John Hendel
@goodplaywright.bsky.social
Stage writer, scatterbrained oaf, he/him
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John Hendel
@goodplaywright.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Anyhoo, there are plays to write
“He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned” is an utterly batty way to use one’s own name
December 16, 2025 at 7:06 AM
“He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned” is an utterly batty way to use one’s own name
Vulture Cinematrix No. 629: Dec 15, 2025
I got 9/9 Correct
Score: 2626
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I got 9/9 Correct
Score: 2626
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Cinematrix No. 629: December 15, 2025
Can you name an Oscar-nominated Michael K. Williams or John Williams movie?
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December 16, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Vulture Cinematrix No. 629: Dec 15, 2025
I got 9/9 Correct
Score: 2626
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I got 9/9 Correct
Score: 2626
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Christ on a crutch! What kind of fascist hash foundry are you running here??
December 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Christ on a crutch! What kind of fascist hash foundry are you running here??
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At this point any professor approached by a student armed with “Donald Trump says X and my religion says he’s right” should assume they’re on track to be fired and just lay into the dumbass in front of everyone
Update on the Texas A&M professor / cell phone video situation: the professor has been fired by the A&M president
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September 10, 2025 at 6:54 AM
At this point any professor approached by a student armed with “Donald Trump says X and my religion says he’s right” should assume they’re on track to be fired and just lay into the dumbass in front of everyone
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I might’ve seen this year’s dumbest of these boxd.it/c33csv
A ★★ review of My Secret Santa (2025)
Mrs. Doubtfire meets Miracle on 34th Street meets Out Cold. More movies should be three movies.
boxd.it
December 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I might’ve seen this year’s dumbest of these boxd.it/c33csv
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Whatever AI runs the Wordle Bot is frankly a screw job. “Hmm, I guess it’s fine you tried a word with all the letters you found already, but something that couldn’t possibly be correct is what a smart person would do”
December 14, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Whatever AI runs the Wordle Bot is frankly a screw job. “Hmm, I guess it’s fine you tried a word with all the letters you found already, but something that couldn’t possibly be correct is what a smart person would do”
Green Book
Late night question for the gang: what’s your LEAST favorite Best Picture winner that’s not Crash?
December 14, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Green Book
We could solve nearly all of the problems in the United States if everyone listened to me and me alone for about a year or so
December 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
We could solve nearly all of the problems in the United States if everyone listened to me and me alone for about a year or so
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Ballplayers can do whatever they want in the off-season. Some of them are open about their politics. That's fine. Shaw is just off his rookie season. His position is not secure, and he plays with a lot of foreign-born players. He is again acting like someone whose priority isn't baseball.
Very wild a rookie is acting like this: wgntv.com/sports/cubs/...
December 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Ballplayers can do whatever they want in the off-season. Some of them are open about their politics. That's fine. Shaw is just off his rookie season. His position is not secure, and he plays with a lot of foreign-born players. He is again acting like someone whose priority isn't baseball.
“If you take away speeding I’ll go crazy” whoops just cracked my screen hitting the block button
December 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
“If you take away speeding I’ll go crazy” whoops just cracked my screen hitting the block button
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the brits should be so embarrassed by their transphobia, they got completely bamboozled by an American evangelical plot. they think they’re so much smarter than us but they got turned into a country of jug hooting bigots without even needing to be told it’s what God wants.
December 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
the brits should be so embarrassed by their transphobia, they got completely bamboozled by an American evangelical plot. they think they’re so much smarter than us but they got turned into a country of jug hooting bigots without even needing to be told it’s what God wants.
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Propaganda. We thought that it was gauche and problematic to have government propaganda about public accomplishments and so people forgot about them. People consistently like the military more than ‘the government’ and you know what a large part of that is? They have an advertising budget.
I think about this, also in terms of vaccines, and really struggle with how you have a free society that doesn’t fall into this trap in one way or another. solved problems become invisible and the solutions become the source of conspiracy theories.
This seems logical but Dems solved* the whole problem of old-age health care costs in the mid-1960s and then they lost five of the next six presidential elections because by 1968 it was a solved problem and no one cared about it.
*Yes oversimplifying here and the rest of course.
*Yes oversimplifying here and the rest of course.
December 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Propaganda. We thought that it was gauche and problematic to have government propaganda about public accomplishments and so people forgot about them. People consistently like the military more than ‘the government’ and you know what a large part of that is? They have an advertising budget.
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if the last year has taught us anything it's that the right to drive like a reckless shithead is way more valuable to the average american than speech
December 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
if the last year has taught us anything it's that the right to drive like a reckless shithead is way more valuable to the average american than speech
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two 9 year olds discussing whether spiderman could beat a frankenstein
December 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
two 9 year olds discussing whether spiderman could beat a frankenstein
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It costs $0 to retweet this photo of Sy Ableman on the cover of Wife Magazine
January 6, 2025 at 5:36 AM
It costs $0 to retweet this photo of Sy Ableman on the cover of Wife Magazine
Time’s Pissant of the Year
December 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Time’s Pissant of the Year
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This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.
Resisting the urge to start a bit that Quentin Tarantino died (crushed by a falling billboard outside the Chateau Marmont)
December 12, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Resisting the urge to start a bit that Quentin Tarantino died (crushed by a falling billboard outside the Chateau Marmont)
Vulture Cinematrix No. 625: Dec 11, 2025
I got 9/9 Correct
Score: 2569
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I got 9/9 Correct
Score: 2569
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Play at:
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Cinematrix No. 625: December 11, 2025
Can you name a Sandra Bullock or Nicole Kidman movie with a number in the title?
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December 12, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Vulture Cinematrix No. 625: Dec 11, 2025
I got 9/9 Correct
Score: 2569
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I got 9/9 Correct
Score: 2569
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Play at:
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If you ever want to feel insane one method is to describe the plot of LOVE, ACTUALLY from memory
December 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
If you ever want to feel insane one method is to describe the plot of LOVE, ACTUALLY from memory
TikTok may not have Twitter’s nazi problem, but it is a firehouse of gleeful & willing dogshit stupidity. The fuck you mean you skip anything involving Dick Whitman on Mad Men?
December 11, 2025 at 6:26 AM
TikTok may not have Twitter’s nazi problem, but it is a firehouse of gleeful & willing dogshit stupidity. The fuck you mean you skip anything involving Dick Whitman on Mad Men?
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someone should research why boomers clung to youth and demanded cultural hegemony well into their 60s while millennials went to pure "we are old and going to die soon and our zeitgeist expired years ago" mode before hitting 40
Figured I'd share this on Bluesky because this is the most 38 year old video I've ever seen in my life
December 11, 2025 at 4:11 AM
someone should research why boomers clung to youth and demanded cultural hegemony well into their 60s while millennials went to pure "we are old and going to die soon and our zeitgeist expired years ago" mode before hitting 40