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Senior Editor at Paste. Travel, games, comedy, music, theme parks, wrestling, and more.

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@grmartin
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Who should be the next James Bond?
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HBO’s best show about three unserious children desperate to take over their father’s company is back on June 18
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Hannibal Buress hangs out with Gooigi
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proof that anybody who tries long enough will eventually come up with a good joke
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Mariska Hargitay at the launch of the GameCube, 11/17/2001.
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I love this ad. No links, no band names, no concert info at all, and nothing about it whatsoever in the account’s profile or the two previous tweets it’s sent.
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@grmartin
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this page from Kavanaugh's calendar looks like the cover to a seven-inch by some Pavement wannabe band called Beach Week
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RIP. 25 years ago today.
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they picked the wrong person to host Wheel of Fortune after Sajak
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5 years
put Night Court on Netflix so the kids will inexplicably love that instead of Friends
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@grmartin
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6 years
I can't even remember a time before this farm game dominated the national conversation
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@grmartin
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9 months
comics were better when they had new york guys saying stuff like “da wife ain’t gonna believe dis!”
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@grmartin
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4 years
if HBO Max is gonna steal all of Comedy Central's good shows they should probably go ahead and commission like five more seasons of Detroiters too
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2 years
the Aussie Open guy with a mustache has a Pixar mom ass
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4 years
in addition to the other observations about why a "live-action" Bambi won't work: it's pretty much plot-free. it's a series of vignettes about growing up. it's basically Boyhood with a deer, and not something with the epic sweep of the other Disney remakes that have done well.
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Mark Kern is a lazy grifter trying to profit off of hate because he hasn’t made a profitable game in decades, and if this site was still managed responsibly he would still be banned here.
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@grmartin
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3 years
I like that AEW has no problem giving a solid chunk of TV time to untranslated Spanish promos
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@grmartin
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6 years
if Trump ever badmouthed the k-pop band BTS on twitter he would probably retire from public life after the incredibly angry response
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games kneecapped themselves so hard when they marketed “gamer” as a lifestyle and identity.
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@xoxogossipgita stranger things would be better if it was just freaks and geeks
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@grmartin
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7 years
Meryl Streep has contempt for MMA because she knows pro wrestling is the one true art
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3 years
for what it's worth, I was told by people who work with people who work at Mercedez Benz Stadium that initially Kanye and his crew were sleeping in the laundry room there
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@grmartin
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10 months
let's celebrate Disney's 100th anniversary by ignoring the first 70 years
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Disney is re-releasing eight classic films at select theaters July - October as part of its #Disney100 celebration. Films and dates:
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kpop fans A. are SUPER polite (for real) and B. REALLY want to tell old indie rock fans about their favorite band BTS
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@grmartin
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7 years
real billboard as photographed by my brother @cmartin68
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1 year
Bruce Springsteen is a 73 year old man who gets paid obscene amounts of money to act like a total cornball with his lifelong buddies, and if that isn’t the best life possible I don’t know what could be
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6 years
there are still people who think that Cody Rhodes is bad at his job
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damn. RIP Judy Tenuta.
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8 months
@ItsDanSheehan what is happening with Geg’s nipples
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3 years
what's the worst band you've ever seen live but isn't Weezer
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@JacobOller but they didn't have to license '80s songs or D&D characters
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1 year
there are at least a thousand single TV shows with better opening credits than Ted Lasso
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Is there a single TV show with better opening credits than Ted Lasso? 🥹
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one reason Red Dead is taken more seriously by critics than GTA is because the late western setting makes Rockstar’s nihilism seem poetic instead of cynical
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5 years
Jeffrey Epstein's "little black book" has an entry for a "Boby Kotic" with an Activision email address. Find the scans in this 2015 Gawker piece:
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they haven’t answered a Sports & Leisure question yet
@TheSotaSwede
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I absolutely need to know the story of this pizza shaped suburb development in Florida, like why is a slice missing.
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@grmartin
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Weird Al
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Vinyl Pilot Truths
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With Stephen Sondheim and Jean-Luc Godard both gone, who is even left that is a titan of their artform?
