Marissa Skudlarek

Baron Scarpia has just endorsed Andrew Cuomo

gift link to this article that still routinely saves my butt, of 10 minute meals, a lot of which are throwing a couple things in a pan www.nytimes.com/2007/07/18/d...

A parable for Fall 2025:

My neighborhood in SF just got plastered with posters advertising a new app that aims to facilitate community connections & chats.

Curious, I typed the address into my phone's browser.

And got a warning that the connection isn't private & might be a scam.

Zohran picked 「卓蘭」("excellent orchid") for his first name and「夸梅」("brilliant plum") for his middle name.

The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.

Honestly, any actor who has not read The Method at this point should not be allowed to use the term in interviews.

I'm not sure, I feel like the color scheme of the 2003 one screams Aughts trends and wouldn't make sense on a magazine today

I saw the tour of “Suffs” last week, and there’s a running gag in it where Woodrow Wilson (the villain) repeatedly tells the press he hasn’t heard about something the suffragists have done… and all I could think of was Mike Johnson

Another good one along these lines is that Billie Whitelaw, Samuel Beckett’s favorite interpreter of his work, is the voice of Aughra in “The Dark Crystal”

I would also say, it may be a fad/trend but it’s also pretty timeless and versatile— it’s not like “where would I ever wear that.” I like vintage stuff & think it looks like knitwear I might see in a WWII period drama, but it also works with more modern outfits.

I made one this past winter! I learned to knit as a kid but hadn’t made anything recently—this felt like a good “get back into it” project, not tricky but not just a rectangle either. And I kind of liked that it’s so popular, sometimes it’s fun to be part of a big club

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I attended an event with the biographer & someone asked “so is Lin really that delightful or does he have a dark side?” And the author was like “no, he really is a mensch, the worst thing I can say about him is his college love life was a little messy”

and an authorized biography of LMM just came out (I’m in the middle of reading it)

I’m glad to see the follower count grow

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I think when baseball games go too long and all the players are tired they should switch to trivia

Non-musical plays get produced on Broadway too! (that’s what this one is)

These seem to be the three legs to the Trump regime's political stool, if you consider Trump, Vought, and Miller as the three centers of power:

Corruption (Trump)
Extreme conservative ideology (Vought)
Fascism (Miller)

I was in a book club with someone for like 4 years before she revealed she had aphantasia, & it blew my mind that her experience of all the books we’d read had been so different from mine. (She is also one of the smartest and most accomplished people I know, so this is clearly not a hindrance!)

Rooting not just for a Game 7 of the World Series, but another 18 inning game that goes so long on Saturday night that the clocks fall back at 2am before it’s ended and everyone gets tremendously confused about what time it is.

From 1973, Ed Emberley’s Little Drawing Book of Weirdos. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/e...

Halloween decorations done right!

🎶 He used to have eyes for his mother / But now he just used to have eyes. 🎶

Every time I watch North by Northwest I am struck by the proufound but totally unacknowldged influence Hitch had on the Bond franchise. (Dr No came three years later.) This gibson-drinking, unflappable, debonair man, in an impeccably tailored suit, fakes his own death so he can act unseen. 1/3

I invite you to join me in rejecting the siren song of Christmas Starts November 1. We're still doing autumn next month. We're gonna keep roasting up root vegetables and baking with apples. We're leaf peeping, lighting pumpkin candles, and drinking spiced cider. We're watching Fantastic Mr Fox

Like, the thing I just keep coming back to is the forced ending of SNAP benefits while building a massive ballroom. How can this man claim to love Les Miserables yet be so blind about the conditions that led to Les Miserables? Even Hugo would be like, “no, this is too on-the-nose”

Welled up multiple times at the tour of “Suffs” at the Orpheum, welcomed the annual return of the Pleiades to the night sky, then promptly went home and filled out my ballot.

I am part of a constellation, a sisterhood of women, and I am not going to take it for granted. ✨🌌

Ann Savage bullies a Hitler-faced pumpkin for Halloween 1942 publicity:

“Green-eyed starlet Ann Savage is about to give this Hitler-pumpkin a poke in the nose. With the way things are going in Stalingrad, it’s hard to imagine why the old boy should be smiling.”

Welled up multiple times at the tour of “Suffs” at the Orpheum, welcomed the annual return of the Pleiades to the night sky, then promptly went home and filled out my ballot.

I am part of a constellation, a sisterhood of women, and I am not going to take it for granted. ✨🌌

More than 1,000 artifacts plundered from a California museum in brazen heist Items stolen from the Oakland Museum of California included Native American baskets, jewelry, laptops, historic photographs and intricately carved ivory tusks.

More than 1,000 artifacts plundered from a California museum in brazen heist

LRT is the second time I’ve gotten one of @themagfields.bsky.social’s 69 Love Songs stuck in my head tonight; earlier, my trivia team dressed up as the Louvre criminals (construction vests & our flashiest jewelry) and I named us “Louvre Manouvre,” thanks to that rhyme from the song “Zebra”