Today is a good day. Right wing authoritarianism is not, cannot, and shall not be the future.

Rented a car so that I could drive over to New Jersey to catch the final performance of Follies at the Paper Mill Playhouse. Though I no longer remember the specifics of her performance, I remember the power of it, as she had *earned* the right to sing it, along with the ovation that we gave her.

Thanks @digitaljournal.com.web.brid.gy for having me....new novel! #unseasonablycold @mikesager.net www.digitaljournal.com/life/amy-eph... #booktalk available in hard cover and digital!! 1939, #NEWYORKCITY #LITFICTION A LITTLE #NOIR...

A movie couple who would definitely have a podcast

Virginia Dems listen up: The GOP is playing dirty and spending a fortune on a deluge of propaganda designed to TRICK voters about the prop about drawing fairer maps— Vote YES on the ballet, to temporarily adjust the gerrymandered maps. GOP knows how key VA is. Please spread the word!

Oh NO!

“What album immediately comes to mind when I say ‘masterpiece’?”

Tonight in 1990 — David Lynch and Mark Frost's TWIN PEAKS debuted on the ABC Sunday Night Movie. #TwinPeaks #OTD

I’m late with this one, but I’m home this evening and remembered the day and season and, listening to so some music, also suddenly missed the days of blogging. In any case, I wrote this once about Palm Sunday and Holy Week (and, as so often, times gone by), and here it is:

The now-deleted video on this post, I believe, was something very much like this one: youtu.be/1R-9KW_WeVk?...

A good turnout here in Valparaiso, Indiana - here after 2 1/2 (of 3) hours: #NoKings

A timeline cleanser

Though we sort of knew it already, the two black cats that we adopted are dark brown. Seeing them in direct, late winter, sunlight brings out their true color:

Find someone to look at you like Ed Harris looks at Amy Madigan:

How would YOU open the Strait of Hormuz? Wrong answers only

Is not tomorrow, boy, the ides of March?

It’s a might windy here today.

Name a movie starting with the letter “M” (“The” can be silent) #filmsky #moviesky My Beautiful Laundrette (1986)

Post a great photo of a musician Chopin

“Forget foreplay, Liza is about climax.” 🤌

Right now:

Amazing work

The evergreen post of evergreen posts:

Post a picture you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

Well played, TCM #TCMParty

Share your favorite black and white movie!

Let’s see em, you and your ride.

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This absolutely beauty of fox visits me daily .. She just likes to sit and watch... Love her slightly darker than normal fur.. This she's looking for den to have cubs in few months.. #wildlondon #urbanfox #foxes #tufnellpark #stunning

Five authors by whom I've read at least five books: Agatha Christie John Christopher Guy Cooper and Gordon Taylor E. M. Delafield Witold Rybczynski

Portrait of me at my desk. (Gus Leonard, in the room below, is making too much noise with his 'gentleman callers'.)

'The Sagrada Familia places the last piece of its tallest tower and reaches 172.5 meters' elpais.com/espana/catal...

This is such a good piece — not merely about the Washington Post, but a heartbreaking eulogy for the end of the age of literacy www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

A few words about the difference between a wildflower and a weed—and why the difference matters: chapter16.org/looking-clos...

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Happy 99th Birthday to the divine Leontyne Price, seen here bringing the Metropolitan Opera House to a standstill with her final O Patria Mia in Aida in 1985. The ovation lasted several minutes, and the great lady—overcome with emotion—fell to her knees in gratitude.

Here is hoping, now that Threaten, DeNye & Wynne are on the case, that @eggsbened.bsky.social is raking in the big bucks with all the marketing tie-ins and IP payouts.

here’s my passport.

This is, quite literally, food for the gods.

“Reverend Mother, I have sinned…”

impeach

They’re no longer Immigration and Customs Enforcement—they’re the Trump/Miller/Noem Gestapo, nothing less.

March on, march on

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence. “On the other hand, the regulations do permit the green stamp pasted over the cork to state the year of distillation and the year of bottling.”

Mood:

“Across the” My name for the Arkansas River in Tulsa. My grandfather‘s construction company was located in West Tulsa. So, every time that we went to visit him, we went ‘across the river’. My answer, above, to an elementary teacher’s request to name a river actually made it into our local paper.

“One shouldn’t discuss religion or politics” … this worship of politeness above all else has allowed real evils to grow unchallenged.