A grid photo of 16 different characters all played by the legend Tim Curry.

Tim Curry, the absolute legend, turns 80 today. This man took huge swings.

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

When you're 6'3", you and short ladies at the grocery store have an unspoken understanding. It's the social contract.

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

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Thanks so much to @thr.com and David Canfield for such a lovely interview!

People who bring their baby to the movies should be fined twice whatever it costs to pay a sitter.

When they said 'having a child involves making sacrifices' they meant *you* need to make sacrifices, not every hapless fuck that went out the same night you did.

Creative. 🌹

image from inside Artemis II text: i need more men to understand that two men crying and hugging in space after one of them announced they were naming a moon crater after the other one's late wife is actually what peak masculinity looks like.

My husband, explaining to my 8-year-old why Jaws is an anti-capitalist movie: If the mayor had just listened to the experts and closed the beach instead of trying to make more money, the movie would've been over 5 minutes after the first shark attack.

You all asked for more of my mom so here she is at her most adorable.

My mom is Chicken Banana’s biggest fan. She sends us chicken banana videos every day, we got her a chicken banana t-shirt for Christmas and it’s literally a lullaby at this point. Should I teach her the dance? #chickenbanana

Five cats walk towards a ground-level camera, three looking directly into the lens.

♫ When you’re a Pet
♫ You’re a Pet all the way

This is gonna be worth something someday.

This woman is facing a copyright claim for her own music by an AI company that took her youtube page and copied her.

This Zoom meeting where I forgot to unmute myself could have been an email where I forgot to include the attachment.

It’s literally all I want. Twenty-two episode seasons that return on a reliable yearly schedule and run for 5+ seasons. We used to be a country.

everything is awful and nothing matters so go ahead and start doing halloween posts

vertical image of a still retention basin and sunlit sky. the sky is split starkly down the middle, clear on the left, gray clouds on the right, sun at the center. the cloud line is reflected perfectly on the basin surface below the horizon. photo by Lindsay Schiel NEORSD

not ‘shopped. not cropped. not stock.

straight from the phone of stormwater inspector Lindsay Schiel snapped yesterday at a basin in Hudson.

Hey, billionaire tech guys; if arts degrees are so worthless why do you keep stealing all the work we created with ours?

You learn a lot about yourself when you hear a loud noise you aren’t prepared for

Respectfully, I don't think cooking together is romantic. Please move tf out of my way

“When homophobic hate comes my way and says, ‘Why did you have to make it a gay story?’ We say, ‘Because you ask questions like that. It’s not a gay story it’s a love story, you asshole” —Nick Offerman, his response to people bitching about his character being gay in The Last of Us.

My fellow inductees include the incredible Taye Diggs, The Skycoasters, and The La Barbera Brothers.

So proud to be inducted into the Rochester Music Hall of Fame on April 26! Growing up as a theater kid in Rochester, I was surrounded by so many supportive and talented teachers and institutions that helped shape who I am as a performer.

One of my favorite games to play as an adult is:

Did I take Tylenol 30 minutes ago or did I just think about taking Tylenol 30 minutes ago...