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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 1h

For the genre (rules include no characters that are sympathetic) Barbarians at the Gate holds up very well. Late career Garner was as good as early or mid, Joanna Cassidy and Jonathan Pryce perfect as ever, Rasche and Riegert. Gelbart hell yeah. F Dalton Thompson pretty much plays his own douche.

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What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 1d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12h

It’s been fun being attacked for years for saying bigotry motivates these people more than low taxes and small government

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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 12h

All this stuff came on the heels of three years (~30 shows) in classical rotating rep companies with a ton of improv included (Keegan MK was an instructor at my grad school in Detroit every semester). Already used to what could be conflicting theories being treated as equally valid. Make your own.

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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 12h

Everything is fair game if it works and an infinite number of choices CAN work for any given moment. Always love/embrace what happens. Lots and lots of lessons from back then are still immediate for me. Every artist is from-the-ground-floor different and theatre is cooperation among infinite styles.

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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 12h

Worked with so many fun writers I became convinced acting is writing your character (not dialogue lol) in real time. Audiences are always smart and curious, like to be surprised and they sense when you’re not really really into what you’re doing. Just standing onstage should be fun and exhausting.

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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 13h

David Patrick Kelly is the only thing Only Murders got right this season. Jesus he’s still a gem. My hero.

Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 14h

Rutgers is handling stuff well. Proud to have been on faculty this year.

Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 15h

I got to work pretty closely with Anna Deavere Smith for a few months in my 20s. It was her, a half-dozen LAByrinth members and me, and it reprogrammed and replaced a lot of what I’d been as a young actor.

Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 15h

When I first moved to New York, I did energetic free stuff with Ridiculous Theatrical alums, played at La MaMa and The Brick, Kraine and Ohio, HERE, The Connelly and The Metropolitan Playhouse. Black-Eyed Susan gave great advice; so did Ellen Stewart and Sam Shepard. I still come at stuff sideways.

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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 15h

When I first moved to New York, I did energetic free stuff with Ridiculous Theatrical alums, played at La MaMa and The Brick, Kraine and Ohio, HERE, The Connelly and The Metropolitan Playhouse. Black-Eyed Susan gave great advice; so did Ellen Stewart and Sam Shepard. I still come at stuff sideways.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 1d

It is tacky for really famous people to be in TV commercials for products. Their gambling debts/boat repairs are not my problem, those roles should belong to actors like the Time To Make The Donuts guy and the actress who said "who are you calling a cootie queen you lint licker" in that Orbit ad.

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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 1d

Daria voice cast got paid about $300 per episode no residuals ever.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 1d

I very much hope the rumors that James Gunn is leaving DC are false nonsense. However, if they are true, I'm going to need him to pick up the pace on getting me a Dave Bautista Wildcat.

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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 1d

Flew to Russia in Jan 1993 without any music or book. Plane had one rock radio channel with three songs on repeat: Unplugged Layla, Walking on Broken Glass, Thorn in My Pride. Nine hours. Can and do listen to the second and third now but couldn’t for a long time. Layla can still rot.

Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 1d

Love this. My Pop was my intro. The last book he sent me, while he was fading with cancer, was Elevation, which I know gave him tremendous comfort. I keep going back to his 80s stuff to decompress.

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Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 1d

I'll say it: I think its rly annoying and frankly amateurish that writers are constantly told their villains must be understandable or have sympathetic motivation to be interesting or realistic when all our big villains irl are in fact rich, stupid, selfish, trickster dillweeds and always have been

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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 1d

You can be in character and still listen for and react with every sound and absence of sound from the audience, who are also a character in every play.

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 1d

I hope you’re happy, Jello Biafra

bring on the headless horses @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 1d

like most people my age, i've been with mtv since the first day. the channel was formative for me, the videos always leading me to more and more music. it was all i watched for a long time. this is really sad but expected news
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MTV is Shutting Down Its Last Music Channels, Marking the End of an Era | Cord Cutters News

Paramount Global has delivered a devastating blow to music fans worldwide, announcing the permanent shutdown of five iconic MTV music channels by December 31, 2025 according to the BBC. For 44 years, ...

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Beyond The Mac Rainbow @macrogers.bsky.social · 1d

The fixation on “paid protestors” as a right-wing talking point is fascinating to me. No one I know of, from resistance lib to full communist, pretends there aren’t a large number of Americans with sincere right-wing views, but the MAGA line seems to depend on casting doubt on the opposite.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 1d

It seems to come from the same root as the need for us to be virtue signaling. To want things for each other, to advocate for ourselves in person, to be around people we don’t know…these are things one surely must be paid for.

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Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 2d

15 years of every C suite going “we need to fire the skilled workers and do more internet” and this is how every business works now.

Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 2d

Wife did a gravel order from Lowe’s for me to pick up. I drive to the pick up dock. Guy with a radio comes out. I show him the order receipt. He radios inside. They tell him to tell me to tell my wife to download the app so that she can check in on it to let them know I’m here to pick up the order.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 2d

I am going to re-up this a third time:

Please read this excellent piece by Lincoln Caplan about why John Roberts—more than Mitch McConnell, more than Stephen Miller or Russell Vought, more than anyone else—owns the destruction of Constitutional order.

www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem...

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 3d

Re-upping:

Excellent assessment of John "Roger Taney" Roberts.

In @harvardmagazine.bsky.social , by Lincoln Caplan.

As careful, legally informed, judicious-minded writer as you're going to find. With an unsparing judgment.

www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem...

What Trump Means for John Roberts's Legacy | Harvard Magazine

Executive power is on the docket at the Supreme Court.

www.harvardmagazine.com

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@ Deep Cuts @deepcutsthegame.bsky.social · 2d

This week on Deep Cuts: The Game, Canadian comedy legend Don Lake! From sketch comedy beginnings to film and animation favourites, we talk career highlights, laughter, and a few deep cuts along the way. 🎭🎙️ #DeepCutsTheGame #DonLake

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Season 2 Episode 36: How Bizarre, with Don Lake

Podcast Episode · Deep Cuts: The Game · 2025-10-12 · 1h 14m

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 2d

This movie is so damn great. Every part of it. Especially the cinematography and matte paintings.

😱🩸Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🎃🔪 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 2d