John Gallagher, Jr.
@JohnGallagherJr
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Singer/Songwriter • Screenwriter • New record ‘Goodbye or Something’ out now
Joined July 2009
I’d like to tell you a story about Bruce Springsteen and the New York City Police Department.
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The fact that it made the NYPD so mad tells us a lot about why they are doing what they are doing right now. The party line has always been the same. Question our authority and become our enemy. It doesn’t matter if you’re a famous rockstar or a citizenry demanding reform.
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Listening to the song now, it’s hard to imagine what made them so mad. It isn’t angry or accusatory, just sorrowful. It offers up the simple, powerful refrain. “You can get killed just for living in your American skin.”. It is a stunning song. Give it a listen.
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To recap, the president of the second largest police union in New York City publicly declared war on both its mayor and its citizens in the last four months. It’s not making many headlines right now but it seems like a red flag and a pretty big deal to me!.
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But what did we expect? In 2017, our POTUS gave a speech on camera in which he gleefully encouraged New York cops to be violent when performing arrests as rows of uniformed police officers laughed and applauded from the bleachers behind him. Where did we think this would lead us?.
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Bruce Springsteen’s song “American Skin (41 Shots)” is a tender, moving ode to Amadou Diallo. Diallo was a 23 year old Guinean immigrant who was shot 19 times by 4 plain clothes cops outside his NYC apartment in 1999. 41 shots were fired. He was unarmed. The cops were acquitted.
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Yesterday the NYPD sought and was granted the right to arrest anyone and hold them for more than 24 hours in crowded jail cells without arraignment while the covid-19 pandemic still looms. This is a rare and stunning suspension of habeas corpus.
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He told Laura Ingraham that the NYPD was “losing the city of New York.” I guess I’ve been naive all this time because I didn’t realize it belonged to them.
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Last Sunday, Ed Mullins, president of the second largest police union in NYC, tweeted Chiara de Blasio’s arrest record after she was arrested protesting. It included her license info and address. Chiara is the Mayor’s daughter. She’s 25. Mullins has been on the force since 82.
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Make no mistake. The police are in full on revenge mode now and it will only get uglier. If a Springsteen song can get under their skin and set them off then surely they are fuming at having their absolute power and immunity threatened and defied so brazenly on the world stage.
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In February, Mullins tweeted that members of the NYPD were “declaring war on Mayor de Blasio and did not respect him.” He also tweeted a video that referred to black people as “monsters” and public housing as “war zones.” This is the head of NYC’s second largest police union.
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The thing about Mullins is, cops love him! He’s been a union boss since 2002. They love that he visits Trump in D.C. and trashes the Dem Mayor and owns the libs on his divisive, partisan Twitter account. How do you change that? How do you fix what doesn’t see itself as broken?.
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When Bruce debuted the song in Atlanta in 2000 it was considered controversial. The largest police union in NYC was like “That’s it! The Boss is cancelled!” They called for the NYPD to boycott Bruce and refuse to offer security for his upcoming shows at Madison Square Garden.
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The Sergeants Benevolent Association’s account was briefly suspended because posting people’s private information without their knowledge, also known as doxxing, is a dangerous violation of Twitter Rules. The tweet was removed and Mullins quickly regained control of the account.
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This week he put out a statement praising officers for their recent performance during protests. He proclaimed that the NYPD answered to a “higher power” and will “win the war on New York City.” Then he went on Fox News and begged Trump to call in the National Guard to occupy us.
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10/31) BARBARIAN. A new original independent movie from an emerging filmmaker that made it to number 1 at the box office with limited press roll out and no major movie stars and it just so happens to be one of the freshest/funnest/freakiest horror films of the decade. Hallelujah.
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If you would like to learn more about Amadou Diallo there is a great episode of the @netflix series TRIAL BY MEDIA, that tells his story. You can also donate to the Amadou Diallo Foundation here.
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If you are currently reeling and recovering from feelings of heartache, grief, loss and abandonment brought on by a traumatic breakup ask your therapist if The Banshees of Inisherin is right for you.
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Everlasting shame on everyone who spent years stoking, supporting, ignoring, excusing or enabling this sickness. From Trump and his cronies to Fox News to toothless social media heads to spineless jockeying politicians all the way down to the bottom of the bilious barrel. Shame.
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121,000 dead and he is on TV joking about “Kung Flu” and admitting he asked for less testing. I would scream something about the 25th but I know it’s useless. The GOP has made their bed. Unrelenting, everlasting shame upon this sad excuse for a man and the cowards who enable him.
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Starting a cool new thing called #SobbingSunday where you set aside a half hour of your #Sunday strictly for #Sobbing.
