Funny, or tragicomic?
November 5, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Funny, or tragicomic?
One of the more tragicomic aspects of this cycle is the fact that Marshall is still clearly fuming and muttering "Those new mothers were deadbeats, goddamnit!"
What an unusual situation: the NYT reports Marshall filmed the ad personally against the advice of his campaign team. Then his staff still refused to air it, so he personally sent it around to media folks to share it: www.nytimes.com/2026/11/01/u...
To close his campaign, Roger Marshall is running a 60-second ad about a central theme of this campaign — how he treated patients.
“We had to keep the lights on, so we occasionally handed accounts over to collection agencies”, he explains.
“We had to keep the lights on, so we occasionally handed accounts over to collection agencies”, he explains.
November 1, 2026 at 11:16 PM
One of the more tragicomic aspects of this cycle is the fact that Marshall is still clearly fuming and muttering "Those new mothers were deadbeats, goddamnit!"
The GOP rats getting out of the sinking MAGA ship is tragicomic
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November 5, 2026 at 9:10 PM
The GOP rats getting out of the sinking MAGA ship is tragicomic
Hello #BannedBookSkyClub
Sorry for the delayed announcement and late discussion.
I will start sharing talking points for #FunHome by Alison Bechdel on Monday, November 30, 2026 (or possibly the night before, depending on my schedule).
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Sorry for the delayed announcement and late discussion.
I will start sharing talking points for #FunHome by Alison Bechdel on Monday, November 30, 2026 (or possibly the night before, depending on my schedule).
Please join us! Link to feed in replies. #BookSky
November 5, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Hello #BannedBookSkyClub
Sorry for the delayed announcement and late discussion.
I will start sharing talking points for #FunHome by Alison Bechdel on Monday, November 30, 2026 (or possibly the night before, depending on my schedule).
Please join us! Link to feed in replies. #BookSky
Sorry for the delayed announcement and late discussion.
I will start sharing talking points for #FunHome by Alison Bechdel on Monday, November 30, 2026 (or possibly the night before, depending on my schedule).
Please join us! Link to feed in replies. #BookSky
The thing is, if you asked Shakespeare and Pratchett to write a parody of a bunch of upper-class second-son English twits forming a colony...
It could not come close to the tragicomic absurdity of the history of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
It could not come close to the tragicomic absurdity of the history of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
November 3, 2026 at 3:52 PM
The thing is, if you asked Shakespeare and Pratchett to write a parody of a bunch of upper-class second-son English twits forming a colony...
It could not come close to the tragicomic absurdity of the history of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
It could not come close to the tragicomic absurdity of the history of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Welcome to the singular world of Angus Wilson. An overlooked legend of the post-war queer landscape, he casts a waspish, tragicomic yet oddly tender eye across mid-century England.
Out now, with a foreword by Margaret Drabble
'A literary master' Ian McEwan
Out now, with a foreword by Margaret Drabble
'A literary master' Ian McEwan
November 6, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Welcome to the singular world of Angus Wilson. An overlooked legend of the post-war queer landscape, he casts a waspish, tragicomic yet oddly tender eye across mid-century England.
Out now, with a foreword by Margaret Drabble
'A literary master' Ian McEwan
Out now, with a foreword by Margaret Drabble
'A literary master' Ian McEwan
The LA-Transit-"Leadership"-Is-a-Tragicomic-Burlesque-Show story you needed this morning.
What's happening with the people mover is beyond anything I've ever experienced as a reporter.
Right now it feels like our own city spewed out White House press secretary-level propaganda one week out from Election Day to boost the prospects of a statistically unpopular incumbent
Right now it feels like our own city spewed out White House press secretary-level propaganda one week out from Election Day to boost the prospects of a statistically unpopular incumbent
We have to talk about LAX's people mover
Plus: LA's garment industry rallies for more ethically produced local merch, and LA28's new slogan "Stars Align"
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October 30, 2026 at 5:42 PM
The LA-Transit-"Leadership"-Is-a-Tragicomic-Burlesque-Show story you needed this morning.
Such a tragicomic figure
November 4, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Such a tragicomic figure
It’s tragicomic to compare Australia’s campaign finance landscape (legally or factually) with the U.S. when pre-reform per-House-seat spending is on the order of less than AU$2 million—considerably less than 1/10th the per-seat spend vs. the U.S.
