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Broadway Rumor: Phantom of the Opera touring in 2024-2025, reopening on Broadway in 2025. -- nm - MDH Aug 3, 19:29 1
- Isn’t Phantom always touring? I saw it in SoCal about 5 years back. -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 3, 19:30
NFL is back: Lights Out -- (link) - budice Aug 3, 19:28
Broadway News: Spamalot (version I saw at the Kennedy Center but with a different cast) opening for a limited run this fall. -- nm - MDH Aug 3, 19:28
In iOS 17 (and Sanoma) you can use Apple Keychain in non-Safari browsers. This is good, because there is no great adblocker for Safari. Edge is best. -- nm - Qale Aug 3, 19:23
Foundation spoilerish - mud Aug 3, 19:10
Big 12 executives met Thursday to approve the application of Arizona as a 14th member -- nm - budice Aug 3, 18:52 2
- Washington State head coach: “The old question how long would it take TV money to destroy college football? Maybe we’re here.” -- (link) - budice Aug 3, 19:18
- I’m fine with the PAC-12 dissolving. Just get on with it so we know where everyone ends up. - Mop🧹 Aug 3, 19:16
Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm? -- nm - Flavorize Aug 3, 18:50
DL Yannick Ngakoue to Chicago, 1yr $10.5M -- nm - Strongbad Aug 3, 18:41
Hey Krusty Luke Voit opted out if u need a bat and a familiar face -- nm - eag Aug 3, 18:36 1
- He was raking in Syracuse, but that doesn’t mean much. -- nm - Tim Aug 3, 18:42
AEW: Women's division is facing problems and TK isn't helping... -- (link) - Remlik Aug 3, 18:28 4
- Alternatively, malcontent AEW never hired doesn't like women of AEW. And Dustin Rhodes. -- nm - David Aug 3, 19:25 1
  - ah. -- nm - Remlik Aug 3, 19:28
- This why suposedly Cargil is on hiatus -- nm - eag Aug 3, 18:38 1
  - No, it's not even a little bit. -- nm - David Aug 3, 19:27
ST SNW spoiler speculation (post musical...which was awesome and I've watched twice so far) -- (edited) - Beaker 🍻 Aug 3, 18:27
Caption this photo -- (pic) - Max Aug 3, 18:25 [Attachment] 3
- "Take that, Ariel." -- nm - Meg Aug 3, 18:55
- “I’m Ocean, child of Bhodi, and I’ve come to kill you, Johnny Utah!” -- nm - Flavorize Aug 3, 18:38
- Hah ... well, hmm, it could be a reference to Star Trek The Motion Picture ... or it could be this -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 3, 18:33 [youtube]
Gen Con: the company giving out that Lorcana Disney card, just announced that the line for tomorrow starts TONIGHT - Remlik Aug 3, 18:25
I just introduced my mother to google calendar. in 2023. -- nm - mandy on home machine Aug 3, 17:47
CRASH. guitar pedal use video you must watch -- (link) - Peglegpete Aug 3, 17:32 [youtube] 4
- thanks! -- nm - crash davis 😺 Aug 3, 17:32 3
  - Five Watt World is good too. occasionally doing a video breaking down the guitars used by a certain person. Here's Jimmy Page. -- (link*) - Peglegpete Aug 3, 17:36 [youtube] 1
    - cool -- nm* - crash davis 😺 Aug 3, 17:37
  - she's an amazing harpist and does a lot of pedal demo's. much more fun that watching a guitarist do it. -- nm - Peglegpete Aug 3, 17:33
So the new head of The Friends of the Library here was in the Army during Vietnam and worked for the NSA in the 70s (running listening posts in Alaska - crash davis 😺 Aug 3, 17:24 1
- I wish we could find a few of them around here for our Friends group. All our old white guys tend to lean right :( -- nm - Meg Aug 3, 17:48
this is one of those AI deep-fake thingies, right? There's no way this is a real human .. is there? -- (link) - mud Aug 3, 17:22 2
- heheehe, this is a throwback to the softfocus lens from a defunct Glamour shots, all she needs is a feather boa and flowers in her hair. -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 3, 17:26
- It's never enough. They always have to go lower and lower -- nm - Jovian Aug 3, 17:25
There's nothing to like about the current Burger King ad campaigns. Everything from song to font sucks, but the 70s color scheme is the worst. -- nm - TWuG Aug 3, 17:21 1
