Nancy Franklin
@nancyfranklin.bsky.social
@chicagotribune.com Gotta tell you, it stinks that you won’t let customers cancel their subscriptions online or by email. It’s barbaric to make us call. Not kidding.
March 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
@chicagotribune.com Gotta tell you, it stinks that you won’t let customers cancel their subscriptions online or by email. It’s barbaric to make us call. Not kidding.
Cafe Luxembourg has lost its mind. They’ve stopped giving you a little chocolate square with your bill. A “cost thing,” someone who works there says they were told. Bull.
March 27, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Cafe Luxembourg has lost its mind. They’ve stopped giving you a little chocolate square with your bill. A “cost thing,” someone who works there says they were told. Bull.
I am delighted to find out that the Danish word for timetable is “fartplan”
March 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I am delighted to find out that the Danish word for timetable is “fartplan”
There’s the royal we, the editorial we, and the smug we: substack writers who constantly parade their coupledom before us.
March 9, 2025 at 12:04 AM
There’s the royal we, the editorial we, and the smug we: substack writers who constantly parade their coupledom before us.
Well, that was a steaming pile of bombast on a bed of bullshit.
March 5, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Well, that was a steaming pile of bombast on a bed of bullshit.
Happy pub day to Susan Morrison, whose book about Lorne Michaels is already blowing up the bestseller lists.
February 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Happy pub day to Susan Morrison, whose book about Lorne Michaels is already blowing up the bestseller lists.
I'm going to assume that Jane Curtin was offered screen time and declined. But I wish she'd done a walk on. I hope she knows how great she was.
February 17, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I'm going to assume that Jane Curtin was offered screen time and declined. But I wish she'd done a walk on. I hope she knows how great she was.
The Sacklers are still on the Met Museum's wall of money
January 26, 2025 at 3:13 AM
The Sacklers are still on the Met Museum's wall of money
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DID YOU KNOW for 25 years Matthew Shepard had no permanent resting place due to concerns his grave would be vandalized
Reverend Budde learned of this, she invited the Shepards to inter him inside the Washington National Cathedral.
www.matthewshepard.org/matthew-shep...
She was and is a real hero.
Reverend Budde learned of this, she invited the Shepards to inter him inside the Washington National Cathedral.
www.matthewshepard.org/matthew-shep...
She was and is a real hero.
January 24, 2025 at 12:05 AM
DID YOU KNOW for 25 years Matthew Shepard had no permanent resting place due to concerns his grave would be vandalized
Reverend Budde learned of this, she invited the Shepards to inter him inside the Washington National Cathedral.
www.matthewshepard.org/matthew-shep...
She was and is a real hero.
Reverend Budde learned of this, she invited the Shepards to inter him inside the Washington National Cathedral.
www.matthewshepard.org/matthew-shep...
She was and is a real hero.
@busterbnyc.bsky.social Howdy, Bill 👋
January 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
@busterbnyc.bsky.social Howdy, Bill 👋
The Episcopal bishop who spoke the beautiful words that made T so mad published a book in 2003: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/705987...
How We Learn to Be Brave by Mariann Edgar Budde: 9780593539217 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
An inspirational guide to the key junctures in life that, if navigated with faith and discernment, pave the way for us to become our most courageous selves, by the bishop of the famed Episcopal Dioces...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
January 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
The Episcopal bishop who spoke the beautiful words that made T so mad published a book in 2003: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/705987...
Pete Hegseth, Clarence Thomas, and Ginni Thomas at the inaugural lunch. Three truly horrible people.
January 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Pete Hegseth, Clarence Thomas, and Ginni Thomas at the inaugural lunch. Three truly horrible people.
@morganstanley1.bsky.social This is embarrassing. Why not make her get a tattoo on her forehead?
January 17, 2025 at 11:54 PM
@morganstanley1.bsky.social This is embarrassing. Why not make her get a tattoo on her forehead?
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If you're mouring #DavidLynch and want to hear some of his thoughts, here's a coversation I did with him.
Sharks, smoking and the eye of the duck
Loved him
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIlm...
Sharks, smoking and the eye of the duck
Loved him
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIlm...
January 16, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you're mouring #DavidLynch and want to hear some of his thoughts, here's a coversation I did with him.
Sharks, smoking and the eye of the duck
Loved him
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIlm...
Sharks, smoking and the eye of the duck
Loved him
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIlm...
He called the border between the U.S. and Canada "an artificially drawn line."
He said of the Panama Canal handover, "I was a young guy when this took place." Untrue (and irrelevant even if it were true): he was 53.
He said of the Panama Canal handover, "I was a young guy when this took place." Untrue (and irrelevant even if it were true): he was 53.
January 8, 2025 at 12:43 AM
He called the border between the U.S. and Canada "an artificially drawn line."
He said of the Panama Canal handover, "I was a young guy when this took place." Untrue (and irrelevant even if it were true): he was 53.
He said of the Panama Canal handover, "I was a young guy when this took place." Untrue (and irrelevant even if it were true): he was 53.
Liberace a Lago
January 8, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Liberace a Lago
Saw A Complete Unknown at 68th and Broadway and loved it so much I ran right over to Tower Records to get the soundtrack.
January 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Saw A Complete Unknown at 68th and Broadway and loved it so much I ran right over to Tower Records to get the soundtrack.
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Will I understand the plot of Nosferatu if I haven't seen Nosferaone?
January 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Will I understand the plot of Nosferatu if I haven't seen Nosferaone?
Bluesky is like a family, in that no one listens to me.
December 27, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Bluesky is like a family, in that no one listens to me.
How is this word pronounced?
Stop yourself before you say "eest."
Stop yourself before you say "eest."
December 27, 2024 at 5:32 PM
How is this word pronounced?
Stop yourself before you say "eest."
Stop yourself before you say "eest."
Rock and roll!
December 24, 2024 at 8:02 PM
Rock and roll!
December 22, 2024 at 8:35 PM
December 21, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Good God. Speechless. And not in a good way.
December 20, 2024 at 11:16 PM
Good God. Speechless. And not in a good way.