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!”

I am what I am so that when I am no longer, I will have been what I was.

Hope all dads are having a good day. An honorable calling, one I wouldn’t have missed for the world.

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, TCM 1:45 PM, if you’ve never.

Downtown Los Angeles, 1937

it’s such a weird conceit of American journalism to enforce the batshit idea that people will only trust us to tell the truth if we ostentatiously lie about our (supposed lack of) personal opinions

Erotic poetry, NYC 2025

I’m going to miss Nicky Katt.

Would if I could! Never too much Wooten!

This whole thread is very interesting, but holy hell, THIS bit…

Happy birthday to my darlin.

Glengarry Glen Ross opens tonight. Can’t fire us now!

A reminder: when someone begins with “I’m no expert…”, they’re about to prove it.

Happy anniversary—90!—to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Happy St. Pat's to all. Keep it real, but keep it nice.

Happy birthday to our dear Miranda Richardson. Like all goddesses, she is ageless.

RIP David Johansen, who lived many lives.

Trump aside, imagine being lectured by the author of Shitkicker Serenade.

Great stuff