Bardfilm

@bardfilm.bsky.social

Now at Bardfilm: Hopeful Allusions to Juliet and Romeo and Cleopatra and Caesar in The Dick Van Dyke Show.

[Also contains some avant-garde theatre and a digression into Allan Sherman territory.]

bardfilm.blogspot.com/2026/06/hope...

The Shallow State

@ourshallowstate.bsky.social

Look! A real president! On TV! Speaking to ALL Americans - about our lives, concerns, interests, challenges, about caring, sacrifice, togetherness, and change. He is imparting information. He is educating and empathizing.

No spin, no digression, no self-aggrandizement.

Oh, how I miss this.

Caffeinated Otter

@caffeinatedotter.bsky.social

After a couple months Thinking About It, I finally had a stab at answering my therapist's question about which bereavement feels most important to my state now, which required about 50% of the session in an extended digression about my overactive sense of fairness impairing my ability to answer that