I had a terrific evening down at the pub chatting Rome and Shakespeare with the ever effervescent Austin Tichenor. Bastard recorded it! So I guess listen?

Dramatist @ignoranceisblixt.bsky.social discusses his audio drama EVE OF IDES, about the relationships in JULIUS CAESAR Shakespeare's audience knew so he didn't have to write. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.bsky.social www.reducedshakespeare.com/2025/03/eve-...

If you still identify as a Republican, you are on the side of Nazis. Which, but the transitive powers of complicity, makes you a Nazi. Stop kidding yourselves. There is no “reclaiming” your party. There are “Good Republicans” in the same way there were “Good Germans.”

Trump’s personal Deep State has axed a hundred years of progress in just a month.

Unimportant mini-rant: There is never a need to use the phrase “under false pretenses.” A pretense is a falsehood. False pretense is a tautology.

Playbook: 1. Run for election by saying government is broken, corrupt, and incompetent 2. Once in office, break government, indulge in corruption, ensure incompetence 3. Run for reelection by saying, “See how right I was! Government is the problem!” And most people fall for it.

The soundbite: p 137. “But for Mr. Trump's election and imminent return to the presidency, the office assessed that the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial." Sigh.

Whelp. That Neil Gaiman story is horrifying. Time to, once again, discuss separating art from the artist. However, that Calliope story in Sandman sure sits differently now. I hate that people will think that suffering and abuse leads to great art. It’s just suffering.