i had the opportunity to review Man of the Year, a funny and deeply moving musical about how lonely it is to grow old without growing up. "all you needed to be was there" is going to haunt me for the rest of my life.
riddlefence.com/review/man-o...
show's good. but i'm also a real sucker for peter pan syndrome/dead wife guilt stories. rare you get them both in the same musical
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it will either be very good, or very bad, or both, that i spent all week reading a textbook about existential psychotherapy before i was recruited to review a musical about an aging rocker's midlife crisis (Man of the Year)
that's such a good idea. almost every page of this book contains incredible writing
"marriage *is* a noose, you know" yeah ok i'm locked in for the next 800 pages
ran out of w.g. sebald novels to read so i started reading middlemarch. because having combed through the emotional wreckage of anglo-saxon imperial decline i need to go back and immerse myself in the emotional wreckage of its peak. as a treat after a long work day sorting through emotional wreckage
To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of power—to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformity—is terrifying and it will not stop here.
Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I’d strike the sun if it insulted me.
Any chance to repost this classic Busta Rhymes moment
further evidence for the "carney liberals are a conservative party" thesis
explaining prince andrew news to an american
The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it
It’s crazy the sheer number of supposedly rational people who were like “ok but it’s good at health stuff” early on.
18ish months so i have lots of time to be normal about it
nobody wants to hear it but the corollary to the "everybody is 12" theory is that "everybody is 40".
'in this house we believe in science' of course man. you're 40. 'our political opponents will respect the rule of law' they won't bro but you're 40, it's fine. 'its too loud, i have tinnitus' dude,
"I didn't say I wanted to. I said I will" got damn
ugh i guess i should update my linkedin too
oh whoops i dont think i posted about it here but i started a clinical internship last week. and it rules!!
finished my first week of seeing participants in a community clinic. i know it won't always feel this way, but right now it feels energizing, restorative, & affirming to do this work. savouring this sense of living the dream for the inevitably hard days later. but i am definitely in the right place.
This was one of the most interesting, candid conversations I’ve had while reporting from the tech beat.
@anildash.com did NOT pull any punches diagnosing what is happening with the tech industry.
If you feel like tech shit is melting your brain lately, read this
it must have felt so good to be the digital media manager when the word came down to unschedule the piece from the 60 minutes feed but no one said anything about unscheduling it from the international website
deeply annoyed to learn that irv yalom's line re: "sooner or later the patient has to relinquish the hope of having a better past" also applies to me
getting really into the spirit of the season by reading the personal memoirs of ulysses s. grant
actually that's a lie. the 18 month window when i rented a midcentury condo in a heritage building on jasper ave in edmonton was awesome and did fix most of my problems at the time
it has never actually worked before but this time i'm pretty sure that moving into a new apartment will fix me
Microsoft Logo w/ the Four Humors written on individual blocks of the window. Orange is Sanguine Green is Melancholic Blue is Phlegmatic Yellow is Choleric
this is me browsing sweaters on poshmark
