A friend of mine who’s a professional singer got told by his former conductor upon firing him, “well, see, if a violinist has a bad instrument he can just replace it. But in the case of a singer, well, it’s just not so easy.” Very roundabout and very crushing.

You the man. I wonder what the other statues look like, did anyone find some more pictures anywhere?

Rules for thee, not for me? *Shocking. *

Whoa, I’d be careful sharing that you did that, it’s still the internet. But maybe I’m being overly careful.

Why not? Which person owning multiple companies would be disadvantaged in a way that could be considered unfair in this way?

I try, brother.

Conscience*

Oof… Man, to live in the US. I don’t envy you guys, though things aren’t really going the right direction here in the Netherlands, either.

Powerful and saddening. It does feel like, as an artist, everything revolves around how good others think you are. I try to go around it by only performing others people’s work, but also then, you’re dependent on those people wanting to work with you or not. Still dependent. Always dependent, as an artist, which is so so heavy.

I do enjoy these writeups. Really makes the project come alive.

No chance this has also happened in other countries though, right? Right?

Ooo, you can do that?

Deeply saddening to read about these kinds of people.

One of them is significantly more gleeful about Israel winning than the other, though. World politics is nasty stuff.

Not at all. But then I, thankfully, live in a country where makeup use isn’t as normalized as in many other countries like the US and more eastern European countries.

The problem is he didn’t trust pence to follow through.

Wow, that’s a very passive aggressive reaction. I enjoyed a lot.

Busted.

this is a man who ran afowl of his home country’s laws about pornography.

Afoul, surely?

The icon for media reminds me of a bidet on a floor plan.