Your Mid-Week Experiment
5 comedy specials, 4 articles, 1 script, 1 podcast, and 1 movie
The groundhog came out and saw a couple more days of couch time for me. But even in my weakened state, I got a mid-weeker for you. Let’s get to it:
Has marketing subsumed its products? What is culture now but a collection of consumers endlessly offering up their takes on the works of art and commerce that used to be our culture? (Dr. Natasha Degen)
Did you know that Christopher Nolan the script for Oppenheimer in first person? Check it out. It’s wild. (Gadget)
Loved this discussion of Jacqueline Novak’s NSFM1 Get On Your Knees.
Richard Linklater has turned this Texas Monthly story into his latest movie about the busiest hit man in Houston who is actually an undercover cop. (Skip Hollandsworth)
God help me. This argument about what Joe Biden’s real role in 2024 is makes sense. (David Frum)
Burying this in the mid-weeker because I hate sharing this news. (The Cut)
Seeing John Mulaney in his embryonic state is alarming.
Mike Birbiglia breaks new ground here in talking about the underside of becoming a parent. (For the record, I always wanted to be a dad, and I can’t imagine it working out better than it has.)
This was good, but not as groundbreaking as his parenthood special.
This 1990 Cohen brothers movie holds up.
Can’t believe it took this this long to watch this. Hilarious. Grateful to B.B. for turning me onto it.
S turned me onto Jay Jurden’s comedy. Good stuff.
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