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Cheer Up Charlies owners say they've 'learned' after backlash over scrapped sale Sales at the beloved queer bar are down since the controversy last year. But owners Tamara Hoover and Maggie Lea say they're staying put for now.

I mean I just read this, which is ... from a parallel universe? www.kut.org/business/202...

worth remembering, David Lynch directed “fix your hearts or die” specifically at transphobes. it wasn’t a generic “no mean people allowed” statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.

TIL Jim Hightower has a Substack and I am DISAPPOINTED.

Can't wait to hear about how they just need one more $5 donation and our votes to stop Trump's agenda though

Another photo from looking back at my Flickr albums, taken in September 2011. This Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel is on the alert, checking the hikers out for possible treats.

#RockinTuesday

A Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel (Callospermophilus lateralis) on a boulder at Mount Rainier looking for a handout.

#PNW
📷🥾🐿️🦊

Also very important: if you sell a book, you still need.....other jobs. Even like three other jobs.

Eliza and Bert were large language models
Chomsky honed them for IBM
Sammy Altman selling piles of twaddle something’s bad in his brain stem
ANTHROPIC was a real hot topic
We’re so bummed it showed up
And now the country is fallin' apart
Pete Hegseth can’t stop screwing up
And then came Claude

Like fundamentally Hasbro is making a business decision that Harry Potter fans will love the IP and not be bothered by the anti-trans stuff.

I get it. I don't love it but I get it.

American businesses in 2026 are often immoral.

But to make them stop you have to stop consuming her shit.

This historian dug up the hidden history of 'amateur' blackface in America In her new book, Darkology, historian Rhae Lynn Barnes writes about how blackface and minstrel shows became one of the most popular forms of entertainment in 19th- and 20th-century America.

Incredible @nprfreshair.bsky.social interview with historian Rhae Lynn Barnes about the history of amateur blackface — the part about blackface texts disappearing from libraries is particularly interesting

www.npr.org/2026/03/09/n...

whaaat

Pixar was the single handed most misogyny I ever experienced to my face in my life, stemming from my work being "too girlish" with an insinuated, but never directly stated "and too gay", while also complaining that I was perplexing for not behaving like their perception of a normal "woman"

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

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.

it's a book about the coolest guy in the entire fucking world. he just starts cool and gets cooler. polar explorer. giant with a pegleg. golden age of hollywood writer. nazi resister in denmark. won the $64,000 question

Pixar’s Pete Docter Says Queer ‘Elio’ Storyline Was Axed Because “We’re Making A Movie, Not Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars Of Therapy” Pixar Chief Creative Officer Pete Docter explained the animation company's decision to ax a queer storyline in last year's Elio.

If you're a powerful creative person, a moment will always arrive when you can do something a little brave that will help people, or refuse to. The book I'm working on right now is in part a history of who did what. All I'll say about this is, it never gets forgotten. deadline.com/2026/03/pixa...

escoffier's brigade style kitchen system and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

New Project: Major and Minor Scales Ref Sheet I’m taking a beginning music theory class. We’re currently working with major and minor scales.

New Blog Post: Major and Minor Scales Ref Sheet

W W H W W W H

https://www.crosenthal.com/chrome/2026/02/26/major-and-minor-scales-ref-sheet.html

I think this is a great argument, beautifully constructed

32,000 individual people ignored the idiotic voice that tells them "what I do by myself doesn't matter" and this happened.

Stop! Listening! To! That! Voice!

So I'm hearing some chatter about the Oscars cancelling the red carpet because of the war, but that strikes me as very stupid. This isn't 9/11 or the wildfires. If you act like this moment should be respected, you're granting it legitimacy. We shouldn't let the actions of the corrupt steal our joy

a local journalist should do a deep dive on exactly how this happened and interview some of the queer customers who now feel rightly unwelcome and stress that these people donated MONEY to this business under false pretenses. i want the owners ritualistically publicly shamed

1 Inquiry for New York Times Good afternoon, My name is [REDACTED] and l am a reporter for the New York Times. I am researching how much money the Palestinian diaspora community has sent to support Gazan families since the war in Gaza began. Does your team track this figure? I really appreciate it. With gratitude, [REDACTED]

Palestine Diaspora Movement Hello [REDACTED] We do not collaborate with The New York Times. Your email asks about money sent to Gazan families "since the war in Gaza began." Let us first correct the premise. This is not a war. It is a genocide. Calling it a war is part of the problem. It obscures the reality of a colonized people being massacred by a military machine backed by the United States and defended, sanitized, and rhetorically softened by institutions like yours. The New York Times has spent far too long parroting Zionist propaganda and laundering Israeli state narratives while Palestinians bury their dead. That kind of coverage does not merely misinform. It helps create the political climate in which Palestinian slaughter becomes explainable, defensible, and forgettable. So no, we will not be sharing any figures, internal data, or community information with a paper that has so thoroughly damaged its credibility on Palestine. Quite frankly, we would rather chew jeans than help The New York Times extract from our community while continuing to fail it. Do not contact us again for this purpose, The Palestine Diaspora Movement Team

“Quite frankly, we would rather chew jeans than help The New York Times extract from our community while continuing to fail it”

lmaooo GET EM

AI is good for coding and still can't write for shit. Makes you think about who the most highly skilled workers in the economy really were, doesn't it?

“If [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the future’s already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” — @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

I'm sorry to remind everyone of the existence of hte worst magazine in America, but Kansas is literally taking away trans' people's driver's licenses, and the Atlantic has decided to publish a thumbsucker about whether effeminate boys are feeling pressured to transition

Okay if fucking Trump outlasts Bruce Campbell I'm fighting god barefoot in a Waffle House parking lot.

If you were OK with “Substack, the Nazi Bar,” maybe “Substack, a front for the gambling on life and death casino” might convince you.

One of the greatest, Bruce Campbell, announcing he has cancer. Our hearts are with you Bruce, Hail to the King.

Quote from Washington Times editorial board "[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

Which came first, better or green? Whenever a newer “greener” technology is introduced, it’s the subject of political attacks. Opponents support their position with, well, gibberish. Slogans like “beautiful, clean coal” (coal is never clean or beautiful) or “clean natural gas” (it’s methane for goodness sake). The gibberish is just a disguise for emotional resistance to change.

New Blog Post: Which came first, better or green?

Whenever a newer “greener” technology is introduced, it’s the subject of political attacks.

https://www.crosenthal.com/chrome/2026/03/02/which-came-first-better-or-green.html