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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

lost my mind when my 7yo daughter was like "is Bob Uecker a real person, dada?"

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Now the it's the future, I need to admit this was all a temporal pincer maneuver designed to get you to watch YouTube before bed.

Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I know you said know gambling talk but hear me out … you guess what you think THEY’LL guess the lines are

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Okay, calling it now. @pablo.show is gonna find Albert Pujols’ birth certificate by the end of next week

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Every Antrim book is perfect: a 200-page narrative in the general shape a Henry Green novel-of-manners about a self-loathing man who really, really needs a hug. I am grateful for the ones we have; if he wrote one a year I would devour them like they're the Slough House books

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New Donald Antrim has a date, a title and a cover, let's fucking GO www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/752470...

McMahon meme reacting to descriptions of Donald Antrim's forthcoming "My Eliot" ... in order:

1. "Lost in the house he grew up in, haunted by the ghost of his younger sister and his strange, cruel parents, and with the love of his life, Paula, zipping around town in a sportscar"

2. the words "our narrator Donald Antrim" highlighted

3. the words "Instead of writing his book, Donald spends his time with the technicolor trees, talking to a possum named Tom, pursuing the phantom of a little boy, and trying to win back his beloved Paula."

4. "Pages: 224"

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sorry not reading a description of someone grinding to max attributes in a video game that doesn't exist, I can do that myself in any video game that does exist

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when the dude started describing the heads-up display that "appeared" in his field of vision I bailed hard

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we live in a twilight world man, I don't make the rules

The Social Network score had a damn stranglehold on late-night writing sessions for a decade, but there's a new girl in town since 2020 and she never disappoints

TENET original motion picture soundtrack, the greatest music for writing when you're up late

Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Everyone I’ve met in Jackson Hole is a

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Just watched my wife read her entire bibliography across the last year or so, every time she said the same. “Best novel ever written”

Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

that's what we like to call the Phish show special

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I'll do albums, even — Exile on Main Street; Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain; Maggot Brain

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

to me the irony is that if you have this much cynicism whereby you view voters as this easily manipulable bloc of dummies, then what is the difference between you and a median republican other than you not having a successful strategy to win elections

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

2400 words? are you sure you don’t want 80,000?!?

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Selling stuff on Facebook and observing some high school acquaintances having an extremely normal time

A Facebook post by Brian Sauve being shared (sharing user blocked out) that reads: "There is no question:
If what we’re seeing reported about Fauci true, he must be swiftly executed after a fair trial.
He is willfully complicit in mass murderer. See less"

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

would love to chat w/ you about something I'm writing (about type)! DM me!

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Hi hi do you want to talk to me for something I'm writing about Monotype and subscriptions?

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I hate cinemasins culture, but I just LOVE thinking about how the regular world would react if an armed man in bane's getup stormed the stock exchange and did a bunch of computer stuff, and the next day a billionaire was bankrupt. we're gonna ... we're letting that transaction he made stick?

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The most soul-affirming, earnest communication attempts on the entire internet: boomers posting comments on YouTube clips of classic rock concerts. The most depraved: Facebook comments on news posts about bicycle safety

responses on a YouTube video: "Van Morrison - Cyprus Avenue - 9/23/1970 - Fillmore East, New York, NY (OFFICIAL)"

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

There was a Charlie Rose interview with Richard Ford where he asked him, right outta the gate, "is it true your father died in your arms?!?!" and Ford just pauses and goes "well ... yes!" and I can't find the clip but the delivery was exactly like ... where the hell else was he supposed to die?

Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I guess it's not niche, this is just a Larry David style Stance Where I'm Right

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I should be allowed to take your phone away from you and throw it into traffic/on the subway tracks/out the window/in the ocean if you're playing a loud YouTube video without headphones (or similar FaceTime-ish behavior) in an even remotely crowded public place

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

They will during the new year’s run!

Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

lotta places you could take it with just Aussies: one of the lesser hemsworths, the guy who played the Mentalist, dude who played Faramir, Jai Courtney, Ben Mendelsohn doing a whole thing

Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Not the answer youre seeking but making risotto with that kinda tomato water is also great

Another thing like this that sends a shiver down my spine is calling babies "delicious"

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Glad you survived! There are still great ebikes being made and if you left the Rad ecosystem, well, now you don't have to worry over your battery someday exploding.

Rad Power Bikes Was an E-Bike Unicorn. Then Everything Blew Up

Wrote about failed ebike startup Rad Power Bikes for @inc.com As I was fussing with pitching this story, the company filed for bankruptcy and then a warehouse of its bikes caught on fire. Ever have a metaphor just ... land in your lap?

inc.com

The startup had everything: ambition, market share, a $1.65 billion valuation, diehard fans, and the wind at its back. Is that what killed it?

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The shift from Zimmer/Lee Smith to Lame/Goransson is so exceptional. The (perfect) first hour of Tenet really set the tone for Oppenheimer and Odyssey. Lame understood that the first act of Batman Begins and the last act of Inception can exist in the same movie and run throughout.

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Nolan's movies are very intentionally made, no less intentionally than Lynch or Bresson or whoever. Creating tiers of "populist" film or dumb-guy cinema diminishes all of it. Or even go listen to, like, Shawn Levy talk camera lenses and scores. He's not a *good* artist imo, but he's ALSO an artist.

Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Additionally, the craft, meaning the spectacle, the scale, the bombast is also artistic. Do so something like make that movie is to be an artist. Hundreds of artists working on that thing every day, in fact.

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From the sounds of my friends there the playing was real good and obviously the setlist is fire, but I just can't get over sleeveless Trey. Silliness all the way down with the world's greatest band.

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Matt Alston @mcribsisback.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

my experience at a vanilla movie theater was GREAT, but even so, find a friend who has seen it who would take your call on the drive home and set up a little movie chat phone date!