https://bsky.app/profile/brendenmgallagher.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/brendenmgallagher.bsky.social/post/3m6ey3rdpt222My thoughts on The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño, a work of genius about how when you are a twenty-year-old artist, you feel like everyone around you is an artist, and when you are a forty-year-old artist, you often feel like you're the only one who hasn't given up.24 Nov 2025 13:55 +0000at://did:plc:ud2zfn3s76b77gb4hekocauf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6ey3rdpt222https://bsky.app/profile/brendenmgallagher.bsky.social/post/3m5k2ivdt4c2mCongrats to my friend @johnlingan.bsky.social on the publication of "Backbeats: A History of Rock and Roll in Fifteen Drummers!" John is one of the best people writing about music today. His passion and expertise bleeds through on every page of his work. Order your copy today!13 Nov 2025 20:56 +0000at://did:plc:ud2zfn3s76b77gb4hekocauf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5k2ivdt4c2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/brendenmgallagher.bsky.social/post/3m5jxdrknsc2mWhat drives me insane about centrists "finding a solution" to lower premiums is that there is no viable solution to the right of Obamacare. You got to try the market and the market can't deliver. The market cannot be trusted with healthcare.13 Nov 2025 20:00 +0000at://did:plc:ud2zfn3s76b77gb4hekocauf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5jxdrknsc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/brendenmgallagher.bsky.social/post/3m4ymnuxafs2cWhat DSA backed candidates have been stinkers? I think that generally outsider "progressives" are a mixed bag, but DSA backing has a very high batting average [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Nov 2025 22:33 +0000at://did:plc:ud2zfn3s76b77gb4hekocauf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4ymnuxafs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/brendenmgallagher.bsky.social/post/3m4ymgup2pk2cThere is truly no male loneliness epidemic in Long Beach, California. Tide is high today on the bay and out my window I see tons of dudes on skateboards with fishing rods pulling up.06 Nov 2025 22:29 +0000at://did:plc:ud2zfn3s76b77gb4hekocauf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4ymgup2pk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/brendenmgallagher.bsky.social/post/3m4y2x5y7gc2nInteresting @vanityfair.com Little Gold Men podcast on political Oscar contenders today, but I would dispute One Battle After Another as being attacked "from the left." I would say it is being attack through a lens of liberal identity politics whereas the left has embraced it06 Nov 2025 17:16 +0000at://did:plc:ud2zfn3s76b77gb4hekocauf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4y2x5y7gc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/brendenmgallagher.bsky.social/post/3m4qnelqxgc2rOf the 3 films made by comfortable white guys trying to make sense of poorer, angry politically polarized white guys that have come out this year I think their relative quality comes from each director's capacity for empathy: 1. OBAA [big gap] 2. Bugonia [bigger gap] 3 Eddington03 Nov 2025 18:24 +0000at://did:plc:ud2zfn3s76b77gb4hekocauf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4qnelqxgc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/brendenmgallagher.bsky.social/post/3m3xo566dmc2pWhat do you think are the common doomer questions people ask around climate change other than: Why care so much if the world is just going to end anyway? Why save for retirement if there won't be a world left for us? Why bring children into a world ravaged by climate change?24 Oct 2025 20:02 +0000at://did:plc:ud2zfn3s76b77gb4hekocauf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3xo566dmc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/brendenmgallagher.bsky.social/post/3m3sigeqbbs2zEh, DSA LA's candidates are all pretty normal, but we have union and non-profit machines for them to grow in. [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Oct 2025 18:36 +0000at://did:plc:ud2zfn3s76b77gb4hekocauf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3sigeqbbs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/brendenmgallagher.bsky.social/post/3m3q7hdvsdc2fThe "ratfucking by the DNC" portion of the Democratic Primary process is important because it helps you figure out if you have an AOC or a Lee Carter. DSA bench candidates have a much higher chance of being the former because they are already mostly vetted.21 Oct 2025 20:50 +0000at://did:plc:ud2zfn3s76b77gb4hekocauf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3q7hdvsdc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/brendenmgallagher.bsky.social/post/3m3ns5zgqy225Hate to say it, but Tea Party had an explicit ideological program and No Kings does not. [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Oct 2025 21:47 +0000at://did:plc:ud2zfn3s76b77gb4hekocauf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3ns5zgqy225https://bsky.app/profile/brendenmgallagher.bsky.social/post/3m3nrrxxgj225I attribute this to the brilliance of GOP coining the term "Obamacare" as that would obviously exclude Medicaid and Medicare improvements and just focus on the marketplace plans, the aspect of the bill they knew they could kneecap without a public option. [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Oct 2025 21:40 +0000at://did:plc:ud2zfn3s76b77gb4hekocauf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3nrrxxgj225https://bsky.app/profile/brendenmgallagher.bsky.social/post/3m3gr6devzs27The DNC wanting to litigate old social media posts gives me hope that insurgent candidates are about to romp in the next couple of cycles. So out of touch with the moment, it's like sending cavalry horses to charge gatling guns.18 Oct 2025 02:41 +0000at://did:plc:ud2zfn3s76b77gb4hekocauf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3gr6devzs27https://bsky.app/profile/brendenmgallagher.bsky.social/post/3m3giage7fk2mBro, a Reaganite tried to ruin your life a month ago lol [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Oct 2025 00:01 +0000at://did:plc:ud2zfn3s76b77gb4hekocauf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3giage7fk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/brendenmgallagher.bsky.social/post/3m3ftr6vfr22qAlmost