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hu u noAlexander SorondoA talk with writer Alexander Sorondo about his epic William T. Vollmann profile, the even longer new Mark Danielewski one, Substack, Miami, and more.2025-07-081h 15

Thousand Movie ProjectIra Madison III On His New Book, "Pure Innocent Fun"Ira Madison III, co-host of Crooked Media's "Keep It!" podcast, is the author of "Pure Innocent Fun," a collection of essays, equal parts pop culture analysis (mostly of 1990s and 2000s movies and television, stuff millennials grew up with) and coming-of-age memoir. He joins me for a talk about niche vs mono culture, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Oprah and popular culture as a bridge. Pure Innocent Fun: Essays https://a.co/d/fl8bJtY ----- My book CUBAFRUIT comes out a week from today! Pre-order it now for $3.99! https://a.co/d/asHwJEu 2025-01-2734 min

Thousand Movie ProjectCar Mold and Freedom and PanicMy book CUBAFRUIT is available for preorder! Cubafruit https://a.co/d/4AH8QyE For an early copy, to review, email thousandmovieproject at gmail with a link to your goodreads account.2025-01-1313 min

Thousand Movie ProjectThe Letters ProjectMy book CUBAFRUIT is available for pre-order! https://a.co/d/brcvkWL If you want a letter, reach out via email thousandmovieproject at gmail 2025-01-0810 min

Thousand Movie ProjectFumigator Interview: Manny Sanchez from Truly NolenThe first installment in a new series, interviewing Miami-based professionals about their work, today I'm speaking with Manny Sanchez, from Truly Nolen, about his nearly 20-year career in pest control. Special thanks to Toby Srebnik for helping to set this up! My book CUBAFRUIT is available for preorder on Amazon! https://a.co/d/eOPaeFb Email me thousandmovieproject at gmail 2024-12-2326 min

Thousand Movie ProjectDelivering Lunches While the Drones InvadeMy book CUBAFRUIT is available for pre-order! www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKY64F77 Send proof of purchase, along with your mailing address, for a token of thanks in the mail: thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com Release date: 16 December 2024 2024-12-1809 min

Thousand Movie ProjectThe Episode I Didn't Realize Was Set to Private Until a Week LaterMy book CUBAFRUIT is available for preorder! https://a.co/d/6SipSwV 2024-12-1611 min

Thousand Movie ProjectNick Cannon's ConfessionMy book CUBAFRUIT is available for pre-order! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKY64F77 Send proof of purchase, along with your mailing address, for a token of thanks in the mail: thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com 2024-12-1610 min

Thousand Movie ProjectTop 2 Customer Codewords for Showing How Angry They AreMy book CUBAFRUIT is available for pre-order! https://a.co/d/cFrJPTI ======= send me proof of purchase and your mailing address for a token of thanks! thousandmovieproject at gmail (or just say hi!)2024-12-1107 min

Thousand Movie ProjectBurnout, Constructive Feedback, and the 5th Homeless Man I've Seen Masturbate on a SidewalkMy book CUBAFRUIT is available for pre-order! https://a.co/d/6Yvdv2d ================= Wherein the narrator contends with a colleague who won't stop whistling, a masturbating shopper, and the one colleague who secretly shares his resentment. ================= email: thousandmovieproject at gmail IG: thousandmoviepod 2024-12-0911 min

Thousand Movie ProjectPOLCAST: A New DNC Chair. Bret Stephens is Annoying.My book CUBAFRUIT is available for pre-order, on Amazon, just $3.99! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKY64F77 Email me to let me know if you pre-ordered a copy of CUBAFRUIT ---thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com--- send me your mailing address and I'll send you a little token of gratitude via snailmail 2024-12-0610 min

Thousand Movie ProjectThis Man Has an Alien Encounter Every NightWherein a favorite colleague--following a turbulent month of Covid, monkeypox, two strokes and a coma--explains his nightly visitations. My book CUBAFRUIT is available for pre-order! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKY64F77 Id love to send a personal thanks for your order! Send a screenshot and your mailing address to thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com 2024-12-0508 min

