Isaac! At the Butler!
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Cultural critic and historian, author, podcaster, non-Zionist Jew. Co-host: CHARM OFFENSIVE. Writer: THE METHOD: HOW THE 20TH CENTURY LEARNED TO ACT
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November 30, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Everyone who orders from our bookstore gets a free whistle. Everybody! Even if all you order is a $2 used paperback, you get a whistle. It's the perfect accessory for the winter months. You know—because of all the ice.
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So many memories of watching Stoppard plays in a state of euphoria, but I'll never forget the all-day marathon of "The Coast of Utopia" at Lincoln Center in 2007, which I covered for Talk of the Town. Somehow I ended up eating Chinese at Carol Kane's apartment. RIP. www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...
Endurance Dept.
A nine-hour marathon of Tom Stoppard’s “The Coast of Utopia”
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November 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
So many memories of watching Stoppard plays in a state of euphoria, but I'll never forget the all-day marathon of "The Coast of Utopia" at Lincoln Center in 2007, which I covered for Talk of the Town. Somehow I ended up eating Chinese at Carol Kane's apartment. RIP. www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...
Love this goofball
November 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Love this goofball
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One of my favorite Stoppard monologues. From Arcadia.
November 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
One of my favorite Stoppard monologues. From Arcadia.
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This is genuinely big news. Shldnt be but is. Republicans are challenging Trump now because he seems weak. No one wantst to back a weak horse. Trump looks like the weak horse.
November 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This is genuinely big news. Shldnt be but is. Republicans are challenging Trump now because he seems weak. No one wantst to back a weak horse. Trump looks like the weak horse.
Just saw this painting in person yesterday! (It’s at the Museu Picasso in a special exhibit about Jarry’s influence on visual art)
Ubu Imperator https://www.wikiart.org/en/max-ernst/ubu-imperator-1923
November 29, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Just saw this painting in person yesterday! (It’s at the Museu Picasso in a special exhibit about Jarry’s influence on visual art)
Man the half of love’s labour’s lost that isn’t in Latin is hilarious.
November 29, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Man the half of love’s labour’s lost that isn’t in Latin is hilarious.
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Average person who talked about a Syria test for 14 years is completely ok with this btw
According to local Syrian media, the IDF which occupies all of Palestine, much of southern Lebanon, and huge swathes of southwestern Syria, attempted to arrest a Syrian civilian tonight in Beit Jinn but was met with resistance from the locals, and in turn the IDF killed two people via airstrike.
Deleted last post because the battle in Beit Jinn is apparently still ongoing
November 28, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Average person who talked about a Syria test for 14 years is completely ok with this btw
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“What is remigration, which the Department of Homeland Security is calling for?”
It’s this:
It’s this:
November 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
“What is remigration, which the Department of Homeland Security is calling for?”
It’s this:
It’s this:
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Every headline about the Hegseth thing should read “ordered the killing of men, a war crime” because it unambiguously is. This isn’t a matter of debate. You can’t sink a ship and then blow up the helpless survivors, even if they’re actual enemy soldiers, much less random South American men.
November 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Every headline about the Hegseth thing should read “ordered the killing of men, a war crime” because it unambiguously is. This isn’t a matter of debate. You can’t sink a ship and then blow up the helpless survivors, even if they’re actual enemy soldiers, much less random South American men.
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Also recognize that this unambiguous use of the military to commit murder of helpless noncombatants as they fought for life is a direct reflection of the virulent white supremacy that has seized our government, where every Latino man is a gangbanger in a de facto state of war against White America
November 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Also recognize that this unambiguous use of the military to commit murder of helpless noncombatants as they fought for life is a direct reflection of the virulent white supremacy that has seized our government, where every Latino man is a gangbanger in a de facto state of war against White America
No, we live in a country where one of our pudding brained, historically unpopular, president‘s viceroys promised to do something on a social media network that the president does not have the power to do while sock puppet his social media account. he hasn’t succeeded in doing any of this yet.
Once again, you now live in a country where there are two classes of citizenship, & those of us who hold the second class variety can apparently lose ours if we do not show good behavior to Dear Leader & the far right authoritarian party.
The President of the United States promising a policy of mass denaturalization of citizens "who undermine domestic tranquility"
November 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
No, we live in a country where one of our pudding brained, historically unpopular, president‘s viceroys promised to do something on a social media network that the president does not have the power to do while sock puppet his social media account. he hasn’t succeeded in doing any of this yet.
