If you can't find the humor and speed in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, you shouldn't be allowed to direct it.

"You see, there's this other really long play about AIDS, but that one is BAD..."

Today while discussing Belize's "I live in America" in ANGELS IN AMERICA, I had to stop myself from a long tangent about how offensive it is THE INHERITANCE literally sends its Black characters to Canada after they also talk about how they hate America.

Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92

It’s hard to express how important Iris was to ACT UP’s scientific development. She was the catalyst who started it all. Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...

Going to live in fear for the next three weeks that MEXODUS could win the Pulitzer.

No, maybe the problem was he was a bad university president.

I'm sorry I crossed the streets, someone unnerving and possibly inebriated man who started walking behind me, but I don't think yelling about me crossing the street while I'm a full block ahead is worth your time.

When I was so belligerent the consultants finally just requested a meeting with me, they said, "we gave the president references of our past work."
"What colleges were they?"
"Oh, we can't tell you that. It wouldn't be appropriate."

And not just any consulting firm: the consulting firm my university hired to do absolutely useless analysis

JADE - Angel Of My Dreams (Official Video) YouTube video by JADEVEVO

Teaching act two of ANGELS IN AMERICA: PERESTROIKA today
youtu.be/UEc-oy93lf8?...

4: Creating AI-Free Learning Spaces - Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning - Oakland University

Fed up with AI boosterism on our campus, my colleague Tim Donahue and I wrote this Teaching Tip for our Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. www.oakland.edu/cetl/teachin...

Pope Leo said he will continue to speak out against war despite sharp criticism from US President Donald Trump, telling reporters that the Christian message is being “abused” and that he does not want to enter a direct war of words with the president.

Judges Fired After Blocking Deportations of Pro-Palestinian Students

BREAKING: the judges who dismissed high-profile cases in immigration court against two international students who have advocated for Palestinian causes, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, were fired yesterday, alongside four other judges.

/w @haleaziz.bsky.social and @nicknehamas.bsky.social

When the tax software company customer service agent says you can't talk to any of their accountants because you're using the free filing system, they might as well be saying "too bad you're poor."

So many block quotes 😈

Doing my favorite part of academic writing: putting absolutely everything I know and all the research I've gathered into the draft before deciding what I actually want to say and someone tells me half of it needs to go.

UN report calls out Eurovision. Their boss dismisses it. YouTube video by Stuart MacLean

▶️ Watch Stuart MacLean's video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=70vN...

The Eurovision Song Contest has repeatedly chosen the side of genocide and is as good as dead to me and should be to all of us.

"We need to remove the stigma of using AI."
No we don't. Next question.

Research is fun.

Either that or let me know of Donald L. Brooks who directed rhe play is still alive and actually does have a copy of the script like le said in 2010 in a blogpost.

Unless anyone comes up with a better lead, I'll have no choice to but contact a minister who gave a eulogy for H.M. Koutoukas in hopes of getting in touch with somebody who can get me in touch with someone who has a copy of a script of a play Harvey Fierstein was in in 1971.

"And impeach them all."
Say that part too.

"Lower the temperature"
Yep.
That'll do it.

A message that begins with “a whole civilization will die tonight” and ends with “God Bless the Great People of Iran!”

Well that was awful

Your lips to Allah's ears

It's always (fuckin') Infrastructure Week

After the accident, he was detained & ICE now refuses to allow his attorneys to meet with him privately, a clear denial of the due process rights afforded to all under our Constitution.
 
ICE tactics are endangering our communities & violating the Constitution.

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🚨 Ever Alvarenga, an asylum seeker, was driving to work Thursday morning when he was rear-ended by an ICE vehicle. He is still in the hospital after suffering significant injuries to his head, chest, back, & hands.

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