it's impossible not to be moved sometimes almost to tears by the grit and gallantry of the Jeanette's crew, who endured so much because of what was unknown so that we could know more.

In the Kingdom of Ice: the Grand and Terrible Voyage of the USS Jeanette by Hampton Sides, about a polar expedition in an era when above 80⁰N it was pretty much ice everywhere you went pretty much all the time... and thereby hangs the tale. Reads like a can't-put-it down adventure novel, and

As a CD (for theatre) thank you so much for recognizing the achievement of Getting It Right all the way down through the under-5s and extras. It's hard to do, & it doesn't often get recognized. The last thing I saw where the casting was as granularly excellent as this was Spotlight back in 2015.

Fascinating also to see (among other things) an early iteration of the toxic parasocial fan relationship,where a handshake or a polite casual exchange w/ the public figure gets fantasized into the promise of friendship or favor, and curdles into resentment and betrayal when those aren't forthcoming.

That's the wonderful Vondie Curtis-Hall, a veteran theatre actor who's also enjoyed a long career in film and television - over the years he's appeared in almost every major series you can name!

Rewatched recently for the first time since OG broadcast and totally agree. It's extremely rare to see it like this, the precise instant it happens- more usually it's a whole performance that does it.

I'm no fan of Dr Oz, but to his credit he did temporarily turn back into an actual doctor and jumped right in there.

If there's one thing the Irish are gonna do, it's break your heart with the beauty of language.

Later on when he and Jesse L. Martin were the detective partners they used to kill the time between camera setups singing their way through the golden age of Broadway together.

A book that reminds us all that if the natives turn pale and tell you not to go to a place ("That place no good!") you should probably not to go to that place. Unexpectedly disturbing and tough-minded, skin-crawlingly creepy, and it motors like a bullet train!

It won't help w/whatever's been diagnosed currently (like human insurance, most policies won't cover preexisting conditions) but imo it's def worth having, especially as your cat gets older - vet bills can really rack up. I had Pets Best for years & they were great, now using Lemonade (less $$).

William Daniels, Ed Herrmann, Dan Lauria, and Max Wright (I'm a casting director, I can't not say their names! 🙂) - all of them, as a point of interest, accomplished theatre guys before their film/tv careers.

That is very high for a shark to jump.

My favorite colour of tulip!