I’ve seen Debra’s show - it’s fantastic! I’m happy to have played a small part in Bly’s amazing story.

I had a terrific evening down at the pub chatting Rome and Shakespeare with the ever effervescent Austin Tichenor. Bastard recorded it! So I guess listen?

Eve Of Ides - Reduced Shakespeare Company Playwright David Blixt talks about Eve of Ides, his play and new audio drama which imagines the relationships between the main characters of Julius Caesar. David reveals the ways in which Eve of Ides ...

Dramatist @ignoranceisblixt.bsky.social discusses his audio drama EVE OF IDES, about the relationships in JULIUS CAESAR Shakespeare's audience knew so he didn't have to write. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.bsky.social
www.reducedshakespeare.com/2025/03/eve-...

The only place for true patriotic Americans who believe in democracy is fighting these fascists in power and their enablers.

As has been said, if you ever wondered what you’d be doing in Nazi Germany, you’re doing it now.

If you still identify as a Republican, you are on the side of Nazis. Which, but the transitive powers of complicity, makes you a Nazi.

Stop kidding yourselves. There is no “reclaiming” your party. There are “Good Republicans” in the same way there were “Good Germans.”

We’ve fought wars over much, much less.

Don’t stand for it. Make your protests so loud the corporate media shills can’t ignore it.

Impeach Trump. Imprison Musk. Throw the bums out!

Using unelected and unaccountable flunkies, he is championing White Supremacy and anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-democratic, and anti-American criminal grifters and sycophants whose only response to calls for accountability is, “I’m sure God has a plan for you.”

Trump’s personal Deep State has axed a hundred years of progress in just a month.

My annoyance is irrational, I know. It’s like hearing someone say McBeth instead of Macbeth. I go straight to righteous fury, and want to call down lighting upon the malefactor, smiting them with the heat of a thousand suns.

I might be a little tense at present.

Unimportant mini-rant:

There is never a need to use the phrase “under false pretenses.” A pretense is a falsehood. False pretense is a tautology.

Playbook:
1. Run for election by saying government is broken, corrupt, and incompetent

2. Once in office, break government, indulge in corruption, ensure incompetence

3. Run for reelection by saying, “See how right I was! Government is the problem!”

And most people fall for it.

The soundbite:

p 137.

“But for Mr. Trump's election and imminent return to the presidency, the office assessed that the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial."

Sigh.

Whelp. That Neil Gaiman story is horrifying.

Time to, once again, discuss separating art from the artist. However, that Calliope story in Sandman sure sits differently now.

I hate that people will think that suffering and abuse leads to great art. It’s just suffering.