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Eddie Vedder could have walked onto that stage tonight, played the catalog, taken his bow, and gotten on a plane. Nobody would have complained. The crowd would have gone home happy. That would have been enough.
Instead he spent real time with teenage kids from Chicago's South Side, helping them write something that didn't exist before they walked into a room together, rehearsing it until it was ready, and then stepping back while they sang it in front of three former presidents of the United States.
That's not a cameo. That's not a tax-deductible appearance. That's somebody deciding that the most important thing he could do with his access was hand it to someone who didn't already have any. The kids on that stage tonight will carry what happened there for the rest of their lives. That's the part that doesn't show up in the lineup announcement.
@sbg1@maggieNYT@jonathanvswan In June 2001, at their first summit in Slovenia, President George W. Bush famously said he looked Vladimir Putin in the eye and "was able to get a sense of his soul". Bush noted that Putin seemed "straightforward and trustworthy" and "deeply committed to his country".
The same donald trump who threatened "years in jail" for people who touch the peeling paint in the Reflecting pool pardoned 1500 people who destroyed the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Martin Sheen’s cameo in HOT SHOTS! PART DEUX (1993) is one of the funniest meta-jokes of the era. Watching him and Charlie Sheen pass each other on the river while referencing APOCALYPSE NOW (1979) is comedy gold.
"Because faculty no longer control the curriculum, Texas A&M is quickly becoming an institution of dead dogmas." - Martin Peterson
His full resignation letter below.
I'll be in conversation with Peterson on June 24 @ 12pm ET.
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I’d just like to remind everyone that these types of exchanges don’t have to happen. They are not normal. We should be embarrassed and humiliated that we such an out of control lunatic as our president.
@kait_tiffany@CrownPublishing I just read your article about the JFK research rabbit hole. Loved it. So…do you believe Oswald acted alone? - And by the way, I have a great story about Oswald, and another about Watergate, that I know - I just know - are both credible.
@classic_film I have a strange memory…as a boy I watched some movie of the week on regular TV quite often, and it seemed like I was always watching Susan Hayward. As I said…strange memory.