JaneLane
@nyjanelane.bsky.social
Film and theater lover. "On" Long Island. Cats, obviously. Fiona, particularly. Sorry about the politics. Grieving. I miss my mom. Lucky companion of the late TT. I miss my guy. She/her. https://letterboxd.com/NYJaneLane/ ┃ https://shorturl.at/Cd0kk
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Norm MacDonalds CLASSIC Julia Roberts Joke #normmacdonald #standupcomedy #funnyshorts #rip
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Were you thrilled to be asked to play the heroin addict, or was your first reaction, “What do you mean?” >> "No, I was thrilled. I loved those roles. Put some dirt on my face and grease in my hair."
Ned Raggett@nedraggett.bsky.social · 9h agoAnd now an interview with our hero. If you watched the series. Which I hope you have by now.
Wilmington / Coastal NC: This beautiful boy showed up at our house a few weeks ago very skinny, so we've been feeding him. He is super affectionate and has the best personality. Clearly he used to be an indoor cat and he loves people. Would love to find him a home. DM or contact link in bio.
It is 2006. I am 22. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance. It is 2026. I am 42. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance.
Auditioning For Hal Prince While Accidentally High Thank you to Elbi Cespedes for the wonderful chat on the I Wanna Be Like You podcast! So many more stories about my mis-adventures in the theatre on @iwannabelikeyoupod page on Instagram! Go Check it out!
Ok, so naked walking apparently means walking without GPS, music or any kind of tech. I wish I had known this an hour ago.
I remember sending the same texts in the Great Recession
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16h agoMy 24-year-old cousin with a motif for our times.
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New Night Circus paperbacks have, of course, been Vesper approved 🖤
erin morgenstern@erinmorgenstern.bsky.social · 14h agoThe Night Circus turns 15 this year, somehow, and the US paperback from Vintage Books is getting a gorgeous new look for the occasion. Cover design by Madeline Partner with art by the incomparable @alexeckmanlawn.bsky.social (who also did the art for the US paperback of The Starless Sea) 🖤🎪🖤
Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong during a recording session at RCA Victor Records in New York City, 1946
Every elected Republican is now a Max Miller Republican. Hang that around their necks every damn day.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 18h agoMike Johnson tells Politico that he's standing behind Republican Max Miller — despite the "serious" domestic abuse allegations against him.
All that came on the heels of Cosby, Weinstein & Pelicot, plus the analyses showing mass shooters get their start abusing women & of course President Rapist. Yet my sense is that most ppl process this as "there sure are a lot of bad apples," rather than as "violent misogyny is organized terrorism."
They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · yesterdayNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
MAGA... you have become accomplices in a heist that robbed your own families. Congrats.
this man should get combat pay bc he was FIGHTING here
Just approved the final jacket art/copy for @beckbook.com Thank you SOOO much to all the advance readers who were kind enough to blurb!!!!! I will tag you below!!!! In the meantime, everyone go pre-order the book! beckbook.com
![Back cover, with all the many blurbs:
“Riesman gathers an impressive array of interview sources . . . [and] brings a great deal of
empathy to her subject as a longtime fan. . . . Every bit as complex and intriguing as the
pop star himself . . . [A] captivating profile of the Gen X pop sensation.”
—Shelf Awareness (starred review)
“One of the best books I’ve ever read about the forging of an artistic persona—a love story, a
ghost story, a family story spanning three generations of bohemia, and a portrait
of the artist wrestling the forces of evil in a bozo nightmare.”
—Alex Pappademas, senior culture editor at GQ and coauthor of Quantum Criminals
“This biography has everything: sex, secret societies, fashion, betrayal, Hollywood,
rock ’n’ roll—it’s like Pop-Up Video with way more scandal.”
—Colette Shade, author of Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything
“This is alt-rock biography as compulsively readable literary thriller. . . .
In this riveting salvo in her American Myth series, Riesman has captured the dream of the
nineties, but also the nightmare we are yet to wake up from.”
—Aidan Levy, author of Dirty Blvd.: The Life and Music of Lou Reed
“A gripping thrill for longtime fans as well as readers who have never followed the
trippy, lo-fi output of the Gen X icon . . . It lands as a reckoning.”
—Charlie Wells, author of What Happened to Millennials
“An amazing read . . . Riesman’s book manages to reveal all Beck’s carefully hidden truths,
while never fully ruining what pleasure comes of bearing witness to his legendary oeuvre.”
—Niko Stratis, author of The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman
“The Last Temptation of Beck is likely the best book I’ll read all year, and despite the
challenging nature of some of the material, it’s one I read straight through in a single sitting.
Josie’s first two books were great, but this is a masterpiece.”
—Andrew Hickey, host of A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
“Josephine Riesman’s book is as uncategorizable as Beck’s music. . . . Fas…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:474ldquxwzrlcvjhhbbk2wte/bafkreifbugb7x66tuyn5pg4m2ixn7wzfsn7udqnpmkmmgrafaml3xur22e)
I have an “email job” at a computer ALL DAY and not one part of my workday involves AI. Unless you count scrolling past the AI results in google to find the correct answer/website/result, or ploughing through AI phone trees when I call companies to get to a human
Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 21h agoMy answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.
I’ve been screening our documentary with organizing communities in the South. So far, the organizers mention data centers first at every single event. From racial justice orgs to old school activists who don’t usually think about tech policy. This has legs.