November 1, 2026 at 12:36 PM
It’s tragicomic to compare Australia’s campaign finance landscape (legally or factually) with the U.S. when pre-reform per-House-seat spending is on the order of less than AU$2 million—considerably less than 1/10th the per-seat spend vs. the U.S.
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When Olivia Colman’s fisherwoman asks Peter Dinklage’s weaver to fashion her a wicker Alexander Skarsgård, everyone loses their minds in this raunchy fable.
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November 4, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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He ridiculed the French for their “monstrous, tragicomic scene” that could lead nowhere but to the political institution Burke reviled most: democracy.
His pamphlet serves as an early model of the bitterly partisan political writing in Britain and the U.S.
His pamphlet serves as an early model of the bitterly partisan political writing in Britain and the U.S.
November 1, 2026 at 3:52 PM
He ridiculed the French for their “monstrous, tragicomic scene” that could lead nowhere but to the political institution Burke reviled most: democracy.
His pamphlet serves as an early model of the bitterly partisan political writing in Britain and the U.S.
His pamphlet serves as an early model of the bitterly partisan political writing in Britain and the U.S.
Fancy an unhinged, tragicomic autumnal read? My latest novel THE GLORIOUS DEAD is a mere 99p on Kindle/ebook for a limited time. link.amazon/B03zOJC3L
November 1, 2026 at 9:25 AM
Fancy an unhinged, tragicomic autumnal read? My latest novel THE GLORIOUS DEAD is a mere 99p on Kindle/ebook for a limited time. link.amazon/B03zOJC3L
Read my latest #shortstory THE BALLAD OF PINKY GOOSE
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Born with extraordinarily long arms, Pinky Goose has always stood apart from the world around him. tlfiction.com/fiction/the-...
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November 5, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Read my latest #shortstory THE BALLAD OF PINKY GOOSE
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Born with extraordinarily long arms, Pinky Goose has always stood apart from the world around him. tlfiction.com/fiction/the-...
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Born with extraordinarily long arms, Pinky Goose has always stood apart from the world around him. tlfiction.com/fiction/the-...
It would be my vote, for a lot of reasons.
It also remains tragicomic that huge chunks of a certain community flatly refuse to engage with talks like these, and will then eventually complain that their desires weren't fully considered.
It also remains tragicomic that huge chunks of a certain community flatly refuse to engage with talks like these, and will then eventually complain that their desires weren't fully considered.
November 4, 2026 at 5:27 PM
It would be my vote, for a lot of reasons.
It also remains tragicomic that huge chunks of a certain community flatly refuse to engage with talks like these, and will then eventually complain that their desires weren't fully considered.
It also remains tragicomic that huge chunks of a certain community flatly refuse to engage with talks like these, and will then eventually complain that their desires weren't fully considered.
Wicker is a wonderfully weird, ribald fairytale. Olivia Colman shines with tragicomic perfection and Alexander Skarsgård is surprisingly charming as her woven husband. Hilariously absurd yet unexpectedly sweet, it’s a uniquely charming, out-there satire.
🧺🧺🧺 3/5 Basket Weavers
🧺🧺🧺 3/5 Basket Weavers
November 3, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Wicker is a wonderfully weird, ribald fairytale. Olivia Colman shines with tragicomic perfection and Alexander Skarsgård is surprisingly charming as her woven husband. Hilariously absurd yet unexpectedly sweet, it’s a uniquely charming, out-there satire.
🧺🧺🧺 3/5 Basket Weavers
🧺🧺🧺 3/5 Basket Weavers
We loved: THE PRESIDENT AT CITY SPACE!
By critically acclaimed playwright & performer John Feffer, this 1-man show is "a tragicomic look at how power corrupts and absolute power can seriously mess up your life."
Nov 1, 4, 14, 15
IE member Discount Tix: $15.
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By critically acclaimed playwright & performer John Feffer, this 1-man show is "a tragicomic look at how power corrupts and absolute power can seriously mess up your life."
Nov 1, 4, 14, 15
IE member Discount Tix: $15.
www.google.com/url?opi=8997...
The President
One day in the life of a U.S. president facing a series of crises. Will it all end in martial law or democratic uprising?
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November 1, 2026 at 1:25 AM
We loved: THE PRESIDENT AT CITY SPACE!
By critically acclaimed playwright & performer John Feffer, this 1-man show is "a tragicomic look at how power corrupts and absolute power can seriously mess up your life."