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this thing where games just go away forever and can't be played anymore isn't good
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1 year
@jbouie a lot of cultural literacy has been lost by cartoons no longer referencing stuff from grandpa days
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6 years
so when people talk about some band called BTS they don’t mean Built to Spill?
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who doesn’t remember Charlie Brown’s famous line
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2 years
what good movie has spawned the largest number of terrible sequels? Jurassic Park has to be in the conversation.
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@grmartin
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7 years
here is a photo of my wife taking a photo of Sidney Crosby, who she would leave me for in an instant
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3 years
they should put Tim Robinson in the new Skate game
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6 years
and for fans of BTS and kpop who aren’t familiar with Built to Spill, here’s a good song from 20+ years ago
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1 year
an hour ago I opened Twitter to post about the media industry dying and how bleak it must look to graduates and interns (to say nothing of everybody already in the business)… and then I saw the Waypoint news. this is not a viable career and everybody needs an escape plan.
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1 year
@jakelyonsmusic as a grown adult, why are you paying for twitter
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2 years
RIP Gorbachev. it's sad to see another iconic character from the Taxi pinball game pass away. at least Pinbot, Dracula, and Santa Claus are still with us.
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6 years
I met Jim Davis once. he was in a golf cart. I asked him to draw Orson from US Acres and he just drew Garfield instead.
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@Chef_Lu_Bu I know nothing about anime and yet I perfectly understand this character now. thank you.
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1 year
it would be cool to have a job where the biggest conversation for two months straight hasn’t been about a soulless game based on 25 year old kids books
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@grmartin
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4 years
These men didn’t have a healthy work-life balance. These men were exploited by a system that didn’t care about them and that contributed heavily to their early deaths. Also at least one of these men is a murderer?
@80sWrestling_
80's Wrestling
4 years
These men didn’t play video games. These men didn’t post selfies on social media. These men didn’t care about star ratings for their matches by dorks. These men put ASSES IN SEATS and entertained us 350 days a year- twice on Sunday!
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6 years
the only time the person I vote for down here wins is when it’s a primary. hopefully when I vote for Lucy McBath again in the general in November she breaks that streak and wins that race too.
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1 year
@KarinaLongworth I believe it’s gotten newfound respect in animation circles but Treasure Planet deserves a wider reclamation
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WKCR should refuse the Pulitzer they should win for this
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6 years
needs to be said every so often
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@toonhound BJ is Tom. Baby Billy is Uncle Ewan.
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@sundownmotel most Americans probably don’t believe half the animals from Australia are real
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I know everybody’s gotta learn about something somehow but first hearing about Linda Ronstadt from the zombie game show makes me feel a billion years old
@PasteMagazine
Paste Magazine
1 year
That beautiful 'Last of Us' episode introduced a lot of new people to Linda Ronstadt. Go deeper with our list of the 15 Best Linda Ronstadt songs (featuring 'Long Long Time' at #2 ):
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@NILES100 the entire cast of Cheers except Diane and Frasier (ironic, given Grammer’s real beliefs)
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6 years
Kurt Cobain would've been really embarrassing on Twitter
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7 years
somehow need to avoid all media indefinitely while still working in the media
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5 years
I watched that new Netflix show The Society in like three days over a month ago. it is dumb and trashy and bad and I would watch four more seasons of it tomorrow.
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I've watched five episodes of an upcoming Netflix show that's like Riverdale, Lost and Lord of the Flies thrown in a blender and I have no idea if I actually enjoyed any of it
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6 years
how does anybody ever stay awake
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4 years
this is never going to get old
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who do you think will win the Goldberg / Undertaker match at WWE’s Saudi propaganda show
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6 years
if you get invited onto a WWE conference call and don’t ask about Saudi Arabia’s executions and assassination squad you shouldn’t call yourself a journalist
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5 years
I don't like tweeting about this, but Hawkeye is a very good character in the comics and it's a shame Jeremy Renner's unlikable nature in real life has impacted how the movie version is viewed.
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@grmartin
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I used to leave messages on the show’s voice mail all the time. Figured out how to use the Turner phone system to transfer to other voice mails and would leave messages for Tony Schiavone and Eric Bischoff too.
