Charles T. Downey

Someone Put The 'Veep' Closing Credits On Kristi Noem's Final Speech As DHS Secretary—And It's Too Good

Veep feels more and more accurate with every passing day.

Do you know somebody who needs to learn Latin from scratch or improve their Latin to PhD standard? CMS Toronto's summer Latin program is now entirely online and a remarkable bargain for the intensity and quality of instruction. Details here: www.medieval.utoronto.ca/latin/summer...

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Alexander Butterfield, Who Revealed Nixon Tapes in Watergate Scandal, Dies at 99

R.I.P. Alex…

Alexander Butterfield, Who Revealed Nixon Tapes in Watergate Scandal, Dies at 99 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

Telling my editor that the draft is very complete, pretty much.

About Last Night - Hope and Wu Han gracefully bridge a Wolf Trap transition with piano trio program washingtonclassicalreview.com/2026/03/09/h...

I loved Twitter, despite its many imperfections.

Then Elon Musk fucked up Twitter beyond all recognition.

I will never, ever forgive him for that.

I now love Bluesky, despite its many imperfections.

With all due respect, please don’t fuck up Bluesky or I will never, ever forgive you.

Thank you.

Timothée Chalamet Under Fire For Dismissive Comments About Traditional Japanese Puppet Theater Form ‘Bunraku’

Timothée Chalamet Under Fire For Dismissive Comments About Traditional Japanese Puppet Theater Form ‘Bunraku’ https://theonion.com/timothee-chalamet-under-fire-for-dismissive-comments-about-traditional-japanese-puppet-theater-form-bunraku/

Things look grim in the markets right now, but at least the U.S. economy wasn’t already being propped up by a massive speculative AI bubble that is highly sensitive to rising energy costs.

Patients say measles 'worse than expected' as Utah hits 350+ infections, doctors say Health officials plead with residents to vaccinate against measles as Utah hits 358 infections.

Patients in Utah tell doctors "they wish they'd known beforehand how bad measles was, so that they could have protected their family" with a goddamn vaccine. If only they had known that measles can kill people....

www.ksl.com/article/5145...

World leaders take heed: how swift the rise, how swift the fall when the Wheel of Fortune turns.

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About Last Night - Washington National Opera weathers the storm to bring a lost American opera to vivid life. Photo: Elman Studios washingtonclassicalreview.com/2026/03/08/w...

This is the best press ballet and opera has gotten in America in years

An African-American man (Demarre McGill), dressed in black shirt and pants and with blue glasses, holds a flute while leaning against a wall

Thanks to Andrew Lindemann Malone for his latest review on WCR: McGill and the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra provide compelling advocacy for Leshnoff premiere. Photo: Courtesy of FSO washingtonclassicalreview.com/2026/03/08/m...

The thing is, many people warned Cassidy that he would soon regret his vote for RFK. He was cautioned repeatedly about doing something to reckless and irresponsible. Some even told him that a vote to confirm would ruin his legacy. FAFO, I guess.

No respecte for anybodye who doth talke shit about opera or ballet.

WWI poster “Saving Daylight” A longer day of daylight for the man with the gun and the man with the hoe. Help make it a national law to set the clock one hour ahead.

"We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world."
- Rene Magritte

Description: In a courtroom setting, a man sitting in the witness box being questioned as to his whereabouts at a specific date and time. Caption: “Where were you on the morning of Sunday, March 10th, between 2 and 3 a.m.?”

Kyle Bravo
Daylight Savings Witness
New Yorker
March 11, 2024

The meme with a guy and two girls. The guy is labeled 1:59 AM. His girlfriend islabeled 2 AM. The cute girl coming the other way is labeled 3AM.

The US and Canada go to Daylight Savings Time tomorrow morning.

Disrespectful

By end I mean abolition - I need my extra hour of sleep tomorrow morning

“Never send a dog-killer to do a people-killer’s job.” Henry Beisert, Seed Packager

Kristi Noem Fired As DHS Secretary
https://theonion.com/kristi-noem-fired-as-dhs-secretary/

a man in a suit sits in front of an american flag with his arms outstretched ALT: a man in a suit sits in front of an american flag with his arms outstretched

Fellow choristers, I am once again demanding the end of Daylight Saving Time!

All About Timothée Chalamet's Parents, Mom Nicole Flender and Dad Marc Chalamet Timothée Chalamet was raised by his parents, dad Marc Chalamet and mom Nicole Flender. Here’s all about Timothée Chalamet’s parents.

The thing about Timothee Chalamet choosing to shit on ballet and opera is that his mom “majored in dance at LaGuardia High School and attended Yale University on a ballet scholarship. As a child, she danced with the New York City Ballet and later went on to perform in several Broadway musicals.”

Slyngstad always gets it right…

Dark red cat, white face and paws, curled up, looking at viewer.

‘I love cats because I love my home. And because bit by bit they become its visible soul.’

✍️ Jean Cocteau
🖼️ Edwin Landseer, Tabby Cat
#BookWormSat #LandseerPaintings

Words, what do they mean

Perec, his hand to his chin, looks at the camera. We see his reflection in a mirror on the right.

Remembering Georges Perec on his birthday
📷 Bernard Plossu, 1978

"Like Jorge Luis Borges, Georges Perec had a mind that was a storehouse of curious bits of knowledge & awesome erudition. Half the time the reader can't be sure if he is being conned or enlightened."
- Paul Auster

Pete Hegseth's murderous buffoonery, coming amid a lifetime in which he's betrayed everyone close to him and failed up from one disaster to the next, is a perfect example of how the appeal of Trumpism is that it creates a permission structure for people to openly be their worst selves

Esfahan is a stunningly beautiful and historically important city, home to UNESCO world heritage sites and the once capital of the Safavid empire. The monsters are within spitting distance of hitting the cultural jewels of this city like Naksh-e Jahan Square x.com/qudsnen/stat...