Nov 1, 4, 14, 15
IE member Discount Tix: $15.
www.google.com/url?opi=8997...
By critically acclaimed playwright & performer John Feffer, this 1-man show is "a tragicomic look at how power corrupts and absolute power can seriously mess up your life."
Nov 1, 4, 14, 15
IE member Discount Tix: $15.
www.google.com/url?opi=8997...
Part III, in which the saga with the dog reaches its tragicomic denouement. Listen here 🐶
AudioFriday: Wexford, Part III. | Monica Byrne
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October 30, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Part III, in which the saga with the dog reaches its tragicomic denouement. Listen here 🐶
It was so sweet; they really leaned into the friendship between the two & they had been alternating nights between Godot & the Pinter so really leaning into the comic of the tragicomic of it all as a relief those nights and the weight of their friendship on it was really beautiful.
October 29, 2026 at 10:03 PM
It was so sweet; they really leaned into the friendship between the two & they had been alternating nights between Godot & the Pinter so really leaning into the comic of the tragicomic of it all as a relief those nights and the weight of their friendship on it was really beautiful.
Join us this Tuesday, November 3rd at 8pm ET on our Discord, to discuss FUN HOME: A FAMILY TRAGICOMIC created by @alisonbechdel.bsky.social.
A raw and honest exploration of a fraught relationship with a distant, exacting, and enigmatic father.
A raw and honest exploration of a fraught relationship with a distant, exacting, and enigmatic father.
October 28, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Join us this Tuesday, November 3rd at 8pm ET on our Discord, to discuss FUN HOME: A FAMILY TRAGICOMIC created by @alisonbechdel.bsky.social.
A raw and honest exploration of a fraught relationship with a distant, exacting, and enigmatic father.
A raw and honest exploration of a fraught relationship with a distant, exacting, and enigmatic father.
"If by some unholy miracle a Hoppean covenant of bigoted landlords did try to build a wall, then it’s all the more profitable for their queer Muslim neighbors to build a road." - Logan Yershov
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c4ss.org/content/47390
Anarchism not Nationalism
In the wake of the murder of Christmas shoppers in Breitscheidplatz public square in Berlin comes Mises Institute President Jeff Deist’s tragicomic article Market Borders, not Open Borders. After some...
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October 27, 2026 at 9:11 PM
"If by some unholy miracle a Hoppean covenant of bigoted landlords did try to build a wall, then it’s all the more profitable for their queer Muslim neighbors to build a road." - Logan Yershov
c4ss.org/content/47390
c4ss.org/content/47390
There’s a rather middling article at Navy Times about Operation Magpie, a clumsy attempt by Nazi Germany to place two spies onto U.S. soil, and I gotta say, there’s a movie there, but it’s not the tense spy caper that Hollywood would demand.
More like a tragicomic moodfest.
More like a tragicomic moodfest.
October 28, 2026 at 3:45 PM
There’s a rather middling article at Navy Times about Operation Magpie, a clumsy attempt by Nazi Germany to place two spies onto U.S. soil, and I gotta say, there’s a movie there, but it’s not the tense spy caper that Hollywood would demand.
More like a tragicomic moodfest.
More like a tragicomic moodfest.
20. BAD BLOOD: SECRETS AND LIES IN A SILICON VALLEY STARTUP by John Carreyrou
This was very good but weird to read years later now that its subject is a tragicomic pop culture figure, as it ends with this multiple-Pulitzer-winning journalist basically saying “Look, this person is a MONSTER.”
This was very good but weird to read years later now that its subject is a tragicomic pop culture figure, as it ends with this multiple-Pulitzer-winning journalist basically saying “Look, this person is a MONSTER.”
October 30, 2026 at 11:32 AM
20. BAD BLOOD: SECRETS AND LIES IN A SILICON VALLEY STARTUP by John Carreyrou
This was very good but weird to read years later now that its subject is a tragicomic pop culture figure, as it ends with this multiple-Pulitzer-winning journalist basically saying “Look, this person is a MONSTER.”
This was very good but weird to read years later now that its subject is a tragicomic pop culture figure, as it ends with this multiple-Pulitzer-winning journalist basically saying “Look, this person is a MONSTER.”
Be they the most exploited performers in contemporary showbiz or idle rich kids, wealthy people are having a moment in pop music
October 28, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Be they the most exploited performers in contemporary showbiz or idle rich kids, wealthy people are having a moment in pop music