Live pic of me getting back to wrestling after all that family stuff because I have a goddamn book to write
I was literally planning to start writing chapter 1 of my Vince McMahon bio on the day I got commissioned by NYMag to write what became “My Grandfather the Zionist.” I needed a break after it came out, but now it’s time to start writing what I’ve learned about Vince’s early yrs👀
Not to sound like a certain former WrestleMania performer and one(?)time president, but I really found some stuff in North Carolina 👀👀👀
It’s going to be hard as shit to not let my Vince McMahon bio expand out to Robert Caro length 😬
OK, I sorta lied last night, as I had already written that introduction/overture months ago lmao. I’m actually working on this baby and just wrote the first three paragraphs, which (if you’ll indulge my vanity) are really good
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Extremely earnest, minimally comedic, six-hour mockumentary about the Jews of the fictional countries of the Marvel Universe (Sokovia, Latveria, Wakanda, etc.)
The Wakandan Jews are a tiny but outsizedly accomplished religious minority. There is traditionally one Jew in the royal court at all times, and this has been true for centuries. They must live forever with the knowledge that they stood by and did nothing in 1933-45
The Sokovian Jews were known for their ornate, locally-constructed head-coverings and a robust Hasidic presence. There was “peaceful coexistence” until Hitler annexed the country and the ethnic Sokovians showed their true colors. This is why I do not weep over their recent pain
I’m trying to find this old file of mine and this isn’t it but I stumbled across it and it’s better
The funny thing is, this actually went mildly viral when I made it in July 2015, immediately after a breakup, but most of my audience from back then got sick of me a long time ago and muted or unfollowed
There was this whole, weirdly cohesive New York City Media Millennial…
Cohort? Community? Cult? Confederation? that I was intimately part of when I made that dumb video six (!) years ago, and it sorta dissolved or imploded or something. Lot of those people are now famous
Other features of Judaism III (my upcoming breakaway cult):
**Acceptance of coming dark age and climate-change-ensured fall of the third temple
**Survivalism
**YENTL is a sacred text
**So is CHILDREN OF MEN (look, lots of stories in the Tanakh are about non-Jews)
**Hella weed
Judaism I: Avraham Avinu to the fall of the Second Temple
Judaism II: Birth of Rabbinic Judaism to upcoming collapse of global civilization
My greatest professional accomplishment remains the time I gave Tom Holland a couple of Steve Ditko screed-pamphlets about the creation of Spider-Man while I was at NYMag. I would give anything to know what he thought of them (in the unlikely event he read them)
The initial Ditko/Lee run on The Amazing Spider-Man is the most bizarrely misremembered character introduction in Marvel history. Peter is a complete prick for like 80% of it! He cracks wise out of power-tripping condescension! He’s cruel to those he loves! It’s great!!!
*sucks joint* What most retellings of Spider-Man’s origin story do wrong is assume Peter flips a switch and becomes a responsible person right after Uncle Ben dies. No. Ditko and Lee got that the reveal of the robber is the BEGINNING of the journey to responsibility, not the end