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(he/him) New York playwright/lyricist, musician, actor. MFA NYU Tisch. Dramatists Guild of America, Actors' Equity. Now an emergency department tech doing a pre-med post-bac.

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Grammarly is just Clippy in a tech-bro vest.

11.03.2026 22:56 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If there were a Tilly Norwood movie where her creators get sued into oblivion for IP theft, I might actually watch it.

11.03.2026 11:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The weather outside right now is how I imagine the ancient Greeks would have described the afterlife.

03.03.2026 23:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Self-extubation?

01.03.2026 18:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Either Cambria or Courier New, depending on the situation.

18.02.2026 03:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Why is he looking at me like he's judging my font type choices?

17.02.2026 11:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The new Wuthering Heights movie adaptation, but Heathcliff is an orange cartoon cat.

16.02.2026 23:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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15.02.2026 13:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's a weird place in life when you go to see a college production of a musical, you have friends who were in the original Broadway cast, and the show is now considered a "classic." Also, my back hurts and being out past 11pm now feels wild and transgressive. (Is this middle-age?)

14.02.2026 13:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The Winter Olympics is just an ass-beating that Norway gives to the rest of the planet every four years.

14.02.2026 03:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This halftime show is the most genuinely human thing I've seen all evening.

09.02.2026 01:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You want field goals? We got field goals! We've got all the hot field goal action you can handle!

09.02.2026 00:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think it means Pete Hegseth took a drunken shit into ChatGPT, and this is the hallucination that resulted.

08.02.2026 00:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Young Ernest Hemmingway.

08.02.2026 00:46 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That tremolo-delay combo is unworldly.

30.01.2026 04:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Minneapolis should press its momentum and demand not only withdrawal but start talking about the need for immediate reparations, loudly, with the total certainty that only winners have. "You have wronged us terribly and must pay recompense" and let them argue the second part.

30.01.2026 04:31 πŸ‘ 7783 πŸ” 1748 πŸ’¬ 132 πŸ“Œ 61
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Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center

27.01.2026 16:17 πŸ‘ 20434 πŸ” 4305 πŸ’¬ 598 πŸ“Œ 350
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Grainger isn’t the store I’d immediately expect to be carrying these. But it has a flared base, have fun.

27.01.2026 14:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

ICE has its own Ratlines.

27.01.2026 14:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Your rights are alienable AF.

27.01.2026 11:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call β€œsymbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

26.01.2026 23:35 πŸ‘ 20837 πŸ” 8639 πŸ’¬ 266 πŸ“Œ 714

I hope Bovino’s neighbors forever shun him. May the local grocery store cashiers turn their back when he tries to buy food. May his house be forever egged. May the Baby Gap where he shops close their doors when they see him coming.

27.01.2026 01:18 πŸ‘ 866 πŸ” 84 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 5

Fuck Greg Bovino, his Sam Browne belt, and his mother too.

25.01.2026 14:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I hope Democratic senators and congressmen understand, out of pure lizard-brain self-interest if moral decency happens to be unavailable, what is at stake for them if they don't handle this the right way. This is a true "If not now, when?" moment.

24.01.2026 22:00 πŸ‘ 2477 πŸ” 448 πŸ’¬ 34 πŸ“Œ 23

John C. Woods Jr.'s low-voltage, extra-long death.

25.01.2026 01:26 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

ICE agents are America's failures, basically indistinguishable from lazy school shooters, losers who want to play Call of Duty on our streets against people who can't fight back. They have unlimited ammo and toss tear gas like they're pressing L1. They have to be defunded and jailed. All of them.

24.01.2026 17:13 πŸ‘ 11608 πŸ” 3379 πŸ’¬ 228 πŸ“Œ 106

Democrat leaders: "We need to reach across the aisle to find common ground with the people actively murdering us on national TV."

24.01.2026 20:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Hell is real!"

19.01.2026 20:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The absolute accuracy of this.

18.01.2026 22:23 πŸ‘ 29161 πŸ” 5121 πŸ’¬ 1047 πŸ“Œ 363

I have no relation to Jake Lang. Fuck that guy and fuck ICE.

18.01.2026 22:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0