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Mitch McConnell is just a terrifying and enraging human specimen to behold. The cold calm. The bold hypocrisy. The callous cowardice. The lying. The gaslighting. The shamelessness. The NERVE. The blatant deception as he disassembles democracy on the world stage. Bone chilling.
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I might have to start giving the thumbs up sign to dogs I pass on the sidewalk as I fear they cannot tell I am smiling at them through my mask.
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Hoo boy I did not take this debate into consideration when I decided to do a sober September.
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I casually asked the cashier at my grocery store how he was doing and he said not well and I was like oh man me neither I’m so sorry and we told each other to hang in there and to get through the day and it was a very refreshing and real exchange.
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When SHORT TERM 12 came out somebody told me a critic had referred to me as “a poor man’s Paul Rudd” and I was like, thanks! Happy birthday Paul!.
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Fifteen springs and summers later….
BREAKING: Original cast SPRING AWAKENING reunion concert, to benefit @TheActorsFund, will take place later this month →
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I’ve been watching your courage, strength and endurance on full display the past few weeks and can safely say, you got this! You and your classmates are inspirations. May the show be joyous and cathartic for you and the cast. Hug Moritz for me.
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Well this doesn’t seem very law and ordery.
Breaking News: President Trump commuted the sentence of his longtime friend Roger Stone on seven felony crimes just before he was to report to prison
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The ‘Spring Awakening’ reunion show last November was such an epic and special night. I’m so glad more folks will get a chance to experience it in May on HBO. MORITZ LIVES!.
‘Spring Awakening: Those You’ve Known’: Broadway Reunion Doc Gets HBO Premiere Date
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Whoa ACN called it right this year without any state abbreviation typos.
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Twas a real trip to be back onstage at Radio City Music Hall on Sunday at the Tony Awards with my old friends from the cast of Spring Awakening. Kinda made me want to do another musical in New York City…⚓️.
Did ye catch shipmate @JohnGallagherJr a singin and a singin with the original Broadway cast of #SpringAwakening on the @TheTonyAwards last night? ⚓️
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My sweet, supportive parents are watching my episodes on season 3 of WESTWORLD having never seen any of the first 2 seasons and needless to say, they are incredibly confused.
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Had to read the news three times before I believed it. Chadwick Boseman was a superstar and expert craftsman who had already hit several home runs yet was just getting warmed up. I can’t imagine the strength it took to do what that man did. A superhero on screen as well as off.
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Just another regular candlelit Thursday night soaking in an epsom salt bath listening to Bruce Springsteen and crying.
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Excited for my summer plans of crying in every corner of NYC. Already did the G train a few weeks ago. Last night I crossed the C train and Jay St-MetroTech off my list. I wonder what’s next. So many possibilities. #CryingTourOfNYC.
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I don’t get too many opportunities to post this inexplicable GIF of me and Michael Shannon drinking whiskey in an O’Neill play but I figure St. Pat’s is as good a day as any so I do hope you’ll indulge me. Sláinte. ☘️
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Me seeing Love Actually is on TV: I shall view some of this holiday film peripherally with an ironic sense of detachment. Me watching Emma Thompson breaking down alone in the bedroom over Alan Rickman’s (RIP) infidelity as Joni Mitchell’s 2000 version of Both Sides Now plays: 😭.
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It seems an awful lot of people are just now figuring out Harry is disguised as the cop at the beginning of Home Alone and Angels With Filthy Souls isn’t a real movie and I have maybe never felt smarter in my life.
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@WestWingWeekly @JohnBoyega @JoshMalina @HrishiHirway You guys. I’m flattered beyond words by this. Grand Canyon sized shoes to fill. If you need me I’ll be obsessively practicing this iconic move in the mirror.
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Incredible. Finally cried watching that speech. Such a great weight lifted. Wish I was in my hometown of Wilmington tonight.
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Went to my favorite bar last night. It was karaoke night. Host kept asking me to sing. Around Mai Tai number 3 I caved and did a tune. Host called me a “ringer” and some punk rock hipster dude called me a “theater kid” and told me to F off. It was all quite confusing!.
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A humbling, harrowing lesson I thought I had already learned. Back up your stuff, compulsively. Do not be lulled by your fancy, pricey brand-new MacBook. Just because you just bought it does not mean it won’t randomly die one night and take the new play you were writing with it.
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@LindseyGrahamSC @realDonaldTrump People are dead because of a seditious uprising manufactured by the president himself. If you do not see that as grounds for severe punishment then you too are woefully unfit to serve this country and should resign in absolute shame.
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It is absolutely insane how much our officials are keeping us in the dark following a deadly insurrection against our country that happened 4 days ago! No press conferences, no explanations. The only info we are getting is from the free press that Trump has spent years attacking.
