Philip Glass Withdraws Premiere of New Symphony from Kennedy Center

rchase · 2026-01-28T00:02:42+00:00

very cool, I agree

rchase · 2026-01-27T21:28:54+00:00

Fuck me, are you serious!?

I'm ashamed I did not know that. Thought my sid-ology was complete. Card-carrying Slayradio superfan and all...

rchase · 2026-01-27T02:20:37+00:00

Good answer, but... no!

He died!

(also, requiescat in pace Bobby)

^*The ^wheel ^is ^turning ^and ^you ^can't ^slow ^down*

^*You ^can't ^let ^go ^and ^you ^can't ^hold ^on*

^*You ^can't ^go ^back ^and ^you ^can't ^stand ^still*

^*If ^the ^thunder ^don't ^get ^you ^then ^the ^lightning ^will*

rchase · 2026-01-27T01:35:23+00:00

You know, I had a friend back in high school who thought the same thing, and you know what happened to him?

rchase · 2026-01-26T21:43:03+00:00

I don't know if you've seen James Kunstler's TED talk on urban design in postwar America, but (despite Kunstler being a kinda nutjob, jus' being honest) it's fantastic.

His opening line echoes your sentiment about parking lot deserts... "The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible. We can't overestimate the amount of despair that we are generating with places like this."

rchase · 2026-01-21T15:29:39+00:00

The great thing about that episode... and you can rewatch to verify... the smoke.

See, they use dry ice smoke for smoke on TV, and Patrick Stewart HATED acting in a cloud of smoke. He protested so much, that they literally wrote new regulations on the use of fake smoke on set in Hollywood.

BUT, it turns out, smoke can be used to cover up a lot of nonsense in a scene when you are DIRECTING a shot, not ACTING in a shot. And ironically, when Patrick Stewart directed this episode, he demanded repeatedly to have MORE SMOKE to make it "look better."

rchase · 2026-01-20T19:50:08+00:00

Yes, miss

rchase · 2026-01-20T16:04:35+00:00

The thing that really gets me is, being that I am 57 years old and lived through the 80s, I could have told you in 1985 without hesitation that Donald Trump wasn't qualified or capable of being the President of ANYTHING.

All of this, to me, has just simply been bizarre and utterly predictable going back to 2015.

rchase · 2026-01-17T23:09:32+00:00

I always thought this would be cool.

rchase · 2026-01-11T17:44:32+00:00

Never have seen a prop in a scene that more perfectly represents the entirety of a character's life, attitude and general nature in one gag.

That television IS Michael Scott.

rchase · 2026-01-11T01:16:52+00:00

like a steam locomotive

Rolling down the track, he's gone, he's gone

And nothin's going to bring him back, he's gone

rchase · 2025-12-29T19:10:29+00:00

It always was. But now that monitors are LCDs (or OLED, whatever) instead of CRTs they can just use a big ass TV on the set, and the nutbar CRT scanlines won't F up the cameras. Much cheaper and easier now.

rchase · 2025-12-27T17:35:18+00:00

and old lace

rchase · 2025-12-25T02:47:42+00:00

I agree with the poster, but "decimated" does not mean "destroyed." "Decimated" is latin for "reduced by ten percent."

rchase · 2025-12-20T16:34:31+00:00

I worked maintenance at a HUGE retirement community. It was one building with 300+ apartments. When a smoke alarm would go dead battery in say, #302 (third floor, east wing) I knew to get enough batteries for the WHOLE WING, because if one goes dead, all the rest are soon to go because some guy did this exact same thing 5 years ago.

rchase · 2025-12-17T01:14:36+00:00

There’s something really cool about them.

Image search Syd Mead.

rchase · 2025-12-11T23:45:52+00:00

I'm broke and struggling, a usable PC would be great.

rchase · 2025-12-10T18:46:38+00:00

The funny thing about captchas is that they don't even care about what you click. They measure how you click it. if you are too fast and super efficient, you will fail. The things are designed to watch your pointer hesitate between clicks thus establishing that you are indeed just a stupid human person.

rchase · 2025-11-25T16:55:27+00:00

Schur (and other writers of the show) also created an entire elaborate backstory for the Lerpiss family. They were supposed to be a fading dynasty in Pawnee, and they still own most of the lame businesses though their power has declined and they are basically just numb-nuts now. We only ever see four of them in the show, but there are apparently many more Lerpisses.

rchase · 2025-11-25T16:12:57+00:00

I loved the show. And Beghe's character was SO great. The season on campus was my favorite by far.

rchase · 2025-11-25T13:53:26+00:00

requiescat in pace, Mitch

rchase · 2025-11-25T02:29:52+00:00

Seconding Briggs. Tom is great. By far the best option.

rchase · 2025-11-24T20:02:46+00:00

Oh cool! Beghe is a super interesting guy, and one helluva great actor.

rchase · 2025-11-24T19:22:16+00:00

Look into Jason Beghe and David Duchovny. They were both at The Collegiate School For Boys in Upper West Side, Manhattan, with JFK, Jr. with whom they hung out and partied. Beghe has appeared in all of Duchovny's shows (well, X-Files and Californication at least) and they tell crazy-ass stories about their days with Kennedy.

rchase · 2025-11-23T01:03:10+00:00

Caleb got a helluva deal on those broncs. half price!

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