Burn private equity to the ground.

New York Magazine@nymag.com · 3w ago

For our Cover Story, Caitlin Moscatello reports on how private leagues have made youth sports expensive, hypercompetitive, and all-consuming — while investors are making a killing. tinyurl.com/btba8fhn

First in my bloodline to watch an old Hinge date’s wedding via Instagram Stories

Just finished this incredible and singular bio of arguably the most important “Invisible Woman” in the arts, Elaine May. @carriecourogen.bsky.social captured an entire human and artistic life. Rough edges, heartbreak, warmth, reality. An orienteering guide for making art and moving through life.

imagine hating me and i'm just alone in my apartment hitting a pen and listening to my "vada sultenfuss summer" playlist

it is very intimidating writing about one of the greatest american movies of all time about one of the most consequential pieces of journalism of all time but alas i had fun!

this essay is incredible...the kind of essay that makes you want to be a better writer, and makes you think it might be worth it and even possible to keep trying

lindsey romain@lindseyromain.bsky.social · 4mo ago

i wrote about all the president’s men for @brightwalldarkroom.com — i get into how the film’s texture and tactility gives literal weight to the reporting onscreen, and lament the loss of physical news mediums as a sensory connection to the reality of politics and power.

The first episode of our Elaine in May series is out! We're joined by @carriecourogen.bsky.social, author of Miss May Does Not Exist! Check it out everywhere you get your podcasts! #elainemay #oldhollywood #womeninfilm #film

The two episodes we did on Elaine May are some of the best I’ve recorded. Nerding out with @carriecourogen.bsky.social was so great!

Ticklish Business Podcast@ticklishbiz.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Sneak peek of this week's episode kicking off our series of Elaine in May, a tribute to Elaine May! For this episode we're joined by @carriecourogen.bsky.social! #elainemay #oldhollywood #womeninfilm

Wrote about TROOP BEVERLY HILLS, a film for which Shelley Long should have 8 million awards, for @brightwalldarkroom.com lol!!!!!

Troop Beverly Hills (1989): Beverly Hills, What a Thrill!

Troop Beverly Hills has everything you could want in a couch movie: nostalgia, laughs, great outfits, a few heartwarming moments—and Shelley Long giving a comedic performance that deserves every singl...

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New today on the site! The Comedy Happy Place issue continues, with @carriecourogen.bsky.social on the “couch movie” comforts of TROOP BEVERLY HILLS

Troop Beverly Hills (1989): Beverly Hills, What a Thrill!

Troop Beverly Hills has everything you could want in a couch movie: nostalgia, laughs, great outfits, a few heartwarming moments—and Shelley Long giving a comedic performance that deserves every singl...

brightwalldarkroom.com

I realize she's fallen out of favor because she hasn't dropped an album since the Obama administration and doesn't produce documentaries about herself. But Joanna Newsom is the best American songwriter of her generation.

elaine may 94th bday........ur all actually legally required to buy my book today. most people don't know this but it's true bit.ly/missmaymacmi...

Happy Elaine May Day to all who celebrate. I wrote for @brightwalldarkroom.com about MIKEY & NICKY, the ubertext in her lifelong cinematic study of broken men and their slugtrail of betrayals, and a scab-torn, pus-flooded journey to the end of the night for two best friends.

A Tunnel in My Head - Mikey and Nicky (1976) | Bright Wall/Dark Room

Mikey and Nicky is not the story of two men attempting to escape the mob, nor two men reckoning with themselves—it's the story of two boys wholly unequipped to mediate the complex emotions and respons...

brightwalldarkroom.com

Quick quick reminder that if you haven't read @carriecourogen.bsky.social's MISS MAY DOES NOT EXIST you've missed one of the best showbiz biographies that there is

Benjamin Dreyer@bcdreyer.social · 5mo ago

And happy birthday to Her Majesty Elaine May!

always a good day to read @carriecourogen.bsky.social’s biography

Miss May Does Not Exist

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awards, 2024Miss May Does Not Exist, by Carrie Courogen is the riveting biography of comedian, director, actor ...

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Benjamin Dreyer@bcdreyer.social · 5mo ago

And happy birthday to Her Majesty Elaine May!

HBD Elaine May!!! #70s New Leaf; Heartbreak Kid; masterpiece Mikey & Nicky More @chadperman.bsky.social w/ @carriecourogen.bsky.social: www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2024/06/14/a... @danschindel.bsky.social: www.screenslate.com/articles/sce... @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Could Elaine May Finally Be Getting Her Due?

A new biography gives a compelling sense of a comic and cinematic genius, and also of the forces that derailed her Hollywood career.

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incredible totally normal playlist i started compiling at the top of this year bit.ly/4bwRDag

Excellent piece about an artist that way more people should know about.

Carrie Courogen@carriecourogen.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I wrote about the incredibly fucking cool and utterly peerless Mary Margaret O'Hara, whose music seems to have taken up permanent residence in my brain this spring as a balm for unbearably bleak times.

I wrote about the incredibly fucking cool and utterly peerless Mary Margaret O'Hara, whose music seems to have taken up permanent residence in my brain this spring as a balm for unbearably bleak times.

agrestic subconscious soul singer: the off-beat beauty of mary margaret o'hara

The Canadian singer-songwriter made one captivating album, 1988's Miss America, then, as legend goes, vanished. But she's always been there for those who look.

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This is an excellent piece. I hope that the lost songs from the Miss America sessions will see the light of day at some point.

Carrie Courogen@carriecourogen.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I wrote about the incredibly fucking cool and utterly peerless Mary Margaret O'Hara, whose music seems to have taken up permanent residence in my brain this spring as a balm for unbearably bleak times.

I wrote about the incredibly fucking cool and utterly peerless Mary Margaret O'Hara, whose music seems to have taken up permanent residence in my brain this spring as a balm for unbearably bleak times.

agrestic subconscious soul singer: the off-beat beauty of mary margaret o'hara

The Canadian singer-songwriter made one captivating album, 1988's Miss America, then, as legend goes, vanished. But she's always been there for those who look.

bit.ly

thinking about the man old enough to be my father who last night at a party asked me what my beat is as a journalist and how i looked him dead in the eyes and said “well my friends like to say i’m on the boomer beat”

IT’S REAL

wrote about being so normal and cool about baseball bit.ly/noitsiowa

no, it's iowa

Or: I rewatched Field of Dreams and am being totally normal about it

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ai could simply never do what i do (spend entire days gleefully falling down newspapers dot com rabbit holes)

opening day you know what that means (time to rewatch the 1982 SCTV cast and writers vs. SCTV crew softball game)

you give a ticketing monopoly one little doj settlement one time and—

as if the past decade of suffering has not been trying enough we still don't have a new joanna newsom album

This week on @podcastlikeits The 2000s @emilystjams.bsky.social and I continue our Christopher Guest miniseries by talking A Mighty Wind with @carriecourogen.bsky.social! We discuss music documentaries, Nicks & Buckingham, cults and of course the always wonderful Catherine O’Hara.