Gavin Edwards
@mrgavinedwards
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Author of the NYT bestseller MCU: THE REIGN OF MARVEL STUDIOS (with Joanna Robinson and Dave Gonzales). Other books too. Pronouns: he/him/his
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RIP Coolio, just 59. Many years ago, I spent a week with him for a magazine cover story (Details, March 1996). He grew up an asthmatic kid in Compton; as an adult, he was funny and sly and complicated. I hope he's riding dragons somewhere.
The opening of the article:
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For those of you who dig newsprint, my article on Prince’s ORIGINALS album is in today’s NY Times. Many many thanks to the dearly beloved
@susannahtwin
@SusannaHoffs
@jilldjones
@questlove
for taking the time to talk to me!
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Tomorrow is World Kindness Day, and I'm going to be wearing a cardigan in honor of Mister Fred Rogers, who so embodied kindness that I named my book on him KINDNESS AND WONDER. Wherever you are, won't you be my cardigan-wearing neighbor?
#CardiganDay
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I always liked Penn and Teller's advice that when a character in a movie says the movie's title, you should clap politely.
I would like every movie to contain a character saying the title of the movie they're in at least once.
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Back in November, I went to Richmond, VA, for a Magic: The Gathering tournament. The world is different now, but I wrote about that weekend and Magic and heroes, and I'm honored that the Washington Post Magazine stayed with this story for nine long months.
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Thread.
Jimmy Fallon should have Trump back on so he can lovingly jostle his teeth.
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My friend
@cnoxon
is an infuriatingly good cartoonist and has written a powerful piece about how to survive Trump.
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@juliacarriew
I wrote this unused headline for a review of Bob Dylan's Christmas album: MIRACLE ON POSITIVELY FOURTH STREET.
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A THREAD ABOUT 1988'S BIGGEST MUSIC VIDEOS
In 1988, I watched the year-end MTV countdown and videotaped the whole shebang. Some years back, I stumbled on the VHS tapes and realized they were pop-culture gold. So I started writing up each clip (even each commercial break).
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Only if I'm paid--with gargantuan amounts of moolah, or glory, or follows.
Can you write a sentence without using the letter "E"?
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@Nicole_Cliffe
I went to college with Paul Giamatti and I made sure to see every single play he was in.
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FRUIT TREE HISTORY THREAD AHOY!
I want to tell you about two plants that didn’t exist before the twentieth century: the Hass avocado and the ruby red grapefruit.
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When a how-I-wrote-that-song thread becomes an unexpected message of grace.
In 1980 I was flying home from Phoenix Arizona and I was handed a menu that said, “The white wing dove sings a song that sounds like she’s singing ooh, ooh, ooh. She makes her home here in the great Saguaro cactus that provides shelter and protection for her…”
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RIP the great Lamont Dozier (of Holland-Dozier-Holland). I wrote about his life for the NY Times.
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@emilynussbaum
Clearly we just need to sit down for an afternoon and go through the lyrics of EVERY SONG EVER.
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@grahambasten
Nirvana unplugged rehearsal late at night in a Seattle loft. Audience: 2 people (including me).
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The world doesn't change; it just gets colorized.
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@GavinVerhey
@ElaineChase
@Top8Games
@HAUMPH
@ReidDuke
@SteveSunu
@WotC_Matt
@Skybilz
If you weren't able to read this article because you had used your monthly Washington Post free articles and ran up against the paywall--hey, it's a new month now! Magic! Hong Kong! Heroism! Card-flipping drama! Elk!
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@rachsyme
When I wrote about Rome (HBO) for TV Guide, I had to discuss with my editor whether it was a spoiler to say that Julius Caesar got stabbed.
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Writing a book about Mr. Rogers changed the way I think about human interaction: I don’t always succeed, but I try to prioritize kindness. One lessons of recent years is that kindness is not sufficient in the face of large malevolent movements, but it remains necessary. 3/5
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@emilynussbaum
One of my favorite facts learned writing KINDNESS AND WONDER: Mister Rogers and Captain Kangaroo got on the phone once a year (New Year's Day) to catch up.
