I grew up around pear trees and my wife just got me a pear tree for our anniversary. :))))))

Like with NFTs, they were informed that if they didn't go all in in public, they wouldn't get paid. So they decided that since "cancelling" doesn't seem to ever amount to anything but they can leverage it later anyway, why not. This math ain't hard, y'all.

"the artist is working class and needs the job, yet wonders how they are going to afford paying for health care when their workplace makes them sick"

Washington Post Editorial Board headline: “The Texas gerrymander freak out. What’s happening in Texas is not a threat to democracy.”

Washington Post Editorial Board headline: “Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss. The redistricting scheme was always a power grab by Democrats. Voters went along with it.”

The Washington Post Editorial Board was fine with Republicans gerrymandering in Texas.

But when Democrats responded in Virginia, it’s a “power grab” that “plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss.”

Yup, tens of thousands of performers you’ll never see or hear of also do this.

My most liberal idpol radlib take is that I think it's pretty bad that
right wing forces are actively intervening on behalf of the Klan with the full weight of the state legal apparatus

The Shooting, followed by Reds. Great day for celebratory blu.

Make yourself into the world’s most versatile graphic equalizer. All the faders you can imagine. Great (long road) way to unlock your “voice”.

Grew up one foot in rural Missouri and the farmers absolutely thought the townies’ votes should be invalidated. Macro, micro, the attitude is the same.

Online communists going at Boots Riley is a perfect encapsulation of online communists rather than Boots Riley.

What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

No one is Howard W Campbell in this bunch but when it’s over they’ll all claim they were working on it from the inside. “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

Gotta read Thinner again.

A pro-gun Texas actor I was in grad school with reckoned with his opinions and changed to loudly pro-gun-control after this (and a few months earlier there had been a professor shooting in a classroom in our building, while were upstairs. One of only two folks I’ve seen change sides in my sphere.

Rod Serling stands in a glowing doorway, surrounded by the title Serling: A Journey Into The Twilight Zone with TV's First Visionary, by Alan Sepinwall

Very excited to reveal the cover for my next book, Serling: A Journey Into The Twilight Zone with TV’s First Visionary. The book will be published by Grand Central on October 13 of this year, and pre-orders are open now: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/alan-...

My day job is with a cannabis company and lemme just tell you that today is something else from this angle.

8 children killed in Louisiana mass shooting The alleged gunman was killed after a police chase, according to police.

BREAKING: Eight children were killed in an "extensive" mass shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana, police say. The suspected shooter is also dead.

Poster for Fault by Scooter Pietsch and directed by Jason Álexander at Chicago Shakespeare Theater (now in previews).

FAULT, by Scooter Pietsch, is funny as hell. At Chicago Shakespeare Theater (now in previews at Navy Pier) with a fantastic cast led by Enrico Colantoni (from everything) and starring Rebecca Spence (The Madison) and Nick Marini (Cobra Kai). Jason Alexander directed and lucky me stunt coordinator’d.

Harpo Marx energy (complimentary)

Add The Onion Field and I’m in. Long as he’s not to get any residuals.

YUP

Pop’s side is Very Irish and I look like I was spawned in a coal mine in Leitrim. Ma’s side is Very Scottish and I’m just getting to know the history a little. I’ve just found an ancestor named Grace Maudlin who married into the Bells and Jardines along the border. Grace Maudlin is a fantastic name.

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Super fun Hart Buchner (also great in Terror Train, Bulworth, Breaking Away and he’s the Director of PCU and High School High which makes him Stoner Royalty for my micro generation). His pop, Lloyd, was one of my pop’s favorites. (Check Lloyd out in Point Blank and as Mayor Hill in Batman TAS.)

AI chuds will lie that actually cars or the internet also had to be pushed this hard and: No they didn't. That isn't true.

The best way to teach an actor the falling down stairs stunt is to start with watching Tim Conway do it in slow motion.

Thanks, Owen! Laertes is an incredible actor named Gabriel Vaughan, also a successful voiceover artist and narrator. This was Maine Shakespeare Festival, circa summer of 2000.

This story is crazy! The Jim Dolan had a Knicks fan obsessively monitored at games just because she was trans.

whoever this is, they are amazing

Laertes vs Hamlet YouTube video by Erik Gratton

As another show is about to open featuring my fights and stunts (FAULT, by Scooter Pietsch, dir Jason Alexander at Chicago Shakespeare Theater), I can’t show you those pieces of violence but I can show you this favorite one from Hamlet, more than 25y ago. Rehearsed this ~100 hrs. Laertes vs Hamlet.