Thousand Movie Project"I Am the Boss and the King...": A Workplace MysteryMy book CUBAFRUIT is available for pre-order, on Amazon, just $3.99! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKY64F77 Email me to let me know if you pre-ordered a copy of CUBAFRUIT ---thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com--- send me your mailing address and I'll send you a little token of gratitude via snailmail 2024-12-0410 min

Thousand Movie ProjectCyber Monday. Chupacabra. Cashmeousside. Capitalism.My book CUBAFRUIT is available for pre-order! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKY64F77 email me about whatever! would you like some handmade missive of thanks and goodwill? send me a hello, below THOUSANDMOVIEPROJECT AT GMAIL DOT COM tell me a little about yourself, ask whatever, share a theory--then add your mailing address and i'll respond forthhaste 2024-12-0210 min

Thousand Movie Project"Wicked" BooksMy book CUBAFRUIT is available for pre-order: https://a.co/d/gtDL0Ce email: thousandmovieproject at gmail 2024-11-2907 min

Thousand Movie Projectok no more politics.if you like the show, check out my book CUBAFRUIT! It's available for pre-order here: https://a.co/d/1Zi0H4n email me about whatever ya like thousandmovieproject at gmail 2024-11-1810 min

Thousand Movie ProjectHere's How Trump's "Mass Deportation" Thing Falls Apart (In 13 Steps or Less)wherein the narrator uses some imaginative and maps, in 13 points, how Donald Trump's mass deportation thing will fall apart and be abandoned within weeks. ...... help the show along by preordering my book CUBAFRUIT for $3.99 here: https://a.co/d/1Zi0H4n email me about whatever ya like thousandmovieproject at gmail 2024-11-0909 min

Thousand Movie ProjectTrump, True Crime, Living with Your ExWherein the narrator tries to not think of Trump by reading horrific true crime stories and decides none of this is really a great idea. The reddit thread: Scariest True Crime Story You've Ever Heard https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/0zueaLwUkP My books CUBAFRUIT is available for pre-order! Just $3.99 before publication! Cubafruit https://a.co/d/fbCBgPp reach out to talk about whatever! thousandmovieproject at gmail 2024-11-0810 min

Thousand Movie Project5 Biggest Risks of Another Trump TermDonald Trump's election last night portends social, economic, and geopolitical crises. Here, succinct as possible, are some of the biggest threats. ..... My book CUBAFRUIT is available for pre-order here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKY64F77?ref_=cm_sw_r_mwn_dp_3ZQEIW35SK6Z6W7AD7WG_2&starsLeft=1&skipTwisterOG=1&language=en_US ..... email me about whatever: vent, commiserate, call me names... thousandmovieproject at gmail 2024-11-0609 min

Thousand Movie ProjectElection Day: To Stay Tuned, or Not Stay Tunedthe day is upon us. Pre-order my book CUBAFRUIT! Cubafruit https://a.co/d/4d4GUui 2024-11-0509 min

Thousand Movie ProjectTrump Won By Exploiting the College Dividepre-order my book CUBAFRUIT Cubafruit https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKY64F77?ref_=cm_sw_r_mwn_dp_Y1IV6L9AQOIGCLNNQMSA&starsLeft=1&skipTwisterOG=1&language=en_US 2024-11-0410 min

Thousand Movie Projectvoting early, lateWherein the narrator gets out finally and votes, early, but at the last possible hour. My book CUBAFRUIT is available for pre-order at $3.99! Every sale helps the Amazon algorithm show it to other readers, and gives a chance for bestsellerdom on release day! Pre-order now and send me a screenshot of your receipt for a proper thanks in the mail! https://www.amazon.com/Cubafruit-Alexander-Sorondo-ebook/dp/B0DKY64F77?dplnkId=ffd2a489-de1d-4ca0-a390-101b3e279ca4 email me about whatever! thousandmovieproject at gmail 2024-11-0406 min

Thousand Movie ProjectJay Caspian-Kang, Joe Rogan, and the Gen Z Gender DivideWherein the narrator talks about the latest piece by a New Yorker Magazine favorite, Jay Caspian-Kang, who talks about Donald Trump's targeting of Gen Z men: their wayward resentments, their hearts, their vote... My book CUBAFRUIT is available for pre-order! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKY64F77?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_YDGZZY21X53QCQNQ22TV_3&starsLeft=1&skipTwisterOG=1 email: thousandmovieproject at gmail 2024-11-0311 min