Sarah with a great write up. I’ve been frustrated to see several people with theater backgrounds dismiss the film as only for musical theater heads. It’s not about musical theater, it’s about realizing the world has passed you by while attending what amounts to your own funeral.
BLUE MOON 📽️🏳️🌈 continues Richard Linklater's hot streak of analysing the stories men tell themselves, Ethan Hawke is extraordinary, and its kindness about human delusion is really appreciated movieswetextedabout.com/blue-moon-fi...
'Blue Moon' Film Review - Richard Linklater's Latest is Worth Watching More Than Once
This could have been a play and may well get a second life as a play, because its single set, very talky script and clever staging keep us in the room for the 100-minute runtime. It is heavily inspire...
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November 28, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Sarah with a great write up. I’ve been frustrated to see several people with theater backgrounds dismiss the film as only for musical theater heads. It’s not about musical theater, it’s about realizing the world has passed you by while attending what amounts to your own funeral.
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Audience culture is the worst it's ever been, I swear to god. People forgot how to act. I'm at the theater, trying to enjoy my show, which I've paid GOOD MONEY for, and these two old assholes are in the balcony heckling the life out of the poor bear onstage. Not letting him finish a single joke.
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Audience culture is the worst it's ever been, I swear to god. People forgot how to act. I'm at the theater, trying to enjoy my show, which I've paid GOOD MONEY for, and these two old assholes are in the balcony heckling the life out of the poor bear onstage. Not letting him finish a single joke.
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aigh! It’s only twisty and thrilling because Greenblatt chooses to print the legend when given multiple interpretations Of evidence and when he can’t do that, makes shit up!
November 27, 2025 at 10:46 AM
aigh! It’s only twisty and thrilling because Greenblatt chooses to print the legend when given multiple interpretations Of evidence and when he can’t do that, makes shit up!
aigh! It’s only twisty and thrilling because Greenblatt chooses to print the legend when given multiple interpretations Of evidence and when he can’t do that, makes shit up!
November 27, 2025 at 10:46 AM
aigh! It’s only twisty and thrilling because Greenblatt chooses to print the legend when given multiple interpretations Of evidence and when he can’t do that, makes shit up!
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If Iwona B. Horyn
You gotta get with my friends
You gotta get with my friends
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
If Iwona B. Horyn
You gotta get with my friends
You gotta get with my friends
Twenty twenty twenty four hours to gooooo
Iwona B. Horyn!
Iwona B. Horyn!
November 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Twenty twenty twenty four hours to gooooo
Iwona B. Horyn!
Iwona B. Horyn!
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
Smith’s lone watchable film!
wrote about the kind of cinema that can only be appreciated in a friend's basement. that's right, I wrote about MALLRATS!
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“The Little Movie That Couldn’t”: ‘Mallrats’ Turns 30
In the fall of 1995, Kevin Smith’s second film was a box office humiliation. Now, it’s become an embarrassment of riches. We chat with Smith about the movie and how it forever altered his career.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Smith’s lone watchable film!
I will not get sucked into Star Wars discourse. I will not get sucked into Star Wars discourse. I will not get sucked into Star Wars discourse. I will not get sucked into Star Wars discourse. I will not get sucked into Star Wars discourse. I will not get sucked into Star Wars discourse. I will n—
November 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I will not get sucked into Star Wars discourse. I will not get sucked into Star Wars discourse. I will not get sucked into Star Wars discourse. I will not get sucked into Star Wars discourse. I will not get sucked into Star Wars discourse. I will not get sucked into Star Wars discourse. I will n—
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R.I.P. TrumpCare (2:12 pm, November 24, 2025 - 2:14 pm, November 24, 2025)
You will not be mourned.
You will not be mourned.
absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
R.I.P. TrumpCare (2:12 pm, November 24, 2025 - 2:14 pm, November 24, 2025)
You will not be mourned.
You will not be mourned.
Gotta say, it sucks for DC, a great theater town, that the first string theater critic not only doesn’t live in the city, but barely ever covers local theater.
November 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Gotta say, it sucks for DC, a great theater town, that the first string theater critic not only doesn’t live in the city, but barely ever covers local theater.
There are two kinds of people in this world, those who love the Bug episode of Breaking Bad and those that don’t, and unfortunately Vince Gilligan is in the former camp.
November 24, 2025 at 2:56 AM
There are two kinds of people in this world, those who love the Bug episode of Breaking Bad and those that don’t, and unfortunately Vince Gilligan is in the former camp.