my senior thesis project was the script for a big, sprawling backstage comedy/drama about a production of Shakespeare's "Antony & Cleopatra" that took place at my college in 1934 and then another classmate produced it as part of her senior thesis on new-play production

how it feels to say "sprezzatura"

spend less on candles

The reason why When Harry Met Sally remains the ultimate romcom is that the romantic fantasies for 30somethings are 1. you meet someone through mutual friends who read your writing 2. someone you already know has an epiphany that they love you No further dating required.

As I do every year on 4/20, I will be following the Jeopardy! interview segment tonight by saying “Dream blunt rotation. Now let’s get back into the Jeopardy! round.”

how is this literally happening in real life

Bus stops all over San Francisco have an ad for some AI company that says "San Francisco has lost a lot of its soul" And it's honestly the most "hot-dog-suit guy meme" energy ever

One of my favorite fun facts to share with people is that this isn’t Teenage Taylor Swift… it’s Teenage Victor Hugo 🤯 So I had to ask myself: if Hugo’s “Le Roi s’Amuse” were a Taylor Swift song, what song would it be? Well duh, it’s just about the most “But Daddy I Love Him” play ever

parody-of-myself behavior: my parents drove down from Portland with a plastic tub of items (housewares, tchotchkes) to pass along to me, with crumpled-up pages of Willamette Week used as padding, and I’m almost more interested in the newspaper than the tchotchkes

if we want the vibecession to end perhaps we should be focused primarily on reducing the grinding existential dread of the future that even many objectively comfortable and highly-paid people seem to be feeling nowadays - and yeah, i do think there are practical things one could do to improve this.

this race-bending the new musketeers thing is taking it way too far, next they'll be claiming Dumas was black or something

this looks like a damn zine fair flyer

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Book Cover of the Day:

I believe that in order to take some small step forward, the word “bird” should be replaced with “saur” in all common names. Mockingsaur. Secretarysaur. Red-winged blacksaur. HUMMINGSAUR

Sued a man I saw was in Amadeus. #palindrome

"If anything, 'La Sylphide' at @sfballet.bsky.social is a story about giving up a good thing to chase a fantasy. If nothing else, I think we can all agree that more ballets would benefit from dancing men in kilts." #DramaMasks

Absolutely this. “What are you going to do with a degree in medieval studies?” Well, I’m absolutely loving the excommunication parallels.

My illustration of Life in a Roman Street 🏛️🍷🌿🚶🏻‍♀️

LLM stands for lin lanuel-miranda

"There is an urgent need for places where languages meet, stories cross, & people recognize their connection to one another." With community support, CAT is opening a permanent home for literary translation. Read the news in @publisherswkly.bsky.social. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

I remember reading Pride & Prejudice as a kid and finding Jane Bennet's horror at learning that Mr. Wickham is "a gamester!" rather old-fashioned. Turns out Jane Austen got it entirely right.

If any more awful men wish to file their resignation from Congress, for heaven’s sake, send them in. I’m quite at my leisure.

Increasingly I keep being told by normies that they would “love to go to the symphony someday” and it’s starting to drive me crazy because if you want to go, you can just go! It’s not a once-in-a-lifetime thing! It’s not expensive! You don’t have to know anything! Just buy a ticket and go!

Also, is this specific instance of celebrity-producer opportunism just another chess move in the ongoing feud between Kim Kardashian and Taylor Swift… because the play is called “The Fear of 13” and Swift, famously, loves the number 13?

to be fair (and i'm calling it now), they're just going to become sedevacantists or Eastern Orthodox

Asked my wife, "How do you think Philip Pullman came up with the idea for daemons?" and she stared at me so long that I thought maybe she had no memory of the His Dark Materials books until she revealed she thought I had said _Bill_ Pullman.

broke: would-be dictator Viktor Orbán woke: 19th-century anti-monarchist Victor Hugo

There are more of us than them and we are going to win.

On the pivotal scene in Victor Hugo’s “Le Roi s’amuse” that made me want to translate the play—and which is mysteriously absent from Verdi’s famed opera adaptation “Rigoletto.” See a free staged reading of my Hugo translation 2 PM Sunday 4/19 at SF’s Main Library.

listening to the broadcast of an opera about a powerful man who sexually assaults women, writing an essay about a classic play I translated where a king sexually assaults a teenage girl, reading headlines about a politician in my state who sexually assaults women… 🎼 I enjoy being a girl! 🙃

eric swalwell another great example of why you should never trust anyone over 30 who uses snapchat

Daily bunny no.3285 made it home safely

My whole problem is that when I was a teenager, I read that bit in OUR TOWN where Emily asks “Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it—every, every minute?” and gets told “No. The saints and poets, maybe, they do some” — and I went “Skill issue”

😑 but true

"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago." If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

With over 3000 specimens, this Flickr collection is still unrivalled when it comes to vintage hotel luggage labels. www.flickr.com/photos/waves... Type & illustration gold.

they really said "they should have sent a poet"

Total solar eclipse! Solar corona! From behind the Moon! #Artemis

Friend: I’m glad I’ll be able to see your work on the 19th! Me: Well, I’m proud of my translation but I do have to admit that Victor Hugo did most of the heavy lifting. Friend: Just like Jean Valjean with that runaway cart!

NASA's media and social teams are doing great work despite all of the illegal firings and cuts 🫡

One day, "It" will happen, by which I mean sudden and unexpected news that you want to celebrate. In such cases, you will want the right outfit. 🧵

Judas Iscariot was paid 30 pieces of silver for turning Jesus Christ in to the Roman authorities. But he made nearly 10 times that amount by placing a Polymarket bet accurately predicting the day of Christ’s death.

Excellent production of “The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?” at Shotgun Players last night, and I am reminded that “Women in deep woe often mix their metaphors” is a line I wish I’d written 🐐🎭

Château de Monte-Cristo à #LePortMarly (#Yvelines) En 1844, Alexandre Dumas père décide de s'installer sur le coteau de Port-Marly... Suite 👉 https://monumentum.fr/monument-historique/pa00087575/le-port-marly-chateau-de-monte-cristo