Thousand Movie ProjectMy Book CUBAFRUIT Now Available for Pre-OrderPre-order CUBAFRUIT here! https://a.co/d/cBXtRNJ Check out the transcript for this and other episodes at bigreaderbadgrades.substack.com Email me about anything! thousandmovieproject at gmail 2024-11-0211 min

Thousand Movie ProjectPick Up Your Emptiness and Share ItIn which New York Times columnist David Brooks reminds us, in a new article, that everything is broken and will never get better--prompting, by accident, some questions about the point of what columnists even do. My book CUBAFRUIT is available for preorder here! https://a.co/d/c5XmAhL Wanna reach out? thousandmovieproject at gmail 2024-10-2909 min

Thousand Movie ProjectThe Small Community That Determines the ElectionThe transcript for this and other episodes can be found at bigreaderbadgrades.substack.com My book, CUBAFRUIT, is now available for pre-order on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKY64F77 Email me about whatever! thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com 2024-10-2607 min

Thousand Movie ProjectNew York Times Exclusive: Jill Stein is AwfulTranscripts for this and other episodes are available at bigreaderbadgrades.substack.com (Help the show/newsletter by subscribing!) Get in touch via email: thousandmovieproject at gmail Big announcement: 9 days.2024-10-2210 min

Thousand Movie ProjectYes, Mainstream Media is Biased. No, It's Not a Conspiracy.Breaking down Jay Caspian-King's fantastic piece in this week's New Yorker, about media bias. The transcript for this and other episodes can be found at bigreaderbadgrades.substack.com (subscribe!) email me about whatever! thousandmovieproject at gmail 2024-10-2111 min

Thousand Movie ProjectQuick Book Review: Jonathan Alter's AMERICAN RECKONINGNot a proper episode, just a quick note on something I read this week and thought was pretty strong, enjoyable, timely and incisive. New proper episode tomorrow and, until then, you can read this and other episode transcripts below (and subscribe!) bigreaderbadgrades.substack.com Chat with me about whatever! thousandmovieproject at gmail 2024-10-2008 min

Thousand Movie ProjectHarris the Interviewee Gets Better Every WeekWherein the narrator talks about Kamala Harris's huge improvement as an interview subject, in just the past three weeks, and compares it with some tangential things he's learned about President Biden between two books: WHAT IT TAKES, the 1,500-page tome focusing partly on Joe Biden's 1988 presidential campaign, and WAR, Bob Woodward's latest (still most-revealing) peek into the current Biden administration. Also, riffs on the benefit of quick personal journaling about politics. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail 2024-10-1808 min

Thousand Movie ProjectDodging Politics to Compare Dean Koontz and Stephen KingWherein the narrator, for lack of news awareness, talks about the differences and similarities between two writers who were very relevant when he was younger. get in touch! thousandmovieproject at gmail 2024-10-1711 min

Thousand Movie ProjectSanewashing Trump. Secret Service Has Problems. Aliens on Europa.Wherein the narrator takes the permission of two pundits, riffs about some shady sanewashing in the Ts of NY, and finally, like any decent low-watt broadcaster, brings it all back to aliens. You can read the transcript for this and other episodes at BIG READER BAD GRADES (do me a kindness! subscribe!) bigreaderbadgrades.substack.com wanna tell me something? that you like the show, that it sucks, what you ate? feel free to reach out! thousandmovieproject at gmail COUNTDOWN TO BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: 17 Days.2024-10-1409 min

Thousand Movie ProjectSaturday at the Hospital. Trump Makes Threats. Ross Douthat on One Thing. Jill Lepore on Another.Wherein the narrator talks about a personal emergency (ish), some recent insights from Ross Douthat, and others from Jill Lepore. Transcripts for this and other episodes are available at BIG READER BAD GRADES, on substack (do me a kindness! subscribe!) bigreaderbadgrades.substack.com feel free to reach out! thousandmovieproject at gmail 2024-10-1409 min

