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Joshuah Bearman

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Joshuah Bearman has written about CIA missions, jewel thieves, deranged private investigators, aspiring Fabios, bitter rivalry among dueling Santa Clauses, and the metaphysical implications of being the world's greatest Pac Man player. His article for Wired became the movie Argo.
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Cynical-C, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Haters

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • June 4, 2009
As a journalist of minor note, my articles sometimes appear on websites that actually get traffic. Nowadays, those websites often allow comments. And those comments remind me why there ought…
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  • Film

“UP” Yours Brooks Barnes and Richard Greenfield

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • June 4, 2009
Shocker: Up nearly broke $70m, despite the drumbeat media coverage about how the supposed lack of interest from younger boys and no female lead would not interest audiences. Most egregious…
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  • Politics

From The History File—A Mad Hatter!

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • June 4, 2009
It’s true: the mercury made Boston Corbett crazy. But not before he shot the man who shot Lincoln. On April 26th, 1865, he was among the 16th New York Cavalrymen…
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  • Other

I’m Not Exactly Sure Why Street Gangs Need Business Cards

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • June 1, 2009
Do the Almighty Freaks run into the Insane Unknowns at a midwestern regional gang conference and trade info so they can get together work on some projects? “Great meeting you…
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  • Other

What My Old Columbia Housing Apartment Looked Like in 1609

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • May 29, 2009
That little highlighted box, or part thereof, in the corner is 119th street between Morningside and Amsterdam. Or it will be 400 years from now. Or from when this image…
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  • Politics

Dick Cheney or Sith Lord?

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • May 19, 2009
Larry Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s former chief of staff calls the former VP a “Sith Lord” and then takes him to the mat:
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  • Film

OK, OK, I Get it! Keyboard Cat!

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • May 19, 2009
Steven: You haven’t seen this shit? Me: What? Steven: It’s been going around recently. It’s just like funny videos, and then at the end there’s this cat starts playing an…
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  • Features & Reviews

I’ve Always Wondered Where The Black Hats

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • May 18, 2009
Get their black hats. Same place as Gay Talese. Homburgs, fedoras, no creases, creases — Bruno Lacorazza is a name you can trust. Hasidic hats even get hasidic-ish style names:…
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  • Politics

Turns Out Jeffrey Goldberg is Funny!

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • May 10, 2009
On the cover of this month’s Atlantic: “Why I Fired My Broker,” a meandering and highly entertaining personal essay that concludes that the brokers don’t know anything anyhow and if…
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  • Film

Note To Wall Street: Don’t Player Hate on Pixar

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • May 8, 2009
As the release date for Pixar’s latest movie, Up, inches closer, the more annoyed I get thinking about this  NY Times article from a couple weeks back, in which the…
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  • Features & Reviews

Josh Bearman: The Last Book I Loved, The Incredible Yanqui

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • May 7, 2009
The Incredible Yanqui by Hermann Bacher Deutsch is the true story of the exploits of Lee Christmas, a tramp railroader, scoundrel, and soldier of fortune who wound up helping the…
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  • Politics

Total Torture Tutorial

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • April 27, 2009
Mixing up your OLC memos? Can’t keep your enhanced interrogations straight? Foreign Policy, which not too long ago implemented a generally improved web redesign, has this very useful (and terrifying)…
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