It’s the same old story all over again. You turn a lover into just another friend. I wanna love you. I wanna make you mine. Won’t you…lay it on the line.

I went in for both of these. Clearly if I’d booked them, *that’s* all anyone would talk about.

In practical terms, a performing arts career is just looking for jobs every single day till you die.

Obamacare briefly created a world where I didn’t need to accept every contract that came my way, just to keep union health insurance. A little cancer and a few spinal oopsies later, along with the dismantling of the program, the hamsterwheel of insurance needs trumping other considerations returns.

J6er Jake Lang got punched yesterday in Dearborn, Michigan during his anti-Muslim march.

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

Big fan of 65 year old out-of-pocket notations in the liner notes of jazz albums. Read this and then listen for yourself. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJI8... #jazzsky #musicsky

Is there any point, when you’re threatening to break a judge’s car windows so you can detain the teenage Supreme Court intern he’s driving home for protection, that you’re like huh, maybe I’m the bad guy?

If you haven't checked out SAGindie before, their site has a wealth of information to help indie filmmakers get their projects made. Easy to navigate, practical info broken down by state 👇 www.sagindie.org #Scriptsky #Filmsky

🚨Red Alert! New Episode!🚨 s7e9 - Force of Nature The warping. It's been killing us all along. That and the fact that Data can't train his dang cat. Spot steals the show, and the dilithium! Also, the environment! Re:Engage w/ every episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. linktr.ee/reengagetng

#Scriptsky! Pitch your WIP with two movie poster comps (X meets X). Here's mine: Launch

Ponied up for a month of newspapers.com, went right to the New York Daily News and quickly found this gem from Feb 16, 1936.

Interesting email here from Elisa New, Harvard professor and wife to Larry Summers, to Epstein, reflecting on Lolita. "...it's about a man whose life is stamped forever by his impression of a young girl."

The Catholic Church abuse files are full of people who claim to care for victims but don’t want to be embarrassed or go bankrupt. Not just the church, either - families. You see them rationalise & justify in real time.

Actors are creatives, too. No director or writer has ever fully designed a character that an actor gives a performance to. Apologies, but it’s a collaborative art form. All creatives.

I no longer ‘support’ NYT because the labor - recipes, games, celebrity puff pieces, PR-level arts coverage - lack of Metro & sports coverage - elementary political analysis that a dead president often beats - nevermind the vicious editorial slant against Gaza & trans people - doesn’t benefit me

THE MERCY MAKERS is a Kindle Daily Deal today! Only $2.99 for six hundred pages "alight with glorious epiphanies!" www.amazon.com/Mercy-Makers...

I picked this up at Clint’s (KC) as a kid, like halfway through the run of Gruenwald’s Squadron Supreme 12-issue. Hell yeah.

A colleague once pointed out to me that a huge problem of being an artist talking to executives is that you’re a contractor talking to people on salary. You just fundamentally don’t experience life in the same way. The above is a similarly comprehensive divide.

Sincerely, abolish the Senate.

I’ve been lucky, hitting the library sales this fall. Pop used to volunteer for a week for the one at his college. The union provides for 300lbs of shipping for this contract. Gonna use it all on books, records and DVDs.

I'm old enough to remember being an adolescent and watching this on PBS. billmoyers.com/content/secr...

Alfre Woodard turns 73 today.

Hell yeah, poster for Dreamcoat at what was the Entermedia Theatre, now Village East (by Angelika). :))))

So I finally watched THE BLACK HOLE after it came up on and thought it was...great! No joke! I had no idea it was a blatant space adventure retelling of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea which is both one of my favourite books and movies of all time, and I think TBH did right by both of them! 🧵

Every time we organize you rich guys pull a fast one We might lose many a fight, But we’ll damn sure win the last one. -Woody Guthrie

Leonardo Da Vinci : Birch Copse (A stand of trees), c.1508 Red chalk 193 x 153 mm | 7.59 x 6.02 in Royal Collection Trust ©His Majesty King Charles III 2022

I’m so fucking proud of Krista. Annie Wilkes for the ages. :))))))

Closed Misery today! Unemployed for a day and then doing my first Christmas Carol adaptation since 2009.

Closing the show today. Third closing performance in two months. And it’s the 150th or so closing show of my career. Probably the final violence-heavy performance I’ll physically be able to do. Couple million folks have watched me develop advanced arthritis in the neck/knees. No more falling down.

During a pretty heavy scene, from the front row: “Oh look at his little face!”

Gaining an hour before a Sunday matinee is a wonderful thing.

William Friedkin’s TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. was released 40 years ago today. boxd.it/4GOuOZ

“We’re The Wet Bandits!”

🚨Red Alert! New Episode!🚨 s7e8 - Attached Picard and Crusher get attached. Will they? Won't they? Welp, crap. Riker directs a dual society on how they can be less annoying to get into the Federation. Watch each episode of Star Trek: TNG & Re:Engage along with us Gen Xers. linktr.ee/reengagetng

MRI shows extreme arthritis in the neck and disc and bone spur problems inevitably requiring surgery. So stunt stuff is likely over after this show. Been a good multi decade run. youtu.be/7N70LFJSJFw

If you’re in a <100-seat theatre, those onstage can hear your hard candy. You do you, but I can hear you.

A reminder that you don't need to understand everything you see

Should be wearing a Greinke jersey as a show of solidarity between guys who got a 9-figure deal in LA after abandoning the Royals

Decoherence Media is publishing the first article in our 3 part investigation of the leaked web server for Rope Culture, the in-house magazine of notorious Nazi forum Iron March. There are hundreds of new Nazi email addresses and comments for researchers and journalists to dig through.

It’s me.

Another walk home, great place to work.

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Scott Glenn still out there being the best.

I was playing Cuomo off-Broadway during his expulsion, holding on by his fingernails, from public life. The 11 o’clock number was “I’ll Be Back” about the short memory of voters and the long memories of donors. Can’t believe how many people will be voting for this vampire again. Fucking crazy.

Still Howling after all these years! nbrehmer.medium.com/marsha-marsh...

The Taoiseach is not coming to Dublin Castle for the official declaration of Catherine Connolly's victory in the presidential election. Whether intended or not, it's going to look very confrontational for the head of government NOT to be there to congratulate the new head of state

This theatre where Krista and I have done two shows in a row has asked us to stay on through the next show. Artist-in-residence with your wife is a much better time than touring or jobbing around.

KRUSH GROOVE, directed by Michael Schultz, from a script by Ralph Farquhar and photographed by Ernest Dickerson, was released 40 years ago today. The cast: Blair Underwood, Sheila E., Run DMC, The Fat Boys, New Edition, and Kurtis Blow.