Michael Tisserand
@tisserand.bsky.social
Writer of books on Krazy Kat and zydeco. Next up: Charlie Chaplin and The Great Dictator. I answer mail at MichaelTisserand.com
Every Republican candidate this fall should be constantly asked, “Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w agoWOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Rutte "You sit next to Trump when he talks about conquering Greenland, lashes out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"
There in the vastness of Washington, in the void that is the National Mall, there is an enemy known as isolation. It sits there waiting with the patience of eons, forever waiting … in the Freedom 250 Zone. (Apologies to Rod Serling)
I wrote a few words about the tragedy of Tom Emmer for @ms.now www.ms.now/opinion/tom-...
Opinion | What Tom Emmer said about Somalis was racist. What's worse is he doesn't believe it.
Michael Tisserand: Before he went MAGA, the House Majority Whip defended Somalis and praised their assimilation.
ms.now
The only author who could do justice to these times would be Nelson Algae
Don’t want to say the Democratic Party has gone full communist, but it’s just been revealed that all three of the candidates Mamdani endorsed anonymously worked on the Roman Holiday screenplay.
“The United States of America controls the Strait of Hormuz"
Dr Tim Galsworthy 🗃️@timgalsworthy.bsky.social · 2mo ago“The United States of America controls the Strait of Hormuz”
🎶 “I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoWOW - Trump crashes out & cuts his interview w/ Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged "You're either crooked or you're stupid. I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her" "I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads
I just watched Close Encounters for the first time since it came out and I don’t want to tell anyone how to live their lives but personally if I was married to Teri Garr I’d be making her portraits in the mashed potatoes
My Mom in “In Memoriam” at the Minnesota DFL State Convention today
I, too, will not be performing at The Great American State Fair.
A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”
a swarm of spring bugs@facefullabugs.bsky.social · 5mo agoLove the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got
Working on my book about Chaplin and The Great Dictator and came across this unsigned 1940 piece from the Louisville Courier-Journal and thought I'd share it now: 1/3
Yesterday at May Day, Minneapolis re-created the ICE siege in a collective show of grief, humor and most of all toughness for what lies ahead
see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them
Happy Pete Seeger Day to those who celebrate! Photo taken 2001 at Clearwater Revival, Croton-on-Hudson, by Annie Leibovitz
Robert Ebert’s review of Downfall in 2004 was as absolutely masterful as the movie itself. #history #wwii #skystorians #extremism
“Isn't there a war dragging on? Imagine if FDR had taken to the airwaves during the Battle of the Bulge to complain about a Little Orphan Annie comic strip he didn't like." — @jimmykimmel.com Pictured: Orphan Annie in the New Orleans Item, January 1, 1945 (during the Battle of the Bulge)
Happy National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day from Lobster (adopted 2022) and Scout (adopted 2011)
Sometimes I stumble on a clip from one of those CNN panel discussions and each one is the single most annoying restaurant next-table loud conversation imaginable.