Mark Sussman
@marksussman.bsky.social
Substackin' at https://marksussman.substack.com Freelance writing, editing & ghostwriting in Brooklyn (or wherever, really)
I did another Substack. It's called Imperialist Realism, & it's a collaboration with U of Washington historian and @amprestigepod.bsky.social co-host Daniel Bessner. We're soft-launching today with a post about the connections between empire, the Pacific Northwest & Kurt Cobain. Check it out!
Empire of Grunge
How William Boeing Made Kurt Cobain
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Finally going to see THE ODYSSEY this afternoon. Prepare to have all debates SETTLED.
Haven't seen the Odyssey yet, but if the final scene isn't Odysseus putting a feather quill back in its ink well, sighing with satisfaction as he gazes on his completed book, and flipping to the title page—"My Big Trip, by Raymond Odysseus"—I will scream. I am functionally illiterate.
"Finals coverage produced something like what the theorist Walter Benjamin called a “dialectical image,” in which “what has been comes together in a flash with the now to form a constellation.”
Mark Sussman@marksussman.bsky.social · 2w agoOn the Knicks in '26, the Suns in '93, the dialectical image, and New York, Bandwagon City.
On the Knicks in '26, the Suns in '93, the dialectical image, and New York, Bandwagon City.
Bandwagon City: The Suns' Phoenix, the Knicks' New York
Winning and almost winning in the city
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In its way, this smacks of gender.
Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social · 3w agoI'm going to become the Joker
Every frame of this is repulsive: Tom Cruise "aging up" to his actual age, a grotesque CGI cat created in order to depict an animal (comically???) suffering, sickly oatmeal palette, Iñárritu, etc.
DIGGER | Official Trailer
YouTube video by Warner Bros.
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"Film adaptations do be pissing people off before they’re even released. See the Discourse cesspool still burbling around Christopher Nolan’s casting of Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy in The Odyssey. Or don’t." @marksussman.bsky.social
Waititi's KLARA, Nolan's ODYSSEY, Logue's ILIAD, Lowell's BAUDELAIRE
I will not get mad about bad adaptations I will not get mad about bad adaptations I will not ...
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mark sussman is back at it, with his discernable takes and penchants for obscure tri-state law firm dramas, sly references to cronenberg's the fly and lynch's twin peaks, and no promises to keep the car running while pumping that gas (folks, it's good!) marksussman.substack.com/p/the-face-o...
In my ongoing failure to be Normal, I launched a Substack. The first post is about the most important bus stop advertisement I've ever encountered. marksussman.substack.com/p/the-face-o...
"Vacuum cleaner" has flown under the radar as a redundant phrase for too long. "Dirt sucker" would be better, in every way.
another day, another 9-paragraph email from vinegar syndrome.
get up from the couch for one minute and this is what I find in my seat when I come back. Despicable.
Now that it's cooling down, Cinco has resigned himself to curling up with me, to steal my precious body heat
I've been staring long into this abyss for like ever, and I don't see shit.
I've watched 30 seconds of ZARDOZ and it's already insane.
