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Pat Cassels is an Emmy-winning writer and actor. He is a former staff writer for Full Frontal with Samantha Bee and CollegeHumor, and was a consultant on the first season of Adam Ruins Everything. He’s contributed to The New Yorker, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The New York Times, and writes a column for Atlas Obscura.

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    The Story of the First No-Nut November
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    J. Robert Oppenheimer Is Gonna Party His Ass Off at the Oscars
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    What Do We Want…?
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  • August 30, 2023
    Say What You Want About Joseph Stalin, At Least He Wasn’t Old
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  • August 8, 2023
    Sorry to Interrupt This Wilco Festival, but There Are Some Bad IPAs Going Around
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  • March 2, 2007
    Words Never Used in the Titles of Remotely Good Films
    by Pat Cassels
  • February 14, 2007
    Tom Skerritt’s Speech to the Cadets in Top Gun Is Probably Long Enough as It Is
    by Pat Cassels
  • August 26, 2005
    Totalitarian Institutions That Would Have Been More Fitting for George Orwell’s 1984, Considering How That Year Turned Out
    by Pat Cassels
  • June 24, 2005
    The Extended Family of Thespian Rip Torn
    by Pat Cassels
  • May 18, 2005
    Embarrassing Things That Might Happen to You While Using a Lightsaber
    by Pat Cassels
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