5 days later. videos of police being crushed and beaten. photos of rioters roaming and defiling the Capitol, hanging gallows and more, and the only action is a few arrests and social media bans? Where the hell is the US government?.
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I’d like to say hello and thank u to the beautiful bevy of followers that joined me over the weekend. For the 1st time in 11 years on this site, my mentions are filled with people calling for social change, sharing protest songs and talking about their fav Springsteen shows. ✊🏻❤️.
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@DonaldJTrumpJr Get irreparably bent for all of eternity. You and your seditious, traitorous family have done nothing but stoke and fan these flames. Your father publicly asked for this. You cannot distance yourself from this sickness now nor can you pretend it isn’t inherently a part of you.
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Deleted a tweet responding to someone who tagged me to trash my acting. Usually fairly thick skinned with this stuff but must be on edge because it got me last night. Woke up with shame and anxiety about it so I took it down. Feels so frivolous especially at a time like this. ✌🏻.
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It turns out that electing a lying, racist, narcissistic, sociopathic, reality-TV show host, would-be dictator president, who encourages police brutality and calls the press “the enemy of the people,” has dire consequences.
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I got to be a guest on @WestWingWeekly to talk about my teenage turn on The West Wing and my time on The Newsroom. Thanks for having me!
This week, we're discussing Part One of the Season 4 premiere, "20 Hours in America" — with guest @JohnGallagherJr!
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Maybe the supermoon will collide with Earth and mercifully crush us all.
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Wow wow wow wow I finally sat down to watch #PreyMovie and was so floored to discover that the hype is indeed to be believed. Though I can’t say I was all that surprised considering @DannyTRS was at the helm. Congrats! Please keep making movies my friend you are very good at it!.
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Well shoot. I did it. I wrote a dang quarantine screenplay. A QuaranScreenplay if you will. While King Lear it ain’t, I do think it might make a good midnight movie at a Drive-In someday.
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Omg I just figured out I’ve been in the Star Wars universe for years because my hands were featured in a toy commercial for The Phantom Menace when I was a teen. I know some will question the legitimacy of this but the rules are the rules and the matter is irreversibly settled.
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I was watching interviews with the late, great Joel Schumacher and found this gem in which he responds with grace, humility and appropriate sass after Charlie Rose surprises him with a clip of a critic trashing Batman Forever. RIP
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Folks. I wasn’t sure if I was gonna make it happen this year but I feel the people need me and by people I mean the 10ish or so lovers of all things spooky who still somehow get a kick out of this thing I do. Prepare thyself for the 11TH ANNUAL JGJ HORROR MOVIE TWEET-A-THON! 🎃.
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If the normal human day started at 2 pm and ended at 4 am people would look at me and say "wow he is so functionally efficient".
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Standing on Sunset googling “late night food in LA” at 10:24 PM on a Sunday and really missing New York.
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So heartsick and gutted over the news of Anton Yelchin. What a tragic loss. So young. So talented. He was just getting started.
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It’s that time of year! Time for my 6th annual October Horror Tweet-a-Thon! I’ll be tweeting a horror movie recommendation every day for the month of October. Simple rules. I have to have seen the film & I can’t have already recommended it in previous years. 🎃👻 Let us begin. .
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It took me long enough but I’ll be putting out a new record in 2021. Looking forward to sharing it with y’all!
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It is a mandatory requirement that during the week you find out you didn’t get a gig you really wanted, there must also be a trailer premiere for another gig you really wanted and didn’t get.
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My heart breaks for Nick Cordero and his family. He was so incredibly beloved and talented and had so much life and love on his horizon and it is just so absolutely unfair that this pandemic has taken him away from all of that.
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Wow wow wow thank you so much for this 15 year retrospective! So many lewks.
Wishing a Happy Birthday to #TonyAward winner @JohnGallagherJr! Have a great birthday and hope it isn’t long till we see you back on a Broadway stage again! ^Ricky
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It’s October and I’m about to finish draft one of the first horror movie I’ve ever written thus ending the drought that began in high school when I got discouraged after I somehow lost the Halloween 8 spec script I was writing in a chain of AOL e-mails that I sent to myself.
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Was walking in the park and two tween girls kicked a rock at me and laughed when I turned to see who did it and it was in that moment I realized I’ve become that certain kind of aging dude that laughing tween girls kick rocks at in parks and honestly it tracks. #Humbled.
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FOX was down on my cable box when I tried to watch Rent: Live the other night so I watched Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway from 2008. It holds up & is a top notch reminder of just how incredible that original production was. Such a big, bold, brave thing of epic and awesome beauty.
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Last time I spoke to anyone in a locker room it was John Slattery. I was like "I'm doing Long Day's" he was like "I'm doing The Front Page.".
