Sir Tom Stoppard, playwright famed for his wit and depth, dies at 88
Microposts
Saturday, November 29
Thursday, November 27
Cousineau, Barry: “I was doing Long Day’s Journey into Night at the Pasadena Playhouse with a bunch of cokeheads - it’s usually a 3-hour play, we could bring it in just under 37 minutes."
Tuesday, November 25
davenewworld: There has never been a time in US history when SNAP was withheld nationwide, but the 2025 government shutdown will break that streak. So to summarize: The public has proof of genocide, pedo rings, foreign collusion, gaslighting, surveillance, urban occupation, police brutality, human trafficking, family separation, etc… and now mass starvation.
The Department of State’s Website Is Now Threatening To Revoke Trans People’s Passports
“Guys, a crossover between the tales of King Midas and King Oedipus would be motherf*ckin’ gold.”
“I made a joke about trebuchets a while ago and it went over a lot of people’s heads.”
“Honestly once you realize you’re not in trouble all the time and really no one has power over you, the second half of life begins.”
WarPaintJournal: “One day my mother casually said, ‘we never worried about you, you always knew how to take care of yourself.’ And it broke something quietly inside me. Because what sounds like pride also feels like loneliness. It means no one ever really looked too closely, no one wondered if the strong one was tired. It means I learned to carry the weight so well that no one thought to help me set it down. And maybe that’s the silent cost of being ‘capable’, you stop being seen as someone who also needs softness. You become the safe place for everyone but never quite have one of your own. And in that moment, I realized strength had been my survival, but it had also been my isolation.”
Okay, what kind of hideous, awful evil thing are we going to learn that these turkeys have done?
Efforts underway in Sacramento to repeal decades-old comic book ban - DECADES-OLD ban against kids having comics? WTF?
Jay LeSoleil: “You feel depressed and crazy because in every historical human culture known to anthropology, people sang together, danced together, and ate food together, and you don’t sing and you don’t dance and you eat alone in the dark….
“You are a singing ape and you are meant to know 50 dances by heart, which hilltops are sacred, and the names of every plant it is possible to eat.”
Saturday, November 15
Jeff Tweedy: “You just gotta keep making s–t up, scribbling–like sitting down and drawing with my kids. It reminds me to do that in my songs. It doesn’t matter if it’s good or bad. I think it looks great. Let’s hang it on the refrigerator.”
U.S. visas can be denied for obesity, cancer and diabetes, Rubio says
Friday, November 14
Trump to send 9,000 immigrants to Guantanamo including British citizens
Tuesday, November 11
Sydney Smith, letter to Sarah Austin, July 1836: “Very high and very low temperature extinguishes all human sympathy and relations. It is impossible to feel affection beyond 78° or below 20° of Fahrenheit; human nature is too solid or too liquid beyond these limits. Man only lives to shiver or to perspire. God send that the glass may fall, and restore me to my regard for you, which in the temperate zone is invariable.”
calliopechild: We all like to think we can handle change gracefully, and then someone rearranges our grocery store.
Mamdan cites Scotland’s baby boxes as he plans New York version
‘Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve’ Will Broadcast Live From Downtown Chicago for First Time
Tennessee Secretary of State Orders “Age-Appropriateness” Library Review
Tenessee AG Orders Library Book ‘Age-Appropriateness Review’
Monday, November 10
“Chicago is really putting on a clinic in bravery and relentlessness in terms of the response.”