really proud of how this came out...podcast, video, and interactive map of our hydrogen car road trip theverge.com/c/2024/8/20/24…

The Final Min is posted, and my grueling nightmare is over. Thank you to everyone who joined at some point along the way, whether it was for just one min or all of them. It was fun, but I am glad for it to be over The Irishmin January 2020 - August 2024 audioboom.com/posts/8558752-…

The trailer for Francis Ford Coppola's MEGALOPOLIS features a history of dismissive quotes from noted critics about the director's earlier masterpieces. There's one problem, however. The quotes appear to be made up. vulture.com/article/did-th…

i am now questioning the ethics of an animated, anthropomorphic duck eating poultry

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If you have an opening in your newsroom, @ or DM me and I can tell you which members of my former team have the right skill set.

I played Metal Gear Solid: Delta and it's good. People are going to like it. But it makes it hard not to think about the weird parts of remake culture polygon.com/impressions/44…

there is a near-100% chance this movie will make me cry multiple times

Sabrina Carpenter's album gives me HOPE for the future of pop (and some mild concern about... the species) theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

Polygon is hiring a games writer!!! 👀👀 job-boards.greenhouse.io/voxmedia/jobs/…

i love when homer wears his reading glasses

I interviewed Jason Schwartzman about his new film Between the Temples, and among other things: getting dinner with Brian Cox while doing Rushmore, Megalopolis, that one time he played Ringo Starr in Walk Hard, and how he's still mourning Bored to Death. businessinsider.com/jason-schwartz…

in my @slate debut(!), i dug into the ways pop culture and nostalgia accounts use misinformation to drive engagement for money. it’s a problem that’s causing a cultural unlearning—and a degradation of the importance of pop culture history slate.com/technology/202…

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one last freelance piece to close this chapter: i wrote about the history of toonami’s original anime for Polygon! polygon.com/anime/446097/t…

okay but what if science saru took this on

this scene could take place at joaquin phoenix’s autograph table during comic con and still work

There's not a line I didn't want to highlight in this Gal Beckerman banger on NaNoWriMo/AI, but I went with this one. The whole piece is worth it, though. theatlantic.com/books/archive/…