LLM

Other People: large language model
Me: Lin Lanuel Miranda

Thanks! I was just thinking about the Black Gothic, so this is timely!

Tony Award Menu: Death becomes stir-fry with bok choy’d Collins and operation mincemeat; bread outlaw; chips and dipsy, maybe happy blending (smoothies), just in lime bars

Food prep work for my Super Bowl*

*the Tonys are tomorrow

Stack told Sammie he could drive the car on the way back 😭

Introduction - Post45 It was the summer of 2006 and I'd just met a guy and couldn’t stop daydreaming about him. He was good looking with piercing blue eyes and dark hair. He was quiet and cool. Beyond those details, I didn...

“Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart." For @dfmorgan.bsky.social, this encapsulates MSCL for many viewers: “a single perfect season — that was foundational in our understanding of self.” post45.org/2025/05/intr...

Check this out! What a blast to read, write, edit, and think about My So-Called Life 30 years after it went off the air too soon.

YOU are the eggman? THEY are the eggmen? IN THIS ECONOMY?!

This was my comedy studies Super Bowl: Brittney Michelle Edmonds, @dfmorgan.bsky.social, Bambi Haggins, and J Finley discussing critical Black humor studies last week at Pomona College.

PAUL TAZEWELL!!!

Listen, I know every Black person's head turned when they heard that line

Ana Gasteyer said after this weekend y’all non-Broadway folks are gonna know I’m not playing with these VOCALS!

I know Rob Schneider can't believe they put him next to Al Sharpton. I LIVE.

This is textbook what evangelicals *should* be opposing, if they’d ever read the Bible, but they’re too busy tormenting trans kids instead

Some of y’all didn’t go to two services on Sunday and junior church followed by Bible study on Wednesday and it shows because this is like Book of Revelation cliffsnotes.

the dog house on fire with an i voted sticker saying “they can’t do this it’s illegal”

And song of the year too.

Imagine someone wrote a diss track about you and its record of the year

Sean Duffy’s most significant transportation experience is that scene from Real World: Boston where he sings “More Than A Feeling” in the car with his housemates, which doesn’t seem like enough...

a close up of a person 's face with the words how ' bout that on the bottom Alt: a close up of a Tim Curry 's face made up as Dr. Frank N. Furter from Rocky Horror Picture Show with the words "how ' bout that" on the bottom

Can you believe that the Tim Curry's first film role was as Dr. Frank N. Furter in Rocky Horror Picture Show? He's so iconic I can hardly stand it.

Today is Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday and I spent it exactly how he’d have wanted: trapped in a coffin-sized box with while thumping and screeching sounds close in on me (MRI)

“If we wait for it to work itself out, it will never be worked out! Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

The writers on Saved by the Bell had a lot of wild idea they wanted us to accept, but the wildest was probably when they acted like if Zack and Slater fought that it’d be pretty even with Zack coming out ahead.

In da clurb, we all fam*

*grading frantically with tears in our eyes

Yearly reminder that Scrooge’s nephew Fred in Muppet Christmas Carol is hot.

Where’s the gritty prequel/reboot about Tim Curry’s character in Home Alone 2?

I want a Christmas movie about the guy that Kevin thinks is his dad and follows in Home Alone 2: Lost in NY. What was his Christmas like once he got to NYC?

Radicalized against mansplaining as a child when I watched Batman Returns and that lady said “He’s like a frog that became a prince!”and that guy said back “No, he’s more like a penguin!” about literally The Penguin.

Call for Papers!

Critical Humor Studies in Times of Crisis: Aesthetics, Approaches, and Applications

Hybrid Conference April 25-26 at Pomona College
Deadline 1/15/25

Keynote discussions featuring Luvell Anderson, Bambi Haggins, @dfmorgan.bsky.social, and Cynthia Willett

criticalhumorstudies.org

“Nobody has ever looked hotter than” and your answer is Judy Garland when filmed by Vincente Minnelli

I’d be here for a comedy series starring Tichina Arnold and Tisha Campbell as empty nester best friends who move in together.