At my cousin’s wedding, my table is currently discussing the Hot Duck, Flaco and Jimothy.
Cate Planchette
@thestarkest.bsky.social
Recovering overachiever, stoner femme, exciting but ruthless They/them (thanks)
I worked as a receptionist for a plastic surgeon in manhattan for three months before I got fired. They were mad that I ate breakfast at my desk, and that I couldn’t work the janky off-brand nespresso machine the surgeon loved.
Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 2w agoIn honor of the fired lady tell me about your shortest job tenure. I worked at a candy store for less than 2 weeks when I was like 16
If a smart person made a Dan Brown novel into a movie (good version).
Leigh Walton@leighwalton.bsky.social · 4w agoI promise, you have never seen a movie like CHRONOVISOR
An opera written by men who like women *and* have had more than one conversation with them!
Leigh Walton@leighwalton.bsky.social · last mo.Glad we're excited about opera today because MusicDrama.net has updated again! It's the the most lesbian opera ever written by two straight men about a himbo twink and a middle-aged princess… a show about a breakup that sounds like the end of the world… Strauss & Hofmannsthal's DER ROSENKAVALIER!
After sleeping on it… this is a Dark Romance Novel for the True Crime Girlies (complimentary)
Leigh Walton@leighwalton.bsky.social · last mo.I finally watched *Klute* (1971) and was blown away. A feminist neo-noir named after stiff private eye Donald Sutherland but actually centered on three-dimensional sex worker Jane Fonda, with a final villain monologue that packs a whole gender studies course into five minutes
I, meanwhile, have been having the time of my damn life watching this
Leigh Walton@leighwalton.bsky.social · 2mo agoSpent over an hour processing my frustration over Utena, a show I expected to love but after 13 episodes still find bewildering. If it’s deep: pushes all my buttons about character, personhood, progress, coherence. If it’s truly just vibes and visuals: “this anime could have been a music video”
A superb lyrebird named Nova left a woman stunned after it approached her at the Adelaide Zoo in Australia and started making camera shutter noises. Superb lyrebirds are native to Australia. Nova was born in 1989, and moved to the Adelaide Zoo in 2017.
This is what those lizards do to trigger parthenogenesis
The saddest girl to ever hold a martini@lifeisterrible.bsky.social · 3mo agochicks rock
Had a psychiatrist tell me about her trip to a music festival with her husband and the guy she was trying to make their third. Same woman also asked if I thought her stepdaughter was mad at her for making a joke about the stepdaughter’s weight. Like… Ma’am, I am just here for my Prozac refill.
Heather Hill@rollin-academic.bsky.social · 3mo agoA question from Reddit that I'll answer here: "What's the most unhinged thing a doctor has said to you with a straight face?"
Free handing a diamond filet crochet motif, aka discovering coding from first principles
. @thestarkest.bsky.social: “Do you think the Pool Duck and the Sunfly ever explored each other’s bodies”
livejournal is the only reason a sizable percentage of americans over 35 know what "quixotic" means
Absolutely unhinged film on every level (good version)
Leigh Walton@leighwalton.bsky.social · 5mo agoBuckle up, I finally watched THE LINGUINI INCIDENT and I’m about to make it my whole personality
Today was Poppop’s 100th birthday, and we threw a big party, and the bartender cut him off after four beers… the man’s still got it!
What if I get a tattoo of Buddo
Kevin Wilbraham@kpw1453.bsky.social · 11mo ago‘Buddo’ - a rare representation of a human figure from the British Neolithic, dating to around 2900-2400 BC. Discovered at Skara Brae in the mid-C19th, it was re-discovered amongst the archaeological collections at Stromness Museum in 2016. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Archaeology
Getting to witness the evolution of Leigh’s Opera Guides has been one of the great pleasures of the last few years for me!
Leigh Walton@leighwalton.bsky.social · 8mo agoI quit my job and I'm co-writing a graphic novel about astronomy, but life is short, so I'm also launching a web site about opera. Here I'll gradually be posting introductory guides to different operas, aimed at "regular people" who are curious and fun. If that's you, check out MusicDrama.net!
Godzilla Minus One: impeccable use of the ‘bloop’ sound effect
I have learned about the Islanders’ new baby rookie, who is 18 and living with a recently retired player and his family as essentially a bro au pair. A brau pair.
What if I get a tattoo of Buddo
Kevin Wilbraham@kpw1453.bsky.social · 11mo ago‘Buddo’ - a rare representation of a human figure from the British Neolithic, dating to around 2900-2400 BC. Discovered at Skara Brae in the mid-C19th, it was re-discovered amongst the archaeological collections at Stromness Museum in 2016. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Archaeology
The right is full of grown-ass adults who are afraid of vaccines, kid's books, and anyone Twitter or OAN tells them to fear, including the entirety of NYC, and NYC is full of people who cheerfully chase federal agents out of the state and then do stunts on Citibikes; you tell ME who's going to win.
talia jane@taliajane.bsky.social · 11mo agoThe scene now at Lafayette and Howard, diagonal to the ICE garage which activists remain camped out in front of on both sides of the building.
So the gay hockey show is literally RPF, we’re just doing this now??
Actually a lot of people are insatiably curious! and most of us are not actively dismantling the global infrastructure of public health
amy brown 👻@amybrown.xyz · 12mo agobro there's a whole paragraph about his brain worm lmfao
This production rocks except for the fact that it is embarrassed to be about chess, the game!
Dylan Roth@dylanroth.bsky.social · 12mo agoCHESS, one of the best musicals ever, still awaits a book that isn’t a mess. I love it so much. Think of how much less fun this show would be if someone ever got it right.
What does it say about me that Frankenstein is the first time I’ve found Jacob Elordi attractive?
Finally finished Bake Off and somehow this season felt like watching a polycule form?