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RIP Ivan Reitman. Seven years ago, I had lunch with him in Toronto (at his restaurant Montecito, a beautiful Italian joint). He was gracious and funny and modest. When he brought up Stripes, he asked, "Have you seen the movie?"
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@MarjorieIngall
@alyssakeiko
@Joe_Fru
Well, given the way Steig mocked the theory of evolution, I’d say they’re two peas in an antiscientific pod.
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So proud of MCU, a new book coming your way in November, and feeling so lucky that I got to work with the extraordinary
@jowrotethis
and
@Da7e
— check out this gorgeous cover!
What did I do during the pandemic? I only co-wrote a whole entire real MARVEL STUDIOS book that exists and I’m thrilled to share with you. Cover reveal (god it’s gorgeous I can’t!!!) and some more details here courtesy of EW and the legend
@themaureenlee
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@MrPaulDuane
I feel your pain. My story that I'm bitter about years later: My brother-in-law once told me that he and some friends had voted on how best to prepare tea made with absinthe. But it didn't register with him at all when I observed that he had cast an absinthe-tea ballot.
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"Anyone who writes an autobiography is either a twat or broke. I'm a bit of both." -- Viv Albertine, opening sentence of Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys
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@AbeGoldfarb
@mattzollerseitz
My wife banned me from watching GILMORE GIRLS with her because I kept correcting Connecticut-related content. I believe her breaking point was when I said, “There’s no bench in that courtyard.”
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I’ve spent today, like every day for the past 40 years, basking in the world that MTV made. Thanks
@NinaBlackwood
@goodymade
@AlanHunterMTV
@MarthaQuinn
!
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JJ Jackson would have turned 80 years old today! He lives on in the memories of his friends
@MarthaQuinn
@AlanHunterMTV
@goodymade
@NinaBlackwood
—and all of us who spent time hanging out with him, listening to him talk about the latest videos from Loverboy and Men at Work.
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I interviewed Neil Tennant of
@petshopboys
and choreographer Javier de Frutos about the ballet they did together, THE MOST INCREDIBLE THING. As a 8-year-old boy aspiring to be a dancer, Neil checked out the library book "Teach Yourself Ballet."
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@thumbelulu
@thefarewell
Love this! Did he have a good question, or was it really more of a comment?
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@mattzollerseitz
I spoke with Melissa McCarthy about her kitchen scenes in Gilmore Girls, and she pointed out the two things she was usually doing: either chopping food or salting it (because those were two actions that were easy to reset between takes). So she was making a lot of salty hash!
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I just realized that ABBEY ROAD and THE BRADY BUNCH debuted on the same day (53 years ago today) and now I need to reconsider my understanding of the 20th century.
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I got an advance galley of MCU (the book I did with
@jowrotethis
&
@Da7e
) and took it on a field trip to
#GOTG
this morning!
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One way or another, I don’t expect to see most of you here much longer, but I hope I’ll see you somewhere else. Thank you for being good company. Before everything collapses, I want to take a moment to be sincere and plain-spoken. 1/5
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I learned a lot of that avocado ‘n’ grapefruit history from How to Invent Everything, a very entertaining pop history of technology disguised as a time-travel manual by
@ryanqnorth
– check it out!
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@IDWPublishing
@IDirkWoodPDX
And thanks to
@PeterBagge1
for his mondo cool illustration of the mighty Alan Moore!
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But also fight like hell. Do whatever you can to make this world a better place, in ways small and large. Value love and art and light, even when the world has increasing amounts of hate and violence and darkness. Especially then. 5/5
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RIP Dr John. I wrote his obituary for the New York Times.
