ZI LA

I used to be a music critic. I used to have cred.

Proofreader in a marketing department (formerly at an ad agency).

Film nerd.

[ZI LA @zilax002]

@sam_americaland Just another day on Metro Transit

[ZI LA @zilax002]

@hipearlrose And let's spend a bunch of money on TRIP agents (we'll need four per bus) to check fares and make the bus ride more tense for everyone while we're at it!

[court 🏠 @concertcourt]

what ed sheeran should have done:
- not played the remaining tour dates at the venues. call their bluff.
- refund tickets if they stuck to their words on it.
- paid out employees who would have been working those dates (yk he can afford it)
- find a new venue in each city

[CONSEQUENCE @consequence]

Three of Ed Sheeran's opening acts, FINNEAS, Aaron Rowe, and Beoga, have all withdrawn from his US tour in solidarity with Macklemore after the rapper was removed from the tour following his pro-Palestine comments.

[ZI LA @zilax002]

@Wario64 But with a billion ads

[Variety @Variety]

Macklemore is speaking out after being dropped from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour, seemingly placing blame on New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, saying that the billionaire rallied other stadium owners to ban him from performing at their venues:

“Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years.... I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened [in Gaza]... Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues....

Ed was in a fucked up position. He knew it. His typical apolitical stance was being challenged in a way it never had been before. He told me that the words 'Free Palestine' and the image of the Palestinian flag were hurtful to a lot of people he spoke with. I told him that if those words were more offensive than tens of thousands of Palestinian children being killed by Israel, then there was a fundamental disconnect between where those people stood and where I stood. But he couldn't get past his public facing, 'I don't take sides'....

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed. Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation....

I didn't need 10 shows from Ed. I needed 2. Two chances to stand in front of 90,000 people and say the words that somehow became too dangerous to say. Free Palestine. But if those words cost me the stage, while turning the conversation back to Palestine, then it was the most successful tour I've ever been on.”

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[The Minnesota Star Tribune @StarTribune]

Data center developer backs out of plans to buy Minnesota Star Tribune’s shuttered printing plant https://t.co/PYqr4QD2CZ

[ZI LA @zilax002]

@LingoUnbanned Is the "my ex" quote you?

[ZI LA @zilax002]

@EPM106 It's the worst one by far, too. I loathe Kingdom Hearts but the design is very distinct and recognizable.

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

The highlight of my literary life was meeting Jorge Luis Borges in the early 1980s. He recited Shakespeare soliloquies from memory and told a group of about 5 or 6 of us how he would improve them. Then he recited the improved versions. They were better.

From this we were supposed to learn not to be intimidated by legendary writers. They were imperfect, he told us.

Strangely, I was intimidated anyway.

True story. Trinity College, Oxford University.

[ZI LA @zilax002]

@HPbasketball What are you even talking about

There's literally been a string scandals in the last year. In the NBA.

"Do you think gambling didn't occur before" is a classic logical fallacy

That is beside the point

The NBA has also had gambling scandals before! Doesn't make it good!

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

The NBA's rulings are final -- there is no formal appeal or arbitration process available to the Clippers with the league. LA's only outlet to fight the punishment is in court.

[ZI LA @zilax002]

@rat_liker This would all be solved by not leaving the toilet lid up. People are so uncivilized.

[j aubrey 🤠 @jaubreyYT]

Not really what I want the Vice President to be saying

[CiceroMN @cicero_mn]

St Paul, Minnesota votes to remove Flock cameras 7-0

[ZI LA @zilax002]

@LingoUnbanned Yeahhhh

I get it. No one cares about creative work, and that's more true the more obscure you get.

But I don't have it in me to do that shit.

It's embarrassing enough to casually plug something I wrote.

[ZI LA @zilax002]

@BobWulff @rust1n It sucks because every project used to be so exciting and now it's just: I can't trust any of these!

[karl anthony townes van zandt @SamAsItEverWas]

He did. We as a society have just decided that Watergate-level scandals no longer require any sort of accountability when the people caught up in them are rich enough.