The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

The United Christian Communion of Fuck This Guy

I was saddened by the first of those as well

What the…..?

Apparently today is World Frog Day? Please enjoy this guy, who’s been politely interested in me all day

OK.

Hoooooo…..yeah

Oh. Reading between the lines and oh. Oh no.

Offfffff course it’s like they’re out to prove that sometimes tragedy also writes itself

Ancient Drama
Victorian Literature
Caryl Churchill, Tom Stoppard, and British Theater
Feminism and the Family Unit in America
Stage Combat and Weapons Workshop

these were not all on the same day

Watching footage of angry Minnesotans throwing snowballs at ICE agents, thinking about the Boston Massacre, and wondering if we’re on the cusp of something again

Yes when I was teaching undergrads they told me about this. Almost none of them had ever in their lives read an entire book. I’d assign them a Shakespeare play to read and so many of them literally couldn’t parse the words on the page. Not their fault but I was agog

…..nahhhh…

Wow that is…..a lot of cookies

🤣🤣🤣

….but do you?

There seems to be a story here….

Absolutely amazing letter

Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88 A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter

No idea what kind of actor I’d be without him. His plays came along at career turning points, first “Rough Crossing”, my first gig out of grad school, then “R&G Are Dead”, my first official Off-Broadway contract. Loved all his work so much. Farewell, Sir Tom.

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...

Not that they’re….yknow

The Catholic Church does

Not the Nov 11 puzzle I did….

Oh wow nope I’d have to cheat. I’m sure they’re all within two years of each other maybe three

One of the men in the room should have asked him if he has no decency. The fact that he went unchallenged is part of the problem

William Shakespeare, asking questions that echo through the ages. Timeless.

Whew Chuck Schumer…..

As I do every Halloween, I find myself hoping for the missing footage from “Mark of the Vampire” to be rediscovered as well as, if possible, a full print of “London After Midnight”

Were the communists not drunk, or were the drunks not communists?