell you 100% that if you were into Pixies, Nirvana, 120 Minutes stuff, etc. but didn't like the Beatles you had to have worked hard to contort yourself into that special little box. Your enemy, if you absolutely needed one, was hair metal. GTFO here with this.
November 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I could go the anecdotal route and say that I was also this guy's age and can confirm that this is a nonsense position. Or I could point out that the idea that Big Star could have been so foundational and vital to college/alternative rock while the Beatles were eyerolled is utterly absurd.
I have picked up this and a few of its followups at the library bookstore over the last couple of years. And I'm forced to conclude that this was a one-in-a-million confluence of artists, songs, production and concept that nothing could duplicate. Can't fault them for trying! But it's a unicorn.
November 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I have picked up this and a few of its followups at the library bookstore over the last couple of years. And I'm forced to conclude that this was a one-in-a-million confluence of artists, songs, production and concept that nothing could duplicate. Can't fault them for trying! But it's a unicorn.
I just wanted free CDs.
November 22, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I just wanted free CDs.
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brb gouging a bunch of tweens so I can have a stage show like the big dogs
www.boston.com/culture/conc...
www.boston.com/culture/conc...
November 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
brb gouging a bunch of tweens so I can have a stage show like the big dogs
www.boston.com/culture/conc...
www.boston.com/culture/conc...
Every now and then, I think about JUDGE MILLS LANE and how, when confronted with a pugnacious shaved Jack Russell Terrier of a boxing referee whose catchphrase was a whined "LET'S GET IT ON!," we all collectively decided "That man is an impartial arbiter of justice."
November 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Every now and then, I think about JUDGE MILLS LANE and how, when confronted with a pugnacious shaved Jack Russell Terrier of a boxing referee whose catchphrase was a whined "LET'S GET IT ON!," we all collectively decided "That man is an impartial arbiter of justice."
"Hey, Marc, how was Sarah McLachlan?"
Review & setlist: No fumbles but plenty of ecstasy in sublime Sarah McLachlan show
Of the 20 songs Sarah McLachlan performed, six of them came from the album that helped make her name, "Fumbling Towards Ecstasy."
www.boston.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
"Hey, Marc, how was Sarah McLachlan?"
brb gouging a bunch of tweens so I can have a stage show like the big dogs
www.boston.com/culture/conc...
www.boston.com/culture/conc...
November 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
brb gouging a bunch of tweens so I can have a stage show like the big dogs
www.boston.com/culture/conc...
www.boston.com/culture/conc...
And Michael Douglas was Michael Douglas because his father Kirk changed his own name from Issur Danielovitch. So Kirk Douglas is the one who ruined it for Keaton. (And others!)
Also, Albert Brooks's real surname was Einstein, and he's the brother of Super Dave Osborne.
Also, Albert Brooks's real surname was Einstein, and he's the brother of Super Dave Osborne.
Michael Keaton’s real name is Michael Douglas, but he adopted his stage name because it was taken
November 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
And Michael Douglas was Michael Douglas because his father Kirk changed his own name from Issur Danielovitch. So Kirk Douglas is the one who ruined it for Keaton. (And others!)
Also, Albert Brooks's real surname was Einstein, and he's the brother of Super Dave Osborne.
Also, Albert Brooks's real surname was Einstein, and he's the brother of Super Dave Osborne.
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If Musk is so damn smart, why is he sleeping only six hours a night and working 80-100 hours a week?
