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Joshuah Bearman
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Cynical-C, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Haters
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 to be no internet. There’s a reason why human expression…
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“UP” Yours Brooks Barnes and Richard Greenfield
Shocker: Up nearly broke $70m, despite the drumbeat media coverage about how the supposed lack of interest from younger boys and no female lead would not interest audiences. Most egregious was the NY Times piece, which built its jittery thesis…
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From The History File—A Mad Hatter!
It’s true: the mercury made Boston Corbett crazy. But not before he shot the man who shot Lincoln. On April 26th, 1865, he was among the 16th New York Cavalrymen sent to track down John Wilkes Booth. Corbett got a…
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I’m Not Exactly Sure Why Street Gangs Need Business Cards
Do the Almighty Freaks run into the Insane Unknowns at a midwestern regional gang conference and trade info so they can get together work on some projects? “Great meeting you in that afternoon workshop yesterday,” says Ca$her to Chewdog, “Let’s…
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What My Old Columbia Housing Apartment Looked Like in 1609
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 was taken. Or rather digitally visualized, by the Manhatta Project,…
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Dick Cheney or Sith Lord?
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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OK, OK, I Get it! Keyboard Cat!
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 electric piano. Me: What song? Steven: Some little ditty. With…
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I’ve Always Wondered Where The Black Hats
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: yeshivish (generic fedora) and shtreimel (fancy and furry)!
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Turns Out Jeffrey Goldberg is Funny!
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 they did they wouldn’t care about helping Jeffrey Godlberg or…
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Note To Wall Street: Don’t Player Hate on Pixar
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 commercial viability of Pixar is questioned because Up might not…
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Josh Bearman: The Last Book I Loved, The Incredible Yanqui
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 United Fruit Company colonize central america as a corporate fiefdom.…
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Total Torture Tutorial
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) timeline of torture.