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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 12m

this is beautiful theatre

Lux Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 3h

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Fill Colons @uneasylover.bsky.social · 59m

Hey jimmy, get me a social network with nothin'

Image from old string cheese commerical. Cook guy named Jimmy is asked to make a "cheese pizza with nothing" and is perplexed so he scrunches his face and says "nuttin'??". He's wearing a little paper hat that looks like the boat you'd put french fries in.

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 1h

now that's a well-fed raptor

we used to have a tree out back of our old place where every now and then a hawk would bring up a squirrel for a little dinner al fresco

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 2h

This is what was taken from us

old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 5h

marlborough-blenheim-claridge hotels, atlantic city, new jersey, 1978

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 2d

if you announce that you're breaking up with Nicole Kidman because she wanted too much sex you need to do it at a press conference where you're in a full body cast. just a little slit in the head area where a pair of wild, haunted eyes are staring out

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 2h

The bus ride earlier was beautified by a hawk which followed us from Teele to Davis, circling around and at some points hovering in midair before wheeling around and figure 8ing, way to go hawk, enjoy the air

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 4h

Got two helicopters circling Teele/Clarendon so if you're out walking it feels like the end of Goodfellas; if you hear Harry Nilsson you're screwed

There's apparently a tree down on Paulina and maybe that's what they're trying to hover over?

This has been your West Somerville update

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 4h

abraham benrubi went on to be a regular on ER and every time he showed up we'd go "hell yeah, kubiac's here"

this was a fun live action cartoon of a show which managed to beat nbc's ferris bueller by letting its leads be kids & not smug-ass cool doodz

hope it's aged well; it had a great cast

Zach Wilson @televisionaryzw.bsky.social · 5h

🚨🚨First time streaming alert 🚨🚨 Now streaming for what I believe is the first time in the US, all three seasons of Parker Lewis Can't Lose are on Plex!

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Yael @elle91.bsky.social · 16d

"Not all jobs are supposed to earn you a living wage" oh for sure, this is my recreational job.

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 20h

seek ye out the halal places which charge a small amount at the end of the night for such a large amount of chicken and rice in a bowl that the top cannot be sealed and you have to carry it out with the plastic bag wrapped double around it

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 23h

You can't go around saying you were Derek in Star Wars, nobody is going to believe you

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🥦Lina @broccolina.bsky.social · 1d

my hot take is that torrenting is preservation

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 1d

I maintain that if the profession is going to allow genAI, we have to be okay with torrenting of media too.

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mr pussy @mrpussy.xyz · 1d

when you say "Albany" wrong once and just roll with it and then you're in too deep

kos data: 🇺🇸🇦🇱 NYC Mayor Eric Adams is traveling to Albania for an official visit, one week after dropping his reelection bid.

(Via: NBC New York)

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 1d

additional weird overlap: benjamin "bugsy" siegel, kingpin of Murder Inc and effective founder of modern vegas, had to be talked out of killing Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Goering at a party in Italy in 1939

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 1d

I am wired to believe via my virginia/north carolina side that a container of cottage cheese and a shaker of lawry's seasoned salt (it cannot just be plain salt, no sir) makes for good sit-by-the-TV eating, and I stand by that to this day

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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Hugh Brechin @hughrbrechin.bsky.social · 1d

imagining the cleaning lady standing in shock as all seventeen fall one after the other through the door of a cupboard which could surely never have contained them in the first place

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 1d

Peruvian bishop accused of having 17 lovers exposed by cleaning lady

www.thetimes.com

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Cargie's House of Mild Frights @cargie.baby · 1d

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 2d

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Readful Things @readfulthings.com · 1d

Here are some old VHS tape pieces

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Semiotic Scaryname @mitdasein.bsky.social · 1d

What a bullshit non-answer

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 2d

My comic strip Lydia Tárfield appears in 1310 daily newspapers around the world, translated into 27 languages. It's considered the best comic strip by most experts.

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 1d

she handled it with either incredible sangfroid or unbelievable obliviousness

either way, that's our hestia, cool as a cucumber at so many things but not when a red dot goes by

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 2d

Not much, just a raccoon hanging from a screen window 9 ft off the ground (also hanging out in a set of bushes)

I have tried clanging a pot at it from the porch and hollering and you can guess how well that went

The cat is watching from another room

I think it hissed at me thru the glass

A picture taken through a set of plastic vertical blinds, reflecting double glazed window and a metal screen window, of the face of the furry little bastard who greeted me when I pulled back the blinds. It is sitting in the bushes outside the window and kinda grumpy that I'm being grumpy about it.

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Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 2d

when you do end up visiting nagai industries one of the first mob guys you talk to ends up wanting only to teach you life lessons that go along the lines of "I don't know what kind of fire you've got lit under your butt, but remember to always stay true to your path"

Popcornbender Spatch @spatch.bsky.social · 2d

one of my favorite characters in shenmue is setsu abe, the kindly old proprietor of the candy store of ryo's childhood

she calls him baby boy ryo and will tell him in no uncertain terms to stay away from the local yakuza front because they will fuck him up

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cQd...

Shenmue 1: Setsu Abe (Abe Store, Sakuragaoka - Topic: Nagai Industries)

YouTube video by Shenmue Faces

www.youtube.com

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 2d

I'm a human being with a soul, I shouldn't have to know or care about the "job market"

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