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writer @nytimes , @nymag , etc / covering weird culture, sports, consumerism + more / peyser.eve @gmail

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For @GQMagazine I profiled Dr. Terry Dubrow of "Botched," the premiere reality TV plastic surgeon, an unexpected voice of caution in a world where extreme cosmetic surgery has become more and more normalized
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it's been six years (and three days) since i had a drink. hands down best decision i ever made in my whole life.
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Today marks 5 years since I had a drink(!!!) I wrote about quitting drinking and how the hard part comes afterward:
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the nyt sent me to coachella to try to figure out what’s cool nowadays. turns out: cowboy attire, vapes that look like pacifiers, being optimistic about the future
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for @VanityFair , I hung out with @jj_redick and wrote about how he went being from one of the most hated college basketball players ever to a widely beloved podcaster and ESPN commentator
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taking a hard look in the mirror and asking myself, "how many second round picks am *i* worth?"
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dry january, except it’s every month of every year for the rest of your life—cannot recommend this highly enough
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I wouldn’t be surprised if 40 years in the future, we’ll start a distinctly American tradition of 9/11 blowout sales and long weekends for white-collar folks.
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I talked to @AdamRippon and @mirai_nagasu about Valieva testing positive for a banned substance, and why letting her compete in the Olympics is unfair to other figure skaters
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this is maybe the most incredible thing i heard at the mensa convention: “I think I might’ve been born poly like I was born libertarian,” an elderly woman who had cornrows and wore a t-shirt with the word NERDY said. “If anybody knows about Ayn Rand, she was poly.”
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. @evepeyser reports on the strange but affirming experience that is Mensa’s Annual Gathering, where she learned that being “smart” and doing well on tests have virtually nothing to do with each other
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@NYTStyles since i can’t use first person in the new york times, i’d like to state for the record, here, that i have deep respect and admiration for this weird shirt
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The thing they don't tell you about getting sober is that at the beginning, it can be kinda boring. But it's an opportunity to learn who you are and what you really like. So I asked sober people about the weirdest stuff they do at night. Check it out:
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to be clear, I did not say this -- the travel influencer who i interviewed did
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“I would also go to North Korea, and I would go for free.” @evepeyser
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@TheMorningNews as a slacker, i found the whole “quiet quitting” thing particularly irksome
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The best movies — not the most critically acclaimed, but the ones that you’re captivated by — remind you not only what it means to be human, but what moves you and why.
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Knowing when to quit is the most important skill I've developed in my adult life. Giving up is great, would highly recommend, 10/10
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Branded goods create the texture of our consumerist lives. Half the stuff at the supermarket is licensed: Dole licenses Marvel for its bananas, Kraft licenses TGIF for its frozen mozz sticks. I explored this inconspicuous part of our world for @nytimes :
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ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha🙃
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The Nets are vibing and look happy to be playing basketball. The next weeks without Kevin Durant will test both those good vibes and the strength of the bench. @evepeyser writes
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big market nba teams need to get their shit together and get elderly dance crews. it’s the most charming time out entertainment.
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taylor swift lyrics when her travis kelce album drops: i'm like bolaño he eats baloney i’m a chilean poet he’s kadarious toney
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Thinking about how Pinochet’s government really had a Tortured Poets Department.
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@ranimolla one pair, have had em since 2020 :)
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I went to Mensa’s annual gathering and thought a lot about finding community and what it means to be intelligent… my latest for @NYMag
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if sean mcvay retired, he wouldn’t be “quitting” or “giving up.” he’d simply be leaving his full-time job (“football coaching”) to devote himself to his side hustle (CHUNKY SOUP)
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it took almost 2 years but i am finally shooting my shot
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@stephenasmith do you know what Cocomelon is?
