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[Wolf+Salmon @wolfandsalmon]

Listen to @kentucker of @NPR ’s @nprfreshair explain why Gary Stewart: I Am From the Honky-Tonks is a must-read.

More than a music biography, it offers a vivid portrait of Southern working-class life and a fascinating slice of American history.

Listen now: link in bio 🔗

[kentucker @kentucker]

Listen to my new @nprfreshair review of @JimmymcdonoughA 's fantastic book 'Gary Stewart: I Am from the Honky Tonks' here: https://t.co/ClcGh9M6nD

[Dave Kehr @dave_kehr]

https://t.co/kx6FwrvZzm

[Gangster Cinema Central @GangsterCinema]

In Scarface, when Tony comments on a news broadcast about legalizing drugs, screenwriter Oliver Stone used this moment to slip in his own political views on the war on drugs. Stone explains…

"Three or four grams of coke [went] for $12 in Ecuador: it was so pure you’d fall asleep it was so good, [although] they’d cut it and cut it and cut it by the time it got here. It was a big business, and the DEA made it bigger by making it more [so] by getting more involved and raising their own budgets, by passing the RICO Act.

The RICO Act was just crap; the [government] used it politically, I mention it in the script: I have Tony say they ought to legalize drugs if they had any brains. The RICO Act is one of the precursors to the Patriot Act; that was the mentality—you turn drugs into a monster, et cetera. So, for me there was a political motive." 1/2

Quote comes from Ken Tucker's book Scarface Nation

[kentucker @kentucker]

@gailudel @AppleTV Thanks. I always forget that!

[kentucker @kentucker]

These castratos in the @AppleTV booth are just pathetic. #phillies

[kentucker @kentucker]

https://t.co/ORmf07zYWP Are you kidding? Until about a year ago no @nytimes editor wd have green-lit this piece.

[kentucker @kentucker]

Ruben back in the Phillies booth w the same old: “he just kinda SMOKED it!” “He tried to get a piece of cheese past him” “Harp” “Marshy”… I’m muting already.

[kentucker @kentucker]

My god Jamie Ding is a boring Jeopardy champion

[kentucker @kentucker]

Omg Justin Crawford is playing his heart out and for the second time in a row, useless Trey Turner ends the inning on him. #phillies

[kentucker @kentucker]

This Bryce Harper performance does not bode well. #WorldBaseballClassic

[kentucker @kentucker]

RIP James Van Der Beek. In my 1998 @EW Dawson review I wrote "[He] has handsome features attached to a face shaped like a cereal box." Years later, he told me he was "haunted" by that, & had a good laugh. https://t.co/sjCbMVBjVY

[kentucker @kentucker]

Copyediting, a lost art. "He often wrote under the pen name 'William Boot,' a self-deprecating homage to Evelyn Waugh’s supercilious journalist in her 1938 novel, Scoop." That Waugh, whatta dame...

https://t.co/IVp7C07weJ

[kentucker @kentucker]

We’ve reached the point where we dread having Bryce Harper come up to bat at a critical moment. #Phillies

[kentucker @kentucker]

Here comes the Phillies unraveling

[kentucker @kentucker]

“Just the man the Phillies want at the plate in a big moment” sez the TNT booth doofus. He’s talking abt ice cold Bryce Harper. Predictably, Harp whiffs.

[kentucker @kentucker]

The crowd has already deflated, Turner is doing his stupid throw-the-bat-away swing, and oh right, their baserunning is awful. I guess it’s over, Phillies?

[kentucker @kentucker]

Someone said it's Bryan Ferry's birthday https://t.co/uX5vWRlvbx

[kentucker @kentucker]

Wait--doesn't this sound like an update of... The Apprentice?

[kentucker @kentucker]

I think I can hit the hay. It’s not going to get better than Katherine LaNasa and Jeff Hiller. #Emmys