say what you will, this spring there’s a musical for people of every conceivable taste to go, “meh.”

posting weekly #wordle sentence do-over

One facet of the tithe makes me whiny: that a blimp of a church should equip its priests with the steel scalpel of theology to trim our financial shank.

4/18: FACET
4/17: TITHE
4/16: SHANK
4/15: EQUIP
4/14: BLIMP
4/13: STEEL
4/12: WHINY

Just caught up with The Holdovers and looking forward to the sequel, in which Paul Hunham is a bronzed sex god and author who lives on a Greek island with 3 ex girlfriends and sings ABBA hits

A rhyme I’m guessing he didn’t use

New #Wordle sentence:

Equip your hand with a steel shank and extract a tithe in flesh from the whiny louse aboard the blimp.

4/17: TITHE
4/16: SHANK
4/15: EQUIP
4/14: BLIMP
4/13: STEEL
4/12: WHINY
4/11: LOUSE

remembering the time I got a poem published about the trash littering William Hazlitt's gravesite. Today I'm reading his Liber Amoris and wondering what I could do with it. Last Wednesday it was his 246th birthday

'Your honor, millions of deplorable knuckle-draggers voted for my client the scumbag, and they'll do it again after he perpetrated way more vile shit. The idea that he paid hush money to win the election is, post ex, er, ipso facto, demonstrably false. So... case dismissed?'

My superpower is reflexive emotional withholding. Or kryptonite? One or the other.

just watched first ep of 3 Body Problem. Is it like a Moffatt Doctor Who but way too many parts and way too many millions $$ pumped in??

MURMUR was released in the US on this day in 1983. In the book Remarks, Peter said: 'When the album was finished I remember thinking, 'God, I can't wait until everyone hears this' Because it was so different... it didn't sound like anything else that was coming out.'

new #Wordle sentence

Shall we merge our parts and breed like louse and finch, the broth of passion gently stirred—voila!—by a dreaming wrist.

4/11: LOUSE
4/10: BROTH
4/9: MERGE
4/8: BREED
4/7: VOILA
4/6: FINCH
4/5: WRIST

The rest of 2024

quote from my kicker tickles me ngl. can't wait to see Stereophonic: Live on Broadway

Good read. Made me think about the big shifts in Broadway/Off/commercial/nonprofit I saw in the 2000s at Time Out. Comments also worth checking out nytimes.com/2024/04/11/the…

the very niche joy of recycling the previous draft of a play I’ve just gut-renovated

Ah yes. Very me at the residency, pausing between sentences.

listomania in writing. I’ve gotta break free of cataloguing and iteration. Two for dramatic tension, three for comedy, four for a sense of wondrous possibility

when you suspect you forgot to be the person you expected to be

Me by the sea and gee there’s a tree. Bogliasco