Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Sarah Hayden @wearyourshaydes.bsky.social · 6h

This is actually how I approach all shows at the ahmanson - going in with barely a logline - and sometimes it’s incredible and sometimes it’s very much not, but you know, those tickets are like thirty bucks so who cares, lol

Lux Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 11h

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.

Sarah Hayden @wearyourshaydes.bsky.social · 8h

right, they love to say “accountability” as a buzzword with no concept of what that means in a healthy friendship! I would be so mortified to bring up being a good friend, even if someone wrote it as a compliment on my gravestone my ghost would walk the earth with unfinished business

1

Sarah Hayden @wearyourshaydes.bsky.social · 8h

I tell ya, it is a nice change to be able to be too depressed to do anything, but outside, can I offer you a nice breeze with your frozen in time and space, madam

3

Sarah Hayden @wearyourshaydes.bsky.social · 8h

I feel like “I’m a great friend” is the bravo universe version of “I’m a nice guy” where anybody who feels the need to say it is intrinsically the opposite

1 2

Sarah Hayden @wearyourshaydes.bsky.social · 9h

yesssss, the little weirdos that say mare-ee-oh despite also being surrounded by Italians, lol

1

Sarah Hayden @wearyourshaydes.bsky.social · 10h

in a weird little belt of NJ and PA: Mario in Mario Brothers

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 12h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

1

Sarah Hayden @wearyourshaydes.bsky.social · 10h

My dad sent along this pic of the first cats in my life and I told him how the antivax crowd doesn’t want their pets to get autism from vaccines and the internet joke that you’d only know if your pets had autism if they got really into trains - he really laughed in context of this pic, lol

A picture from the 80s of my first cats as kittens before I was born - an orange tabby named Fellini and a gray and white cat named Cologne. In the photo, they’re goofing around and pawing at a train set, lol

1

Sarah Hayden @wearyourshaydes.bsky.social · 11h

Your next what! YOUR NEXT WHAAAAAAAAT!

5

Sarah Hayden @wearyourshaydes.bsky.social · 13h

like are they worried that I, the knowing and willing consumer of a lunchable, would find a circular cheese too unnatural

Sarah Hayden @wearyourshaydes.bsky.social · 13h

I just feel like if making lunchables was my whole job, just churning out little ham sams where 3/4ths of the meal are circles, maybe I would put a little elbow grease into also rounding the one rectangle made out of entirely malleable cheese product into a circle

A lunchables with round oreos, round crackers, rounds ham, and rectangular cheese

1 3

Sarah Hayden @wearyourshaydes.bsky.social · 14h

this is me the one time I had to take a biology final in college as a film student, lol

1 2

Sarah Hayden @wearyourshaydes.bsky.social · 14h

They’d be able to light a fire off my head if I had lost my family and/or pet and/or home in the fires because of some ChatGPT obsessed piece of shit

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 15h

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

1 5

Sarah Hayden @wearyourshaydes.bsky.social · 15h

my main takeaway is that I don’t think Bring Her Back went as hard as Talk To Me because there was a protagonist maturity difference - a mother who has lost a child wouldn’t go as hard as a child who lost a mother because of the lifetime of experience that’s mutated childhood rage into adult despair

2

Sarah Hayden @wearyourshaydes.bsky.social · 15h

I watched BRING HER BACK, and then I didn’t looooove it so I watched TALK TO ME, which I did like a lot more and which, strangely, made me retroactively like BRING HER BACK more - not to be a damn nerd but I think they’re in conversation and both need to be watched to bring context to each other!

1 3

Sarah Hayden @wearyourshaydes.bsky.social · 15h

I just personally think if you are in a creative field embracing this bullshit you should be put into a burlap sack and beaten with real scripts. Real scripts with brads.

Rob Pilkington @robpilk.com · 15h

ffs theankler.com/p/run-it-thr...

‘Run It Through GPT-5’: The Phrase Changing Hollywood Overnight

Showrunners, writers, producers & marketing jumped on OpenAI’s update. Industry jobs will never recover

theankler.com

5 24

Sarah Hayden @wearyourshaydes.bsky.social · 15h

The crows that so tormented Meoward in life have come to pay their respects in death, he would be so touched and fucking terrified

My calico cat, James, and I are on the back patio, looking at the driveway/walkway area of the backyard, where two crows and a squirrel are eating birdseed and obviously mourning my recently departed tuxedo cat, Meoward

3

Sarah Hayden @wearyourshaydes.bsky.social · 1d

watching a squirrel in my backyard dig up old rocks that he buried, admire them, and then bury them back up in new holes over and over - these dopes and their rock obsession, it’s the goofiest thing

6

Sarah Hayden @wearyourshaydes.bsky.social · 1d

We are on hour five of this bitch sleeping in this chair while she cosplays as an outside cat

My calico cat, James, curled up asleep on a covered outside arm chair, with some green leaves and dappled ass light behind her :)

6

Reposted by Sarah Hayden

BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 1d

These guys are so vulnerable to defecting to Chicago

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

81 410 3.8K

Sarah Hayden @wearyourshaydes.bsky.social · 1d

I absolutely love getting invited to weddings and I’ve pulled off one of my greatest invites yet - my second family wedding of a family I am not actually in! If I play this wedding right and befriend some cousins, I can turn this into a hat trick

1

Reposted by Sarah Hayden

Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 1d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

26 500 770

Sarah Hayden @wearyourshaydes.bsky.social · 1d

cleaned out my mail yesterday so that today I could be emotionally assaulted by a very touching sympathy card from my parents - goddamn mail making me cry at 9am, this is why I don’t CHECK YOU, THE MAIL

2

Sarah Hayden @wearyourshaydes.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like you have to be a bit of a serial killer to continue producing new true crime shows in 2025 - I’m watching one that’s exclusively about murders where the murderer calls 911, like… who even noticed this through line was strong enough to sustain a whole tv series except a serial killer

1

Sarah Hayden @wearyourshaydes.bsky.social · 1d

I’m going with Ashley Graham, the model!

1 5

Sarah Hayden @wearyourshaydes.bsky.social · 1d

I just checked and you can get a current Model Y with all the fixin’s and less than 5k miles on them for $25k before even negotiating because nobody wants one - a flawless gambit

☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 1d

The world's most valuable automaker's first new car since the Cybertruck is coming out today, and it's... a Model Y that is even more stripped-out and spartan, for $40k.

InsideEVs @insideevs.com · 1d

Tesla's more affordable Model Y could start around the $40,000 mark. What's the magic number that it should really aim for in an increasingly competitive market?

insideevs.com/news/774867/...

4