Still from The Bat (1926)
Still from The Man who Laughs (1928)
Did y'all know that if it weren't for silent film, Batman and The Joker might not be as they are today? The Bat (1926) and The Man Who Laughs (1928) were both inspirations to Bob Kane (also Bill Finger and Jerry Robinson in terms of The Joker).
He stole our money and handing it away to other people
Yeah, well they say that NOW because the right whined so much that their crowds were always so much smaller.
The Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists Inaugurates the Godfather Prize for Playwriting. Cash Prize. Submit here:
www.caata.net/godfather-pr...
#APIDrama #AsiansOnStage #AsianAmericanTheatre
(That I am also known as the Godfather of Asian American Theatre is not a coincidence).
Pork Filled Productions presents a short run of a new play, WHAT TO EXPECT, where climate change is a metaphor for mixed race identity (Middle Eastern, East Asian, we cover it all).
#APIDrama #AsiansOnStage #AsianAmericanTheatre
Pork Filled Productions and SIS Productions make INSTANT NOODLES '26 available on Video on Demand. Recording of the 24 Hour Play Festival built around the theme "The Very Model of a Model Minority"
#AAPIDrama #AsiansOnStage #AsianAmericanTheatre
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REPORTER: Yesterday you told us Israel was going to strike Iran and that's why we needed to get involved. But today the president said Iran--
RUBIO: No. Were you there yesterday?
REPORTER: Yes. I asked the question
Rep. Green Warns Federal Funding Delays Risk Efforts to Combat Human Trafficking During Major Events
You can access Rep. Al Green’s remarks by clicking here:
youtu.be/rVFCoDRTfzg?...
Pork Filled Productions and SIS Productions presents INSTANT NOODLES, a 24 hour play festival showcasing Seatlke area Asian and Asian American theatrical talent. Full house, but if you get on the waiting list, you’ll probably get in.
Massie: "Here is an email that was sent by the victims' lawyers to the DOJ. It was a list of names not to release. What did the DOJ do with this email? They released it! Literally the worst thing you could do the survivors you did."
Bad Bunny's halftime extravaganza was fucking awesome, but I've moved on to other things since this afternoon.
Too bad it's going to live rent-free in MAGA heads for the next several weeks (months?)...innit? 😂
i just saw someone say "Kid Rock makes music for the people who have tattoos of their kids but not custody" and hol up i need a minute
The NYT fired everyone who knew that sugar cane is kinda important to Puerto Rico.
They're dumber than dogshit over there. This is so fucking embarrassing.
It does really hit you that American artists of color continue to make these aesthetically incredible, thematically rich works of art and the white supremacists that rule this country are just complete dullards
Wife: [devoted wife and mother, kind, skilled child psychologist, volunteers for church and for foster care system]
Also wife, watching Seahawks trying to tackle Patriots QB: KILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL HIIIMMMMMMMMMMM KILLLLLLL HIMMMMMMM NOWWWWWWWWWWW
Side note: Sinatra’s mom Natalina “Dolly” Garaventa, a midwife by trade, ran an underground free abortion clinic, chained herself to a fence to fight for women’s suffrage and was an extremely influential organizer for the Democratic Party
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eamo...
A black and white photo of Franz Waxman seated, looking down, with sheet music standing up behind him.
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The history of Hollywood's Golden Age is linked with the story of Europeans fleeing the rise of fascism in the 1930s. This is especially true for some of the film composers of that era. None more so than the great Franz Waxman, whose birthday we celebrate today (1906-1967).
#filmsky #musicsky
Every society that has ever existed has had views that are mainstream and views that are fringe. The free-speech frauds who captured the discourse over the past decade understood this, but their true objection was that they did not unilaterally have the power to define which was which. For example, in a 2018 Times column, Weiss complained that “leftists” were engaged in a “concerted attempt to significantly redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” This was meant to sound sinister, menacing. In fact, this is politics. Every faction is always trying to “redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” In a free society, the government allows people to have those arguments. Such disputes are not a threat to free speech; they are free speech.
When I say that CBS News’s Bari Weiss understood this, you needn’t take my word for it. In November, shortly after being given the reins to one of the oldest broadcast-news organizations in the country, Weiss used identical language to describe her own project: “I think it’s about redrawing the lines of what falls in the 40-yard lines of acceptable debate and acceptable American politics and culture,” Weiss said at the Jewish Leadership Conference. “And I don’t mean that in, like, a censorious, gatekeeping way.” What’s the difference between her “redrawing the lines” of acceptable speech and other people doing it? What makes one “censorious” and “gatekeeping” and the other not? Well, because she gets to decide. That’s what so much of the free-speech panic was ever about: making sure the right people were in charge of what you see, hear, and read. Notably, this has very little to do with reporting the news, which is supposed to be what CBS News does. But if the point of installing Weiss was to ensure that she would gatekeep on behalf of right-wing interests, that is precisely what she appears to be doing.
The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Jim Beam Whiskey will shut its distillery for 2026 thanks to plummeting sales amid retaliatory tariffs from the European Union after Trump's tariffs and a bourbon boycott from Canada.
www.kentucky.com/news/busines...
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Is that good (no)
The morning that Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C to remove fetal tissue after losing a very wanted pregnancy, she learned the surgery had been canceled because the military’s health insurance plan refused to pay for it.
(Published Dec. 2024)
If Rev. Bautista does, in fact, sue DHS, he would be — by my count — the 11th clergy member/faith leader to file a lawsuit against the Trump admin this year (alongside at least 5 individual religious practitioners).
pay close attention to WHO produces this kind of bullshit, WHERE they get their money, and WHICH OUTLETS launder it
Opening up the new year in Seattle
A world premiere play from SIS Productions, Seattle Public Theater and Yun Theater about a thief who gives more than she takes. #AAPIdrama #AsiansOnStage #Asiananericantheatre
Sounds like how Communism worked.
Well, a bit late. Opened and closed Keiko Green’s EXOTIC DEADLY OR THR MDG PLAY. A sort of Asian American Identity 101 play for the 31st Century. We’ll receive by audience and critics alike. #asiansonstage #aspidtama #asianamericantheatre
Asian American bellydancer as fae with horns and wings.
Danced & spun fire at a brewery's take on the ren faire tonight. (Ren faire but make it fae! And burn a goat effigy. 😂)
(Yes that's beer being made behind me. 😄)
Fun fact: nearly all the Chinese electric cars use LFP batteries, which are super cheap, long lasting, use no toxic cobalt, and have a bit reduced capacity
LFP batteries were developed in the US at UT Austin
But they are only made in China - every one in the US currently is imported