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Organ transplants are something I think about all the time, especially since my dad got a new liver in 2012. I wrote about that, the Jerry Orbach eye bank ads, and more on @medium :
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the phrase “gives me the ick”… gives me the ick
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seldom tweet these days but wanted to share a few things i wrote this year that i'm super proud of:
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I wrote about doing a blind taste test to figure out the best oat milk, and why ranking and rating things is actually really important
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in a society with true gender equality, professional sports teams would have female mascots
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For the January 2023 @DimeUPROXX cover, I profiled Anfernee Simons, the shy and exceedingly humble Portland Trail Blazers guard who is having a career year.
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my annual contribution to @TheMorningNews ’s most and least important things of the year list
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i tell 1 friend i was trying to get meta’s ai to make a pic of me and my husband “white woman w dark hair and glasses and asian man with a beard holding a baby clown frog” and it was unable to generate a white lady and an asian man and suddenly it’s news:
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i had a really good idea for how to make Boston Dynamics’ robots less creepy so i proper blogged about it for @verge
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my favorite piece i wrote this year was a dispatch for the annual licensing expo in las vegas for the times. i've been obsessed with licensing (e.g. how minions get on your fruit snacks) for YEARS so this was incredibly, incredibly cool to do:
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also this is what meta ai thinks my wedding was like LOL
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in the google pixel commercial with giannis, why does the waiter want to take a pic OF giannis and thanasis (but not WITH them)? it would be so bizarre to go up to a celeb and ask for a picture and be like "not of us, just you babe"
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idk man i feel like the one they need to bench is josh mcdaniels
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BREAKING: The Raiders are benching quarterback Derek Carr, per head coach Josh McDaniels. Jarrett Stidham will start the final two games of the season.
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good time to repost the piece i wrote last year about going to the bar9eleven in Fort Worth, TX and the commercialization of 9/11
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Virginia country club thought it was a good idea to have a 9/11 themed menu for this Sunday, September 11. The “2977 Chowder” appears to be a reference to the number of people killed. (Via @ProducerSass )
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I wrote about Playmakers, a largely forgotten and very good TV show from 2003
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I wrote about how in the advertising world, the term "mood board" has become totally passé—now, designers create "worlds" for their clients (feat. @robynkanner )
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BREAKING: An M&M's rep told me that the brand's iconic spokescandies aren't going anywhere! My story about the ongoing spokescandy controversy and what it says about legacy brands' attempts to connect with young people:
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@stephenasmith do you know what Cocomelon is?
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let’s discuss that peculiar pink and maroon Nike zip-up shirt that Frances Tiafoe and Karen Khachanov wore at the US Open… my latest for @NYTStyles
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I'm moving out of Reno at the end of the month, and one of the things I am going to miss most about living here is all the weird cars.
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best movie of all time is still total recall (1990)
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i wanna find the one guy in the world who loves the what a pro needs ad
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@BrandyLJensen everything about this marketing makes me wanna die but it’s kinda cute…
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Medical reality television provides me with something that I’ve been missing: certainty and a satisfying conclusion.
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if you were an NYC teen in ~2009 remember how we used to say "I'm tight right now" to mean I'm pissed off? that was top tier slang and I think about it a lot
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whenever i see a commercial for furiosa i feel so glad they finally let chris hemsworth be australian
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I told Terry that Botched has made me never want plastic surgery. “Isn’t that fantastic? No matter how negative we go, we’re never going to stop [it]. It’s like a forest fire. If we can put a screen in front of the sparks coming off of the flames? Great.”
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The Slap made the Oscars matter again. Here are some suggestions for how awards shows can stay relevant: -Give the statuettes genitalia -Punish the losers -Put on a musical salute to the troops… …of Iran!
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geno smith, the best quarterback to ever do it
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Name the player that made you fall in love with football.
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I talked to *the* Phillie Phanatic about his hot dog cannon for @NYMag and wrote about the underappreciated art of in-game entertainment
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read my profile of @jj_redick in the latest issue of @VanityFair (!!)
