Why did they buy this from Ricky Gervais if this is what they thought of it?
Andy Beckerman
@andybeckerman.bsky.social
I host the Beginnings & Couples Therapy podcasts. TV writer. Former philosophy professor. Casiopop king. Figuring out dystopia.
It says something about the American political consciousness that a movie about the government controlling your body and surveilling the chemicals your brain produces ends in a flirty romcom and not a basket full of decapitated heads.
me: the simpsons have four fingers on each hand so you’d think they’d live in a base 8 society but as far as I can tell there’s no evidence of that in the show my wife: *screaming during labor* the obgyn: hold on i want to hear more about this
Well, gotta say this whole experiment where we let babbling sadists direct the course of humanity for a couple thousand years… not really going the direction we had all hoped
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings... Great talk w/Chad Matheny AKA @emperorx.bsky.social! The church observatory, moral realism vs. an ethical spectrum, faith & fear, aesthetic emergencies & recording an album in a warzone + MORE! 🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsEm...
Hold on, you’re telling me the US gestapo - made up primarily of violent domestic abusers - that in their official capacity rounding up innocent people to send to concentration camps, these otherwise unquestionable paragons used *racial slurs*?? These— Ow, fuck shit I just pulled my sarcasm muscle.
Now that Taco Bell is no longer getting diarrhea lettuce from Taylor Farms, I'm VERY excited for their new promotion!
The biographies of 98% of the Nazis that survived WWII read like “Jurg Schleichman AKA “The Living Abattoir” spent one day in jail before being recruited by the CIA to train death squads in Central America. He successfully sued the UK gov’t for he back SS pay & died in 1992 surrounded by loved ones”
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings... Good times with American Prestige's @dbessner.bsky.social! The decline of Hollywood and, in general, society; calm dads; ambition & death; the historical contingencies of Nirvana + MORE! 🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsBe...
Joshua Jackson fronting a band called Pacey and the Jerrmakers
On one hand, it’s distressing that the government drafted an official enemies list filled with mainstream politicians, journalists & other prominent center-left people, after having already built a network of concentration camps. On the other hand, oh look, another list I didn’t make it on to.
The power in LA just went out for the second time this week. With all these blackouts, how will the diarrhea vegetables in our fridge stay fresh?!
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings... Good times with Matthew S., founder of Illegal Art! Fresno: carjacking capital of the US; Mormonism, community and hierarchy; having a calling; artistic sampling vs. tech thievery + MORE! 🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsMy...
Gambling is taking America by storm! Whether it’s using Polymarket to bet on the date ICE will just morph into a roving death squad or rolling the dice on crippling diarrhea by eating a sprig of broccoli, America can’t enough of every moment of existence becoming a terrifying wager!
The 21st century is going pretty well. I can't breathe the air, eat a salad or even get a minor bug bite without the possibility of getting badly sick, but I *can* watch 300,000 clips of two people in a generic room talking into microphones.
You know you're living in a good society when the former president and first lady have the same career trajectory as your old 401 improv teacher at UCB
You know you're living in a good society when the former president and first lady have the same career trajectory as your old 401 improv teacher at UCB
Rob Reiner was murdered in December, and half a year later, people are still writing fond thoughts about his work and his life. Lindsey Graham's death was immediately met with jokes by most and half-hearted, insincere treacle from his allies. By next week, all that will be left of him is a punchline
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings... Great talk with @jonathanmeiburg.bsky.social of @shearwaterband.bsky.social! Aesthetic randomness, Song of Myself, the wonder of the universe, existential lessons from world travel and MORE! 🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsSh...
I was kidding with Naomi and said there are as many comedies about golf on TV as there are comedies with majority black casts, but then I looked it up and that's actually true and soon there will be more shows about golf on TV than comedies with majority black casts.
From the original cut of Back to the Future, when Marty McFly was going to be into indie rock
SOME DISTRACTION FROM DESPAIR, yes folks, it's an ALL-NEW Couples Therapy! We chop it up with one of our favs @mike-eagle.bsky.social! The reality behind his brilliant album "Anime, Trauma and Divorce", starting therapy in college, the 1986 cartoon SilverHawks + MORE! 🔊 tinyurl.com/CTOpenMike
Listening to a playlist of "Hits of the 1950s", and they've got some real bangers! "Hot 14-Year-Old", "Car Go Fast", "Sexy 15-Year-Old", "Can't Wait to Be a Housewife and Nothing More", "Smokin' 16-Year-Old", and of course "A Soldier I Knew Died in Korea and I Stole His Name and Now I'm an Ad Exec"
I don’t have a ton of optimism about this human project of ours, but certainly dampening my spirit is the fact that LA is on fire 90% of the year, and *still*, every July 4th, vast amounts of firework-loving dullards are like, “How do we up that percentage to 187% of the year?”