Teddy (T.M.) Brown
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ok so! this is the most meaningful piece of writing and journalism of my career:
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@_ryanruby_
@Tyler_A_Harper
I think British journalists are mostly driven by spite so when he didn’t answer the direct question, Piers got angry and the switch got set to the “On” position.
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I think the collapse of media and everyone’s pivot to blogs and newsletters has only underlined how vital good editors are. Good editors are harder to find than good writers honestly.
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i spent months talking to people who has lived through the AIDS crisis about their memories of dancefloors and dance partners, and i shared a lot of tears with men and women who are now in their 60s and 70s talking about loved ones who just disappeared.
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the architect Scott Bromley (Studio 54) kept a notebook of people he lost starting in 1981 and the names kept building like an avalanche. it is the stuff of unfathomable tragedy. love becoming death, the whole country turning its back on you.
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@douglasmack
@Mobute
god isn’t the next part of this story when he flung an entire deck at a wine bottle and the guy’s card was curled up in the bottle’s neck? Gives me chills.
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but through all that there was joy. you had to find an escape. and for so many that came in the form of dancing until dawn. that's what these tapes represent, the sound of defiance in the face of catastrophe.
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@willystaley
@willyblackmore
Probably tangentially related but the woman saying “Japanese culture is just a settler colonial coded appropriation of Chinese culture” should count in this column as well.
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alright i wrote about
#CoyoteVsAcme
for
@NYTmag
and wondered why the hell we all need to know about international licensing deals and corporate tax law just to watch a movie
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For my first piece with the
@newyorker
I went to Frankfurt and Detroit to visit two very different techno museums, and tell a larger story about music, cultural inheritance, and community
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i'm speaking solely as a freelancer who does not want a staff job, but it feels like the spigot for assignments has been slowly shutting the last 8 weeks as the wider media landscape gets grimmer. it feels... different this time? like real (bad) structural shifts are happening
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also, he's not a twitter guy but Joe D'Espinosa's tireless work in remastering tapes that were often of questionable quality is central to this story. there is a tape in here for everybody, it's a truly incredible project
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@bettinamak
honestly the weirdest thing about this (and maybe all of the money diaries?) is how utterly devoid of joy it is
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over the last couple weeks, i've heard from more than a few really accomplished freelancers that they're done with the industry. editors are spread too thin, budgets have been whittled down to nothing. these are well-known writers. it makes me really anxious.
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Grab a copy of
@NYTmag
today so you can read some words I wrote about
@ThrowingFits
@SartoriallyInc
@Dr_TacoMD
@trufelman
and
@dieworkwear
and how they’re all changing the conversations guys are having about clothes for the better.
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It’s funny to think this is controversial, but editors should feel obligated to respond to every pitch even if it’s a curt “no thanks.” It’s a writer’s responsibility to take no for an answer, or understand the difference of a “no” and a “no but here’s a crack in the door.”
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Please someone let me write an essay about how cultural algorithms are no different than payola was for music or interior design magazines were for furniture. You think everyone had their own unique style and music taste in the 70s?!
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@Evanryt
ooooof this is where you say "my vocal chords aren't cooperating" and pull the plug on the tour. IIRC the same thing happened with SZA when she was playing <1000 cap venues after Ctrl blew up. a good team knows to err on the side of a spot that will guarantee a sellout show.
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@EoinHiggins_
this has to be in Huntington Beach. there’s no other locale that has this level of chaos energy.
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@PotCzach
@TheStalwart
You’re allowed to look at the sun. More and more people are saying it.
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@rebexxxxa
i finally read it and am a little disappointed it didn't go into the genesis of all these anxieties and instead tried to make me feel sympathetic to the woman who has a kindergarten consultant!
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Hungover and very emotional at seeing this, it’s really wonderful.
Tonight at Columbia Jewish students led a full Shabbat service at the Gaza solidarity encampment. Minutes later Muslim students had their evening prayer service. All surrounded by love.