Thousand Movie ProjectHarris Makes A Risky-Brilliant Pledge. Trump Berates Donors.In which Kamala Harris makes a great pitch, in the wrong direction, and Donald Trump -- frustrated at his Democratic rival raising $1 billion in just three months -- pursues the most sensible solution possible: berating his donors.2024-10-1209 min

Thousand Movie ProjectThe Polls Are Saying Ignore the Polls. Hurricane Grocery.Something Personal, Something Political. It's been a stressful week at the grocery store, and politics afford no respite. Here's a decidedly lower-tech episode, acapella, in the interest of resuming the rhythm and getting things out. Read transcripts of the show on Substack (free!) bigreaderbadgrades.substack.com email: thousandmovieroject at gmail 2024-10-1111 min

Thousand Movie ProjectTrump Meets Theo Von: This is "Big Reader Bad Grades"Subscribe to the newsletter at bigreaderbadgrades.substack.com talk to meh: thousandmovieproject at gmail 2024-08-2714 min

Thousand Movie ProjectTryna Talk About Trump & It Doesn't Worktinkered with this disaster for 4 days, thinking there was something to salvage, but ad a gesture of peacemaking and personal release I surrender it out and on we go... support the show, check out the ebook, it's free*! ~~~~~ *unless you wanna pay for it* ~~~ talk at me!: email: thousandmovieproject at Gmail insta: @thousandmoviepod 2024-05-0114 min

Thousand Movie ProjectBirthday Boy (Vol. 33)The (partial) eBook is here! Download free or pay what you want at https://ko-fi.com/s/4f4999c591 It's my 33rd birthday and what was supposed to be an easy-peasy recording, with just a quick intro and then a brief reading from the ebook, turned into this long, searching, semi-confessional thing that came somewhat out of nowhere--but is also reflective of the sorts of changes implied. Birthday Tradition: One of the few times I feel comfortable asking but, if you want to do me ~birthday kindness~ this week, it would mean a lot if you could review the show...2024-04-2413 min

Thousand Movie ProjectThis Question Raises Small Talk to Medium TalkThe TMPP ebook sample drops Wednesday, April 24th, on Ko-Fi -- but, until then, you can support the show by dropping in a tip! https://ko-fi.com/thousandmoviepod Experimenting with this digital tip jar thing. Selling various digital/tangible goods that work as great euphemisms for "donation." ~~~ chat me up but GOOD via email: thousandmovieproject at Gmail insta: @thousandmoviepod 2024-04-2308 min

Thousand Movie ProjectCuban Superstitions REVEALEDThe TMPP ebook sample drops Wednesday, April 24th, on Ko-Fi -- but, until then, you can support the show by dropping in a tip! https://ko-fi.com/thousandmoviepod Experimenting with this digital tip jar thing. Selling various digital/tangible goods that work as great euphemisms for "donation." ~~~ chat me up but GOOD via email: thousandmovieproject at Gmail insta: @thousandmoviepod 2024-04-2311 min

Thousand Movie ProjectOne Thing So Beautiful Nobody Wants ItThe TMPP ebook sample drops Wednesday, April 24th, on Ko-Fi. https://ko-fi.com/thousandmoviepod Experimenting with this digital tipjar thing. Selling various digital/tangible goods that work as great euphemisms for "donation." ~~~ chat me up but GOOD via email: thousandmovieproject at Gmail insta: @thousandmoviepod 2024-04-2110 min

Thousand Movie ProjectThe Key to Prioritizing (How My Manager Nearly Died)The Key to Prioritizing (How My Manager Nearly Died) by Alexander Sorondo 2024-04-2110 min

Thousand Movie ProjectIn Which Clint Eastwood, 94, Has an Affairemail: thousandmovieproject at Gmail ig: @thousandmoviepod 2024-04-1909 min

Thousand Movie ProjectEveryone's Angry About the EclipseEveryone's Angry About the Eclipse by Alexander Sorondo 2024-04-1908 min

Thousand Movie ProjectMy Neighbor Killed His WifeMy Neighbor Killed His Wife by Alexander Sorondo 2024-04-1715 min

Thousand Movie ProjectFinished That Clinton Bio...email: thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com instagram: @thousandmoviepod 2024-04-1609 min

