The Floating Signifier

@jrostopovich Cabaret is a huge blind spot for me!

@Fl0atingSign Chicago is pretty balls the entire way through and Cabaret’s second act has Sally singing CABARET (maybe my fave show tune ever) followed by one hell of an outro.

Is there a single musical that has a better second act than first? Plenty of albums have a better side B (Purple Rain for example), but I can think of ZERO musicals that don’t blow their wad in the first hour.

@Perez_Writes Delillo, Pynchon

The ultimate luxury a writer has now is the ability to disappear. Guys like Ben Lerner and Chad Harbach really figured it out. Atticus Lish. Emma Cline, too. No commentary on social media or begging. Nothing. They just put out a book or a piece and disappear again. Maybe show up in a photoshoot for a magazine. That’s how you know you’ve really made it. Good for them.

@DeeMoleman My stomach lining looks like the Shroud of Turin

@DeeMoleman Dude I pop that shit like tic tacs when I’m in pain

I’ve spent my whole life confused by people getting out of things by having a migraine. Do you not pop three advil and truck through it like the rest of us?

I regret to inform you all that email jobs are not overrated in the slightest this is great

@bizlet7 Actually I find this to be a fascinating debate

They are like the deaf people that are against cochlear implants.

@SilentioDe48313 Oof yeah it’s 100 in Michigan today

had to leave the house no AC is getting to be brutal

@SoakUpThe_Sun I do this

Keep thinking of Far Side Comics in my head and laughing

@SoakUpThe_Sun Someone will do this in the next 5 years I guarantee it

@Fl0atingSign I want silent films

With stand up comedy becoming the standard representation of humor people have largely forgotten that having a sense of humor is more about laughing at things, especially yourself, and less about making other’s laugh.

@cairoasmith But he asked the artists, too, which was unnecessary and a courtesy

@cairoasmith Honestly I think that was just to make his life easier

When I was a kid, the legality of Weird Al's song parodies became a sort of symbol of the kind of beautiful pranksterism that the First Amendment allowed. It made me proud of the country. So it was kind of funny to learn later as an adult that he actually just got permission from the rights holders for every single song in advance.

@kautzmania Christ, man. What a guy.

Pull yourself together anon

@faintghostglow I think your affliction has been co-opted by people with bad headaches

@Fl0atingSign please understand there was an unspoken "you rat bastard" there

@DHSayer Ohhh yeah she was on BEE's podcast not long ago

@Fl0atingSign It’s the author of this book everyone is apparently talking about, talking about her own book (Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash)

A book after my heart

@ptichushka I managed to deal with the dryness (bloody noses and chapped lips) but after a few months I started getting stomach pain and had to quit.

@TheChrisLambert Met a guy once who has seen 200 movies from 2023 and fewer than 5 from 1972

Call yourself a cinephile if you want to call yourself a cinephile. But if you care that much about being a cinephile, I would hope subtitles, genre, release year, etc. wouldn’t stop you from watching a great movie.