Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON*

Polls, politics, postpunk. Friendly Writer and cohost of @Political_Beats at @NRO. Dedicated to you, but you weren't listening.

[Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* @EsotericCD]

Don't make politics your religion; your gods will always be overthrown.

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@mgarbowski ick. not my thing.

[Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* @EsotericCD]

I asked Grok to create an image summarizing my account - but exclusively as seen through the eyes of those who loathe me the most, and find me intolerable.

And dammit, they kind of nailed it. Except for the glass of wine. I drink bourbon and scotch.

[Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* @EsotericCD]

@Craftsman_Redux Not a single bad beat!

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You have to be both familiar with PTA and an IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY fan, but if you are . . . watch this and roar. https://t.co/IJRGOO6DGJ

[Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* @EsotericCD]

Which is best captured? You might say LICORICE PIZZA or ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, but I think Always Sunny summarized INHERENT VICE better than even Pynchon.

[Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* @EsotericCD]

@JoeyLiverwurst yeah thankfully I'm not there yet - but it's a plausible destination!

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oh yes! in fact, I would argue (and have, several times on @Political_Beats) that it may be Randy Newman's single greatest song EVER - from lyrics to music to arrangement. It's every bit as much a masterpiece as "Tangled Up In Blue" (and GOOD OL' BOYS rates with BLOOD ON THE TRACK).

But THEY ARE TOTALLY DIFFERENT SONGS.

[Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* @EsotericCD]

How's it goin' for Google Search these days?

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@beyondreasdoubt alt image:

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28 years on, Wesley Snipes's stoic philosophic wisdom remains eternally true: Some motherf***ers are, indeed, always trying to ice-skate uphill.

[RetroNewsNow @RetroNewsNow]

🎬'Blade' starring Wesley Snipes opened in theaters 28 years ago, August 21, 1998

[Vahaken Mouradian @VahakenM]

I would've preferred to edit @DouthatNYT's first, rather than last, column for @NRO, but it was a pleasure to have worked with him at all.

His farewell to the printed page, for now:

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@MuseZack The perfect median spot between "insanely horrifying," "historically accurate," and "appointment television."

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@emeriticus But is this not the rarest of issues where he's actually correct on the merits?

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Bet big, bet arrogantly, persecuted his enemies even while paying pretense to republican values, finally f***ed up so catastrophically that the French were running rampant through his fields.

Killed in the streets and subsequently partially cannibalized, and the Dutch are surprisingly chill about eating Jan de Witt. He absolutely deserved to get gutted from stem to stern. Instructive lesson, like Alcibiades.

[Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* @EsotericCD]

If you asked me to name my all-time #1 favorite Shocking Strange-But-True Historical Anecdote, it would either be this or the Erfurt Latrine Disaster of 1184.

And when you read the history? You understand WHY they were so angry they wanted to eat him.

[History Arc @HistoryArcs]

🇳🇱 353 years ago today, The Prime Minister of Netherlands is eaten by the people.

[Jesse Singal @jessesingal]

Watching an entire parallel universe containing a different timeline, different facts, and different causal accounts get spun up in real time not by internet randos -- or not just by internet randos -- but also by respected academics... it's been a wild and demoarlizing wride

[Zach Weissmueller @TheAbridgedZach]

This suggests that anti data center politics are generalized anxiety about AI and its downstream effects wrapped in concern trolling about water and electricity.

Make people feel less doomed and the opposition drops.

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@koconnor34 Yup!

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I'm not paying any attention to this Lindsay Clancy debacle, but I assume it's safe just to shrug my shoulders, mutter "women..." and leave it at that?

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@ingelramdecoucy I tried this with UNDERTALE once and felt morally ill.

[Jarvis @jarvis_best]

Male Tiktok is so pure and wholesome.