Rolling Stones w/ BB King as opening act. 1969? I would’ve been 14.

Be splendid tonight, be focused, have fun, make theater: That's our way of repudiating the bullies, the killjoys, the busybodies and blowhards. We know the secret of making art, while they only know the minor secret of making mischief. We proceed from joy; they only have their misery. Tony Kushner

Instead of funneling endless amounts of money into our bloated Pentagon budget while thousands of veterans face homelessness and hunger, let’s use those funds to truly take care of our veterans — ensuring every one has a home, food, and access to medical and mental health care.

Never seen a hot pink moth before - unless they’ve been hiding amongst the last-gasp hydrangeas.

Move the World Cup out of the US! It not safe!

The OP is right about hearing/feeling the voices of past residents and builders when renovating an historic building. But whenever you say “what were they thinking?”, there’s a feeling that some old carpenter’s ghosts are nodding thier heads in agreement .

And one of those voices will be a stonemason cussing out the homeowner for changing the design mid-project, the same voice heard for centuries on every building site. There are some things we can depend on, after all.

Wonder Warthog Words of Wisdom from 1972:

A drawing by Roz Chast of a bookstore with a woman standing in front of a divided bookshelf - one side is labeled “Beach Reads”. The other is labeled “Dark Little Apartment Reads”. We know the woman is a New Yorker because she is studying the “Dark Little Apartment Reads” section.

“The protesters seem to be doing some sort of joyful synchronized dance. Is it time to call in the Marines?”

500+ in impromptu march in Baltimore

I produced the play “Peter Pan” while in LA. We stuck to the original score except for a couple spots: for the scene-change into Wendy’s house we used “Wouldn’t It be Nice” whose lyrics are exactly what the following scene is about. The LA audience of course knew the song & started SINGING ALONG!😊

Two books: Catalog for John Waters POPE OF TRASH exhibit at the Academy Museum in Hollywood. On the over, Waters is wearing a COMME DE GARCONS dinner jacket, made of pink bedcover cloth with pink pompoms. And SPENT, the latest of Alison Bechdel’s graphic novels. The cover image is Bechdel and her wife Holly drawn as the lesbian version of “American Gothic”. As always, Ms. Bechdel’s book is the one you you really do HAVE to read.

My Big Gay Books: POPE OF TRASH, the catalog from the John Waters exhibit at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, and SPENT, Alison Bechdel’s take on Marxist theory as viewed through the lens of goat farming in Vermont. Hilarious and true, I loved every page of both!

what do we think he’s measuring with those fingers?

See? Missed ‘em again!

o miss front 242

An approach to speaking about the Trump administration, by Robert
Reich, vintage 2018. Still vitally important. Please do share.

Antiques Roadshow | Appraisal: John Waters Posters | Season 29 Appraisal: John Waters Posters

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To clarify, the original article was about a minor kerfluffle over permits for an outdoor
music venue. But the sentiment pretty much defines what we are going through.

A quote from a NYTimes article that sums up our present situation: “I think there’s cultural conflict here: It’s between people who think you should work things out with your neighbors and follow the rules, and people who think they’re so powerful and so cool, they can just do whatever they want,”

Tomorrow there are demonstrations in both DC and Baltimore. I was fully planning to go, but have been in bed sick for the last week, and probably won’t be mobile tomorrow. Anybody who wasn’t planning on it, if you could go in my place, it would mean a lot to me.

Is there a start time for these protests? Please read “Let the Record Show”, a history of ActUp and a primer on how to organize and run an effective protest campaign, which would include stating the time to show up for a demonstration on every flyer and message.

A satirical cartoon from the New Yorker titled “Peak Operational Efficiency” featuring a harried federal worker at their desk reading emails written in HUGE type and in ALL CAPS from Messers Trump and Musk, all of which are contradictory. The cartoon ends with an istant message in very very small type: “Hey!” “…” “Do you still have a job?”

How about we start referring to Trump and his pals as THE BILLIONAIRE BOYS CLUB. Insulting and infantilizing all at once! Let them try to take ownership of that!

I know you’re making a joke, but any company that wants to sell candy in Canada or Europe has to follow their rules. That means the dyes used in manufacturing are de facto lead-free.

now THERE’S a band I haven’t heard in a long while

to give some benefit of the doubt, from what i could piece together this started as a small group outside Consumer Protection, then got bigger when the feds let everyone go home @ 2pm Wonder who made that call?

Yesterday’s demo that didn’t get a lot of coverage; big crowds, no riot or damage to the Capitol Bldg.

very good, but I would have a hard time recognizing Andy Bell as singing this if I didn’t know already. Guess that’s what happens in a post modern universe.