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Dan McCoy, writer for The Daily Show, podcaster with The Flop House, and ADHD neurodivergent brain-haver writes funny essays on pop culture.

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Famous Movie Quotes

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Published: April 18, 2025 13:00

Some housekeeping – turns out that doing two newsletters (this and Flop Secrets for my podcast The Flop House) is a bigger lift than I expected while also running the pod and attempting to finish a screenplay to a deadline (not, unfortunately, a deadline…

It Had Tubi You

https://danmccoyinterests.com/it-had-tubi-you/

Published: April 4, 2025 15:47

There's stuff I could write about on the more personal end of pop culture – like my increasing suspicion that (along with shame) my greatest psychological hurdle is anxiety, and my realization during a Nitehawk Theater rewatch of the original Candyman (as…

But Doctor, I AM Danliacci

https://danmccoyinterests.com/but-doctor-i-am-danliacci/

Published: March 21, 2025 13:00

I started this newsletter by announcing that, in my mid 40’s, I was diagnosed with ADHD – news that was a shock to me. I’ve returned to the topic occasionally, albeit less than one might expect from this newsletter's original framing as being about

Story Still Developing

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Published: March 7, 2025 14:00

We can learn a lot about America’s state of mind by checking on our movie villains. Cinema loves nothing more than a safely-hissable villain, and tends to choose a heel that either reflects the national mood, national prejudices, or both.  World War II…

Cinema Pandemica

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Published: February 21, 2025 14:00

2020 began well for me – mostly because it was when I first saw Tom Hooper's adaptation of Cats, the musical about cats who really want to sing at you about what their whole deal is before other cats come out to sing at you about what their

Good Rep

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Published: February 7, 2025 14:00

I’ll be honest with you. With the world where it is, I find it very difficult to write anything, including this rambly-ass newsletter. I’m not even a particularly threatened group. I’m a white, hetero, cis man, living in Brooklyn. He might gut my union

Off-Week Comic Funzone #10

https://danmccoyinterests.com/off-week-comic-funzone-10/

Published: January 31, 2025 14:00

Apologies – while I've kept up with the main posts, I haven't dropped one of these in a while. Anyway, here it is – your cartoon treat between essay weeks.FAMOUS MOVIE QUOTES

Noids Do Not Have Sex With Doodles

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Published: January 24, 2025 14:00

If there’s one thing the internet has taught me, it’s this: people are horny for cartoons. Boy do they love those fuckable doodles. The internet’s Rule 34 states "If it exists, there is porn of it," but the corollary may as well