With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.
We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.
Please stand by for more.
Holy. Shit. This is Reid Wiseman's video he took with his iPhone while at the moon 🌙
and as usual I am aware that everything is terrible
A promotional poster for the 7th annual edition of 54/54/54, featuring 54 songs performed by 54 singers at 54 Below in NYC on Monday, May 4 (5/4) at 9:30 PM… featuring a photo of me (Stephanie D’Abruzzo) as one of the 54 performers. For tickets/livestream/full cast information, please visit: www.54below.org/54
Plug-a-lug time, kids…
I’ll be spending a bit o’ time at @54below.bsky.social in a couple of weeks…
BROADWAY ORIGINALS on 5/1
&
54/54/54 on 5/4
and today only: use code FLASH54 for 35% off 54/54/54!
Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
Octavia E. Butler, 1998:
To explain the incredibly important lesson I think Americans should take from the Orbán defeat, I have to start by telling you about my high school friend Jonah who is the biggest LA Dodgers fan I've ever met. Weird, I know. But deeply relevant. Let me tell you why. 🧵🧵🧵
Aw… so glad you enjoyed it!!
Thank you, Artemis.
You saved 1968.
Sincerely… NASA couldn’t have chosen a better team of people for this mission. They have been a bright light in the shadowy time here. It’s been a joy to watch.
#nasa #artemisii
Holy crap, Jeff!!! That’s downright mythical!!
I’ll let you know if I ever spy this magical device!
There is very little that would convince me to brave the Times Square M&M’s store, but the remote possibility that a container of all-lime Skittles could possibly be found there just might be it.
Not since the halcyon days of Smoove B have I enjoyed an Onion op-ed so much.
I’m aching for the opportunity to perform this as a monologue.
Happy International Women’s Day to all the strong women who are too frickin’ exhausted to open all those emails for 15% off beauty goop.
Screw it. I’m too tired to deal with the lipstick…
In this house, every day is Stephen Root Appreciation Day.
A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".
2026 basically
My post was not about that. It was about my fascination with how an actor like Duvall chose to interpret and convey Chayefsky’s great writing.
Great writing is the cornerstone but in the end, it’s creative collaboration that sometimes takes even the most brilliant writing to a whole other level.
That’s not what the post was about.
Of COURSE Chatefsky’s script was brilliant. I was talking about Duvall’s specific read, and his choice to bellow those words in his singular way in that particular moment. A different actor may have made a different choice.
The truth of this, right?
(we have all known/been a Herb at one time or another, haven’t we…)
Oh, I wish I’d been there too! But I can absolutely imagine and envision it, because it’s such an Emilio thing to do, and I know it must have sounded gorgeous. Thank you for sharing this with me. Sending love as always.
oooooooooooh!!
I just looked it up and the COLLECTOR OF WORDS doc is also on the new Criterion (which looks soooooo good!!)! Can’t wait for Barnes & Noble Criterion sale time!!
Yes!!
I’m sure you’ve seen it, but in case you haven’t: the PADDY CHAYEFSKY: COLLECTOR OF WORDS documentary (I think it’s on HBO MAX now) is fascinating… his scripts were so finely crafted and honed, but then all those incredible actors made his carefully chosen words feel so damn natural.
Right?? It’s a great exercise for acting AND writing!!
I often watch film performances and think about what the text looked like on the page and how the actor saw those words and came up with their choices…
… and the one I think about a lot is how Robert Duvall decided to put across “it’s a big, fat, big-titted hit” in NETWORK.
Singular perfection.
The “La Marseillaise” moment is my personal litmus test.
If the day ever comes when my eyes remain dry after watching it, that will be the day I know my soul has died.
once more, with feeling:
RIP Bud Cort. How else would you even pay tribute to him.
Aw, Tim… you are the sweetest.
(I love playing between scenes! And improvising with our puppet characters isn’t only fun for big ol’ hams like me, but it also sometimes informs new character relationships and/or traits. Sometimes we get so deep in it that we say things that actually surprise us.)
