Went to a really lovely dinner last night arranged by a friend to introduce a bunch of people she knows and works with in creative industries and wowed my dining companions by pulling a pen and reporter’s notebook out of my purse just to prove I actually had that analog shit on me

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I actually kind of liked the one in Newport because you could sit down there but I have been told that is no longer the case. I wrote a newsletter awhile back about how crazy it was that before it blew up this place was @chaykak.bsky.social's specific example in Filterworld of where not to go.

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Have to realize the Internet is morphing into late 70s cable systems. Youtube with local commercials and podcast "shows" hawking national brand sponsors. Totally understandable as bills have to be paid.

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also between Oscar winner Amy Madigan in WEAPONS and Inde Navarrette in OBSESSION and Chiwetel Ejiofor in BACKROOMS I did not expect lo-fi horror to be the primary outlet for boundary pushing bravura acting performances in the 2020s but here we are

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OBSESSION and BACKROOMS are a fascinating cultural-moment double-feature: the former a very well-crafted and smart example of a familiar and successful formula and the latter a weird new rough beast slouching to the cinema to be born

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