Thousand Movie ProjectAnd You Get a CarAnd You Get a Car by Alexander Sorondo 2024-04-0907 min

Thousand Movie Projectgrocer gets firedgrocer gets fired by Alexander Sorondo 2024-04-0811 min

Thousand Movie ProjectNigel Hamilton on Clinton's SexcapadesNigel Hamilton on Clinton's Sexcapades by Alexander Sorondo 2024-04-0509 min

Thousand Movie ProjectTraining Leon, the LiarTraining a new hire shed slight on a trend I've noticed in every retail/hospitality job I've ever had. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail instagram: @thousandmoviepod 2024-04-0411 min

Thousand Movie ProjectPeopril Begins!April is PEOPRIL! A month of reading about life-writing: memoir, biography, autobiography. The narrator describes his plans, shares some news, and eeks his way back onto the rhythm here.2024-04-0415 min

Thousand Movie ProjectI Love "Love Lies Bleeding" and Also Noam ChomskyBeginninig with avid praise for Rose Glass's new crime movie, LOVE LIES BLEEDING, and transitioning into a conversation about how she and I apparently spring from the "peak millennial" camp, of people born between 1990 and 1992, before dissolving in talk about this new memoir by Bev Stol, Noam Chomsky's 24-year assistant/manager/coordinator, and this weird phenomenon of Noam Chomsky producing three or four books a year, despite being 93 years old, and ultimately the most important question: would he beat Henry Kissinger in a fight? email: thousandmovieproject at gmail instagram: @thousandmoviepod 2024-03-1913 min

Thousand Movie ProjectBrian Huntress Listens to GirlsWherein the narrator talks, among other things, about a new appreciation for Doja Cat, his favorite new artist on Instagram, and the how the Spice Girls nearly shattered the He-Man Woman Haters Club. check out @brianhuntress on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brianhuntresss/ email: thousandmoviepod at gmail dot com instagram: @thousandmoviepod 2024-03-1712 min

Thousand Movie ProjectFive Tips for Negotiating with TerroristsWherein the narrator talks about recent reading, including some negotiation tactics from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, and a quick anecdote about one of the most unbearable people he's ever met. instagram: @thousandmoviepod email: thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com 2024-03-1511 min

Thousand Movie ProjectGeorge Saunders is a Bookworm: A Tribute to Michael SilverblattGeorge Saunders joins for a conversation about Michael Silverblatt, the former host of BOOKWORM. Silverblatt had to retire in 2022 for medical reasons, ending BOOKWORM's 33-year run. Saunders, one of the most venerated writers in America (TENTH OF DECEMBER, LIBERATION DAY, LINCOLN IN THE BARDO), was a regular guest on BOOKWORM starting in 1997 - and one of its most distinct. He and Silverblatt had a special relationship, chronicled across four hours of conversation you can listen to in the KCRW archive. Saunders and Silverblatt, discussing his novel LINCOLN IN THE BARDO: https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/bookworm/george-saunders-lincoln-in-the-bardo-part-i Saunders and...2024-03-1245 min

Thousand Movie ProjectA Conversation with Matt Singer about OPPOSABLE THUMBS, His Biography of Siskel & EbertMatt Singer @superpulse joins me for today's episode of the pod, the first after a two-week break, to discuss his wonderful biography of film critics Gene Siskel, Roger Ebert, and the show that changed TV, film, criticism and media. Buy OPPOSABLE THUMBS here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710246/opposable-thumbs-by-matt-singer/ email: thousandmovieproject at Gmail instagram: thousandmoviepod 2024-02-2745 min

Thousand Movie ProjectYouTube's Daniel Greene on YouTube's Daniel GreeneYouTube's Daniel Greene, who makes content revolving almost exclusively around things that don't interest the narrator at all, happens to've lured the narrator into several years of regular viewing. mentioned along the way: Mark Z. Danielewski's grocery war stories, SISKEL & EBERT, Slavoj Zizek's sitcom theory. email: thousandmovieproject at Gmail instagram: @thousandmoviepod 2024-02-0909 min

Thousand Movie ProjectDavid Remnick on David RemnickDavid Remnick, editor-in-chief of THE NEW YORKER, has a new book out, called HOLDING THE NOTE, a collection of essays on older musicians in the latter parts of their careers -- it's an absolute delight, and reveals some unintentional goods about the author. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail instagram: thousandmoviepod 2024-02-0809 min