Please do let the world know: there are ways to live that aren’t being a paranoid bigot.
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and i didn't even know they had twitter accounts but the absolute DREAM TEAM of
@susancb
@PhaedraBrown2
@gianordoli
and number 1 Mariners fan
@moscowdubai
thank you all SO MUCH
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hello from the front page of the New Yorker culture vertical
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@parismarx
that would at least make the car an interesting aesthetic exercise, but I truly believe he designed this like a high school kid doodling in his notebook.
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I wrote about the Chinese restaurant that gets name checked by Kendrick in a song and then Drake films a music video in it and these are two grown men fighting about who knows what.
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Oh man [holds breath] I wrote about the current (very good) state of menswear discourse for
@NYTmag
and got to talk about
@Dr_TacoMD
@SartoriallyInc
@trufelman
@dieworkwear
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A lot of popular writing (on newsletters/blogs especially) is… some of it is straight up bad but most of it just seems like it could have used an editor who can ask questions and poke holes.
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@Tyler_A_Harper
I agree with your thesis but this quote doesn’t consider density which seems weird. Of course there are more Trump voters in LA or NYC than rural counties; more people live in my neighborhood than the CO town my dad grew up in.
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Ok shout out fashion god
@trufelman
for highlighting the incredible work of Clair Gunther. I love my new hand painted
@drakes_diary
jacket so much I could cry
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@jeremypgordon
Jann unabashedly loves that rock became a highly commercial/capilastic exercise, he has a house in the west village, gets to say he’s friends with all these famous people, etc. But yeah that part stuck out to me too, dude loves being a rich guy with Bruce on speed dial.
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this has been out for like 10 days now and no one has yelled at me about it which i consider a massive accomplishment!!!
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This apartment listing on Vanderbilt in Fort Greene is using a stock photo of... Dimes Square as a selling point lol
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i know it's all engagement farming (it's right there in the name!), but i really wish that any of these essays were, like, good.
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But because everything has been hollowed out, there’s this feeling that the current blogosphere is more serious than its predecessors. Defector and Hellgate are notable exceptions here, but that’s also because they’re staffed by actual editors and journalists.
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@RaxKingIsDead
@SilvermanJacob
What is that long ass phone looks like he’s talking into a universal remote
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@blanketboat
@tomfriedman
@nytimes
This feels like an ironic conclusion to the joke about how only op ed columnists needed to be scars of ChatGPT because of how inane the tool is. I never expected they’d just start using it themselves!
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hey folks, i'm
#hiring
for a senior editor/writer at
@codewordagency
6+ YOE, $95K-$105K. Remote is cool.
Please only apply if you've had brand/tech experience. A combo of that and journalism is great, but we're indexing on commercial work. cc
@WritersofColor
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@_pem_pem
i found her an incredibly liberated figure. like do I suggest getting back at your husband by having your trainer’s baby? Idk, but it’s sure better than being a victim your entire life. Daphne is the protagonist of her own life, not a passive observer.
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@michaelbarthel
@theseantcollins
I mean
@DefectorMedia
and
@HellGateNY
are proof that audiences will pay for specific writers and beats—and it can be sustainable if you aren’t blindly chasing growth.
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and last thing! this piece wouldn't have happened without the incredible books by
@timlawrenceinfo
and
@WilliamHermes
they have forgotten more about the NYC club scene than i could ever hope to learn and i owe them both a debt.
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This combination of earnestness and disingenuousness is making my head spin.
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@Passionweiss
The relationship between Vin and Jackie was so deeply special. This wasn’t some PR, bare minimum shit, they went on vacation together, their wives were dear friends. Vin was the realest, RIP to the GOAT.
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I am stunned by the layout of my
@nytrealestate
story. When
@kitastew
asked if I wanted a preview or wait for the surprise on Sunday, I said I’d wait and I’m so, so glad I did
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What does “what if we dressed like 9/11 never happened?” even mean? I know we’re all trying to get zingers off but you have to at least create a narrative vector for that criticism to ride on.
