"Art has always required a tension between the artist's intentions, abilities, and the tools available to them. This holds especially true for anything not ruthlessly optimized." @barryp.bsky.social bringing the heat describing video games. And, also live theater.
My weird loyalty to Call of Duty as the only thing that shuts my brain completely off is still the weirdest thing about me? Maybe? I hate guns! I hate war! But I love Call of Duty! AHHHHHHHHHHH.
don't worry, i'm sure once they've finished intentionally crippling our ability to discover and tell each other what they're doing, they'll be satisfied and will stop there
I, along with the rest of the Defector loyalists, was very sad to hear about the passing of Dan McQuaid. They've been posting a lot of his best work and I was thrilled to revisit this piece which still lives rent free in my head.
defector.com/livvy-rizzin...
“Since you didn’t give me a peace prize I declare war on you” is the ultimate “you called me racist too many times, now I am racist”
This. I am done returning to the status quo of what got us here. I want universal healthcare. I want a maximum wage tied to the minimum wage. I want omnipresent, cheap public transit and walkable neighborhoods. I want Supreme Court and police reform, and I want the rich to pay their fair share.
"Here is another lesson that can be drawn from this: In the eyes of the state and its agents, all of the rest of us are walking around with a standing presumption, not just of guilt, but of murderous intent." defector.com/ice-agent-ki...
My year was 1999, so it was a lot of "yeah, but look Titanic comes in a GOLD box for your VHS purchase!"
(two days later)
"Sigh. Yeah, I'll give you a refund."
I often think about spending an entire year of my life working at Suncoast trying to convince patrons to buy the widescreen version of movies.
So in some ways I'm still wasting my time thinking about how I wasted time spitting into the wind to only have it just start to rain a few years later.
I bet Tuck's taffy machine would explode.
Russell Crowe in THE NICE GUYS.
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗
i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w
"Historical references aren't hard to find, here, even if none are quite exact. It's part HUAC, part Salem 1692, but also partly its own new thing, of this moment: campy, Evangelical, openly and equally hateful and opportunistic, and above all else, shameless."
the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok
This was after Colbert was canceled. Which was two months ago.
A nice profile of The Warehouse Theatre and my unfettered thoughts about theater and entertainment.
Featuring shoutouts to dramaturgs (no "e") and playwrights creating great television but also still writing plays!
www.americantheatre.org/2025/08/05/k...
Thinking today about how rich conservatives throw their money at 500 different people doing whatever they want and if 10 payoff they consider it money well spent while rich liberals will make you complete a 35 page proposal to hope to get $15k for certain prescribed activities.
this is so emblematic of the differences of the centrist democrat and the leftist democrat. centrists have nothing to offer and have to rely on fear to gain power while the left actually has a vision for a better world, this is why centrists have to resort to this rhetoric
@jonbois.bsky.social I need a slogan for a play we're producing about football called FOOTBALL FOOTBALL FOOTBALL FOOTBALL by a Tony nominated Pulitzer Prize finalist playwright (Kris Diaz). You're a character in it as the only voice of reason. Also the cast is all women.
(All of this is true.)
in conclusion please vote for people who prioritize mass transit and ticket people who back into parking spots for no reason whatsoever.
Well I think it's a combination of backing into spots and the fact that every parking lot is designed for compact cars despite everyone in our county having giant ass trucks.
At least 50% of people in Greenville back into parking spots now.
I feel like this is what's wrong with America.
a rooster standing in front of the door to a KFC restaurant, it looks pissed
i’m here you fuckaas bitch
still insane to me that dreamcorp llc was amazing, had big names involved, and is essentially lost media with no legal way to watch it and all mention of it scrubbed from the old sites