@adultswim
adult swim
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We made this in a closet and flung it on television thirty years ago today. Learned some Spanish and defeated the Bee Gees. The Space Ghost Coast to Coast livestream is up now #spaceghost #sgctc #anniversary
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Kern escalating his bullshit because he knows "gamergate 2" is a total failure
@MagitekDad
John Phipps: Big Hairy Burly Muscle Guy
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Ah so we've reached the "you know what I changed my mind, go ahead and harass people over video games" stage. This is pretty blatant. Eventually this dude is gonna get someone hurt or worse, mark my word.
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the Dow dropped 400 points after Eddie Van Halen died
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7 years
my first check for writing (it was for a record review) was for $5
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more reason to not write about it. use your time and space to write about games that don't have massive marketing budgets and aren't getting the attention they deserve.
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first shot of Stranger Things season 2 is the Atlanta skyline with the word PITTSBURGH underneath it
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@nakedfoul A24s aren't that rare in music. they are in film, which is why people are insane about 'em.
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4 years
Baby Yoda is Q
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how long has Arn Anderson been living in Cody’s backyard without him even knowing
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I didn't review Red Dead 2 because this tweet pretty much summed up how I felt about it
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one reason Red Dead is taken more seriously by critics than GTA is because the late western setting makes Rockstar’s nihilism seem poetic instead of cynical
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do food journalists get press releases with headlines like "if Arby's and Olive Garden had a baby it would tase like this"
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imagine thinking AEW should’ve sided with Punk over The Elite. obviously the best result would’ve been them all working together but failing that losing The Elite would’ve gutted the company all for a guy who can’t stay healthy.
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how are you supposed to handle a job and emotions at the same time
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two kinds of people are "angry" about Sweet Baby: bad faith far right activist assholes who will resolutely deny the truth and not stop until they get their way or move on to another target, and the gullible or uninformed people they mislead.
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I spoke to the team at Sweet Baby and infiltrated the Discord group rallying against them to try and paint a clearer picture of WTF is going on.
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5 years
at some point a marketing guy was like "I love this photo but why are they dressed like nerds"
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4 years
just over 12 hours left to get the most ridiculous deal ever, while also donating for racial justice
@itchio
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We reached out to our community and an unprecedented number of creators donated over 740 projects to be part of what we believe is the largest bundle ever. The Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality is now available #BlackLivesMatter
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I don't know who to credit for this image and I feel bad about that http://t.co/SPStqoMTWT
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uh Disney’s just straight up doing a commercial for one of their upcoming movies during the Oscars that are happening in their theater and airing on their network
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here's @winnersusedrugs on Horizon Zero Dawn and Joss Whedon and "strong woman characters"
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“We fined Lars for writing racist, stereotypical things. Now here are three luchadors with piñatas for him to kill.”
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it's cute how videogame people have somehow made fantasy baseball even nerdier
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4 years
yes flags
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6 years
Jack Kirby would personally beat the shit out of every comicsgater
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4 years
the answer to everybody asking why Disney World is reopening this weekend is because "Florida is letting them and all their theme park competitors opened weeks ago." you shouldn't write about Disney reopening without acknowledging that Universal, Sea World, etc. reopened in June.
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somehow this collection of words is sincere and not a joke
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as a kid in the suburbs who only made it to the cool record stores in the city every few months, Best Buy was pretty amazing at first. much deeper selection of CDs than most chains and sold them super cheap as loss leaders. no CD was more than $11.99 their first few years.
@Sultan0fSleaze
𝔸𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕟 𝕃𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕤 𝕊𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕫𝕖 🫦🔪
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End of an era.
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@critlcal_event nobody making movies or tv shows gets the modern south better than those guys
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1 year
still absurd that ian went from bottom tier game site editor to mid tier twitter goebbels. his “success” just underscores the utter incompetence of everybody who fails at the far right grift—the brad shepards of the world.
@joshtpm
Josh Marshall
1 year
Endless now. Here he is again, with altright weirdo Cheong. Cheong tweets a "breaking" news story which is a write up of the latest stuff andy ngo is saying. It claims plans to commit arson attacks against tesla
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the smoke has hit Chicago
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