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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 9h
Feel sick just imagining how many times they did it to get it just right.
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 9h
Telling little detail dropped into a puffy real estate story: “The identity of the new owners — who are not in the technology world, Zalduvoa said — has not been disclosed.” www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
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S.F. couple buys late conductor Michael Tilson Thomas’ nearly $10 million Pacific Heights home
Michael Tilson Thomas’ seven-bedroom San Francisco house sold for its full asking price of $9.85 million, with proceeds from the Pacific Heights estate sale benefiting organizations he supported.
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 10h
Santamataldum is the New Covfefe
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Thirst trap photo of a middle aged man with three insanely cute puppies.
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Not to brag, but I met these dogs back in June on my way back from Hendy Woods and they were freakin’ amazing: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/s...
nytimes.com
Is the Fox Collie the Perfect Dog for Our Aimless Era?
A winemaker in Northern California is convinced that a dog once bred to herd sheep in the Scottish Highlands is the ideal pet for our uncertain times.
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
‘Marjoe’ (dirs. Howard Smith & Sarah Kernochan, 1972) is available free on several streaming platforms: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/m...
nytimes.com
Marjoe Gortner, Evangelist Preacher Who Roused the Faithful and Then Exposed the Con, Dies at 82.
An ordained minister at 4, Marjoe Gortner went on to star in a documentary that revealed the flimflammery of his former profession: “You go into it like a business.”
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Whenever people say SNL is so edgy and brave, I always think of @johncusack.bsky.social's scene in ‘Bob Roberts’ (1992): www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zmp...
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‘Cutting Edge Live Host’ (John Cusack) spills a li’l tea
YouTube video by Reality Unadorned
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Jim was one of the best writers at the NYPress back when it was the weirdest, liveliest alt-alt-weekly in New York. Slackjaw was a must read. Rest in print: www.simplycremationgb.com/obituaries/j...
simplycremationgb.com
Jim Knipfel Obituary Oct 7, 2026 - Simply Cremation of GB
View Jim Knipfel's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Name a more iconic duo. (bcc: @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social): www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Rebecca Solnit drawn by Timothy O'Brien wearing a western shirt.Dolly Parton photographed wearing a Western shirt.
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Wait, does Anne Frank die?
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Who among us never accidentally called their teacher ‘mom’? www.usatoday.com/videos/news/...
usatoday.com
White House press secretary Katie Zacharia appears to slip over 'president' and 'husband'
Katie Zacharia appeared to stumble over the words "president" and "husband" at her first briefing.
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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
“Number 12 Looks Just Like You” (Twilight Zone season 5, episode 17) New press secretary Katie Zacharia, predecessor Karoline Leavitt, stalker Natalie Harp, Stormy Daniels, Ivanka.
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Back in my day, newspapers just reported the fake news and left all the bleeps and blorps to the MTV: theonion.com/voting-simul...
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Voting Simulator
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
‘The Breakup: A Novel’ (auth, @kurtandersen.bsky.social, 2026)
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Room for one more, honey.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
hollywoodreporter.com
David Zaslav Sends Farewell Video on His Last Day Before Skydance Acquisition of Warner Bros.
The CEO extolls the creations and storytelling of the workers that will soon be facing uncertain futures thanks to a sale he orchestrated.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🎵 Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Annie Hall... 🎶
@ boston.com
Ringo Starr returns to Forest
Hills Stadium
The 86-year-old drummer played the Queens venue for the first time since his former band performed there in
1964. The concert featured a mix of classic rock hits alongside his current arous.
Generated with Al, which can make mistakes

The picture is of Woody Allen.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
will get old and die waiting for someone to say "At least you tried." When I worked at EW, I used to say that our five worst selling covers of the year should be the five stories we most believed in. Because when you pander and sell badly, you accomplish nothing. Same is true in movies, I think. >
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Some prescient analysis from 1999 (actually, probably written in 1997):
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’ll miss this guy the most of all when I quite SkyDanceMax.
John Oliver as a pimply teenager.
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Best people in any town www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
Librarians Discuss the Challenges and Triumphs of Running a Library Today
We asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us.
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
bcc @davidlynchsworlds.bsky.social
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
bcc. @markharris.bsky.social
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: Frances’ Dad Buys Him Pee-wee’s Bike www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
hollywoodreporter.com
Cleared for Take Off: Paramount’s $111 Billion Warner Bros. Buy Greenlit By Judge
The deal creating Hollywood's next entertainment and media colossus is expected to close on Oct. 6.
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Has anyone made the Pete Hegseth/Steve Balmer supercut yet?
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Does Lana Del Rey know she’s in that image?
