Jennifer Begakis
@jenbegakis
Begakis is fun to say. historian of capitalism finance & Disney. Ph.D. Candidate @Cornell | @UCBerkeley alumna. the opinions & jokes expressed are my own NFTs.
On June 23rd, I will be exploring histories of global and financial capitalism through a look at Disney's famous name and signature storytelling. my link to sign up: onegarden.com/fellow/jennife… @OneGardenHQ offers live & on-demand talks from a ton of academic experts. Including me✨
I always try to talk to strangers I hear speaking American English, and only when the environment is casual enough for a casual encounter, but last week had me reconsidering. Locker room Me: are you from America? “No, I’m Canadian” Me: ah Canada, famously not in America. This…
Someone just asked me if “sabbatical” is a Jewish holiday
me making plans: hey, do you guys want to go to the stasi prison or see a bunker after brunch? no one ?
There are a bunch of million-dollar flats for sale around here (built on top of what was the wall), and not in a refined memorial way, in a Montana development for service industry millennials to house-share way. The craziest part is they didn’t entirely erase the wall when they…
Berlin, Chausseestrasse checkpoint, 27 August 1962. I post photographs taken on my many Berlin visits in the 1950s and 1960s. 180 unique historic street images of East and West Berlin are in my book "Berlin in the Cold War" (Amberley Publishing). #Berlin #DDR #GDR
this changed my life
“The Summer Man” (Season 4, Episode 8)
they should open it Downtown Disney in Berlin it doesn’t have to be the Disney brand, I can just give lectures on a street corner.
i blame tempur-pedic for the declining birth rate. you bring back springs, you get babies
first person in history to have a healthy baby tooth and a healthy wisdom tooth in the same mouth. everyone just figured it out in there
If a 20 year old were to take the combined advice of Charlie Kirk, Mike Cernovich, and Jack Posobiac — they would be told they can’t drink, can’t smoke, can’t dance, and can’t listen to music — but they should also get married as soon as possible and go into debt to have kids.
Even seeing new builds and our new builds in Pacific Palisades makes me well up with a silent weep. man, you really cannot repeat or replace moods, memories, and the physical mandates of placemaking.
saw a dude wearing a shirt that said "either you love history or you're wrong"