Thousand Movie ProjectA Father's Bizarre Punishmentemail: thousandmovieproject at Gmail instagram: @thousandmoviepod 2024-02-0108 min

Thousand Movie ProjectA Healthier Way of TalkingA Healthier Way of Talking by Alexander Sorondo 2024-02-0110 min

Thousand Movie ProjectWhy You Should Never Feel Bad for Calling OutWhy You Should Never Feel Bad for Calling Out by Alexander Sorondo 2024-01-3008 min

Thousand Movie ProjectYouTubers in CrisisMatt, from the YouTube channel "Thrift a Life," and Furious Pete from his own self-titled channel were already practiced vloggers when a lifechange came along, and with the skills and habits in tow, they brought their audience along for it. email: thousandmovieproject at gmaildotcom instagram: @thousandmoviepod 2024-01-2909 min

Thousand Movie ProjectWilliam T. Vollmann Talks About His 3,400-page Novel, A TABLE FOR FORTUNEWilliam T. Vollmann Talks About His 3,400-page Novel, A TABLE FOR FORTUNE by Alexander Sorondo 2024-01-2651 min

Thousand Movie ProjectStolen Coronas and a Trip to SoBe's Best BarWalking a new route to The Abbey, his favorite bar on the beach, the narrator walks into a robbery. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com instagram: @thousandmoviepod 2024-01-1610 min

Thousand Movie ProjectPeople Who Live in Condemned PlacesPeople Who Live in Condemned Places by Alexander Sorondo 2024-01-1511 min

Thousand Movie ProjectHe Tried to Blow Up a Miami Beach NeighborhoodA colleague leaves town following an attempted murder. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com instagram: @thousandmoviepod 2024-01-1411 min

Thousand Movie ProjectPornHub's 2023 Data Dump: What We LearnedPornHub released its annual infographic storm of data and reporting about the world's porn-watching habits. In today's episode we look at four of their "top" insights, and certain states' most-searched pornography. Feel free to say hey! email: thousandmovieproject at gmaildotcom instagram (new): thousandmoviepod 2024-01-1111 min

Thousand Movie Project2 YouTubers Who Scare the Sh*t Out of MeWherein the narrator riffs about a couple of true-crime/horrorish YouTube channels on which he spends a whole lotta time despite how consistently and completely they ruin his day. Feel free to reach out below! email: thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com instagram (new): @thousandmoviepod 2024-01-0911 min

Thousand Movie ProjectCoppola's Billions (and Everyone Else's)Wherein the narrator riffs about not *minding* when someone's a billionaire, so long as he knows it, but also for some reason gets really pissed when he learns that someone's *been* a billionaire this whole time and he didn't know it. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com instagram (new): @thousandmoviepod 2024-01-0810 min

Thousand Movie ProjectKid Hero Breaks a 38-year RecordWherein the narrator riffs about a kid who just broke a world record from his bedroom, and its resonance with something total strangers tell him three to five times a day at work. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com instagram: @thousandmoviepod 2024-01-0508 min

Thousand Movie ProjectDon't Say This to the GrocerWherein the narrator riffs about the retail/hospitality “season” being over, at least on Miami Beach, and about what the season entails, the ups and the downs, and contending with his own penchant for looking at the bad little things inside the better large ones. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com ig: thousandmoviepod 2024-01-0407 min

Thousand Movie ProjectThe Opinion We Hate to NeedWherein the narrator riffs about John Dillinger's death (execution?) at the hands of federal agents in 1933 and goes from there into talking all about Wikileaks and the Mueller report--but not in a conspiratorial or educated way, just kinda muuusing. Yknow? email: thousandmovieproject at Gmail ig: @thousandmoviepod 2024-01-0412 min

Thousand Movie ProjectSaul Bellow, Succumbing to Alzheimer's, Became Obsessed with PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEANWherein the narrator riffs about Boxing Day, the weird symmetry of big fires in Kurt Vonnegut's life, and the "necessary" bummer of looking at something like Nobel laureate Saul Bellow's sad, late, Alzheimer's-induced fascination with PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com instagram: @thousandmoviepod 2024-01-0211 min