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For @NYMag , I wrote about how experiencing pest problems made me think differently my relationship with nature, and ultimately, feel more human.
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several weeks ago the youtube algorithm told me to watch a channel called "idiots in cars" and now i am totally obsessed--
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@GQMagazine "Botched is a show about the tremendous downside of plastic surgery, a reminder that it's not all rainbows and sunshine and ski slope noses and perfectly round breasts. It’s gory and risky and, oftentimes, upsetting."
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Ever wonder how minions get on your favorite fruit snacks? I went to the Licensing Expo in Las Vegas to find out:
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@DangerBrooks these posts have the same tenor of an alcoholic getting very defensive about their binge drinking
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@NYMag i took my (relatively newfound) sports obsession to the next level when i profiled jj redick for vanity fair, which you can read in the december/january issue, or right now on the web:
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It often feels like we’re the victim of a big prank with no punchline. A good prank creates narrative coherence about cruelty and chaos.
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Super excited about my new gig as a contributing writer for @Medium . Here's my latest, on how sports saved me during the pandemic:
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@GQMagazine "After spending more hours watching Botched and thinking about Botched than perhaps anyone else in the world aside from the people who work on the show, I have come to the conclusion that it is the most perfect television product in American history."
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@jga41agher the “way off” is brutal, iconic, and i think it every time i miss badly while shooting hoops at the gym
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I wrote about Thanksgiving and tradition and learning to love the holidays and Favorite Chicken, a weird dinner my mom always made me when I was a kid
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If this season turned out okay for the Raiders, maybe things can turn out okay for me, and for you too.
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@erikslater_ i support these nets with my whole heart. can’t wait to see mikael and cam j on the floor!
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for The Distance/my 6 year soberversary, I wrote about how getting sober made me renegotiate my relationship between my present and future selves
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I wrote about how Jacque Vaughn turned the Nets into legitimate contenders, and what Kevin Durant's injury means for a team that is just starting to actually thrive
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I wrote about the waning relevance of all-star games for @nymag
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Sports all-star games were once a hallowed part of any pro sports leagues’ calendar. Why have they become so irrelevant in recent years?
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kate is a fantastic editor, and a genuine joy to work with. hire her!!!
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In March of 2020 I said, “I'll be laid off before I work in that office again" and honestly it feels good to be right
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M&M's confirmed that its suspension of its iconic spokescandies is simply a lead-up to its Super Bowl ad, so you can all relax now:
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@OldManAndThree @jj_redick “I don’t consider myself to be woke,” @jj_redick told me. But that doesn't mean he's apolitical. “I support trans athletes,” he later said. “It goes back to just a basic level of empathy. They want to be able to compete. They should be able to compete.”
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@VinnyBonsignore @derekcarrqb rooting for him wherever he goes 🥹
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got to see ben simmons’ first double-double as a net last night 🥹 forever rooting for my neurotic king
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Ohhhhh that's nice @BenSimmons25
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@lfitzmaurice remember to stay noided
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i am the least likely person to go to coachella since i hate crowds and drunk people, but the genius editors at nyt styles decided to send me there anyway to find out what the "vibe shift" is: gen z loves dressing up, vaping, and optimism
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Organ donation is persistently compelling and emotional because it raises fundamental questions: Who are we? Do we define our being by our physical bodies or intangible consciousnesses? (Some real mind-body problem shit!)
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@knguyen Me reporting this story was basically the sequel to Spotlight
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I love having a million different remote controls (I'm an old soul) so I wrote about them for @theverge 's "you, me and UI" series
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@yc the secret to getting to 10 is hitting the vape before you start
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then, for @nymag , i went to the annual mensa convention, wherein i concluded being smart is a scam but the need for community is real
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I know it’s a trick, but being hung up on gas prices, and subsequently feeling great satisfaction when I save a few dollars filling up my tank, is less emotionally taxing than pondering more significant economic woes.
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