Nick Capodice

I am sick, pounding my leg on the floor of the bathroom at 6am, wracked with choked sobs. I am apparently the simplest man who ever lived put me in a woolen hat on a wagon of hay

And while we're here, I once heard of a measurement of beauty called 'the millihelen.'

Each one implies the ability of the bearer's face to launch a ship.

*I* want to take a class on Helen of Troy.

I read 'Menelaiad' whenever I lose my way. "'Helen of Troy taught me what love is,' I said," I said.

Never you mind the jobs you've had, tell me five classes you took in college

- The Artist and the Making of Meaning
- The First Amendment
- Science and Society
- Scene Painting
- Jazz Dance (the only class I was asked to leave with a promise of a B)

(and 'acting', no fun title, 6 hours a day)

No, you are very much! Anything that brings the question to the table of "why do we write about x?" is a net positive!

You know what makes me mad? Simply because people are sharing it and saying "can you believe this??" it's going to be their most clicked story in a month and they'll say "welp, our most read story last month was the one where we heard people say murder was justified, so we gotta do more of those."

If even one person reads about Leviathan because you took advantage of this it is a societal net gain.

@jenmercieca.bsky.social was...I mean....

This isn't what you're talking about is it?

Have I been figurative all this time??

Can't stop reading this page.

ohhh this is what I need tonight. This is such generosity.

"It Tastes Like French Shepherd's Pie!": Meet Your New Favorite Casserole All that and a cheesy mashed potato topping.

I been doin' this French, beef twist on a shepherd's pie (maybe technically a 'cottage pie' if it has beef??) and it has reaped many rewards.

www.thekitchn.com/hachis-parme...

Haven't watched Spiderman in about 20 odd years, but showing it to the kid tonight and I got a New York history nerd SUPRISE.

Hooooooo boy June 15, 1904. Who made this little joke???

This is tremendously useful for me today, thank you! Didn't know I needed the rundown/run-down rundown.

(refraining from asking for a lowdown\downlow download)

YouTube video by Gart Williams Ned Beatty's NETWORK speech-by Paddy Chayefsky

I watch this every few months just to bang my head on the table and sob.

youtu.be/yuBe93FMiJc?...

My son, excited to play Hades II, shouts up the stairs at 7am, "can I close this snip? Do I have to save it??"

"mmghngrn just delete it!"

The snip in question. No more effing around on google maps at 3am and texting fears to my gf

YouTube video by Peter van der Ham Clapping music - Steve Reich

youtu.be/BY4bL_bO8sA?...

I'm gonna post this every time, @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social because I get the excuse to watch it, and if I don't watch it once a year the world gets a little bit darker.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xy-...

Ahh yes, the Concord NH to NYC bus.

Go south? Nashville Wish and Ironman 2, go north it's Gravity and We Bought a Zoo.

Every time, for years and years.

BODY: Lion
HEAD: Man
GAZE: Blank and pitiless as the sun
DMS: Open

Listening to conservative talk radio is like three hours of this guy and then two with this other guy and Jack Warden hops in for the local headlines

I still got a day, right

First interview in 2017, with Bakari Sellers, checking the mic I natter on about the crazy thing he did that day and he says "oh who cares, it's just pro wrestling."

That line has been echoing in my head for 3,254 days.

2026 will be the year of embracing all Fezziwigs, wherever they be.

Old Fezziwig wouldn't have Gemini create a survey to assess the best way to generate revenue from a client base using demographically adjusted scripts.

He'd give you a loan for your goddamn oven and rejoice in your bread.

What did old Mr. Fezziwig give us? Just a good time, love, a job we enjoyed. Merry reels and days off, celebrating our efforts.

What does Mr. Jorkin give us? Wealth, at the cost of a sense of purpose, community, and humanity.

The slithering viper who asks, "don't you want it to be EASIER."

I never tire of watching this, and last night I paid attention to the real villain in A Christmas Carol. It's not Scrooge, it's not money, it's not even the machines that will eventually replace all of us, it's MR JORKIN.

"The machines are inevitable. You want to make money, don't you?"

A scene from the first Hamlet readthrough in A Midwinter's Tale. Henry Wakefield as the grouchy Claudius, Carnforth Greville as twenty roles, Tom Newman as Laertes, Molly as Molly, Joe as Hamlet, Terry DuBois as Gertrude, Nina as Ophelia, Vernon as Polonius, Fadge in the back with hardening nipples.

Well, it remains Christmas, so time to watch the best Christmas movie ever made.

When the production of Hamlet is falling to pieces, Joe shouts "what makes this FUCKING life worth living."

Vernon says Rachmaninoff, Terry says thinking of his son happy. Molly says, "you. You're my brother."

I kind of like it as an AFTER Christmas gift, ya know? Ok everyone, fun's over. Time to learn the damn rules if we're gonna make it this year!

I read once the music wasn't done yet so they filmed it to Uptown Girl and that's just great. It has made all the difference.