Seasonal cheer from the etymonline poetry corner and yours truly.

Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.

Love them!

Pizza Night

Actually, a shared opinion should never include the word “actually”.

There are no old whippersnappers.

We loved Train Dreams. One of a kind.

Jews on the same side as the J6 guy in the Camp Auschwitz sweatshirt say the darnedest things.

This is almost word for word what xenophobes in the 1930s and 1940s said about Miller's Jewish ancestors and relatives. He's so hateful he couldn't possibly recognize that of course.

Got the date wrong of course: it’s 12/16-12/21. You would have been so early!

Bay Area Alert: if you don't see Jefferson Mays' magnificent solo A Christmas Carol at Berkeley Rep this Friday you've only yourself to blame. It's a beaut.

Romantics will love Prue’s new show, Prue Leith, Mad Leith, Deep Leith.

According to an ancient bowtie from Western Costume, the Center of the World is at 46th & 5th.

More deep stuff from Etymonline.

Wait, what?

Showing Quentin's very first personal print at the New Beverly tonight.

@andyrichter.co should only have a great birthday, imho.

It's remarkable how not ever having been President has aged me.

Thanks for all the birthday wishes yesterday, guys & gals. My family gave me the two heaviest books in America. They know me so well…

Great season here at Oregon Shakespeare Festival: fine Julius Caesar, beautiful Quixote Nuevo, Shane (!), which is phenomenal and Lisa Peterson’s brilliant As You Like It. Get ye to Ashland before 10/26!

Why does The Horst Wessel Song keep running through my head this past week?

@jsmithcameron.bsky.social Happy birthday, ma’am!

In just a few days, you can see SPINAL TAP II: THE END CONTINUES on various large screens around the world. I’d recommend it, if only for the greatness. And the loudness. Plus Junior Mints.

This photo was taken of miners at the end of their shift during the Gilded Age before they were unionized. This Labor Day remember the blood, sweat, and tears that those before us paid to give the working class the basic rights we enjoy today. #UnionStrong #HappyLaborDay #NoGodsNoMasters

It’s long past time you all stopped using “Congress” when you mean “Republicans”. Not a single Democrat voted for this hot mess of an appointment. This endless grind to maintain a non-partisan tone, despite the partisanship of our fascist reality, is willfully blind, & a betrayal of your country.

Tom Courtney on TCM all day. You can search in vain for a false moment.

The Word of the Day: unconditional.

So apparently the vowels are the triggering parts of the triggering words. Ok.

London’s lovin’ it!

"A thoughtful, thorough, and entertaining portrait of one of the funniest people ever. Myers captures the humanity of one of the greats!" -MARC MARON on John Candy: A Life In Comedy by Paul Myers

Martin Balsam rules.

Major Major Major Major from Catch-22

Good song, though. Also heard a rumor that Jack Haley was originally cast as Doc Golightly, but was allergic to the makeup.

Ben Mankiewicz always apologizes for Mickey Rooney’s performance in Breakfast at Tiffany’s but not for the rest of it.

Nice low-impact poetry slams always available over at etymonline.com

there's an ice cream truck in my neighborhood that plays Paul Mauriat's "Love Is Blue" and i wonder how he can afford gas

Are we watching Code of Silence on Britbox?

English as a Second Lorneguage

So they’re just letting Terry Southern’s ghost pitch shows now.

Excellent quorum of CADS last night at the Grand Havana Room Beverly Hills.

Earth’s Glorious Shower Curtain

Congrats to Stephen Colbert for never bending the knee.

It will probably somehow spell the collapse of the entire legal system but I'm loving Docusign.

what idiot let her fight at that age

vimeo.com/1099438719/7... Dynamic Dames Conquer the Sea! Won't you help?

Always Be Closing

Dingo endorses Andrew Cuomo to watch baby

Imagining the book cover designer thinking: “Stephen King? Pastels!”