Thousand Movie ProjectNew Year's EveWherein the narrator talks about New Years Eve at a rooftop bar, watching people work while everyone around them celebrates; Andre the Giant, Samuel Beckett, and the paltry school buses of the French; new year resolutions and a double-order in the produce section. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail dot com instagram: @thousandmoviepod 2024-01-0107 min

Thousand Movie ProjectEarbuds, Ghost Temper, Sontag Sex and Leonard's ExitEarbuds, Ghost Temper, Sontag Sex and Leonard's Exit by Alexander Sorondo 2023-12-2111 min

Thousand Movie ProjectPeter Makes the NewsWherein the narrator riffs about his old acquaintance Peter popping up in the news, Dean Koontz, neurodiversity and deathbed wishes.2023-12-2011 min

Thousand Movie ProjectDo You Know Your Grocery Face?Wherein the narrator riffs about: - Jill Lepore's new essay collection - People's grocery-shopping faces - God(?) - George Saunders - Finding a new place email: thousandmovieproject at gmail ig: thousandmoviepod 2023-12-1812 min

Thousand Movie ProjectDogwalk LadyWherein the narrator talks about taking the dog for pre-dawn walks, to avoid certain social obstacles, but how the whole pre-dawn thing is apparently laden with its own unexpected set of social obstacles. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail ig: thousandmoviepod 2023-12-1811 min

Thousand Movie ProjectThe Importance of Hating UpdikeWherein the narrator, wrapping up some thoughts on Nonfiction November, riffs on some realizations about John Updike and writing in general. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail 2023-12-1211 min

Thousand Movie ProjectInterview with Novelist Tess GerritsenWherein the narrator speaks with Tess Gerritsen about her new novel, THE SPY COAST, and tries to examine some themes from her blockbuster crime series, RIZZOLI & ISLES. email: thousandmovieproject at gmail 2023-12-0441 min

Thousand Movie ProjectThe Wine DemoWherein the narrator, tasked with giving out samples of wine at the grocery store, makes a mistake. email: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail dot com 2023-11-2134 min

Thousand Movie ProjectNonficNov: The Nietzsche Revalation and Charlie ChaplinWherein the narrator carries on with Nonfiction November, reading an essay by Nietzsche about the New Testament in which he reveals some pretty striking things about himself--then some digressions into Shakespeare and Chaplin and personal blinders. email: thousandmoveiproject[at]gmail[dot]com 2023-11-1220 min

Thousand Movie ProjectNonfiction November: Intro, John Berger's Big Meal, and the NCE of the KJV of TNTWherein the narrator, jumping on a trend to focus on nonfiction for the month of November, recounts some recent reading: John Berger's strangely interesting essay about the biggest meal of the day, and the Synoptic Gospels from the Norton Critical Edition of the King James Version of The New Testament. email: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail[dot]com 2023-11-0912 min

Thousand Movie ProjectThe ShametagWherein the narrator explains a recent hiatus, explains how two consecutive episodes got bundled into one before getting deleted, and then riffs (cuz why not?) about the thing, at work, that they fix on your chest when you forget your nametag. email: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail[dot]com 2023-11-0720 min

Thousand Movie ProjectMack AttackWherein the narrator riffs about a recent music discovery, cites two interesting passages from a George Bush biography, and tells a long story about the time he almost got a show with a podcast network. email: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail 2023-10-1629 min

Thousand Movie ProjectFull Moon HaircutWherein the narrator goes thrifting, has some success, gets a little high on it, and then gets brought back to earth by a friendly bartender; also tries to decipher what Barbara said about her haircut. email: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail[dot]com 2023-10-0921 min

Thousand Movie ProjectJames Ellroy's New Boredom in THE ENCHANTERS, and Grocery Store MindfulnessWherein the narrator gives a very circuitous review of James Ellroy's new novel and then digresses, recounts a couple of customer encounters at the grocery store that he's been chewing on, tryna change his ways, y'know? for a bit of art in the mail, send your mailing address to thousandmovieproject[at]gmail 2023-09-2921 min

