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Unsolicited writing advice: no. 8075: There is no such thing as serious writing. There are only writers who take their work seriously, and those who don’t. Tragedy is no more “serious” than comedy. Children’s writing is no less “serious” than writing for adults. Good writing is wherever you find it.

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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We don’t talk enough about Melville’s commitment to the bit

For Rob Weinert-Kendt—who recently saw all 5 plays in the 2025 Contemporary American Theater Festival—the only U.S. gathering of its kind that fully stages all its offerings is high-stakes, forward-looking, and in a fascinating environment. www.americantheatre.org/2025/07/29/a...

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This, via Architectural Digest (!), is one of the nicest and truest pieces I've seen about the Tiny Desk in terms of capturing the spirit of it and the people who make it work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka1D...

So much American use of the Britishism “sex pest” when “predator” is both correct and so much more effective.

“.. Jesus, that ear. He should donate it to the Smithsonian. .. He made all his records with four tracks, but you couldn't make his records if you had a hundred tracks today.” - Bob Dylan, on Brian Wilson #RIP “Good Vibrations” (1966)

As today is World Parrot Day I’m bringing back to the timeline my favourite rendition of Whole Lotta Rosie by Tico (parrot) and Frank (non-parrot) of Tico and the Man (a truly great squawk n' roll band)

This Archie Bland piece is such a thing. Beautifully written, heartfelt, triumphant. He's on Bluesky but not active. He should know this is a lovely masterpiece. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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I went to the Tate Modern yesterday. In the Rothko room with all the Serious Art Connoisseurs there was a ~5 year old kid who walked up to each painting, pointed at it and shouted 'RECTANGLE' at each one in turn, then left the room.

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Watches a romance flick backwards to see an insipid woman living solely for a man blossom into an individual with her own life.

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Been sitting with this impending news for a few days. A sad day for the DC filmgoing community. E Street Cinema is closing March 6. I helped run E Street from 2008-2015. We pioneered service-first filmgoing and made the space an institution for district cinephiles. In many ways, I grew up there.

Awful, awful news. E Street is the premiere location in DC for independent and foreign cinema, even if many seats and bathroom stalls were busted. I have been going there regularly for over twenty years. This leaves a massive hole, and many local festivals will suffer. Fuck.

[Walt Whitman tries to tell a joke] A priest, rabbi, and minister walk into a bar, sailor-men, merchant-men, walk into a bar, Workmen and Workwomen! into a bar, Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests, the carpenter dressing his plank, president and prostitute walk into a b

Sylvia Plath who died on this day in 1963. "we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real."

Happy Superb Owl Sunday! Here I am with Zeus, a truly Superb Eurasian Eagle Owl.

Sorta love that the NFL robot mascot is throwing out Mardi Gras beads, thus implying that there are other robots out there lifting their tops.

I KNOW some of you are horrible theater kids like myself, and I KNOW you will be interested in the news that Warners has put the entirety of Waiting for Guffman on YouTube with no ads.

Today, after a terrible crash at National, would be a good day to remember "the Man in the Water" from a previous crash into the Potomac, Arland D. Williams, Jr. His selfless heroism in 1982 deeply affected 15-year-old me. I suspect a lot of Gen Xers will remember this event—it made an impression.

Oh to have seen them: Marianne Faithful’s Irina, Glenda Jackson’s Masha and Avril Elgar’s Olga in Chekhov’s Three Sisters at the Royal Court, April 1967. And now all three are gone. Marianne Faithful RIP.

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There is only one good sentence in the English language that starts with “methinks.” You are not going to write a second one. Don’t try.

So here's what's cool about my job: Yesterday morning I said, "We really ought to have TWIN PEAKS available." So then a bunch of people scrambled, worked really hard, and now you can watch every episode of David Lynch & Mark Frost's original series for free on Pluto TV: pluto.tv/us/on-demand...

David Lynch on inspiration in diners.

not Lynch's movie, I know, but god, what a sendoff

I love this scene from The Fabelmans (& the ending that follows). What a lightning-in-a-bottle casting opportunity.

If watching period-set British TV has taught me nothing else it’s that we should bring back the tiny envelope.

oh please watch and enjoy

Every museum should have a Little Guys Tour, and at the end of the tour you can buy reproductions of all the little guys

I wrote about Hard Truths and the magnificent Marianne Jean-Baptiste.

you’ll eventually fall into the ocean

I am not saying i approve of drinking and driving, i am just saying i would watch this

Asterisks are ****ing great. I swear by them.

Great evening photo set.

is it love? i bet it’s love

(Pause for my favorite E-Thomps story: I was at WNYC once and signed in, and she had signed in earlier, so I saw her name. And this was an old-fashioned sign-in book with a column that said “FIRM.” And she had written in that column, “Yes I am.” No audience. Just a joke for the sign-in sheet.)

The first flakes have yet to fly so we're making one last adjustment to INCREASE our snow total forecast on the high end from 6-10" to 6-12" b/c we see double digits as attainable. See more at cwg.live

The National Weather Service has increased its snowfall forecast for tonight and tomorrow AGAIN. It's now calling for 8-12." We're sticking with 6-10" but expect a few areas to hit double digits. Read more at cwg.live