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30 Counterintuitive Trivia Tidbits About Historical Figures
Alyson Lewis
August 30, 2023
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This issue is about ‘The Flintstones,’ Eugene Mirman, Wikipedia controversies, historical trivia and more.
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Eugene Mirman radiates the energy of a warm, silly camp counselor. Talking on Zoom from his home in Massachusetts, the deadpan 49-year-old comic rocks a beard and a T-shirt while talking about the record label he co-founded last year, PGF Records, which puts out stand-up albums, including Bobcat Goldthwait’s excellent Soldier for Christ. Mirman is telling me about the label’s next release, A Close Shave With Heaven, the album debut of poet and author Derrick Brown. “It’s great,” Mirman enthuses. “Very, very excited for it. Derrick Brown I’ve toured with now for many years — one of the things I always wanted was to start a label, literally, to put out an album of Derrick’s. So, it’s very much like a dream coming true for me.”
The only thing we love more than a celebrity is a celebrity in crisis. It might even be true that for someone at the absolute peak of global fame, the only way to further dominate the world’s watercoolers (outside of dying) is to be involved in some sort of outlandish or horrific pickle. I personally don’t fully understand why it’s such a blow to our mental solar plexus when a public figure or celebrity gets one of their skeletons or horrible opinions yanked out of the closet. Between the shark-eyed psychopathy and unbelievably deluded worldview necessary to achieve the peak of fame, is it really surprising that an action star’s grasp of the Middle East is a bit lacking?
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