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My favorite projects of 2023

I saw someone post on Bluesky asking people to bring to Bluesky the tradition of posting threads containing...
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Experiencing: “Flowers” Premiere

Last night, we had the premiere for Flowers, the documentary series I’ve been working on for a year...
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Any minute now

We should be hitting the annual peak of people searching for tryptophan any minute now.
Earnest PettieNov 23, 2023Nov 23, 2023
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Experiencing: Pink’s Summer Carnival

On Thursday, Claire and I went to see Pink’s Summer Carnival concert at Sofi. I’m not the biggest...
Earnest PettieOct 7, 2023Oct 7, 2023
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Work: Flowers, a documentary series celebrating Black creativity

I’ve spent the past year working on this project, but it would be more accurate to say I’ve...
Earnest PettieOct 1, 2023Oct 1, 2023
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Reading: Taylor Lorenz’s “Extremely Online”

As I was finishing up Ben Smith’s Traffic, I messaged Taylor Lorenz that finishing Ben’s book had made...
Earnest PettieOct 1, 2023Oct 1, 2023
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Experiencing: Art Laboe Connection

It’s the end of a very long week in what has been a very long month during a...
Earnest PettieSep 23, 2023Oct 1, 2023
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Fresh Start

I lost my last website, which was less one site and really 20 years of blog posts from...
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Essays

Meta-Irony and Gen Z

An explanation of meta-irony and why it's a standard mode of discourse for the digitally native Gen Z.
Earnest PettieSep 7, 2023Jan 6, 2025
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Liminal Spaces may be the most 2020 of all trends

A modern media phenomenon is a reminder of the purgatory of the pandemic.
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Quick thoughts

2 months ago

Twitter/X is such a grim place. It’s what I imagine New York City was like in the late 70s/early 80s.

2 months ago

Two older musical acts whose new music I will still immediately click on: Young MC and Papa Roach.

2 months ago

I wonder whether Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian are thinking about the real corrosive influence on link-sharing communities: companies. Once a site becomes a sure source of traffic, companies immediately dream of ways to exploit it. https://www.theverge.com/social/624073/digg-relaunch-2025

2 months ago

How did Bubble Boy never become a cult classic?

3 months ago

My entire life, I’ve heard “markets crave certainty.” If that’s the case, though, how do you explain the markets during this administration?

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  • Earnestp wants to read Generations by Neil Strauss January 6, 2025
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