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writer of books • founder of magazines • soon-to-be professor of NYU students • learner of things • listener of tracks • viewer of flicks • tired of everything

One sheet poster for Home Sweet Homer, a 1976 Broadway musical starring Yul Bruner
Gene Hackman as a conservative senator in a still from The Birdcage. He’s on the phone and says “Lindsey Graham died? With a hooker? A he? And he was Black?”
Mayor Erica Druski, mayor of Downington PA, posting about the death of Lindsey Graham: Senator Lindsey Graham has passed away at 71. He served for decades, spoke with great confidence, and leaves behind a record that will ensure historians never lack material. May his family find peace, and may the country learn from the choices he made.
Nene Leakes, head turned away, shadily brushing off someone with “okay girl bye”
An exchange on Threads: itswilwheaton posts: I'm not a math genius or anything, so I'm just doing some quick arithmetic here, and we are supposed to believe that Mitch McConnell spent a total of about four hours on the phone with a bunch of different people yesterday, but didn't have one minute to speak to a credible journalist. Sure, Jan. theeveplumb responds: Hey wait a minute
A post on another app: “Fun fact: last time Knicks won championship (05/73), corrupt potus resigned (08/74) #justsayin”
“American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman)” which hangs at the Art Institute of Chicago
Front of my Vintage NY Knicks jersey from the 90s. Number 34 for Charles Oakley
Text reads: “Say goodbye to another old-school NYC diner. Ownership of the Cozy Soup 'n' Burger on Broadway at Astor Place announced that the 54-year-old diner is closing on June 21. The reasons: Rising costs and declining business.”
a social media post that says: “Hey, Where can I watch old black cinema? I'm talking early-mid 1900s”
Rex Reed on The Wiz (1975) "Next to bombing the White House, I can't imagine a better way to start a race war than to denigrate The Wizard of Oz and everything it stands for in the minds and hearts of children of all ages. Descendants of L. Frank Baum, creator of the Oz stories should sue. Judy Garland fans should picket the theater where this monstrosity is playing...How dare they demolish the greatest American fairy tale. Garbage is garbage, no matter what color it is, and this all-black sacrilege is at the top of the rubbish pile."
The New York Times celebrates the “Meg Gala” instead of the “Met Gala” 🤭
A “Pop Music lineage” of female singers and performers—structured like a family tree/genealogy—that *begins* with, get this, Madonna on one side and Janet Jackson on the other.
Druski in makeup playing stereotypical conservative white lady in a skit.
Four men in a living room. One says, "Great work designing this angular, uncomfortable furniture today, gentlemen. Shall we celebrate with some secret homosexuality?"
James Earl Jones, Rosalind Cash, and Ellen Holly in King Lear
Timothee Chalamet’s head replaces Kate Hudson’s face next to Matthew McConaughey in a film poster for “How to Lose an Oscar in 10 Days”
A text I got today at 7:30PM “It's James Talarico. Our movement won, but flipping this seat will take everything we have. Pls become a day one donor: https://talaricotx.- co/n8rCg6”
Viola Davis giving Michael B Jordan his Actor Award
"Operation Rough Rider," "Operation Midnight Hammer," and "Operation Southern Spear" are all names given to military actions undertaken under Hegseth and announced in all caps on social media.
Immigrants Built America. The co-creators of White Supremacy
“U Made understood that he Macarena just fine in 1993” 🤣