This is a sentimental essay about politics, which I know isn't the fashion, and yet the editors at @newrepublic.com let me write something personal about the Lone Star State. Link in the replies.
John DeVore
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This is a Phantom of the Opera fan account My debut memoir, 'Theatre Kids,' is on sale now
"Whenever my friends and family despair about the GOP’s decades-long stranglehold on Texas, I remind them—wistfully—that it hasn’t always been this way." I wrote an essay about Texas, politics, and old memories for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2118...
It’s OK to Dream of a Blue Texas
The Lone Star State has drifted rightward since the heyday of Ann Richards and Lloyd Bentsen. But every once in a while, you’re allowed to get your hopes up.
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"Whenever my friends and family despair about the GOP’s decades-long stranglehold on Texas, I remind them—wistfully—that it hasn’t always been this way." I wrote an essay about Texas, politics, and old memories for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2118...
It’s OK to Dream of a Blue Texas
The Lone Star State has drifted rightward since the heyday of Ann Richards and Lloyd Bentsen. But every once in a while, you’re allowed to get your hopes up.
newrepublic.com
They’re calling it the most theater kid story of all time
Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterdayin insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
i got a pebble ice machine and honestly its changed my life
be nice to my posts because you never know i could be a god
It’s Barbara Streisand whispering “cry, cry” to Nick Nolte 150wordreviews.substack.com/p/1-long-ess...
1 Long Essay: So I Watched ‘Prince Of Tides’
So I did
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the most unbelievable part of the odyssey is how quickly the greeks were able to clean up the beach and skedaddle all sneaky-like
I am woefully underemployed as a Gen X media worker so I’m going to bet my entire future on a multi-season podcast about Tony Scott’s 1995 submarine thriller Crimson Tide starring Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington — minimum 20 episodes a season and I need a title and a cohost
well it’s weird finding out this way but it looks like i am NOT 60 minutes’ new correspondent
It’s Barbara Streisand whispering “cry, cry” to Nick Nolte 150wordreviews.substack.com/p/1-long-ess...
1 Long Essay: So I Watched ‘Prince Of Tides’
So I did
150wordreviews.substack.com
didn’t expect it but turns out nolan is the only person to have a normal relationship with the odyssey
"Before sobriety, I was known as a 'happy drunk,' but that wasn’t the truth. I was, in fact, what I would call a 'reverse Pagliacci,' a visibly distraught depressive who cracked jokes." via @oldstermag.bsky.social & The Small Bow. www.thesmallbow.com/p/interview-...
Interview with a 51-year-old Sober Person: John DeVore
“Before sobriety I was known as a ‘happy drunk,’ but that wasn’t the truth. I was, in fact, what I would call a ‘reverse Pagliacci,’ a visibly distraught depressive who cracked jokes.”
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"Before sobriety, I was known as a 'happy drunk,' but that wasn’t the truth. I was, in fact, what I would call a 'reverse Pagliacci,' a visibly distraught depressive who cracked jokes." via @oldstermag.bsky.social & The Small Bow. www.thesmallbow.com/p/interview-...
Interview with a 51-year-old Sober Person: John DeVore
“Before sobriety I was known as a ‘happy drunk,’ but that wasn’t the truth. I was, in fact, what I would call a ‘reverse Pagliacci,’ a visibly distraught depressive who cracked jokes.”
thesmallbow.com
a three minute movie trailer that's just people shaking hands
pre-odyssey nolan ranking 5. inception 4. the prestige 3. the dark knight 2. dunkirk 1. interstellar
I wrote about my experiences taking a GLP-1 for Taste. tastecooking.com/a-clockwork-...
A Clockwork Ozempic
For a James Beard Award–winning food writer, the suffering is how he knows the drug is working.
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i wrote about duct tape over on my newsletter for dudes and/or anyone who has ever met a dude --> johndevore.substack.com/p/advice-for...
“In these difficult times, we can no longer afford to keep all the ghastly, mysterious men who haunt our catacombs on this organization’s payroll,” said Timothy O’Leary
National Opera Lays Off 200 Phantoms
WASHINGTON—Aiming to cut costs after a poor fiscal quarter, Washington National Opera general director Timothy O’Leary announced plans Monday to lay off 200 phantoms effective immediately. “In these d...
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the bourdain movie is called tony? what will a future biopic about tony danza be called
i would pay good money to vacation on an exact replica of the village from the prisoner
“Two weeks. It takes two weeks for people to get over most things,” he said. I wrote about the radio, the internet, and our hot-take-based economy in my weekly newsletter for dudes, for dudes, and the dude-adjacent. johndevore.substack.com/p/advice-for...
Advice For Men: You will be forgotten
"It takes two weeks for people to get over most things."
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