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Ex-pat New Yorker now in the PNW. 30 years a theatre casting director. Eng Lit major, Anglo-, biblio-, ailurophile. I double-space after a period, and I defend and deploy the Oxford comma. Liberal & Lively Arts 4eva!
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Man, Stanley Tucci is really living his best life. And quite possibly several other people's best lives as well. (New series streaming on Disney/Hulu/NatGeo).

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I notice we're not hearing about how many toy trucks and GI Joes little boys are allowed to have.

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I'm going to need some clarification on this Five Pencils doctrine. Is it five pencils per person? per household? Per year? Per lifetime? How are we supposed to plan without this information?

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A couple of days ago I came across a verb I'd never heard before: to immiserate (n.immiseration). It means the act of making others miserable, particularly through impoverishment. Finally a word for the one thing the GOP seems to be good at.

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"[Because] they only have that night-time look, and that's a bit slapdash, isn't it..." -- Suzy Eddie Izzard

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Amen, sister. *While I find the adult language apposite (and cathartic!), a G-rated version can be found on her home page.

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Of the 29 "Legends of Broadway" photos by Mark Seliger for this week's edition of NY Magazine, these two might be my favorites: Bill Daniels, 98, still standing for independency as John Adams in 1776; and the unsinkable Dick Van Dyke, 99, as Albert Peterson in Bye Bye Birdie. Standing O, gentlemen!

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"The wind is on my face, the sea is incredibly blue..." Sail on, William Finn. Peace and light.

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Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

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The cringe level of the action in episode 2 of The Studio is so high that I've had to watch most of it crouched behind my sofa.

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Many of us are already familiar with these, but if you aren't, or if you just need to hear them again, here they are given perfect voice, clear and pointed, by the mighty and indomitable John Lithgow.

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From the Department of Unfortunate Similes: “Rainer then turned toward Richard and smiled like an oven revealing a loaf of bread." Sometimes it's better to just let the thing be the thing.

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Caught myself humming a little tune while out and about today and after some thought identified it as the theme music from "The Munsters." Scary to think I have actual brain cells still dedicated to retaining this kind of thing.

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Hello, I’m a disruptor, very smart, here to create efficiency. I’m just going to drill holes in the bottom of this boat to see which parts of the hull are mission-critical.

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TIL that "drived" has begun to edge into the "casted/costed/bursted" movement and I may have corrected it more aggressively than generally thought polite. I'm starting to worry that we're in an actual linguistic revolution that's going to end with all of us talking like three year olds.

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