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SWING STATE THREAD 1/x
The past couple of weeks, I’ve worked a bunch of shifts as a North Carolina poll worker. I’ve helped thousands of people cast a vote, which has been a huge balm for my soul in these parlous times.
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@joshtpm
I think the racism is casual and opportunistic (doesn't excuse it!), but that at his core he's a misogynist.
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To write BAD MOTHERFUCKER, I not only watched over 140 Samuel L. Jackson movies, I tabulated his cursing in each movie: since he's a master of the "motherfucker," it seemed important to document how he deployed it.
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@emilynussbaum
Both movies take place in the moment right before an existential threat that will destroy all parties: Nazi Germany in the original, Amazon in the remake.
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@Nicole_Cliffe
That's so great! I visited the 30 Rock set (a decade ago, yikes) and wrote a whole article about how detailed the props on the walls were (especially the fake magazine clippings).
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When I found out
@RikiRachtman
(Headbangers Ball) had moved to the Charlotte area, I knew I had to interview him:
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@smartblackboy
@mattzollerseitz
I laughed so hard at RAISING ARIZONA an elderly woman several seats over snapped at me, "Stop that horrible noise!"
#bestmovieexperiences
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BREAKING NEWS FROM MY FRONT DOORSTEP:
NEW BOOKS HAVE ARRIVED
CELEBRATION HAS COMMENCED
UPDATES TO FOLLOW
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Hey look! Tangible proof that just six years after the hardcover, VJ is finally out in paperback! Check it out
@AlanHunterMTV
@MarthaQuinn
@NinaBlackwood
@goodymade
!
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So be kind to those around you. Be a good ally to people who are under attack, especially members of groups who are getting threatened legally and physically, including women and Jewish people and trans people. 4/5
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I love this artwork by
@RobinHaART
(author of Cook Korean!): it's mysterious and just a little macabre. It's featured in THE BEAUTIFUL BOOK OF EXQUISITE CORPSES but you can own the original! Auction happening now, with
@ARCrelief
getting 100% of proceeds.
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A great Dr. John dialect thread!
1) Others longer to New Orleans will have more essential memories, but I can desitively muster one worthy tale of the legendary Dr. John from having had the opportunity to write some dialogue for him on an HBO drama some years back. And to be clear....
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I had an excellent time doing the MCU panel at
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-- thanks to
@misterpatches
for being such a great moderator! Amazingly, although we spent many months making a book together, this photo captures the first time
@jowrotethis
@Da7e
and I have ever been in the same place!
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Just making an early morning stop at Fox 46 to talk about Mister Rogers and KINDNESS AND WONDER!
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I am stoked, I am pumped, I am chuffed!
@PublishersWkly
has given BAD MOTHERFUCKER its first review and it's a starred review that calls it "a rollicking, expletive-filled look at the life and career of 'The King of Cool.'” !!
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@TriciaLockwood
I feel like there might be a word missing from this tweet, but I enjoy it either way.
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Celebrating
#WorldKindnessDay
&
#CardiganDay
with my friend and spiritual neighbor Mister Rogers!
#KindnessAndWonder
(I’m eager to see your cardigan photos (if you’re wearing one) and happy that kindness is on your mind today, at least right now.)
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I went to
@ParkRoadBooks
and bought I LIKE TO WATCH by
@emilynussbaum
and the next guy in line was a former coworker of hers (at a real estate firm in Atlanta). Moral of the story: buy her book at an indie bookstore and MAGIC HAPPENS.
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Tomorrow! Me and
@phillamarr
talking about BAD MOTHERFUCKER and the mighty Samuel L. Jackson!
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Annie and smoking David are brilliant, of course, but my favorite part of this video clip is George Michael watching the rehearsal on the sidelines, singing along.
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@alex_segura
I got this issue trick-or-treating! It blew my little mind (Dr. Strange! Dante's Inferno!) and turned me on to the X-Men and comics in general. So... thanks, generous neighbor. Since it kicked off decades of comics love, this was a way better treat than full-sized candy bars.
