mikebarthel.bsky.social
Writer, critic, researcher. Fiction in a bunch of places. Writing a speculative novel and a book for DUP “Singles” about “Party in the USA.” Ex-Pew, Awl, blogs. mikebarthelauthor.com
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Definitely feels Jar-Jar adjacent!
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Oh right it was this one! bsky.app/profile/mike...
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Ooh what is the reference here? I’m mainly familiar from lit, where folks seem happy to refer to themselves / their fav genres as cozy, and the anti-cozy case is a very “folk music is bad because it has too many singer-songwriters!” sort of argument.
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If you ever need to capture me you can just put out a wooden crate with a stick holding up one side and a goofy-looking electronic instrument that makes weird noises underneath.
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This is very nice and I think you’re right!
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I think he would love to have just voted for Russell Crowe. (I know he also loved The Nice Guys.)
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Cump marched his way through a Georgia marsh
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And here’s my dad’s, in case you couldn’t tell.
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In THIS economy??
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Ring the Alarm! Thad’s very exciting.
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God I’m so old I’m searching TikTok on desktop. Anyway, using this much better metric it’s maybe “Texas Hold ‘Em,” but “Crazy in Love” is number two.
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Yeah, I think mainly I’m curious if younger listeners have pushed something from the self-titled or later into the top spot. Based on this lazy TikTok search it looks like maybe “Haunted”?
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I found out “Irreplaceable” was a good song via a bunch of teens running around a subway station and signing “to the left, to the left!” over and over.
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I did this with “Kickstart My Heart” in 3rd grade!
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I feel like “Single Ladies” has faded recently, though I don’t know why!
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It’s chilling!
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Pretend that sentence was written correctly
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(Sorry if someone else has made this joke already)
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(Think I’m gonna pitch a short book about the series, suicide, and epistemology.)
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It’s very distinctive!
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Oh yeah. Baffling name.
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Ha, it really would!
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He’s a real piece of work!
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Oof, yeah.
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“When trying to impress someone with your taste in indie movies goes wrong”