Mark Armstrong

No……..shit

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.

No phones, no staff, nothing.

I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

‘Blue Moon’ Review: Without a Love of My Own

You’ve got to get on BLUE MOON’s level (that is, maximum theater nerd), but if you do it is a maximum, melancholy delight:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/m...

completely out of the loop. not paying attention bsky.app/profile/unav...

What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity.

And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.

Andrew Cuomo: taxpayers should pay for $60 million in legal bills for my sexual harassment allegations

Also Andrew Cuomo: $60 million is too much money to spend on a pilot program to deliver cheaper groceries

will stancil, everyone!

I want to get a Mr. Pibb T-shirt.

Drumpf's finished.

Nobody wants it as a story but I have multiple NYPD sources who voted for Mamdani, are eager for his win in November, and who say their colleagues quietly feel the same.

They like that he wants NYPD to focus on crime, not quality of life enforcement.

things bullets say

Even those are modest (bigger but in line with Succession) compared to things with a huge reach. I hope I'm wrong, but we may look back on peak tv in the way we do the major label gold rush of the early ‘90s (”Squares Rush to Find Out About New Cool Thing!”) that led thru Candlebox to Woodstock 99.

I suppose some of it started earlier than that. I cannot believe the amount of time I spent during the aughts explaining to people why I hadn't read a series of children’s books that came out when I was like 28. And these conversations could be become quite contentious.

Until the last 15 years or so, I thought it was the norm for people who work as artists to disdain, ignore or otherwise react against mainstream corporate entertainments. As someone who can't name two Mariah Carey songs, this has all been quite befuddling.

I don't argue with anyone who won't watch a Woody Allen movie; it's a personal choice, different for everyone. But Diane Keaton is a big reason I almost never say "[Movie X] is dead to me." My argument isn't "Separate the artist from the art"; it's that movies are never just one person's legacy.

Few actors exemplify the delightful wildness and mess that was the hallmark of Meisner technique better than Diane Keaton. What an incredible actor and career. impossible to imagine Reds, Godfather II, or Annie Hall, three of the best American films of the new Hollywood era, without her. RIP!

YouTube video by funtimes78 Reds - Best Scene

Obviously the Godfathers, obviously Annie Hall and her other stuff with him (with all the caveats, which I’ve written all about). But this is a personal favorite: Diane, Jack, the Elaine May dialogue, the perennial intraleft tensions perfectly captured: youtu.be/JXP5LQx4slc?...

Diane Keaton in Reds

RIP Diane Keaton. If you haven’t seen her portrayal of Louise Bryant in Warren Beatty’s criminally underrated Reds, it’s a phenomenal performance in a brilliant picture.

A white quote shape on a red background. Black text on it: "Featured Interview, 'The plays I like, like chris's plays, and the kind of plays I try to write, make people feel contradictory things." Below is a picture of Dan O"Brien, a white man with dark hair, a beard, and blue eyes, wearing a blue shirt.

A white quote shape on a red background. Black text on it says "Featured Interview, 'Part of me misses the whimsical theatricality of my earlier plays. But I just want to be more honest now, you know?'" Below is a picture of christopher oscar peña, a Latinx man wearing a red jacket over dark button-down shirt and resting his hand on his forehead as he leans over and smiles.

Playwrights (and CR contribs!) @bydanobrien.bsky.social and christopher oscar peña in conversation with director and producer @markarmstrong4.bsky.social about the two's recently published play trilogies and more. Link in first comment:

Thank you @cincinnatireview.bsky.social for this chat with christopher oscar peña about my ‘True Story: A Trilogy’ @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social and chris‘s ‘Three Plays’ @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social — & thank you @markarmstrong4.bsky.social @scavengerjunta.bsky.social @lisaampleman.bsky.social 🙏🏻

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

How this isn't a bigger story or at least a part of the story of this curiously violent "peace" deal is a really shameful display by the msm. This is a media colleague..... doing the work they refuse or are scared to do. Not exactly a crew of @washingtonpost.com reporters on the flotilla.

The entitlement is just breathtaking: "We built a machine that needs stealing to survive, so it's not fair to tell us not to steal."

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

It's one of Bob’s best, so much so that for years I confused the Pete Buck credit on the track (he plays one of the solos) and thought he played that riff. It points the way to a different future, where Bob’s playing might have evolved along with the group’s sound.

Only One Performer Has Won Three Best Actor Oscars. Is It Fair That He’s Also a Joke? He might be the greatest actor of all time—and the most misunderstood.

I finally got a chance to write one of my dream assignments, an in depth evaluation of Daniel Day-Lewis, an actor whose achievements and methods cast a long shadow over the field, and whose work is often misunderstood.

slate.com/culture/2025...

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

He Might Be the Greatest Actor of All Time—and the Most Misunderstood Only one performer has won three Best Actor Oscars. Is it fair that he’s also a joke?

Daniel Day-Lewis is the poster child for Method acting. He in fact does its exact opposite. slate.trib.al/Wbu7x4x

I knew without clicking who wrote this. Who else? (To be clear, it's great)