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Value Meal only.
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He may be 83, but no one knows ‘youth’ more intimately than Larry Clark: www.wmagazine.com/wyouth/perso...
wmagazine.com
Dominic Fike, Francesca Scorsese, & More on Looking for Love & Friendship
From Dominic Fike and Francesca Scorsese to Geese’s Max Bassin and Lucas Hedges, Larry Clark photographs some familiar faces seeking connection.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Crazy that it took four screenwriters to write ‘Digger’ when Kurt Vonnegut basically wrote the same thing in 13 words back in 2006.
Hand written note that readers Dear Future Generations: Please Accept Our Apologies. We Were Roaring Drunk on Petroleum. Love, 2006 A.D.
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
How about The Titanic. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
hollywoodreporter.com
What Will David Ellison Name His Mega Hollywood Studio?
It can't be Paramount Skydance Warner Bros. Discovery. So that leaves a few options...
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Related: Why Do We? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/i...
nytimes.com
Why Does The Times Care About Mark Zuckerberg’s Style?
For our chief fashion critic, Vanessa Friedman, the Meta chief executive’s choice of clothes reveal, perhaps inadvertently, pieces of his psyche.
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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every Riot grrrl band in the 90s
Still from the television show Xena: Warrior Princess showing Xena, Gabrielle and Joxer all with goofy expressions on their face
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sky Fall is the new Fail Whale
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can one of those service-y websites do a story about ‘How Tim Heidecker Gets It All Done’? When does this guy sleep?
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COYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 28/09/2026
The latest fiction from @annaleen.bsky.social is a subversive adventure tale told from the perspective of a single-cell alien creature. Read an excerpt here, then go see them (Annalee, not the slime mold) read in SF Oct. 6. www.coyotemedia.org/excerpt-anna...
coyotemedia.org
Excerpt: ‘A Wall Is Also a Road’
The new novel from San Francisco sci-fi writer Annalee Newitz is a thought-provoking meditation on human nature, told from the perspective of an adventurous alien amoeba.
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I can scarcely think of another magazine I look forward to as much as @thefence.bsky.social.
Cover of The Fence issue 29
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Automatic Merritt Wever retweet.
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wanna feel old? William Holden’s character in ‘Network’ (1976) was 51 years old.
William Holden as Max Schumacher in ‘Network’
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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SF Standard headline No grades, no tests, no degree: Andreessen Horowitz launching SF academy for ‘builders’
The venture capital firm is starting a for-profit alternative to traditional college in San Francisco.Simpsons screenshot Ayn Rand School for Tots
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Gazetteer SF @sf.gazetteer.co · 22/09/2026
Max the Cat, enjoying this quarter’s print issue of Gazetteer. Yes, Max is very advanced for a cat. In fact, he sent us this photo himself
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Imagine having this guy’s job for the reason this guy has it and writing this: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | The National Book Awards Are No Longer National
The National Book Awards longlists are a study in tedious political orthodoxy.
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yes, &
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Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Kurt Cobain
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
When did GenXers become Boomers?
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Los Angeles friends! My Creative Growth Magazine co-editor (and dear friend) Kathleen Henderson has a show called Clappers opening this Saturday, Sept 26, at @track16.bsky.social from 6pm–9pm: www.track16.com/kathleen-hen...
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Kathleen Henderson: Clappers — Track 16 Gallery
Through allegory and satire, Kathleen Henderson presents a suite of drawings that confronts the intersecting realities of contemporary American life.
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Al Ross cartoon from @newyorker.com circa 1964 (left); Barry Blitt cover of The New Yorker, September 28, 2026 (right).
A 1964 New Yorker cartoon by Al Ross showing a giant mainframe computer being attacked by a mob with pitchforks and rocks.A 2026 New Yorker cover by Barry Blitt showing someone frantically pulling the plug on a server.
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Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
TIME (September 15, 1961)
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Cydney Hayes @cydhayes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Marc Benioff in the press room at Dreamforce, saying a whole lot of nothing about AI regulation: “We’re in a very fluid moment in AI… If companies feel they should slow down, they should slow down. If they feel they should speed up, they should speed up.”
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sometimes the Times feels like The New York Observer alumni magazine: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/s...
nytimes.com
How Much Steve Kornacki Is Too Much Steve Kornacki?
For the midterms, NBC News hopes to turn its khaki-wearing data analyst into a livestreaming star.
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Matt Haber @habermatt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Black and white photo of Tom Cruise nearly shirtless against a stark white background on the cover of GQBlack and white photo of Eli Cash shirtless against a stark white background on the cover The Sunday Magazine Section from The Royal Tenenbaums.
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