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2024-06-03: Today, roughly nine months after publication, a member of Substack’s Trust & Safety Team, identified only as “Jim,” twice “temporarily unpublished” this article demanding the removal of both the unit number and street address of the apartment complex where the covert intelligence contractor Premise Data’s then-CEO Maury Blackman was arrested. In the time since the original publication, Premise filed at least six discovery requests in court to unmask this article’s source, settled their lawsuit against numerous former employees for allegedly revealing Premise’s contracts with U.

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When it comes to baseball movies, it’s hard to top or at least not mention Bull Durham. In the tower of Kevin Costner gems, it’s in the highest tier, even above the one where he plowed through a whole field of corn to plant a baseball field. That’s because it gave the cinema world an introduction to the brilliant poet who happened to be a baseball player: Crash Davis. Crash was candidly vulgar, but he knew how to make a speech and had a way with women.

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Day 69: There are few poems that speak to me on a visceral level. ‘Knight in the Panthers Skin”, “Do not go gently into that good night,” and a new addition “The Cremation of Sam McGee.” As with all good things these poems, writings, and philosophical excerpts don’t just randomly find there way to me, but are often sent by trusted confidants who know my love of well written prose.

This post turned me into a paid subscriber. While I'm trying to talk to anyone and everyone about Baby Reindeer, the shoutout to Prime is what finally converted me. The soundtrack still slaps, and I'm fairly certain a CD of it is floating around in some forgotten box. If you're a fan of "The Perfect Pair" by Beabadoobee, I think it sounds exactly like Ghostwriter, the opening song in Prime.

Over the weekend, I graduated from my MBA program at Southern New Hampshire University. It was an honor and privilege to walk in the Manchester, New Hampshire ceremony with some of my family members present while others could watch it live remotely. Thank you for your supportive words and good wishes. It’s a big achievement by a scrappy Roselle, New Jersey kid. And now, back to Publishing Confidential. Unless you’ve somehow avoided political news over the past ten days or so, you already know that a horrific detail leaked from South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem’s book, No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward, which will be published by Center Street, the conservative imprint of Hachette Books, on May 7: she shot her 14-month old puppy and goat.

This is your weekly installment of my new book, We Are All Musicians Now. To make sure you don’t miss future serializations, subscribe here. Below you’ll find Chapter 3: Rise of the Superfan (Part 8). Enjoy! << PREVIOUS CHAPTER << || TABLE OF CONTENTS || >> NEXT CHAPTER >> I opened this “Rise of the Superfan” chapter of We Are All Musicians Now by revealing how realized I wasn’t a true Star Wars fanatic. Back in 2015, I saw a group of conventioneers dressed up as a minor character named Willrow Hood, all running around and carrying ice cream makers in tribute to his appearance in The Empire Strikes Back.

The process of writing an article — even a short one — requires leaving a lot out. And when I receive counter-arguments or thoughts I haven’t yet considered after publication, there isn’t a natural way to engage with it. Until now. By Jerusalem Demsas · Launched 5 months agoNo thanksncG1vNJzZmiclaLAor%2BNrKybq6SWsKx6wqikaA%3D%3D