Drew Broussard

good lord the MOTHS

Had a genuinely fun time with The Burbs until that ridiculous 'cliffhanger' at the end, which not only doesn't make any lick of sense but provides no real place for a full second season to go?!

PSA: if you're pitching yourself for a book event, bookstores will thank you for AT LEAST 6 weeks notice. AT LEAST!!

(The number of people reaching out to me today about wanting to do an event at the bookstore sometime in the next three weeks, including one wanting to do an event ON FRIDAY...)

Ncuti Gatwa's acclaimed theatre run of beloved classic play is set to stream for free Alongside Gatwa, the play stars Sharon D Clarke, Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́, Eliza Scanlen and Hugh Skinner.

quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend

www.radiotimes.com/movies/ncuti...

Though I used fewer kWhs in February, my bill is higher than it was for January or December, all because Central Hudson continues to be the greediest motherfucker you can imagine. I cannot wait to break that fucking monopoly into little pieces, I tell you.

I cancelled a membership thing recently. I got a response saying they would cancel it after I gave them my valuable feedback.

I replied “the hell you will” hyperlinked to my state’s attorney general website.

You know we are in the end stages of late capitalism because money is no longer enough.

Maybe I'm just a sucker for a lighthouse/seaside city, but I think @aptshadow.bsky.social's latest TYRANT PHILOSOPHERS book (PRETENDERS TO THE THRONE OF GOD) is the best yet. What an exceptional series, one I'm already looking forward to revisiting in years to come.

I genuinely believe we’d be in a much different place today. If every single day of any Trump presidency there has been a new impeachment filed with all Democrats voting for at every opportunity. Even if there had never been a republican defection it would frame things far more accurately.

If someone breaks the law and nobody enforces it because of the offender’s power, then the law does not apply to the powerful, and the law, subordinated to power, is revealed as illegitimate in its helplessness and/or corruption.

If an official commits an impeachable offense and nobody acts to impeach, it is no longer an impeachable offense.

People who oppose impeachment as “pointless” because it seems unlikely to result in removal do not understand this very simple point and seem unwilling to even try to understand it.

man, I love love love this piece.

This is not only an ode to a generational talent but a really lovely deep-dive into craft that contains one of the simplest, best explanations of the major schools of acting I've ever encountered. Also, a great argument that we need more performers who are willing to get weird.

let's fuckin go

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA

federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL

tell everyone you know

www.freetaxusa.com

I have the windows open! The sun is out! Our rituals succeeded!

I have a half-formed analysis in my head that both this trilogy and Tana French's latest suffered from a weird stage-setting nervousness in the first book. Felt stuffy, awkward, etc. But once they had everything introduced, books two and three flow much better and are generally looser/more fun.

pro tip: if you simply must go live in the woods where you know nobody, because it’s beautiful and you can’t with society anymore, it behooves you to get involved

you will find yourself once more with Too Much Society, but that’s how people do

have been thinking about this lately, as my tiny rural municipal government debates its proper role in being proactive about disasters

there is a dug-in reluctance to take care of people in emergencies that aren’t truly catastrophic. a feeling that they should rely on family/friends first

It was going on one, two in the morning, and we were shooting what I felt was an important scene for me, when he makes an attempt to be quote-unquote straight, in a suit, and at the end of it he gets emotional and locks himself in the other room. And I felt like, I’m not getting what I want—I’m not happy with it. Mike was happy with it. He called me the next day and said, “I know you weren’t happy with the scene last night. Believe me, we wouldn’t have gone home if I had felt we weren’t getting it.” And then he sort of became my psychiatrist and said, “You find it difficult to be happy, don’t you? You find it difficult to enjoy things.” And I said, “Well, sometimes. Last night was about feeling too tired and not feeling I was reaching what I needed to reach for the scene.” He talked to me then about when he was making, I don’t know whether it was Virginia Woolf or The Graduate. He said, “I didn’t enjoy it for a second. I was worried about so many things.” And then he said, “You know, this is never going to happen again quite this way. You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness.”

The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.

Honestly we live in a very citation needed world just in general.

I wish we lived in a world where Colson Whitehead's Harlem trilogy could've been nine slim mass market paperbacks, released every ~6 months, because that's kind of what it feels like they were meant to be. (COOL MACHINE is very very good, ps—maybe my fav of the trilogy.)

This came to mind today when Tidal suggested I listen to "Touched" by VAST — a song I don't think I've listened to since I heard it on the Everworld EP but I do still remember every single line/lick/sample/everything

omg YES

I know a lot of you remember Animorphs (although fewer than should, a cause I hope to rectify with the reissue later this year) but does anybody else remember K.A. Applegate's shorter-run EVERWORLD series? With all the gods? Been realizing recently with how impactful those 12 books were for me.

Amazon pulls sponsorship from Paris book festival after booksellers’ association boycott Syndicat de la Librairie Française accused online retailer of trying to ‘flood the market with fake AI-generated books’

Yes, the French booksellers association forced the Paris Book Festival to drop Amazon sponsorship due to Amazon "seeking to flood the market with fake AI-generated books, promoted by fake reviews, written by fake readers [which rise] to the top of fake rankings"💥 MORE OF THIS, PLEASE 💥

“lol nothing matters” works right up until all of a sudden things matter a great deal

and there are a lot of back payments coming due

a small wolf-headed person carrying skulls

samuli heimonen -- the collector of worries -- doesn't seem all that worried to me, maybe he's more a distributor of worries

tragically only Amazon for print copies, but I might make an exception if I dig it after I try the ebook...

a prompt and answer from yourAIslopboresme I asked "I'm looking for a book recommendation, something short and weird and cool and strange, but fair warning I read a lot because I run a bookstore and also talk about books professionally" and the "AI" answered: Read KIMMY by Alyson Greaves (and then below: when the LLM so ahh you lowk take over its job https://youraislopbores.me)

hell yeah I've never heard of this book and it sounds dope, thanks whatever "AI" helped me out here

(youraislopbores.me)