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I know that things are scary enough right now but. It’s October 1st. You know what that means. It’s time for my 8TH ANNUAL OCTOBER HORROR MOVIE TWEET-A-THON!. I’ll be tweeting a scary movie recommendation every day this month until Halloween. Let’s begin shall we. 🎃.
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It is straight up stunning how someone you don’t even speak to or see anymore because they hurt you worse than anyone ever has can somehow bend the spacetime continuum and travel backwards and forwards through your lifespan to find new ways of hurting you.
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Just got so frickin' livid reading the dang news that I left my apartment with my pants & belt totally open & didn't notice for 3 blocks.
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It’s 2:30 AM and I’m drinking Old Grandad and crying at The Muppet Christmas Carol AKA an extremely on brand Yuletide for me.
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Get to it and go do it folks. I promise you it has never felt better.
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I mean, the harmonies in The Chipmunk Song are pretty darn intricate and tight. I don’t know why Dave is nitpicking on Alvin for being flat.
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Sam Shepard has long been a hero of mine. A versatile artist with an unflinching style entirely his own. A renegade renaissance man. RIP.
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My sister is a NYC public school teacher. She works harder than anyone I know. She is in D.C today. I couldn't go but my heart is with her.
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I took the bus to see one of my favorite rock bands tonight. I drank NA beer and brought three different types of earplugs. Then I took the bus back home and am probably gonna eat some peanut butter with a spoon now. Don’t let ‘em tell ya you can’t get older and keep it rockin’.
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The second I touch down in a new city I immediately look up where Anthony Bourdain eats and drinks there. I didn’t know him yet I loved him. If you are in pain and feel the call of the ledge, please reach out and ask for help. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255.
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2022 was hell and it can die screaming a slow death as agonizing as the pain in which I spent the last 12 months. Happy New Year! 🥳.
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My sister used to play the original Broadway cast recording of Ragtime in the car when it first came out. The wonderful Marin Mazzie singing “Back to Before” always broke my heart but never so much as today.
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@ScottWalker @POTUS @realDonaldTrump Dude I know! It was so gutsy how he hid in a bunker all night and then had police teargas protestors so he could cross the street and get his picture taken holding a bible. So badass!.
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Happy Halloween to all and to all a goodnight! See you next year seasonal sweatshirt.
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It only took 8 years but my therapist was finally like ok we’re gonna need to do a double session next week.
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The most inspired detail in FLOOR IS LAVA is the decision to use a time cut after contestants fall in the “lava” so it seems as if they never re-emerge. Bravo to whoever came up with that idea.
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I saw Bonnie Raitt and James Taylor with my mom and dad last night and they were so amazing and it was a beautiful night and now I’m just reading the lyrics to “Shower the People” online and crying.
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You guys I don’t wanna be a wuss or anything but I really think that the hot stones in these hot stone massages have gotten too hot!.
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I’m ill and went to order the usual from my local Thai spot. 7 years of solid delivery from them. Good days, bad days, sick days, healthy days, sober days and hungover days. With my ex for 6 years and for a year now on my own. It closed. I might be making it into kind of a thing.
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Proud Delawarean. Proud New Yorker. Proud American. Today is a good day. Turns out we can keep that republic after all.
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Were I to find myself on a chairless film set I would simply lie down on the floor I have done it before and I am prepared to do it again.
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It’s just about that time of year when I switch from comfy sweat shorts to comfy sweat pants and as always, I’m having mixed feelings about it.
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Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of Green Day’s AMERICAN IDIOT opening on Broadway so the cast reunited on zoom and sang a song.
Watch Broadway's American Idiot cast celebrate 10th anniversary with a (virtual) performance
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Lively conversation taking place next to me in this West Village bar. WOMAN: I mostly see musicals so I want to see more plays. MAN: What’s the difference?. WOMAN: In musicals they sing, in plays they don’t. MAN: Plays sound boring.
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The NYC police union is lying. This video is not from tonight. It’s from May 30. Protests in Brooklyn today were peaceful and had little NYPD presence and thus didn’t make the news. That doesn’t fit the SBA narrative so they resort to cheap misinformation tactics. How benevolent.
NYC - Community Policing Dividend pays off big! This was tonight Flatbush Ave Brooklyn.
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That debate filled me with such dread I took both the trash and recycling out to avoid it.
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I got a Nextdoor e-mail with the subject “torturous guitar-playing” and immediately had to check to make sure it wasn’t about me.
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Normally I am insanely touchy about talking in a movie theater but I was strangely into the teenager who kept screaming “LET’S GO!” at vital moments in The Rise of Skywalker tonight.
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10/29) 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE. I’ve heard this one is pretty good.
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