Peter Tabakis

I write about music/movies/theater when not doing the job that actually pays me @dcist, @pmablog, @spectrumculture

[SPIN @SPIN]

Library staff celebrates R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World and We Know it (and Feel Fine)" in book form.

This was an absolutely delightful watch. 🤓

R.E.M.’s Document was released 39 years ago yesterday.

(📹 via @hooverpubliclibrary)

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.

[Peter Tabakis @ptabakis]

@remhq

[Peter Tabakis @ptabakis]

Spotted imprinted on a DC sidewalk @m_millsey

[Sam Stein @samstein]

at a loss for words

[Elijah Wood @elijahwood]

For the first time yesterday, I experienced the new @alamodrafthouse QR code ordering system and I can tell you it’s truly awful. Rather than making ordering food and drink more efficient, it actually adds steps to the process AND if you want to order additional items during the film you HAVE to open your phone. No, your cute reference to that irony in your How To Alamo video doesn’t negate how ridiculous this is. Please don’t cut corners with your staff and revert back to physical menus and order cards.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

This reminds me of the Thomas Sowell quote: "People will forgive you for being wrong, but they will never forgive you for being right—especially if events prove you right while proving them wrong".

[Peter Tabakis @ptabakis]

Also, if you’re that asshole hare and your close friend is married to someone with a tortoise in the extended family (“one of the good ones!”, no doubt), I dare you to use the phrase “fucking slowpoke tortoise” to their face. You, inevitably, will always be a loser.

[Peter Tabakis @ptabakis]

Been trying to figure out why the R-word as a slur, back again in popular parlance (on both sides of the political spectrum, for sure), feels so perplexing and ugly to me. The coarseness and laziness aside, its use no longer achieves the intended shock value hoped for.

[Peter Tabakis @ptabakis]

But it also reveals a warped view of moral judgement, the things that can and cannot be controlled at the center of a slur. To borrow from Aesop, it’s like one hare calling another hare “a fucking slowpoke tortoise” as a mic drop.

[Peter Tabakis @ptabakis]

IDK I just tell them my phone doesn't work and I'd prefer to go analog and it's fine

https://t.co/mLavKixBs6

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

great job! funded by subscribers. apply!

[Peter Tabakis @ptabakis]

@noahjones4321 @SonnyBunch Bill isn't the publisher of the Bulwark, so no

[Peter Tabakis @ptabakis]

DEVASTATED

https://t.co/KVeVqrjLaI

[Peter Tabakis @ptabakis]

Honest question: What's with the mouth-watering urge to use the R-word in casual conversation?

[Peter Tabakis @ptabakis]

Paywalling the SINGLE reason most people go to @pitchfork, when their scores will be widely shared on social media and AI will pull full reviews seems short-sighted to outright crazy. P4K is going the way of the dodo, or @RollingStone

[Peter Tabakis @ptabakis]

@kencen Only problem, find a show you actually want to see (no shade to Shear Madness)

[Peter Tabakis @ptabakis]

Tickets for productions at the Kennedy Center are, for some crazy reason, abundant and cheap! @kencen

[Peter Tabakis @ptabakis]

@kencen Thrifty theatergoers, this is your place