Stephen Robinson
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Ok they're just glasses. Elphaba wearing any glasses that were too outlandish or over the top wouldn't fit her character.
November 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Ok they're just glasses. Elphaba wearing any glasses that were too outlandish or over the top wouldn't fit her character.
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Okay but what about when *Rick Santorum* was the sweater vest guy?
www.theguardian.com/world/2012/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2012/j...
Rick Santorum's sweater vests gain ground – and their own Twitter feed
GOP presidential hopeful says tank tops help him look older, but reassures conservative sleeve-lovers he's firmly pro-choice
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Okay but what about when *Rick Santorum* was the sweater vest guy?
www.theguardian.com/world/2012/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2012/j...
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This was my one and only hat when the sketch came out and I was totally blindsided
November 30, 2025 at 4:57 AM
This was my one and only hat when the sketch came out and I was totally blindsided
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That's so strange. Imagine people being worked up about eyeglasses.
a woman with a green face and a buckle around her waist
Alt: a woman with a green face and a buckle around her waist
media.tenor.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:25 AM
That's so strange. Imagine people being worked up about eyeglasses.
It's possible that people are weird.
November 30, 2025 at 4:45 AM
It's possible that people are weird.
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How it started / How it’s going
November 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
How it started / How it’s going
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When Pete Hegseth is charged with War Crimes just remember what JD Vance told me.
November 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
When Pete Hegseth is charged with War Crimes just remember what JD Vance told me.
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Well if anything I’ve been able to balance out my maga blocks by blocking a bunch of anime leftists accounts in response to this, lol
Joe Biden was old but he wasn’t a fucking xenophobic racist dictator wannabe.
November 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Well if anything I’ve been able to balance out my maga blocks by blocking a bunch of anime leftists accounts in response to this, lol
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Just got the word that the Trump administration is throwing a brilliant medical researcher friend of mine out of the country because they’re Chinese. Insane and unreal. Literally doing research in the US to help the US
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Just got the word that the Trump administration is throwing a brilliant medical researcher friend of mine out of the country because they’re Chinese. Insane and unreal. Literally doing research in the US to help the US
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i mean what are these "western values" these guys are so hopped up about? they are directly antagonistic to western europe. they don't believe in civil liberties. they reject democracy. and don't get me started on christianity, they hate their white neighbors almost as much as the brown ones
November 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
i mean what are these "western values" these guys are so hopped up about? they are directly antagonistic to western europe. they don't believe in civil liberties. they reject democracy. and don't get me started on christianity, they hate their white neighbors almost as much as the brown ones
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how do you come back from this, we don't even have broad agreement that people are entitled to choose their representatives and elected officials. there's no baseline of shared values
November 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
how do you come back from this, we don't even have broad agreement that people are entitled to choose their representatives and elected officials. there's no baseline of shared values
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it's hard to get your mind around how irredeemably broken this country has become. no one in charge at this time seems to understand even the basics of our system of government as written or our stated set of values as a secular society
Pirro: "These Guardsmen and all who are here to protect the District are the line that separates a civilized society from a barbaric one."
November 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
it's hard to get your mind around how irredeemably broken this country has become. no one in charge at this time seems to understand even the basics of our system of government as written or our stated set of values as a secular society
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Fucking Seth Moulton figuring this out before anyone else...
November 29, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Fucking Seth Moulton figuring this out before anyone else...
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Of course I agree but I reject the notion that the weak and incompetent Dems are on the same scale as these thoroughly evil gop cretins
November 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Of course I agree but I reject the notion that the weak and incompetent Dems are on the same scale as these thoroughly evil gop cretins
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To be clear Lizza’s story is that Nuzzi sat on important matters of national significance for personal benefit and he’s sat on these details until he could personally benefit.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
To be clear Lizza’s story is that Nuzzi sat on important matters of national significance for personal benefit and he’s sat on these details until he could personally benefit.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead makes perfect sense without ever having seen Hamlet, which it's riffing off. I don't think Wicked: For Good's latter half achieves this.
I mean, if I’m watching a movie that is openly a riff on Cinderella from a different character’s perspective, I don’t actually need the movie to show me the entire story of Cinderella for me to understand that there’s a different version of Cinderella happening in the background and roll with it.
November 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead makes perfect sense without ever having seen Hamlet, which it's riffing off. I don't think Wicked: For Good's latter half achieves this.
That's my point. The final act is choppy and confusing, as a result. It makes references to a story in a film that isn't actually connected.
November 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
That's my point. The final act is choppy and confusing, as a result. It makes references to a story in a film that isn't actually connected.
Something I've noticed whenever I mention my issues with Wicked: For Good's final act: The people who dismissively say "Just watch The Wizard of Oz" are the often the same ones who have criticized Marvel movies for requiring "homework" (watching other movies/TV shows) to understand the story.
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Something I've noticed whenever I mention my issues with Wicked: For Good's final act: The people who dismissively say "Just watch The Wizard of Oz" are the often the same ones who have criticized Marvel movies for requiring "homework" (watching other movies/TV shows) to understand the story.
I gather together with @erikwbarnes.bsky.social to discuss cheesy movies on Thanksgiving Day. It's Mystery Science Theater 3000, and it's called "Turkey Day." www.playtyperguy.com/p/talking-my...
Talking 'Mystery Science Theater 3000' Turkey Day With Erik Barnes
JED!
www.playtyperguy.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I gather together with @erikwbarnes.bsky.social to discuss cheesy movies on Thanksgiving Day. It's Mystery Science Theater 3000, and it's called "Turkey Day." www.playtyperguy.com/p/talking-my...
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Well, you see, rich people get to be unchallenged in their "eccentricity."
November 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Well, you see, rich people get to be unchallenged in their "eccentricity."
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Republican senator now publicly defending Mark Kelly
November 25, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Republican senator now publicly defending Mark Kelly
Everyone On Social Media: If you discuss any specific plot elements about a movie within its first week of release, I'll block you!
This Guy: Spoiler Tags are the blockworthy. (Though I was kind enough to block him and spare him more tags.)
This Guy: Spoiler Tags are the blockworthy. (Though I was kind enough to block him and spare him more tags.)
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Everyone On Social Media: If you discuss any specific plot elements about a movie within its first week of release, I'll block you!
This Guy: Spoiler Tags are the blockworthy. (Though I was kind enough to block him and spare him more tags.)
This Guy: Spoiler Tags are the blockworthy. (Though I was kind enough to block him and spare him more tags.)
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Great column & not just about food costs.
Fox News shamelessly boasts that “gas and thanksgiving prices” are the lowest since the pandemic, which they seem to think started in 2021. However, that was true pretty much every year of the Biden administration and Fox claimed it was the next great depression. www.playtyperguy.com/p/yes-virgin...
Yes, Virginia, Trump Ruined Thanksgiving
But at least the turkey isn't $90.
www.playtyperguy.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Great column & not just about food costs.
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lawrence jones is the human embodiment of that gif of daffy duck dancing
Lawrence Jones may pride himself on being an outsider, but inside he's a true Fox News blonde
November 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
lawrence jones is the human embodiment of that gif of daffy duck dancing
Possibly the best thing Kamala Harris can do for the party is openly reject this sort of parasocial stanning for politicians, as if they're movie stars or music performers. Nothing good has come from it.
November 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Possibly the best thing Kamala Harris can do for the party is openly reject this sort of parasocial stanning for politicians, as if they're movie stars or music performers. Nothing good has come from it.