Musk put an aside in his own online encyclopedia about how he supposedly lost 20 pounds
![Grokipedia
Musk maintains a demanding schedule, typically sleeping six hours per night, going to bed between 1 and 3 a.m. and waking around 9 a.m., a pattern he adjusted from longer workdays to prioritize recovery while managing multiple companies.[234] His diet includes occasional indulgences like morning donuts and multiple Diet Cokes daily, supplemented by intermittent fasting that contributed to a reported 20-pound weight loss, though he avoids eating or drinking alcohol two to three hours before bed to optimize sleep.[235] Exercise-wise, he favors weightlifting and strength training over cardio like running, which he dislikes, aiming for consistency to sustain energy amid 80-100-hour workweeks that often extend into weekends.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cfy5rgqvohpdqxgu2geb5u2b/bafkreieqyh5h3tu6s2zxnwbgmdaswdehycbwlg7f4p27xfac6qzupexztq@jpeg)
October 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
If Musk is so damn smart, why is he sleeping only six hours a night and working 80-100 hours a week?
That's what I've been doing!
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November 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
That's what I've been doing!
Nonsense motivationals I barked to get H going this morning:
"If you lose 99 times out of hundred, that's still a win."
"The world doesn't get to stop spinning, neither do you."
"The best time to start is now. The next best time is right now."
"Pain is just the body's way of saying 'Keep going.'"
"If you lose 99 times out of hundred, that's still a win."
"The world doesn't get to stop spinning, neither do you."
"The best time to start is now. The next best time is right now."
"Pain is just the body's way of saying 'Keep going.'"
November 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Nonsense motivationals I barked to get H going this morning:
"If you lose 99 times out of hundred, that's still a win."
"The world doesn't get to stop spinning, neither do you."
"The best time to start is now. The next best time is right now."
"Pain is just the body's way of saying 'Keep going.'"
"If you lose 99 times out of hundred, that's still a win."
"The world doesn't get to stop spinning, neither do you."
"The best time to start is now. The next best time is right now."
"Pain is just the body's way of saying 'Keep going.'"
The local mix station just played Janet Jackson, which given how thoroughly she was blacklisted/memory-holed by the media feels significant. And the fact that it was "All For You" -- a huge #1 hit in itself, but not one of her foundational smashes -- feels like a bigger deal, somehow.
November 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The local mix station just played Janet Jackson, which given how thoroughly she was blacklisted/memory-holed by the media feels significant. And the fact that it was "All For You" -- a huge #1 hit in itself, but not one of her foundational smashes -- feels like a bigger deal, somehow.
Great idea, I definitely want to style my writing as if nobody is going to read it and robots are going to steal it.
Saw a post today that advised writers to stop writing as if a human will read it and start writing for an LLM that will be summarising.
As someone who really enjoyed trying to develop a peculiar but readable authorial voice, I find this incredibly depressing.
As someone who really enjoyed trying to develop a peculiar but readable authorial voice, I find this incredibly depressing.
November 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Great idea, I definitely want to style my writing as if nobody is going to read it and robots are going to steal it.
The summer I was 23, some teenaged girls started frequenting my improv shows, and one of them made a hard play for me.
How old are you?
[very confident] "I'm 18."
Are you in college?
[still confident] "I'm going in the fall."
And I was like "...nope." We had THE ENTIRETY OF COLLEGE BETWEEN US.
How old are you?
[very confident] "I'm 18."
Are you in college?
[still confident] "I'm going in the fall."
And I was like "...nope." We had THE ENTIRETY OF COLLEGE BETWEEN US.
November 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The summer I was 23, some teenaged girls started frequenting my improv shows, and one of them made a hard play for me.
How old are you?
[very confident] "I'm 18."
Are you in college?
[still confident] "I'm going in the fall."
And I was like "...nope." We had THE ENTIRETY OF COLLEGE BETWEEN US.
How old are you?
[very confident] "I'm 18."
Are you in college?
[still confident] "I'm going in the fall."
And I was like "...nope." We had THE ENTIRETY OF COLLEGE BETWEEN US.
The guy's a real psycho, a loser weirdo with a tenuous grip on reality. Anyway, he called me his hero, and here's a smiling picture of the two of us.
