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Wow, I got my American Airlines frequent flyer card (as they were called in the day) 35 years ago.

Friday night did a show in Philly and Saturday in Baltimore co-led a workshop and did two shows. So of course now instead of going home directly, I’m going by way of Chicago so I can go to a retirement party for 3 hours.

Late this afternoon! Live in Baltimore!

At 30th St station in Philly - where the years long renovation is almost complete except for this corner where you can see decades of grime - probably from the days of indoor smoking

Tonight! Live! In Philly! 🔔

People of Philadelphia & Baltimore: this Friday 9pm I'm performing at the Yo! Adrienne festival in Sad Trombone (w/ @ralphalpha.bsky.social ) in Philly and Saturday 4:30 at the Baltimore Improv Festival in Sad Trombone and Big Bang. Ralph & I are also teaching a workshop in Baltimore at 2PM Sat.

Normalize the use of “fuck right off into the sun”

Having grown up in MI, the Interlochen news is gutting - I was sexually assaulted as a minor in the 80s when I was a summer-stock apprentice - and it’s maddening just how deeply and pervasively this rot is baked into in the arts.

“AI-identification tools” that think my writing is AI-written can fuck right off into the sun. (Actually, AIs will probably not employ the Gen-x comma (that is, the word “fuck”) as often as I fucking do, so the jokes on them!)

I lived here 7 years and I just realized today there are large Lovecraftian swimmy things in the duck pond

I just misread a description of person using chat-gpt to mimic other authors as a “taintless asshole” (instead of “talentless asshole”) and I think it actually is really apt

This movie is really really good and you all should watch it. If you've got the criterion streamer, it's there.

A ★★★★★ review of Ikarie XB 1 (1963)Literally everything I liked about 2001, The Andromeda Strain, Aliens - pretty much any sci-fi movie set in space - is captured in this 1963 Czechoslovak film. The set design is just incredible; each ...boxd.it

Stancil is on my block list but not my mute list, so some days it’s like an Agatha Christie novel piecing the clues together

Never understood why the military/police made robots that looked and moved like humans or dogs instead of nature’s perfect killing machine

Ok, I just finished the Muriel Spark novella on which Identikit is based. I have never seen such a faithful adaption of a book before — it’s almost like it’s a novelization of the movie, but it came first. I appreciate the movie even more now and Elizabeth Taylor is brilliant in it.

This book has arrived and I am reading it; it is delightful. @bcdreyer.social have you read Muriel Spark’s “The Driver’s Seat”? In the first passage she dances between present tense and past perfect, and the effect is really superbly executed.

40 years ago right about now I was 19 and working a summer job at a GM plant in Flint and I decided on the spur of a moment that I was dropping out of school and moving to Chicago. I told my parents that week, so I couldn’t back down. And I was in Chicago by early September