spring song by lucille clifton for #smallpoemsunday
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I think this alongside the nerfs to Chamber and Moondragon are to give him a fighting chance/be first choice in Ramp and Doom decks

It's not hyperbole to say that there's nothing in modern web infrastructure that would replace the Wayback Machine.

If you get upset at the idea of Wikipedia going away, you should be just as up in arms over this! In some ways, it would be worse?!?!

Well, I just got matching krackle splits on both of these cards, so I’d say 10,000%

When students are searching for their voice, they are searching for poetry. When they find their voice, they will have found poetry. When they find poetry, they will live to regret it.

—Mary Ruefle, from "Short Lecture on Voice"

@hbomberguy.bsky.social lol

Eid Mubarak, friends. May the world be unrecognisable by the next one

Obviously there's some simplification here (plenty Irish have served and facilitated the British Empire's colonial machinery and worse), but I'm listening to this stood up and saluting with the Marseillaise playing.

musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68

actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67

Happy Gary Retrograde everyone!

The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman

It was going on one, two in the morning, and we were shooting what I felt was an important scene for me, when he makes an attempt to be quote-unquote straight, in a suit, and at the end of it he gets emotional and locks himself in the other room. And I felt like, I’m not getting what I want—I’m not happy with it. Mike was happy with it. He called me the next day and said, “I know you weren’t happy with the scene last night. Believe me, we wouldn’t have gone home if I had felt we weren’t getting it.” And then he sort of became my psychiatrist and said, “You find it difficult to be happy, don’t you? You find it difficult to enjoy things.” And I said, “Well, sometimes. Last night was about feeling too tired and not feeling I was reaching what I needed to reach for the scene.” He talked to me then about when he was making, I don’t know whether it was Virginia Woolf or The Graduate. He said, “I didn’t enjoy it for a second. I was worried about so many things.” And then he said, “You know, this is never going to happen again quite this way. You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness.”

The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.

You’ve Done It Again, Michael | Jynne Dilling Even as the pace of work life quickened exponentially across the next two decades, email inboxes overflowing, media outlets proliferating and then contracting, websites and newsletters dominating and ...

An appreciation of Michael Silverblatt, one of the best literary podcasters before @davidnaimon.bsky.social, at n+1. Silverblatt died in February, but you can still listen to his back catalogue at the Bookworm (KCRW) podcast
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Sorry if you already answer this in the video (just started it now), but will you be doing a full play through of this by yourself or with Liam?

Didn't he make his name as a prosecutor under new Labour for pulling all night court sessions to send teenagers to jail for having a pinch of weed in their pocket? Could be wrong, but fits what he's saying now - was in it for the love of the game

apparently a lot of it was fictionalized. i checked however and "ireland" does seem to be a real place

Booking a hotel to watch a Let’s Play of Resi 9 and pointedly sitting on a chair in the corner and not on the bed

Definitely b for me

the singer jay kay being weird in his big mental moving house

we don't talk enough about how this paranoid freak released virtual insanity in 1996. years before the average person in the uk had even sent a text message, he was dancing like a maniac in his big moving gaff, enraged to the point of song by faxes, teletext and encarta 95.

Found this today, with only three days left to view it. Magical. Moss-therapy.

I remember listening to some of the early episodes which did have political stuff like Scarramuchi (I refuse to look up the spelling) but I think you all said that it’s much easier to do your thing with “animals being friends” and not “That Sean Spicer, huh?” And you’ve been right ever since

Sorry, I misspoke - when I say competitive, I don't mean tournaments or esports, but the belief that risk and "stakes" in making the game more fun, per one of those discord q&as from way back. If the inifinite climb was easier, they'd believe it was less fun, per their logic

I think SD are just too in love with the competitive aspect of Snap to consider changing or scrapping it. I also think the difficulty is ingrained in the business model - seasons start w/ high player rates & sp purchases (especially if the new cards are meta) as players rush to the climb over with.

Re Oscars, they shouldn't always have 10 best picture nominees (looking at you F1, and don't look so comfortable Frankenstein), but Weapons was maddeningly overlooked. It's great Madigan was recognised, but she's far from the only great thing about that film.

MARTY SUPREME score robbed

God loves. God wounds. God makes holes.

Favourite new fact is that Les Claypool auditioned for Metallica (was too funky, obv).

Really wish there was Foo Fighter style video of those auditions featuring extended shots of Claypool in line with Hulk Hogan.

Thinking a lot about Primus today.

COLOURSCAPE: An ottava rima in iambic pentameter, intersected by a sonnet in iambic monometer — such that the third foot of each line of the ottava rima belongs also to the sonnet.