I guess you were warned (in the most New York way possible), ha

🤩 !!!!

(I saw the Mantello staging as well)

I was just gobsmacked through the whole thing, the score, the staging, the structure...I just felt like "I will never see another production as meticulously put-together as this"

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Welp, no one will agree with me, because my criteria for "great" are my own, but too bad. It's Assassins.

(Loitering, oops)

Ok, I have one. When I was a kid, our neighbor was crazy about Art Garfunkel, and played his version of The Waters of March a *lot* and I loathed it. And when I went to college I was loiering in a record store and heard the Elis Regina/Tom Jobim Águas de Março and was like OH!, this is phenomenal

Related: Don't Change by INXS continues to be a freakin' banger

I was at the grocery and heard the song (Can't Live Without Your) Love and Affection by Nelson. I hadn't heard it in probably 30 years or so. Anyway, it's a pretty solid piece of late 80s songcraft. Bay-behhhhh.

I am not including golf, which I think is less of a hobby and more of a means to an end. Perhaps his hobby is riding in golf carts.

Do we know if Donald Trump has any hobbies? I'm trying to picture him working crossword puzzles, or knitting, or reading, or playing chess, or baking, or being a cinephile or something, and I'm getting nothing. The best I can come up with is watching tv

Counting Blue Cars by Dishwalla

In my case, I took the opportunity to recharge all the rechargeable batteries and juice up all the LED battery-operated lamps

My brother in Christ, you are from New York City. It is legitimately impossible that you are completely unaware of this term

I'd rather be the devil than to be that woman man
Was nothin' but the devil, changed my baby's mind
-- (Skip) James 1: 2-3

to summarize, this week jd vance laysplained st augustine of hippo to the augustinian pope, while the pope visited hippo

The "pivot to AI" thing kind of ensures they'll end up as more of a punchline than a cautionary tale, though I suppose the company owners will end up laughing all the way to the bank

I think their biz model was flawed to begin with...I thought they looked neat, so I bought a pair on clearance. Every other person I know who has a pair told me pretty much the same story: I got them on sale, they're ok, I don't love them, live and learn.

I have a pair of Allbirds. They're ok. I assume the stock cratered because most of their customers thought like me: the shoes are fine, they fit a little strangely, I won't get another pair, whatever. They're trying to generate some cash with some shady pump-and-dump stuff. MBA bros kinda suck.

Athens Rock Lobsters

Very much not the point of this whole thread but I am EXTREMELY disappointed that no one has told me that there is a team called the Rock Lobsters and this is their logo!!!! Incredible stuff!!!!!!!!

Hold up, hold up, hold up. Did JD Vance just basically go "debate me, bro" to The Pope?

It sounds like a party that I would pay good money to not have to attend

Sid Krofft, 96, a Creator of Trippy Kids’ Shows Like ‘H.R. Pufnstuf,’ Dies

Goodby Sid.

Is it weird that the different "gold tones" in the gingerbread and the name of the office make me even more annoyed with the whole setup?

Like, I'm gonna go to sleep and wake up to find some kind of angry post where he's mad that the Pope has not taken an explicit position on the capital gains tax

It has been *hours* and I am still boggling over "Pope Leo likes crime" or whatever

This approach did not end well for the Catharists, or the Albigensians, or the Bogomils, or the Henricians, or the Sabellianists, the Arians, Pelagians, Semi-Pelagians, Monophysites, Jansenists...I could go on, but you catch my drift

freaking amateur hour over there, Mr. Two Corinthians

I had nightmares for MONTHS after hearing that "the Virgin Martyrs are bleeding AGAIN in eternity because you were mean to your sisters, Laura" and "you are, even now, deepening the suffering of Our Lord on the Cross by even THINKING about stealing a candy bar"