He looks familiar. Handsome guy!

Her work was prominently displayed at her vet clinic, the Cat Hospital of Chicago, whose amazing vets took care of our cats for about 15 years. Sad news.

Hope that’s not Cocaine Salmon

A *great* story about Cloris Leachman with a bonus about Ellen Burstyn at the end of the thread

Why—HOW—does this look so much like a Vermeer

Fuck yeah, Kat

Neil has been a class act fighting for aboriginal rights for decades and I'm so fucking glad to hear this

Has he foreseen whether he gets paid?

“I went to Nerd Prom and all I got was this bottle of wine, which I totally didn’t steal because I definitely would have drunk the whole thing anyway!”

In high school I had a couple of friends who wanted to do a B-52’s thing at a talent show, because they thought I could pull off being the Fred Schneider, but I was in fact too uncool to commit to it. Now I’m like, “I was once awesome enough that anyone would consider that?” I shoulda done it.

It’s probably even money on whether the mentalist ever gets paid

PLEASE NEXT MARILYN PROJECT ABOUT HER RELATIONSHIPS WITH WOMEN, I am begging

Truly beyond parody that the dumbest possible Reichstag Fire supporting the Vandal-in-Chief’s grotesque vanity project is being perpetrated by the Correspondents in collusion with the White House, who all attended their after-parties while an unwinnable war of choice torpedoes the global economy

License is a smoke show

Bible as prop comedy, who should be madder Carrot Top or Larry David?

This is, quite literally, why Post-It Notes were invented

It is one the greatest privileges and humbling experiences of my life have had athletes who competed in these games in my classroom

Gonna go eat dirt I guess

I couldn’t read this article because of a pop-up for Culver’s (which my wife can’t eat because corn syrup and fries that haven’t been fresh cut trigger an allergy and everything on their menu has one or the other), which then directed me to an order online page when I tried to close the ad.

THE GOLDEN CHILD and WITNESS, so you know exactly what to expect

This is what Jonathan Kozol always said in response to wealthy critics sending their own children to private schools who said “you can’t throw money at the problem”—“Why not? You do.”

Once again, as I do every year, I urge you to take advantage of the dazzling cosmic energy of April 24th, the fabulous spirit that gave us both Shirley Maclaine and Barbra Streisand. Breathe in that power and make something of it today. #BornThisDay

💯 and at risk of heresy around here, one of the reasons I like it better than Columbo

Incredible synergy on the TL @chrissteller.bsky.social

Before the end of Shakespeare day, I’ll tell the story of how the one time my wife and I met David Bevington at a University of Chicago social event, all he wanted was for us to dish about the people we sang with in choir, some of whom were his colleagues.

Kid me is *psyched*

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OH MY GOD I always watch this ep when it’s on because 1) primo Patrick McGoohan, including Prisoner references; 2) Columbo doing actual police work; 3) improbably Leslie Nielsen, but this scene is 🔥🔥🔥

The sweetest pic of Elsa Lanchester and Charles Laughton in their bee-keeping outfits, at home in Palos Verdes, California. Picture Post magazine, 1949.

Pollack the actor does not go unaccounted for, appreciation-wise, but every now and then it's imperative that we pay our respects anew.

WHOA

The only thing that would make this photo better is @honorszombie.bsky.social behind him with a set of the Fassbinder discs under a black trenchcoat

If only I’d had a copy of Buddenbrooks with me in front of the Thomas-Mann-Haus in Lübeck

This is the kind of thing I would do

Don knows this because he used to work at UW Madison, but this is also what happened to faculty (in which I include all instructional staff, to whom tenure protections should have been extended decades ago) at public universities everywhere

OTOH, his answer illuminates that those who rail against DEI want to deny humanity to the people who have benefitted from the opportunities those policies afforded them

Incredible story

Thinking of my friend @odienator.bsky.social

ATTN @paulduane.bsky.social

That tweet is Buadrillard, but it’s also Levinas and Gadamer, maybe even Girard

Wendy Pini!

Is @markharris.bsky.social the only New Yorker who wasn’t stressed out about this? bsky.app/profile/mark...

You may have your divas, your prima donnas, your coloraturas, even your basso buffos, but Chicago is the only town that boasts jagoff opera singers

Pandemic time: every day lasts for fucking ever but I still have no idea where the last month went

That was only *two years ago*?! Pandemic time is back, baby

He should go the *full* Winnfield: put a mark on his forehead and make him wander the earth like Cain (the biblical one, not the Kung Fu one)

May Day began in Chicago with the Haymarket Affair. It’s celebrated around the world, but suppressed in its home town. This goes some way toward changing that.

Bulldozers kill

It’s his “favorite book” because someone told him it’s the best-selling book OF ALL TIME, that’s all he needs to know