Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in love. Now does he feel his title Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe Upon a dwarfish thief.

As @nancydreyer.bsky.social observed: Merriam *and* Webster? In *this* economy?

Yay! Can't wait to find out whomst I'm working with!

“I see what you’ve done, yet no.” Well, if you say so.

Kinda tatty, if you ask me.

How the rest of the sentence looks at the parenthetical within.

a 1950s Jewish movie heartthrob named Rock Moness, is that anything

[subskeet] I never saw "elicit" and "illicit" confused till a minute ago, or I woulda put them in the book. [as you were]

Ignorant lard-ass racist tools celebrating the tickets they just bought on the fucking Titanic.

I don’t think Americans with hypertension and various other treatable conditions deserve to die. Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel.

leaking leakers leak leaking

The bit about "They dropped ever so beautifully down" etc. is so clearly *intended* to signal that he didn't write this post that I'm baffled. I don't know how many more threads I can lose and stay sane. Ish.

Not sure which installment we’re up to today of “They couldn’t be fucking this country up more thoroughly if it was in fact their explicit goal.”

It is my sad duty to give half of Bluesky a stroke by sharing this Hollywood Reporter headline and subhead. Please note in particular the two words following "unlikely." If. You. Dare.

In which I pay tribute to the eloquence of David Modica, find out that I'm in the dictionary (twice!), and make a mistake (and own up to it)! All this and more...

Holy moley!

What's on his mind?, you probably weren't asking. Here:

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Thanks to my pal @stefanfatsis.bsky.social, I now know that I've achieved one of my life's ambitions and am cited in @merriam-webster.com.

I just blanched* at the sight of the price on a new hardcover novel, but then I saw the page count and the color returned to my cheeks. Somewhat. *Oh gosh here comes another verb no one can use anymore.

This is not, alas, birthday boy Ishirō Honda, as I'd been led to believe. It's special effects maestro Eiji Tsuburaya, posing with his friends Kingu Kongo and Gojira. So... BRB.

Happy Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's birthday!

today's random theater photo: Alan Webb, Gloria Swanson, and David Niven in rehearsal for Nina (1951)

Anne Baxter, Actress, #BornOnThisDay in 1923, in Michigan City, Indiana

Gary Cooper, Actor, #BornOnThisDay in 1901, in Helena, Montana

Robert Browning, Poet, Playwright, #BornOnThisDay in 1812, in Walworth, London From ‘Meeting at Night’: “Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach; Three fields to cross till a farm appears; A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch And blue spurt of a lighted match”

11 hours to go in the auction of the century, in support of those grand folks at @storystudiochicago.bsky.social!

Gas is $4.56 a gallon Let's check in on what the president is working on today:

This person has only five tweets, all from 2022, and one is not like the others

"I want to make sure we're voting on nothing substantive."

In the basement of the Baltimore Hotel in old Skid Row, we shimmied behind the obsolete tube boiler system to capture a view not seen in a century and the dusty, rusty patina made by time and nature.

I always observe this series carefully but rarely like, much less repost, but: Look at her. Look at that spirit. She's someone you know.

Just stumbled upon a little reel series by someone who's been reaching out to people with whom he fell out decades ago and he's shocked and dismayed that none of them want anything to do with him, just shocked and dismayed. And I'm basically: Oh, honey, you shouldn't be. I was there.

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yeah man, we’re all just dummies who don’t understand that you’re just judicial monks operating in a sphere of pure law [puts finger to ear] what’s this, clarence thomas gave another speech blaming progressives for hitler?

For the sake of pete, the past tense of the verb “to pet” is “petted.”

First, we denigrate, tariff, and threaten other countries. Next we deploy a thuggish state paramilitary force to arrest anyone they think looks foreign, frequently violating basic rights. Then we make travel a lot more expensive with a war of choice we can’t fix. Hey, why aren’t you coming here?

I'm not asking for a lot. Just a little basic copyediting/proofreading.

It has not.

I hope it wasn’t one of youse who said it, but: The notion that a film set in Ancient Greece must be voiced by actors speaking in Brit is a silly notion. (I’m still not sold on “my dad is coming home,” don’t get me wrong.)

today's random theater photo: Robert Horton, Agnes de Mille, Stephen Douglass, and Inga Swenson in rehearsal for 110 in the Shade (1963)

And happy Rudolph Valentino's birthday too!

Happy Orson Welles's birthday!

1.5 days remaining to bid on some pretty spiffy editorial assistance, if I say so myself, and to support the great folks at @storystudiochicago.bsky.social!

*the Bezoses’ involvement

Nope.

I just want to add, since this is breaking containment, that this can't be made right. these people, each one a whole universe, are gone. there can only be justice for the perpetrators; public remorse & restitution; & reform to ensure future aid systems are more just and less prone to imperial whims

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