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Vaccinated, masked, and ready to rock at the
@phoebe_bridgers
show in Charlotte! My first full-tilt concert in 18 months!
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Skip your Black Friday shopping--this list is the only gift anyone needs.
A true labor of love: The 200 Best Songs of the 1980s. My massive
@RollingStone
tour of the Eighties’ coolest hits, classics, deep cuts, cult faves. But only one song per artist, or half the list would be Prince. And yes, damn right there’s Kajagoogoo.
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@emilynussbaum
All I know is that Angelica was part of a plot to free Lafayette when he was imprisoned after the French Revolution. (True!)
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I wrote about the raucous, glorious life of the late Kim Shattuck.
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I cheered loudly when
@gregpak
got thanked in the credits of Thor: Ragnarok, to the bewilderment of a crowd waiting for one last scene.
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So this happened today.
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Thanks to author
@chuckwendig
and narrator
@xesands
for the audiobook of INVASIVE, which made the miles fly by on a road trip from North Carolina to Pennsylvania (and back)--as a bonus, it provoked a few fearful spasms that there were ants in the car with me.
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A THREAD ON FORGOTTEN (MAYBE RIGHTFULLY SO) ART
Back in 1995 (or thereabouts), I made a thing. Was it a mixtape? An audio art project? An interstitial supercut? Banter-o-rama?
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Hello North Carolina! I will be at
@IPH_clt
in Charlotte on Sunday (1 to 3 pm) for a signing of the instant bestseller MCU: THE REIGN OF MARVEL STUDIOS (by
@jowrotethis
@da7e
& me), plus Q&A with Rodney Stringfellow, plus surprise screening! RSVP at link!
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Today is August 1st, which means that it's 38 years since MTV went on the air, playing 24/7 music videos, interspersed with visits with the original five VJs:
@NinaBlackwood
@goodymade
@AlanHunterMTV
@MarthaQuinn
and the late great J.J. Jackson.
Celebrate!
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BAD MOTHERFUCKER, my book about Samuel L. Jackson published by
@HachetteBooks
, isn't out for 11 more days, but courtesy of
@pomeranian99
here's an advance look at the introduction and the first two chapters—or at least the punctuation.
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I wrote an article for the NYT about the new album of Prince’s demos for songs he gave away to other artists. U’ll want 2 read it.
Prince’s songs were like children, and he was consumed with finding the right homes for them: “He was the ultimate social worker,” Susannah Melvoin said.
@mrgavinedwards
:
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My article on daily newspaper cartoonists reckoning with the pandemic is in today’s NY Times—and it’s teased with
@tonycarrillo
art on the front page!
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The Coolio/Pern tweet went viral, which tells me that people need more Coolio right now, so I put the entire 1996 article up on my website at
(I also corrected the spelling of Weyrs--thanks to those who pointed it out!)
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River Phoenix died thirty years ago today. If he were alive, he'd be 53 now. Tonight watch Dogfight or My Own Private Idaho or Stand by Me and think about what might have been, and who he might have been.
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@JaneEspenson
Not only is Samuel L. Jackson a fan of Buffy, his favorite role ever was the sidekick in the Buffy-esque movie The Long Kiss Goodnight (premise: a young woman in a small town discovers she has combat-oriented powers she never imagined), meaning that he basically played Xander!
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A forgotten art: picking the right five discs to blend well on shuffle play on a 5-CD player.
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When you have a teenage kid who listens obsessively to
@TheBigPic
it's a special day when he gets name-checked on the show.
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Some
#BadMotherfucker
reading for your weekend: an excerpt from the book on
@lithub
about Samuel L. Jackson's time at
#Morehouse
College--and the political activism that got him thrown out!
@HachetteBooks
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@scalzi
I met somebody who bought the house next door primarily as a place to put his boardgame collection.
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