Siobhan Thompson

This repeats yet another pattern from the Iraq War. When the Iraqis did not behave as the Americans wanted — without the deference and gratitude that a foreign military occupier felt it was due — they became targets.

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.

Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Do it

This is basically my cousins so I’m intimately familiar. I think the dynamics are a little different just because of parental expectations of the trans sister pre-transition but ultimately the vibe is aligned

It’s funny, I thought about it a lot (about 30 seconds but also my whole life) and I really don’t think that the sexuality of the sister changes this dynamic much

Thinking about the dynamics of older sister, younger gay brother vs older gay brother, younger sister. Both beautiful, chaotic dynamics but so different in key ways

didn't you hear me I said we don't want any more remakes

Unfortunately I am deeply Cathy (Kathy?) coded

Huge win for me today: someone complimented my socks and I just said “thank you” instead of “thank you I got chocolate on them earlier because I was laying in the floor eating ice cream”

These are the 4 things AI can do well:

•Clean up your email inbox (badly)
•Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party
•Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself
•Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday

You can see why we need to base our economy around it

Character actor headshots in 1995

Songs For Drella might be my favorite album

I'm worried when Kristi Noem finds out she's been fired she's going to become America's first obedience school shooter.

Do not quote the ancient texts to me bitch

Cartoon titled "know the work rules". The first panel, labeled "appropriate" depicts Garfield the cat in a business suit leaning around the edge of a cubicle and pointing to a woman at her desk while saying, "coffee lasagna Mondays am I right?" to which the woman responds, hands clasped together, "awww you're so funny" The second panel, labeled "inappropriate", depicts a far side cow leaning around the edge of the same cubicle and speaking with a word bubble which contains only the shapes of the 4 cow tools. The woman fearfully picks up the Phone and says, "hello , complaint department??!"

know the funny papers rules

I think about this take more often than I'd like to.

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

Chris Flemming has Chappell Roan level cardio fitness and nobody is talking about it

Didn’t know you were a Greek Earther

Who can reply: anyone, nobody, people who can be normal about it.

trying out a new feature, lmk if it works

Please do not mess around with the big rock in the sky that makes the oceans work

Upset by this thanks

Tonight's Denouement show at The Elysian is SOLD OUT but you can still get in on the livestream!

W/ Siobhan Thompson, Vic Michaelis, Grant O'Brien, Jacquis Neal, Angela Giarratana, Cathryn Mudon, John Milhiser, Kimia Behpoornia & Dhruv Singh!

www.elysiantheater.com/shows/myster...

@electrolemon.bsky.social feel like your parents would love these

I’m in the US military and I’m about to make a fortune betting against me surviving a drone strike. The other gamblers don’t know how slow I run

Kat Applegazaleh

Smashing into the NICU screaming “I too have a gift for the child!!”

There should be more kids movies about old people beefing with children they’re not related to. A lost genre

Looking for seed funding into non-AI actress Siobhan Thompson