all of my biggest gripes with Newsom boil down to that he is such a NorCal guy and our governors should always be SoCal guys. [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Oct 2025 17:54 +0000at://did:plc:ud2zfn3s76b77gb4hekocauf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3ftr6vfr22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/brendenmgallagher.bsky.social/post/3m3ftflwz7s2qEnjoying my time over here but allowing QTs disabled is shameful cowardice17 Oct 2025 17:48 +0000at://did:plc:ud2zfn3s76b77gb4hekocauf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3ftflwz7s2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/brendenmgallagher.bsky.social/post/3m3dfpcboqc2wWe all have our criticisms of Obama but no one of voting age at that time thought he would pass single payer. Dems wanted a public option, which would have made the ACA much better and he sacrificed it to get Joe Lieberman's vote on ACA.16 Oct 2025 18:37 +0000at://did:plc:ud2zfn3s76b77gb4hekocauf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3dfpcboqc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/brendenmgallagher.bsky.social/post/3m3buhgv3ek2lI guess you can criticize No Kings, but it does beg the question why your thing has an order of magnitude less interest, and you should be prepared to answer that without sounding like a freak.16 Oct 2025 03:56 +0000at://did:plc:ud2zfn3s76b77gb4hekocauf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3buhgv3ek2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/brendenmgallagher.bsky.social/post/3m3bddpyp5c2hThe No on Prop 50 campaign is one of the most pathetic things I've ever seen in CA politics because if they tell the truth at all, almost everyone in California would go against them, so their signs say vague stuff like "Say NO to Nuisance Newsom"15 Oct 2025 22:50 +0000at://did:plc:ud2zfn3s76b77gb4hekocauf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3bddpyp5c2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/brendenmgallagher.bsky.social/post/3m3baasasjs2hBlueSky is amazing [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Oct 2025 21:55 +0000at://did:plc:ud2zfn3s76b77gb4hekocauf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3baasasjs2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/brendenmgallagher.bsky.social/post/3m3b354e52s2cLots of TV gurus try to help writers craft "good samples" when the reality is that every show I'm put up for has 500 people submitting to staff and your sample matters far less than your connections. I think your best bet is writing to sell and hope one of them fits a staffing need.15 Oct 2025 20:23 +0000at://did:plc:ud2zfn3s76b77gb4hekocauf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3b354e52s2chttps://bsky.app/profile/brendenmgallagher.bsky.social/post/3m3awwcfgwc2zWatched an amazing documentary last night: Sherman's March (1985) is a rom-com documentary set in the backdrop of Civil War history. The filmmaker sets out to retrace Sherman's march to the sea but gets sidetrack by various failed love affairs.15 Oct 2025 19:08 +0000at://did:plc:ud2zfn3s76b77gb4hekocauf/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3awwcfgwc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/brendenmgallagher.bsky.social/post/3ljo54byemc2hHere's the deal. If you are making a project for over, say $3 million, you could choose to use union crew. Some great filmmakers were famously anti-union (Kubrick) some are vehemently pro-union & have great working conditions (Eastwood). It is a choice.05 Mar 2025 23:29 +0000at://did:plc:ud2zfn3s76b77gb4hekocauf/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljo54byemc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/brendenmgallagher.bsky.social/post/3ljb25eb6jc2oMegalopolis and Madame Web represent the two types of bad movies (misguided auteurist vision and bloated studio catastrophe) so hats off to the Razzies for getting it right this year 👏👏👏28 Feb 2025 18:32 +0000at://did:plc:ud2zfn3s76b77gb4hekocauf/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljb25eb6jc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/brendenmgallagher.bsky.social/post/3lj6blckvik22Gene Hackman one of the best to ever do it. His performance in Royal Tenenbaums was the perfect comedy leading performance and his performance in The Conversation was the perfect drama leading performance.27 Feb 2025 16:07 +0000at://did:plc:ud2zfn3s76b77gb4hekocauf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj6blckvik22https://bsky.app/profile/brendenmgallagher.bsky.social/post/3lj4m5goyr224Nancy Pelosi has been wrong about so much but she was really right about how good Jeni's Ice Cream is.27 Feb 2025 00:11 +0000at://did:plc:ud2zfn3s76b77gb4hekocauf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj4m5goyr224https://bsky.app/profile/brendenmgallagher.bsky.social/post/3lj46synups22It's so important to read "The Shock Doctrine" so that when evil politicians do it you can be like "ah, there's the shock doctrine again" and get really mad.26 Feb 2025 20:12 +0000at://did:plc:ud2zfn3s76b77gb4hekocauf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj46synups22https://bsky.app/profile/brendenmgallagher.bsky.social/post/3lj3yy2yxtc2jThe reason you know free markets work really well is that every billionaire has to spend like a third of their time and money defending them. The polyamory of the aristocracy.26 Feb 2025 18:28 +0000at://did:plc:ud2zfn3s76b77gb4hekocauf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj3yy2yxtc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/brendenmgallagher.bsky.social/post/3liy2u7obpk2wTonight, Claire and I watched Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, a musical that dares to ask "What if twins were hot and one was blonde and one was brunette and men constantly implied they wanted to do group sex with them?"25 Feb 2025 04:51 +0000at://did:plc:ud2zfn3s76b77gb4hekocauf/app.bsky.feed.post/3liy2u7obpk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/brendenmgallagher.bsky.social/post/3lixnpusee22zPut up my dart board. Single best upgrade a writer can make to their study/office.25 Feb 2025 00:56 +0000at://did:plc:ud2zfn3s76b77gb4hekocauf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lixnpusee22z