Brian Olsen

Chicken wire and wood protective cage around home grown plants with sign reading "this is the awning of the cage of asparagus"

🤣🤣🤣
I can't stop laughing at this.
#menobrain

Surgeon’s Hall, a rather grand old building with tall columns, in Edinburgh.

Waiting for tech rehearsal. Check out our venue for the Edinburgh Fringe!

Me, a middle aged white guy, on top of a castle. Edinburgh in the distance.

Hey look I’m on a castle! (Craigmillar Castle, specifically.)

A plate of haggis atop mashed turnips and potatoes in a gravy.

I had haggis for dinner. It was delightful! What’s all the fuss?

On the train from London to Edinburgh. They double booked and it is CHAOS but I made friends with a dog and the guy sitting next to me is smoking hot so I’m good

A rather generic shot of a wide walkway and some trees in Kensington Gardens.

About two hours to kill in London. Not quite enough to stray far from our hotel, especially with a long train ride coming, so I’m wandering Kensington Gardens. I stayed close to here on my prior visit so I’m a bit familiar, but it’s making for a lovely quiet morning nonetheless.

Thanks!

Five people, including me, at Heathrow Airport arrivals. It’s a selfie, I’m taking it, and we’re all looking at the camera and smiling.

The cast and crew of “Tim Kenneth Kicks the Bucket” has arrived in London! I’m all tucked up in my hotel room now; we get the train to Edinburgh in the morning.

I’m pretty excited!

Me, a middle aged white guy with a salt and pepper beard. I’m standing in front of my apartment building.

Off to Edinburgh to do a play in the Fringe. Back in a bit.

If you write a story from the perspective of a person talking with their mouth full, that's an om-nom-nomniscient narrator

What the fuck? There's no way Gretchen Felker-Martin being blocked isn't TERF related somehow

Every. Gay. Transphobe. Is. A. Traitor.

Rowling, and everybody else involved in this complaint, are just absolute pieces of shit. The pettiness is astonishing. They won't be satisfied until all trans people are dead.

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Yas queen

Honestly, with hindsight, Radcliffe, Watson and Grint's public statements where they sided with trans people, expressed their support with no caveats, and willingly blew up any chances at future ties to the franchise has only gotten more and more noteworthy as more actors are revealed to be cowards

Chief of War is really good. And not just because of Jason Mamoa's constant near nakedness and truly magnificent ass cheeks.

In Review: It’s Not Too Late for the Movies to Reject AI A dramatic week in the AI wars made it clear that the future is far from lost, and that we can't afford to fight for it on the tech community's terms.

A dramatic week in the AI wars made it clear that the future is far from lost, and that we can't afford to fight for it on the tech community's terms.

Disney Villains Ranked by How Likely They'd Be To Betray Christ Disney revealed the cast of Villains Land. Theologically speaking, just how evil are they? Which one would rat out Christ to the Romans?

Disney revealed the cast of Villains Land. Theologically speaking, just how evil are they? Which one would rat out Christ to the Romans?

Rehearsals have kept my writing to a minimum, but I finished season 5 of classic Doctor Who and took a moment to continue my rankings (with some quick thoughts on each story). If you're a #DoctorWho fan, take a look and tell me where I'm wrong! (I'm not.)

www.brianolsenbooks.com/ranking-doct...

OK. I'm going to do the thread about trans girls playing sports:

Literally every "legitimate" concern you might have has a remedy in normal sports rules.

Trans toilet rules 'may force Scottish museums to close' A PUBLICLY-FUNDED body representing museums in Scotland criticised Equality and Human Rights Commission proposals and warned “an environment of…

The body representing museums and galleries in Scotland has warned the EHRC's proposals may force museums to close their doors.

“To avoid discrimination, it would require every person using toilets to be checked, adding substantial workload and staff costs."

www.thenational.scot/news/2534402...

Non-paywalled version of the article I reposted. Shame on the venue, for antisemitism and for cowardice.

Casts a slight pall on my upcoming performance at the Fringe, although I'm relieved to see that the Fringe itself wasn't involved in the cancellation. Hope the artists can find another venue.

Jewish comedy gigs at Fringe cancelled ‘over safety concerns’ Acts allegedly cancelled as venue bar staff express fears of ‘feeling unsafe’

This is appalling. Rachel is one of my dear friends and a good egg who just wants to do her funny show. This is just naked antisemitism. It’s not even pretending to be anything else.

Why Mr. Bauer Didn’t Like Me As a child, Blaise Allysen Kearsley tried, in vain, to win over a white friend’s father.

Thank you @saribotton.bsky.social.
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Cavill was good, but Snyder’s “Superman Shrugged” take was dead wrong

Superman was pretty great. Haven’t seen a movie in the theater in ages but hearing how good this was drew me out. I like my superheroes not slaughtering people!

Image of Star Trek’s Lt. Worf, riffing off the song Milkshake by Kelis: “My Bat’leth kills all the threats to Picard. And he’s like, you’re better than Yar. Damn right, I’m better than Yar. I could teach you, but she drowned in tar”

This is fucking hysterical

When their philosophy professor, Tim Kenneth, suffers a meltdown in class, obnoxious prankster Scooter and teacher’s pet Pencil embark on an odyssey through the suburbs of New Jersey, saddled with the weight of their own existence and with complicated feelings towards their lecturer.

Or if you're in Edinburgh for the Fringe between August 10 - 16, you can catch us there too!

www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...