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the person who coined the expression « content creator » to describe art and entertainment deserves to be in a specific circle of hell
December 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
the person who coined the expression « content creator » to describe art and entertainment deserves to be in a specific circle of hell
I have a bad habit of buying more books before I finish reading the last set of books I bought i cant help myself I just love used bookstores
December 12, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I have a bad habit of buying more books before I finish reading the last set of books I bought i cant help myself I just love used bookstores
And the days are not full enough
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by a field mouse
Not shaking the grass.
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by a field mouse
Not shaking the grass.
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
And the days are not full enough
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by a field mouse
Not shaking the grass.
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by a field mouse
Not shaking the grass.
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There's a Robert Hughes line about WWI's impact, "where's the Picasso of England? The Joyce of France? Dead in a trench" and it's akin to what happened to that generation of artists. The Sondheim or George Balanchine of the 90s-00s: we likely lost them.
December 2, 2025 at 12:28 AM
There's a Robert Hughes line about WWI's impact, "where's the Picasso of England? The Joyce of France? Dead in a trench" and it's akin to what happened to that generation of artists. The Sondheim or George Balanchine of the 90s-00s: we likely lost them.
Devastating news. One of the best playwrights of our time
November 29, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Devastating news. One of the best playwrights of our time
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Setting a compass to earth: The Ancient of Days, 1794, by William Blake. Today was his day.
November 29, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Setting a compass to earth: The Ancient of Days, 1794, by William Blake. Today was his day.
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To expand on this, in my view the central, core tragedy of the Antigone (the play, not the [removed for brevity]) is that Antigone is right, but that Creon, while wrong(ish) *also* has a point: civic authority and unity are necessary in the aftermath of civil chaos and war.
I actually think it is telling that these folks, morally bankrupt as they are, can't imagine the core tragic dilemma of Antigone - that a person can be fundamentally bound to two irreconcilable and yet immovable obligations.
Which is one of the great recurring themes of literature, but here we are.
Which is one of the great recurring themes of literature, but here we are.
October 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
To expand on this, in my view the central, core tragedy of the Antigone (the play, not the [removed for brevity]) is that Antigone is right, but that Creon, while wrong(ish) *also* has a point: civic authority and unity are necessary in the aftermath of civil chaos and war.
Opening night for Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone (playing Gordon, the dead man).
What a playwright she is; not a single wasted word and an endless amount of ideas to explore. I almost think I like it better than Eurydice (but to be fair both productions I've seen of eurydice were not the best)
What a playwright she is; not a single wasted word and an endless amount of ideas to explore. I almost think I like it better than Eurydice (but to be fair both productions I've seen of eurydice were not the best)
October 16, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Opening night for Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone (playing Gordon, the dead man).
What a playwright she is; not a single wasted word and an endless amount of ideas to explore. I almost think I like it better than Eurydice (but to be fair both productions I've seen of eurydice were not the best)
What a playwright she is; not a single wasted word and an endless amount of ideas to explore. I almost think I like it better than Eurydice (but to be fair both productions I've seen of eurydice were not the best)
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You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose.
October 15, 2025 at 1:43 AM
You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose.
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Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
He's supposed to be serving cunt as a guest judge on drag race goddammit, not leading us into fascism!
October 1, 2025 at 2:15 AM
He's supposed to be serving cunt as a guest judge on drag race goddammit, not leading us into fascism!
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To be whole is to be part;
true voyage is return.
true voyage is return.
September 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
To be whole is to be part;
true voyage is return.
true voyage is return.
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Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare
www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
September 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare
www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
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The numbers in this story stun me. And i have seen a lot of theater is dying moments.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/t...
The Broadway Musical Is in Trouble
www.nytimes.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The numbers in this story stun me. And i have seen a lot of theater is dying moments.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/t...
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Me (not him) on Kirk - www.patreon.com/posts/bandit...
Bandits | @dick_nixon
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September 16, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Me (not him) on Kirk - www.patreon.com/posts/bandit...
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And this should go without saying, but I guess it doesn't: You can and should deplore political violence, which is both unacceptable on its own AND because it makes us all less safe, but it does not mean that you airbrush a legacy of malice and darkness as a "spirited disagreement." Tell the truth.
September 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
And this should go without saying, but I guess it doesn't: You can and should deplore political violence, which is both unacceptable on its own AND because it makes us all less safe, but it does not mean that you airbrush a legacy of malice and darkness as a "spirited disagreement." Tell the truth.
There's some comfort in majoring in a theatre, an industry which has always been dying and where unemployment is assumed, rather then going into a field that is newly dying
"Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1% and 7.5% respectively ...
That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which is just 3%"
That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which is just 3%"
Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.
www.nytimes.com
August 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
There's some comfort in majoring in a theatre, an industry which has always been dying and where unemployment is assumed, rather then going into a field that is newly dying
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It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”
Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine. www.wired.com/story/the-fi...
The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children
Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine.
www.wired.com
August 1, 2025 at 1:45 PM
It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”
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But the idea that the key to reading (or in general experiencing a piece of art or a person or idea) is *being receptive* is one of the more valuable concepts I know of that can almost be expressed in a pithy aphorism. Be receptive.
July 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
But the idea that the key to reading (or in general experiencing a piece of art or a person or idea) is *being receptive* is one of the more valuable concepts I know of that can almost be expressed in a pithy aphorism. Be receptive.
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We all love plays in which a chair becomes a throne, a car, a horse, and the Rock of Gibraltar. But lots of plays need more than chairs, and you don’t automatically improve them by ‘stripping them down.’
July 22, 2025 at 12:58 AM
We all love plays in which a chair becomes a throne, a car, a horse, and the Rock of Gibraltar. But lots of plays need more than chairs, and you don’t automatically improve them by ‘stripping them down.’
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I went to Shakespeare in the park last night and if we had a society with actual values, the government would pay theater troupes in every town to put up free plays every night
July 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I went to Shakespeare in the park last night and if we had a society with actual values, the government would pay theater troupes in every town to put up free plays every night
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#tbt In our March 2012 issue, theatre designer Joshua Dachs wrote about 4 great theatre spaces not originally built for performance: NYC's Park Avenue Armory, Germany's Jahrhunderthalle, Brooklyn's Harvey Theatre, and Japan's Daendo.
Escape From Neutrality
A designer of theatres visits 4 great performance spaces you have to see before you die.
www.americantheatre.org
July 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
#tbt In our March 2012 issue, theatre designer Joshua Dachs wrote about 4 great theatre spaces not originally built for performance: NYC's Park Avenue Armory, Germany's Jahrhunderthalle, Brooklyn's Harvey Theatre, and Japan's Daendo.
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Grasp, based off the Pillars of Creation photo taken by the Hubble telescope in the 90s
July 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Grasp, based off the Pillars of Creation photo taken by the Hubble telescope in the 90s