Jay Blackman

Sick country. Maybe nucluar?

[Jay Blackman @jayblackman]

Really enjoy the location scout’s sample reels for the Boston scenes in Field of Dreams.

[GBH Archives @GBHArchives]

Scenes from East Boston, sometime in the 1980s.

[Jay Blackman @jayblackman]

@AriFleischer But... the constitution vests that decision in a “small group in DC” (also known as our elected representatives). Plus there’s the 14th amendment...

Anyway, you both-sidesed the insurrection, so I know this is just more bad faith from a partisan hack. Why don’t you just go away?

[Jay Blackman @jayblackman]

Life-changing film. Not an enjoyable watch by any measure, but a necessary one.

[wint @dril]

so long suckers! i rev up my motorcylce and create a huge cloud of smoke. when the cloud dissipates im lying completely dead on the pavement

[Jay Blackman @jayblackman]

I’m glad everyone seems appropriately horrified right now, but not looking forward to the inevitable return to “Sure, the president says some pretty controversial things, but Joe Biden once paraphrased Neil Kinnock.”

[Jay Blackman @jayblackman]

@SemiEmily Embarrassed to be represented by one of them, and absolutely livid at their contribution to these circumstances. But hey, at least Ted got to write a snarky tweet both-siding Beto and Josh got his photo op.

[Jay Blackman @jayblackman]

@prchovanec Couldn’t have said it better.

[Steve Vladeck @steve_vladeck]

When Congress reassembles:

1. Republicans should immediately withdraw their remaining objections and allow for expeditious certification of Biden's victory.

2. The House should immediately proceed to vote on Articles of Impeachment against President Trump.

In that order.

[Jay Blackman @jayblackman]

Yep. Another one of those days I’ll never forget. Feel like this is going to be another day that changes all the ones that come after it, and not for the better.

[Jon Ostrower @jonostrower]

This is one of those moments in American history where people will ask where you were and what you felt as it was unfolding. Haven’t felt this since September 11, 2001.

[The Golden Sir @screaminbutcalm]

Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

[Jay Blackman @jayblackman]

Me sowing: 2019
Me reaping: 2020

[Jay Blackman @jayblackman]

@superkatt6 Just messaged it. Couldn’t get anyone to run it (alas, it is too bad I no longer have connections in the newspaper industry and, uh, that newspapers are no longer a thing) but I think it holds up.

[Jay Blackman @jayblackman]

Seeing all the recent recollections of trauma induced after the initial airing of “The Day After” made me wonder how many of those folks have ever seen “Threads.” It should be required viewing in high school, so that you realize that “On the Beach” had the *happy* ending.

[Bill Geerhart @CONELRAD6401240]

"...switched on the telly with dread..." Russell Davies writes about THREADS and other nuclear TV offerings in the Observer, September 30, 1984.

[Jay Blackman @jayblackman]

@superkatt6 (On a tangentially related note - did I ever send you my advocacy piece for making Puerto Rico a captive domestic supply source for pharmaceuticals and PPE? Puerto Rican economic stimulus, and a domestic industrial base for critical goods. Win-win!)

[Jay Blackman @jayblackman]

@superkatt6 Didn’t it take like two days to devise the vaccine? All we have to do is streamline approvals, testing and production, and baby we got a stew going.

[Jay Blackman @jayblackman]

@AeroDork @peter90402 As I recall, the cover story for the fighters being in *exactly* the right place at *exactly* the right time wasn’t great, right? Wasn’t Churchill pissed that the US hadn’t concocted a better explanation?

[Jay Blackman @jayblackman]

@TrickiDicki @AeroDork First rule of military contracting: why build one when you can build two for twice the price?

[Jay Blackman @jayblackman]

@superkatt6 While all that is clearly going NOT GREAT I feel like maybe we’re at the beginning of the end? The vaccines seem pretty promising and have reinforced my belief that medical technology will eventually solve all problems (tho at 40 harder to be sure that I will personally benefit)

[Jay Blackman @jayblackman]

@superkatt6 While I do still re-read it like once a year (and wish the female characters weren’t all so one-dimensional), I’m cautiously optimistic that my ever-present background anxiety about the prospect of nuclear war will lessen in, oh, let’s say about 40 days or so.

[Jay Blackman @jayblackman]

The constitution is basically a transactional lawyer’s worst nightmare. Imagine a contract you wrote in a hurry in a crowded, hot conference room in Philadelphia and 250 years later people are *still parsing every word, clause and comma*.

Just shoot me now.