- if you really want to get depressed, try their food. -- nm - Peglegpete Aug 3, 18:35
Couple of rapper/hackers caught trying to launder 4.5 billion worth of bitcoin (worth 71m at the time of theft) -- (link) - zeitgeist Aug 3, 17:21
Name a series where Ted Danson was a regular, because in retrospect… holy shit. -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 3, 17:13 17
- I liked Mr. Mayor and I’m sad they left the second half of the second season unfinished. -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 3, 19:29
- his guest appearance on TAXI is amazing -- nm - Peglegpete Aug 3, 18:36
- Bored to Death -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 3, 17:42 3
  - I just discovered this show. How did I not know about this show?! -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 3, 17:45 2
    - i need to finish watching the last season, actually -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 3, 17:45 1
      - I do as well. I don't want it to end so I just... don't. like better off ted -- I have three episodes left. -- nm - mandy on home machine Aug 3, 17:47
- Why are you talking about Ted Danson? I get worried anymore when I see posts talking about someone's career. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Aug 3, 17:37 2
  - You can never be too prepared. -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 3, 17:45
  - right? fucking Mop -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Aug 3, 17:37
- It’s why I put him on my Mt Rushmore of sitcom actors. He’s just everywhere -- nm - Bari Seldon Aug 3, 17:25
- The Orville. (Okay, just recurring guest, but still.) -- nm - Beryllium Aug 3, 17:23 2
  - a great recurring guest on Curb Your Enthusiasm -- nm - crash davis 😺 Aug 3, 17:41 1
    - yeah! -- nm - mud Aug 3, 17:42
- Cheers, The Good Place -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Aug 3, 17:14 3
  - Becker -- nm - TWuG Aug 3, 17:16 2
    - CSI -- nm - JD Aug 3, 17:17
    - No. Beaker. -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 3, 17:16
i always forget that Brian Cox was Hannibal Lecter before Anthony Hopkins - hollywood big shot Aug 3, 16:53 5
- Everyone forgot about that movie so they had to remake it with Hopkins -- nm - Bari Seldon Aug 3, 17:24 3
  - William Petersen did a better job than Norton. -- nm - Reagen Aug 3, 17:28 1
    - Yup—also Michael Mann directed…so overall, the film was better as well -- nm - Flavorize Aug 3, 18:51
  - it's probably as good as Michael Mann was going to be able to make at the time with cheapo Dino D. producing it -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 3, 17:28
- Was very confused to not see Mads. -- nm - loosilu Aug 3, 16:57
Wow, incredible, miracle of science. Plant-based rice. I never thought I would see the day. -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 3, 16:49 [mastodon] 10
- I refuse to eat plant-based rice with my non-plant beans. (NM) - Marlowe Aug 3, 18:38
- One day they will finally make gluten-free rice. -- nm - crash davis 😺 Aug 3, 17:43
- i have notes -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Aug 3, 17:05
- I still prefer the rice made from panda stomachs 🐼 -- nm - Flavorize Aug 3, 17:04
- rice is already a plant -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 3, 17:01 2
  - I'm gonna need to see your work on this. -- nm - Reagen Aug 3, 17:05 1
    - "Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza sativa or, less commonly, O. glaberrima" -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 3, 17:13
- This would also be impressive. -- (link) - Beryllium Aug 3, 16:59 [mastodon]
- BIG, if true. -- nm - VMan Aug 3, 16:59
- Whoa. -- nm - loosilu Aug 3, 16:57
Gay Science: Why do gays love the worst music? -- (link) - JD Aug 3, 16:36 4
- It’s true. -- nm - Qale Aug 3, 17:57 1
  - it didn't used to! -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 3, 18:00
- Speaking of—The South Wales Male Gay Choir somehow made my YouTube feed—watched 3 of their songs…pretty good -- nm - Flavorize Aug 3, 16:52
