Joyce Carol Oates sitting across a desk from Kendrick Lamar: "So I'm putting a team together..." Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.

It Happened To Me: referred to a vi⁷ chord in class and completely lost the room for like the next five minutes

LUCE expanded their work into food delivery, when they recognized that immigrants were afraid to leave their homes to buy food. In this time of acute insecurity, their mission is more important than ever. Please support them if you can!

loved working on this last year, excited that it's getting released!

immediately recognized this guy but I’m sure I was not as shocked as his kid lmaooo

Production of Sweeney Todd but the set designer leans into the dental part of his job, so the chair is just this

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HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

if the new york post were on the side of good:

i am obsessed with my two kittens and, though i don't have kids, getting to see them interact with my visiting parents and their two visiting 7-year-old cats is a joy every day

back in my day, we had the woman who married the Berlin Wall but did she get a nyt profile? nooooo

No, but it gets SO MUCH FUNNIER THOUGH!! Josh Kraft (the son of the New England Patriots' owner) spent a RECORD amount of money on his primary campaign against Mayor Wu, just to get absolutely BODIED by 49 percentage points in the primary, lmfao. I love this goddamn state. 🫡

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

my cat, Julia Ward Howe, endorses this post

hello darkness my old friend it's not even 5 p.m.

after years of painstaking research, scientists have constructed the Worst Possible Slate for Cambridge City Council elections

well, at least Drake lost a ton of money tonight

All the thinkpieces about Bluesky don't account for the fact that it's occasionally 100% wall-to-wall baseball on here

Givin’g ‘em the ol’ razzle dazzle.

baseball is at its best as an ionesconian expression of tragic absurdity. they should make them all play nude

One of these shapes is called boo-ba and one is kiki. Which is which?

Long shot (mainly due to how little engagement I get on here), but I'm looking for freelance writers with an interest, or specialism in, classical music. If you are one, or know one, please give me a shout.

A friend thinks we should build a database of Pope Just Got A Sports Jersey facial expressions to calibrate his responses to non-Sports Jerseys events

AR-PHARAZÔN THE GOLDEN: What you have to remember also is he appeared in fair form. CHOTINER: The next time the invasion of Valinor and the destruction of Númenor come up, I'll keep in mind that Sauron was handsome when it happened. AR-PHARAZÔN: He was. Not that that excuses it. CHOTINER: Right.

you can play this in the background when you call and scream at your reps www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRe...

ok, that’s pretty good

Hear me out Slow Horses but Muppets, Jackson Lamb the only human

i’m just so mad because if we absolutely had to elect an unqualified media personality to be president we should have gone with either of the guys from CAR TALK

sigh Sexy Dante’s Infurniture Brattleboro

ok the actual lesson is that everyone has to campaign in the nude. like the greeks of old

future grandchild: like shit, from an ass? me in 30 years: Swear to God. Then he demolished the White House

entire article

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

This is important! Markey is running for reelection against a “generational change” Democrat whose position on trans rights is cynical wishy-washiness. It matters that his response hasn’t been to “moderate his position.”

“let’s speculate on Ea-Nasir’s vibes” is the best Extremely Online parlor game I can imagine

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

happy leopards eating faces day to all who celebrate

so what's in the news today

We’re celebrating 1 trillion pages saved on the #WaybackMachine! 🌐💙 Our month of festivities kicked off with the Del Sol Quartet's THE VAST BLUE WE 🎶, music inspired by our shared digital memory. 📺 Watch it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OAS... #Wayback1T #InternetArchive

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley." www.yahoo.com/news/article...

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking? Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

sorry I would have liked your post but it currently has 69 likes so I just had to say "nice" and scroll on