Eli Okun

Human. @politico. Formerly @UnionLeader. Improviser. Maryland boy. Somehow, heartbreak feels good in a place like this. [email protected]

[Caity Weaver @caityweaver]

I completed my life’s work: I FOUND THE BEST FREE RESTAURANT BREAD IN AMERICA!!!!!!!!!

[The Tonight Show @FallonTonight]

.@AmandaSeyfried brings out the dulcimer and sings a cover of @jonimitchell’s “California”! #FallonTonight

[Adam Nayman @brofromanother]

Maybe not the shot of the decade but an image I think of a lot

[Eli Okun @eliokun]

Oppenheimer winning at the Oscars tonight is a foregone conclusion. For some real suspense, you’ll have to click to find out which was my favorite movie of 2023: https://t.co/qtSh5lXMmR

[Eli Okun @eliokun]

I’ve never seen Shark Tank, but I couldn’t fall asleep last night because I was too busy laughing at this being a stand-alone paragraph on Barbara Corcoran’s Wikipedia page

[Eli Okun @eliokun]

@setotah After tonight we may be forced to conclude that we’re the only two 90s beta males at Politico

[Declan Walsh @declanwalsh]

As war engulfed an upscale neighborhood in Sudan's capital, residents desperate to escape had just one option: a battered taxi driven by two penniless students. A tale of two heroes. https://t.co/RfvZLqlzub

[wint @dril]

Keep Calm And Border Collie's

[Eli Okun @eliokun]

Happy Oscars night. The news everybody’s been waiting for…my personal favorites of 2022!
https://t.co/nn62t7KSAB

[Eli Okun @eliokun]

@BiancaJoanie Amazing!! Congrats and buena suerte ♥️

[Mike Zapler @mikezapler]

I'm a pretty modest guy, but I will take credit for the headline on today's @playbookdc
https://t.co/mQEhR4Khs0

[Eli Okun @eliokun]

Back on my bullshit: blogging about my favorite movies of 2021! https://t.co/IMR1mgDdgc

[Eli Okun @eliokun]

Thinking about this Andrew Lloyd Webber recollection today. https://t.co/fkg9Tpqx81

[Brandon Streussnig @BrndnStrssng]

Paul Schrader casually dropping the most romantic scene of the year right in the middle of one of the angriest films he’s ever made. Whatta guy

[Eli Okun @eliokun]

“We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were."

The greatest. https://t.co/Oz35Xudafk

[Eli Okun @eliokun]

“In what disorder we lived, how many fragments of ourselves were scattered, as if to live were to explode into splinters.” (The Story of the Lost Child)

[Eli Okun @eliokun]

I’m officially at the age where a girl who accidentally stumbled into my freshman dorm room drunk and crying is on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list

[Japanese Breakfast @Jbrekkie]

Billy Joel’s The Stranger:
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[Jackson McHenry @McHenryJD]

how poorly I do in learned league is actually part of my innate charm

[Eli Okun @eliokun]

“In the Guatemalan highlands, where one is born into the choice between abject poverty and migration, it was a glimpse into the thin line between the lucky and the dead. The mourning was for the dead, but it was also for the choice.” https://t.co/iJsElsIyJ3