When I click on links that lead me to a paywall, it kills my interest in what one may have to say. Can you not give free access to wour own work?

I worked in Finance and got let go 4 times, including at Lehman! I was still upset about each one, especially #3 from Credit Suisse, even though it was the worst job I ever had. Last and final time was 2022, from BNY Mellon. I was 62. It's never the end of the world.

Makes me happy, despite losing an hour of sleep.

So that's 38%. Who's owning the other 62%?

My own mother in North Carolina. She's a Fox fan, natch.

Republicans are like dads with anger issues.

The reviews pain me, because The Lost Daughter was such a fine movie. So I know she can make more fine movies.

I just wrote in another thread that I got to work with Stuhlbarg in a Shakespeare class this weekend, and just watching him teach was an example of how acting works.

As noted below, she was with the ART for a few seasons and did some excellent plays there. Are you related to Sid Friedman, by any chance?

OMG, I took a Shakespeare class with Stuhlbarg this weekend and he mentioned this production, which I had seen but didn't register that he had been in. He's the real thing, BTW.

As an alcoholic, I resent this.

Read the comments and make a course correction. I feel sorry for those killed, but they were killed for no good fucking reason, Pete. And I say that as a supporter.

It's all true and there' more and worse. But we Americans across the political spectrum wrap ourselves in one version of the flag or other. Both lest and right believe in an American freedom.

YouTube video by Simon Roper From Old English to Modern American English in One Monologue

The audio equivalent. I was surprised that it was only when we get to Shakespeare's time could I really understand it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=842O...

Whey Fanta. Christ, no wonder they lost.

So something good DID come out of the third reich! Oh, and Volkswagens.

I don't know, Rosemary may have been the luckiest of all the Kennedys.

If it means an end to decades-old shows like Wicked and Mormon and, god save us, Aladdin, I'm all for it.

But being a true Vermonter, I'll live on sugar on snow. I always have maple syrup in the pantry.

I'd rather starve.

"Camp Siegfried" at Second Stage NYC 2022. Written by Bess Wohl, directed by David Cromer. Unbelievable but true.

Matt, you're on TV in a big market. We look at the whole picture! I do like you and Janice, though. You're both my go-to weather people.

As the Hughes Corporation sang, "Rock the boat (don't tip the boat over)/ Rock the boat (don't rock the boat, baby)"

Eagle facing the wrong way for this admin.

Concern is the Democrat equivalent of thoughts and prayers.

Are we in America drifting towards using that epithet more as they do in the UK? Cuz I'm in favor of that.

I like Uniqlo for underwear, etc. But we both know that anything new from there doesn't stay new for long.

Relieved, cuz I seem to have stopped reading books in my 30s after a biblio-crazed boyhood. I stopped reading magazines somewhere in the more recent past. Undoubtedly because online "reading" has colonized me. But I do listen to books and sometimes find them preferable to the real thing.

The influence of money in politics is like that fungus in The Last of Us.

Making me google so early in the day.