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🎾 personal essay alert 🎾
Last year I had an emotional breakdown. Tennis brought me back.
@barry
let me write about it for
@DefectorMedia
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i listened to all of three notes of this and immediately bought the record
"The Journey" – new single from
@TomSkinner__
's forthcoming LP 'Voices of Bishara' – performed live at St Luke's Church in West Holloway, London, filmed by Child – watch the full video here:
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Reviewed
@tromano
’s wonderful oral history of the Village Voice. It’s the single most influential paper in my life so I got kinda personal here! Gratitude to
@paulxt
as always for the edits.
"The book is a triumph of organization and narrative by Romano, who somehow turned 200 interviews with a bunch of ornery kooks into a meditation on community, media, and advocacy."
@TM_Brown
reviews Tricia Romano’s "The Freaks Came Out to Write."
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@intothecrevasse
the most annoying aspect of this argument is that it treats art like a one-way street when it’s about the constant conversation between art, artist, surroundings, audiences, etc. These are people who think ChatGPT is actually talking to them.
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well damn. we won an award for this incredible story.
Congratulations to T.M. Brown, Michael Beswetherick, Phaedra Brown, Gabriel Gianordoli, Susan C. Beachy, and Tony Cenicola for "Hidden in a Fire Island House, the Soundtrack of Love and Loss," the winners of our Excellence in Multimedia Award!
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i am *not* a high wattage freelancer so maybe it's just this odd middle i inhabit but that seems to be the feeling among a lot of people i talk to. it feels like things may be sort of "over" for lack of a better term.
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The ex-skater/current-creative director Brooklyn dad is perhaps the most annoying micro-demographic to me personally.
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Two dudes got into a fight at the bar last night during the Knicks game and one guy broke a bottle against a table to use as a weapon as if we were in the old west.
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@maggieserota
Marx wrote about how much he hated international bonds between people based on their humanity it’s true.
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my tiny following: Here's what I got up to this year starting with what is easily the highlight of my writing career
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i swear, sometimes i click through to one of the Dimes Square-ass online culture magazines and I am astounded at how bad the writing is.
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@davidehrlich
David im too lazy to look up whether you liked it or not but did you like White Noise?
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Peninsula comes from a portmanteau of the Latin words paene (almost) and insula (island).
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@lib_crusher
Grizzly Bear being the center of the music universe for a couple years is a crazy thing to explain to people.
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@PatBlanchfield
i'm confused as to why he thinks "only caring about their own business" isn't a political and economic decision
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it's hard to describe how BIG the iraq war protests felt as a teenager and then, very soon after, how completely inconsequential to anyone in power they were.
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I reviewed
@chaykak
’s new book FILTERWORLD for the
@LAReviewofBooks
. Come for the clear eyed explanation of algorithmic recommendation engines, stay for the stray that Jeff Koons catches.
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so the NYT is shuttering its sports desk and rolling everything into the Athletic — which just laid off a ton of their staffers. Seems great!
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@_ryanruby_
I always thought of the 9/11 museum as a perfect artifact dedicated to a demographic that experienced those acts as an ahistorical abstraction, an event happening in a political vacuum ostensibly without explanation.
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@Passionweiss
I remember him telling this story (he told it probably half a dozen times since I was a kid) and it’s incredible considering the era during all this shit was happening
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honestly
@hunteryharris
doing a Succession rewatch has me wanting to write about what going through old Vanderpump seasons is doing to my brain
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There are exceptions, obviously. And yes we’re all busy. But there’s also a need for mutual respect of effort even if that’s a form email with half a sentence in it.
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Wrote about shorts 🩳 and why so many guys obsess over inseams for the
@nytimes
today. Here’s why that matters 🧵
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People don’t write “lol” after everything because of some fear of conflict, it’s because the constant hum of detached and decontextualized text-based communication has made it impossible to intuit the tone or emotion of a message.
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