A Nuzzi PS:
June 2011, CitiField, NYC. This is seven years after this psycho Bobby Kennedy called me up at MSNBC and said I was his hero 🤷🏼♂️This might have been the first sign he was losing his mind
(and no, the cane is for a broken foot; I was only old, not oldER, yet)
June 2011, CitiField, NYC. This is seven years after this psycho Bobby Kennedy called me up at MSNBC and said I was his hero 🤷🏼♂️This might have been the first sign he was losing his mind
(and no, the cane is for a broken foot; I was only old, not oldER, yet)
November 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The guy's a real psycho, a loser weirdo with a tenuous grip on reality. Anyway, he called me his hero, and here's a smiling picture of the two of us.
"John Barleycorn" is the greatest of all English folk songs because it's simultaneously a murder ballad, a ghost story, medieval torture porn and a recipe for beer.
November 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
"John Barleycorn" is the greatest of all English folk songs because it's simultaneously a murder ballad, a ghost story, medieval torture porn and a recipe for beer.
They just all sound so goddamn BORING, by which I mean they sound like 15-year-olds who have decided that nobody in human history has ever felt so deeply save perhaps for the four poets they've read.
November 18, 2025 at 4:31 AM
They just all sound so goddamn BORING, by which I mean they sound like 15-year-olds who have decided that nobody in human history has ever felt so deeply save perhaps for the four poets they've read.
One of the fifth-graders in my improv class today takes about how his dad pulled the Wii out of the basement and they played with it this weekend, and the other kids had no idea what that was. Forget about not knowing what kind of system it was; they didn't even know that it WAS a videogame system.
November 18, 2025 at 2:28 AM
One of the fifth-graders in my improv class today takes about how his dad pulled the Wii out of the basement and they played with it this weekend, and the other kids had no idea what that was. Forget about not knowing what kind of system it was; they didn't even know that it WAS a videogame system.
I once had to tell the folks I was doing a Christmas show with that they had to nix the joke about "Kwanzaa, whatever the hell that is," and you will/won't be surprised about how much I had to push on that.
hey hot take but people purposely fuckin up m. night shyamalan's last name is super racist actually
November 18, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I once had to tell the folks I was doing a Christmas show with that they had to nix the joke about "Kwanzaa, whatever the hell that is," and you will/won't be surprised about how much I had to push on that.
me, at the 27-minute mark of a 28-minute video essay about how movies don't feel "real" anymore: "Oh, it's a fucking ad."
November 18, 2025 at 2:04 AM
me, at the 27-minute mark of a 28-minute video essay about how movies don't feel "real" anymore: "Oh, it's a fucking ad."
anyone, ever: "Hey, you got a haircut, I like it."
me, always: "Here's why it's Not Good Actually,
me, always: "Here's why it's Not Good Actually,
November 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
anyone, ever: "Hey, you got a haircut, I like it."
me, always: "Here's why it's Not Good Actually,
me, always: "Here's why it's Not Good Actually,
Bari Weiss takes over CBS News and less than two months later, 60 MINUTES directly says "The Russians are the best. What makes them so good?"
(video starts precisely at the moment in question, though it runs through the end, couldn't figure that part out)
(video starts precisely at the moment in question, though it runs through the end, couldn't figure that part out)
Chess boxing: a sport where brain meets brawn
YouTube video by 60 Minutes
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November 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Bari Weiss takes over CBS News and less than two months later, 60 MINUTES directly says "The Russians are the best. What makes them so good?"
(video starts precisely at the moment in question, though it runs through the end, couldn't figure that part out)
(video starts precisely at the moment in question, though it runs through the end, couldn't figure that part out)
So if I understand this correctly, Spike Lee went to the Vatican expressly to shit talk the Bulls to da Chicago Pope.
In True New York Fashion, Spike Lee Gifts First American Pope With His Own Knicks Jersey
While invited to the Vatican, Spike Lee gifted Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S. Pope, a personalized New York Knicks Jersey.
www.blackenterprise.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:52 AM
So if I understand this correctly, Spike Lee went to the Vatican expressly to shit talk the Bulls to da Chicago Pope.