went to see a ballet adaptation of Eugene Onegin tonight and I just love how the plot of so much of Russian literature is “there’s always some fuckin guy”

This is the kind of candor and accountability we need in politics!

The great Beckett actor Peter Marinker has Alzheimer's. He's doing Krapp again, which he last did in 1983. Beckett's estate has such respect for his work that they've allowed some changes to the staging to make the production about his disease - www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/j...

This one, Nirvanna TBTSTM, and Mile End Kicks make such a good trilogy to watch, with their shared use of retro technology and memory (both within and for the audience) in three different but comparable ways.

A/C discourse, which I will otherwise be avoiding please and thank you, has reminded me of this passage from Norman Malcolm’s memoir of Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein visited Malcom in Ithaca, NY, in the Summer of 1949 (his only visit to the US).

Just read a quote from director Peter Sellars that I like: "“I made the staging, but staging is too fancy a word. It’s just — you can see the music.”

If you're my age, you can remember the cigarette ads that used to be in every stadium in America. Then they weren't. Gambling companies have now taken up the same advertising space

“Leading up to [the opening of Blue Heron], I was literally selling tickets to my own movie. I’d posted on social media that there were still tickets available, and people were coming in and saying, “Can I have a ticket to your movie?” www.vulture.com/article/indi...

After finally getting around to The Godfather last fall, saw Shampoo last night for the first time. Filling in the holes in my moviegoing education. The larger political resonances of it seem to say: can a nation have its hoe phase, or is this the new normal?

the place where he stood was so treacherous and oozy

Missing from that “greatest living American songwriters” roster but deserving a spot is Eleni Mandell (seen last night at Polaris Hall):

Oh shit Gene look out!

i think if you dress like this, you deserve to do a little corruption

One of my favorite photographers, Duane Michals, passed away this week, age 94. I came across a postcard print of "This Photograph is My Proof" when I was 18 and decided that the hand-written insistence - "It did happen, she did love me!” was both the height and depth of all love. Safe travels -

Grim hearing a Kanye song used in a Polymarket commercial during the World Cup.

Salman Rushdie by Bryan Adams bromide fibre print, July 2007 National Portrait Gallery, London Yes, *that* Bryan Adams! What a wonderful portrait.

Ebert's twitter was the one who made me want to actually sign up and join in the first place. It was stream of consciousness timeline that was always interesting and entertaining, and I got to tell him there that he was the reason I knew about my 2 favorite films b/c of his reviews of them.

The indescribable comedy of being on an Amtrak train hurtling into severe weather and hearing everyone’s phones fire off the EMS alert one by one

Very fun to see/love two movies as a kid (Close Encounters, E.T.) and then see a third one decades later (Disclosure Day) that directly connects to them and delivers a similar experience.

Reggae with twinkling keyboards:

In response to “Write about what you know,” Elizabeth asserts: “If you already know it—if there’s no mystery—what’s the point in writing it.” That delights me down to my socks.

Hey everyone! I make a fiction podcast called Incoming that’s loosely based on the nuclear-missile-false-alarm that freaked out a bunch of Hawaiians in 2018, and our S2 started today!

IMO, hosting this MMA event at the WH is part of a larger project to rebrand the GOP as a populist party, shedding the Alex P Keaton stereotype it once carried. And in doing so, make them seem like the right party for working class people, even as they cut taxes for the rich & slash social services

Desus said the Knicks winning is like ‘a reverse 9/11’ & that’s pretty much the spirit 😂

The Dylan part is what's getting passed around, but the rest from the others is good too (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

The juxtaposition of the Knicks win/celebration and what’s happening in DC couldn’t be more distinct. Diversity, community, spontaneity, populism vs. tax dollars spent on Trump’s allies, friends and business partners.

“Scots discovering tailgating” could be a real Prometheus stealing fire moment

“All PR is good PR”:

Anthony Lane spoiled the climax of Schindler’s List for me, so I need to see the new Spielberg before someone else does that.

Was just part of a Hockney-related paper-making project last weekend: 6-8 different colors of construction paper were each soaked in pool water and mushed into pulp, and the activity was to scoop one color at a time and blend them in any fashion into one of the squares.

Galaxie 500 Live at Lounge Ax on 1990-10-12 https://archive.org/details/ajc03516_galaxie500_1990-10-12

Wish Fincher were directing the new Sorkin joint for the same reason I wish he'd directed Steve Jobs. The lack of his perfectionism is a distraction when continuing the same story. Still, now's the time to chronicle all of this.

EXCLUSIVE: Top Pentagon Official Admits Boat Strike May Have Killed Victims of Human Trafficking If this boat was running drugs, why was it loaded with so many people? theintercept.com/2026/06/10/t...

That’s called a bribe.

Advertisement, Minneapolis Star June 8, 1922

Pot calling the kettle sleepy:

Ironically, this would complicate things significantly for US intelligence as well as undercover law enforcement. Get caught with a burner? You‘re a spy or an undercover. Would necessitate use of COVCOM systems—which, if caught with, same problem.

Y’all need to understand that I’ve blocked my own grandmother. For real. None of you are safe.

in the final season of the hit fx television show the bear, the restaurant moves to hammond, indiana

Hearing “What A Fool Believes“ and am reminded that Minute By Minute is as if The Grateful Dead decided to make a full-on pop album.

"nearly 75% of instructional staff in American higher education now work outside the tenure system. Contingency no longer exists at the edges of academic life; it increasingly defines the structure through which the university teaches, adapts, + reproduces itself." working-mass.com/2026/06/04/i...

After consulting with my attorney I’ve been advised that what I actually want to say about this would be ill-advised so I’ll just say that he couldn’t possibly be clearer about which side of D-Day he’s identifying with

In the middle of the night… www.c-span.org/congress/?ch...

My big discovery of 2026 may be lounge pants.

It's now been 14 years since the greatest correction in newspaper history ran in Rockhampton's 'Morning Bulletin' in Australia.

The Broadview Six case reeks of panic sweat and bad power. Not justice. Not law. Just the federal beast twitching in a cheap suit, looking for protesters to nail to the wall. Good. Ask who pulled the leash. Then name the bastard(s).

Because all playwrights rehearse wearing tuxedos. Ed never played Willy; I believe it’s from a 1978 CBS special, “Saluting the American Imagination.” He came backstage to see Dennehy after a performance and said, “That shoulda been me up there on stage tonight!” Brian was mildly amused.

While the zine trend is spearheaded by independent artists, newspaper printers and traditional bookstores have been embracing it too.