Thousand Movie ProjectCalling Out Sick (Now With a Surprise Ending!)Wherein the narrator talks about feeling guilty whenever he wants to call out from work, and how this becomes a pretty vicious cycle considering how he always wants to call out from work. email: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail[dot]com 2023-09-2221 min

Thousand Movie Project"Pumpkin Shit"Wherein the narrator talks about finishing his new book, having no ongoing creative project, mindfulness and working at a grocery store during pumpkin season. want a doodle/letter? send your mailing address to thousandmovieproject[at]gmail[dot]com 2023-09-1716 min

Thousand Movie Project"Lincoln Lawyer" LifehardWherein the narrator watches a Netflix pilot and digresses into how LAW AND ORDER does a great job of capturing how hard it is to be alive. email: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail 2023-09-0821 min

Thousand Movie ProjectDay of Study: Long Island Serial Killer & Other Sunday ObservationsWherein the narrator, after a preamble about how emotionally hazardous it is to go on a news binge, binges the news. Topics include: - Long Island Serial Killer - Stressful readings - Mystery novelists hating cell phones - World's pretty big email: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail I took down the Patreon, since I don't feel comfortable collecting pledges without providing super-consistent weekly episodes, but if, in the meantime, you're interested in supporting the show, feel free to grab something from the eBay store! https://www.ebay.com/str/viewfromthebar 2023-07-2115 min

Thousand Movie ProjectJoyce Carol Oates, Thriller Test, and the Painful New Yorker ArticleWherein the narrator makes a connection between some pretty disparate things and ultimately reaches some conclusions about some thrillers he's been reading, a terrifying story about penises in the New Yorker, and men's insecurities. email: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail 2023-07-1421 min

Thousand Movie ProjectGroceries to the Top, the Contrarian, "I Hate the Internet!"Groceries to the Top, the Contrarian, "I Hate the Internet!" by Alexander Sorondo 2023-07-0712 min

Thousand Movie ProjectHome Alone, Can't Sleep, Acts of PassionWherein the narrator, home alone with Marie visiting family, gives a sleepless riff about some disturbing video he can't get out of his head, September babies, heatwaves crime, and acts of passion--then gets around eventually to what he actually wanted to talk about. email: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail 2023-07-0517 min

Thousand Movie ProjectDermatology, Ghosts, AliensWherein the narrator riffs about his fear of melanoma, some recentish revelations about aliens, and some wonderful ghost marketing. email: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail.com 2023-07-0313 min

Thousand Movie ProjectBestseller BingeWherein the narrator riffs about reading a series of blockbuster bestsellers, that billionaire Kraft and his escapades on Bird Road, plus some other things. email: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail 2023-06-1511 min

Thousand Movie ProjectThe Algorithm & Me | April DiaryWherein the narrator, in yet another diary entry from way back in April, riffs on the mysteries surrounding the eBay algorithm, and how he might or might not have tripped into one of its traps. email: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail.com 2023-05-0309 min

Thousand Movie ProjectEhpooky Combersacion!Ehpooky Combersacion! by Alexander Sorondo 2021-10-0719 min

Thousand Movie ProjectGene Editing, Biden's Bedtime, and the Ballad of GorgonzolaWherein the narrator talks about things he's recently heard, explores the ethics of tinkering with a person's genes in utero, and then contemplates an Uber driver. Check out my new eBook! THE MOON AND HER SISTER TURN THIRTY AND LEAVE Available on Kindle for just a buck! https://www.amazon.com/Moon-Sister-Turn-Thirty-Leave-ebook/dp/B094JHP5FM/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=sorondo&qid=1623125397&sr=8-1 2021-06-0839 min

The Blair ListAlexander Sorondo, Thousand Movie ProjectOn this week's episode, I virtually sat down with Alexander Sorondo, the founder of the Thousand Movie Project podcast. We had such a great conversation on his podcast that I had to bring him onto the show for you all to meet him! We talked all about why he started his podcast, the psychology of marketing, the best and worst parts of social media, reminiscing about the good old days of the internet (Tumblr anyone?), his dream person to interview, why he always wanted to be Jim Carey growing up, the biggest lessons during his 20's and the two...2021-05-0533 min