- poor Kylie -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Aug 3, 16:42
they're making the Jets and Browns play football today? -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 3, 16:34 3
- right? musical star trek is on -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Aug 3, 17:05
- Yup. And they’re trying to get YOU to watch it. Luckily, I will be in the way. Well… for like 5 minutes or so. -- nm - VMan Aug 3, 16:58 1
  - one of the perks for changing my VZW plan was getting Sunday Ticket and YTTV for freebies - hollywood big shot Aug 3, 17:02
holy shit Strange New Worlds has killed it this season -- nm - Beaker 🍻 Aug 3, 16:11 1
- one of the writers is lot coordinator for WGA at Television City. dude wears a button-down shirt and tie every single day, no matter the temps - hollywood big shot Aug 3, 16:15
N has middle school orientation tomorrow. I’m not ready for this. - kelly Aug 3, 16:06 2
- Just wait -- nm - spamlet Aug 3, 17:45
- You should've been preparing for this moment since the day the side hugs started. -- nm - Bari Seldon Aug 3, 16:09
Marvel is really casting a wide actor net for The Thing -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 3, 15:55
Jury Summons. "I'm over 70 with chronic health problems" Excused! -- nm - Meg Aug 3, 15:33 7
- the defendant said that too and has been ordered to wear diapers to court. -- nm - Judge Peglegpete Aug 3, 15:59
- The bag of incontinence supplies worked? -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 3, 15:49 1
  - Got me off last time ;) -- nm - Meg Aug 3, 15:51
- “The defendant is a failed real estate developer from New York.” -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 3, 15:45 3
  - I actually did wonder that for 45. When I was sitting for a federal case LOTS of things would get you excused. Who exactly is on his juries? - Volnelk 🍊 Aug 3, 15:56 1
    - I don’t think it matters. I’m anticipating the need for a directed verdict and hoping that at least one of the judges will have the stones to do it. -- nm - VMan Aug 3, 16:09
  - I'd fly to NY for that jury ;) -- nm - Meg Aug 3, 15:50
I love that when you strip away all the dog whistles it always gets down to going back on the gold standard for these dopes -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 3, 15:23 3
- Just trying to stir the pot and the Biden Regime to admit they emptied Fort Knox. -- nm - VMan Aug 3, 15:56
- Jesus. Know your audience. Is there a lot of average voters in New Hampshire invested on the return of the gold standard? -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 3, 15:26 1
  - by gold you mean maple syrup and lobsters? -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 3, 17:10
run Kari run -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 3, 15:22 1
- This is a terrible infographic. -- nm - work phone jones Aug 3, 17:00
Amazing lack of local coverage on the Mojave Preserve fire since it started :( We've driven the power lines across that area to get to Laughlin. -- (link) - Meg Aug 3, 15:21 4
- Did they get any of the rain that swept Las Vegas? -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 3, 15:56 3
  - yes on tuesday, it did make a helping difference. but not enough to put the whole thing out. -- nm* - Peglegpete Aug 3, 16:03 1
    - It's so remote - can't be easy to get equipment in there. Although I did drive the off-road route in a school van ;) -- nm - Meg Aug 3, 16:06
  - Apparently not -or if they did, not enough to make a difference. -- nm - Meg Aug 3, 16:02
zillow sluts - how close is the zestimate to what you'll actually pay monthly on a place? not crazy about the redone kitchen, and it's South Central -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 3, 15:14 3
- That's a cute place. But ... what's behind the yellow door? - Beryllium Aug 3, 16:02
- also, what maniac would take pictures of their Hoarders apt as-is for the listing?! -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 3, 15:34 1
  - Usually such sales are not initiated by the person who made the mess. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 3, 16:00
