sam kusnetz

i just passed a guy on west 47th street casually vacuuming the sidewalk like it’s his living room. just one guy doing what he can to help, i guess.

hot take (evidently): red lights are not suggestions!

#taxi

overheard in tech; the GM team discussing attire for an opening night party for a play set in a prison:

"orange is the new black tie."

#theater #backstage

a screenshot of QLab displaying the text: "10678 cues in 24 lists and carts."

day one of tech is going great. #theater #backstage #qlab

overheard on metro north:

“like… can you guys even *imagine* a place in my room for a didgeridoo? like… and it’s really hard to play. like i can’t even… like i can make a *noise* with one, but i can’t really… *play* it.”

stage door guard: morning.
me: good morning! how are you?
guard (100% flat affect): amazing. how are you.
me: i’m ok. not amazing.
guard (reassuring, but still flat) you’ll get there.

#theater #backstage

our show has a dry tech scheduled, during which time we will be working on the rain effect. i appear to be the only person who finds this funny.

#theater #backstage

overheard backstage...

electrician: is the lift fixed?
supervisor: it's, well, sort of. yes. sort of. that's the best answer.
electrician: uh, if i go up, can i come back down?
supervisor: yes.
electrician: ah, but can i go up?
supervisor: yes.
electrician: great.

#theater #backstage

overheard backstage “oh yeah, last year i did three shows on 45th street with water, water and fire, water and blood. then one uptown with water. yeah. banner year.”

#theater #backstage

the reveal is: parking at the conference *is* the conference.

i had to park my car in a garage that offered an app for easier payment. ok fine. but then i received an email inviting me to a parking technology conference. that such a conference even exists is about as good an indictment of the modern world as i can think of.

i wish you were my representative. you’re everything that could be right in politics. go go go!

friends i really don’t know what will work. i’m trying this. please join me.

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do this! takes two seconds.

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the time is never wrong to mention that the president, his whole cabinet, and all his advisors are horrid excuses for people who do not make acceptable use of the oxygen they breathe.

i no longer believe that it is possible to
be a compassionate person without recognizing that ICE is beyond help and must be completely abolished.

yep

drawback of living in a small town in a rural area: heavy snowfall means driveway needs shoveling.

advantage of living in a small town in a rural area: enterprising teenagers with limitless energy will knock on your door and shovel your driveway for “twenty bucks. or whatever.”

i want to be as direct as possible: nobody, *nobody,* is to refer to the kennedy center as anything but the kennedy center under any circumstances. are we clear?

can i also just say how much i hate the phrase “active shooter incident?”

“gun violence” or “mass murder” are the words you’re looking for.

sad, scared, and horrified by the shooting at my alma mater brown university tonight.

now is not the time for thoughts and prayers. now is the time for some godddamned gun control.

this person is a vile and disgusting excuse for a human, and i hope wisconsinians are able to rid themselves of him as soon as possible. i mean what the fuck kind of a person acts like this.

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one of my best and longest-time friends is the superb comedian myq kaplan, and he has a new netflix special coming out this week. highly recommended viewing!

time to go, chuck.

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when your opponent is bigger than you, stronger than you, and cheating, you simply must accept that you're going to lose some fights. but to not loudly point out the cheating is pure madness. democrats' messaging remains tragically underpowered.

@lollardfish.bsky.social on Bluesky instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."

i am so furious about the democratic party's inability to just SAY SIMPLE THINGS THAT ARE TRUE.

new on the blog: meta's ray-ban demo flop and the importance of an arts education

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i am once again asking you to turn off your goddamn cell phones in the theater. silencing the ringer does not silence your alarms. please. please.