Granted it’s partially due to these shows having hundreds of episodes, but streaming has probably had a “comfort food” problem for a while now. - Tim Aug 3, 15:07 5
- What I’m hearing is that streamers don’t need new content. Everyone’s just watching Suits. Strikers can go f- themselves! -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 3, 15:23
- ironically, "second screen friendly" is an actual note writers have gotten from Netflix to dumb down their pilots (make it easier for laundry-folding) -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 3, 15:10 3
  - Extraction 2 was exactly that. BLAM! BLAM! PUNCH! STAB! the whole way through. - Mop🧹 Aug 3, 15:25 2
    - I likened it to a call of duty cutscene. and (spoils) - Beryllium Aug 3, 15:28 1
      - That’s all entirely accurate. -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 3, 15:30
Heh, Google gets nervous when I switch from Slacker to Slickertalk. Warns me it may be a fake website with small variation in spelling ;) - mojave Aug 3, 15:05 2
- It's a good security feature of theirs. It was particularly funny when it captured twitter's logo change. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 3, 15:56
- I got the warning earlier today when I switched -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 3, 15:53
also, the pizza -- (link) - Reagen Aug 3, 14:50
"You can't influence defendants or jurors, ...' Trump's first speech will dress down the Judge & prosecutors. this act IS influencing future jurors, etc. -- nm* - Peglegpete Aug 3, 14:49
Trumps Fingerprints: -- (link) - JaxSean Aug 3, 14:46 1
- Never gets old. -- nm - Spawn Aug 3, 14:49
Okay, I added a stopgap for now ... if it dies again, it will try to restart 5 seconds later. - Beryllium Aug 3, 14:46 8
- Have you jiggled the cables? -- nm - Reluctant Cynic Aug 3, 15:31 1
  - Euphemism? -- nm - spamlet Aug 3, 15:56
- I awoke to this... -- (pic) - Spawn Aug 3, 14:50 [Attachment] 3
  - That looks more like a memory corruption problem on your device -- nm - Beryllium Aug 3, 14:53 2
    - Yeah, tablet out of memory. -- nm - Spawn Aug 3, 15:10
    - how did spawn get ahold of Hunter's laptop? -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 3, 14:57
- ah, found a partial explanation: "apache2 invoked oom-killer" -- nm - Beryllium Aug 3, 14:48 1
  - "When out of memory, then die die die" -- nm - budice Aug 3, 15:35
I blame David for the issues. he probably tried to link to too many BlackPink videos. -- nm - tRuMaN Aug 3, 14:43 2
- I do everything I can for JD. -- nm - The Allfather Aug 3, 14:48
- Linked as X posts and thought it was an adult site -- nm - budice Aug 3, 14:47
Ok. Let's not get ahead of ourselves. -- (pic) - zunk takes things literally Aug 3, 14:38 [Attachment]
CUT THAT OUT! -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 3, 14:33
previously 'lost' John Constable painting news -- (link) - Peglegpete Aug 3, 14:32 1
- Hmmm. I should do an inventory of the guest wing of my castle -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 3, 18:01
w h o a -- nm - Jovian Aug 3, 14:32
... maybe the reboot will fix it. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 3, 14:31 4
- I started using a VPN service today and just assumed the problem was on my end -- nm - Fuzzy Aug 3, 14:50
- Berry, thanks again for all you do with this site! :) -- nm - Jovian Aug 3, 14:44
- (If it is still an issue, I'll roll back the code to an earlier version) -- nm - Beryllium Aug 3, 14:32
- *sucks up server resources* -- nm - Phantom Apache httpd Aug 3, 14:32
Heh. -- nm - zunk takes things literally Aug 3, 14:26 1
- I keep breaking things. -- nm - zunk takes things literally Aug 3, 14:35
Kotaku says Halo Infinite is back! -- (link) - Mop🧹 Aug 3, 14:26
Cartoons in real life has a new entry. -- (pic) - TWuG Aug 3, 14:23 [Attachment] 1
- Heh. The tie should be curled down for Bizarro version. -- nm - VMan Aug 3, 15:51
I was never worried. -- nm - mud Aug 3, 14:23

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