Emperor Norton
Playwright. Associate Artistic Director at Space55 in downtown Phoenix. Freelance journalist. Next play "Selena and Judy Go Dancing" runs June 6-15 at Metro Arts.
Check out my radio play "Radio Free Europa":
youtube.com/watch?v=WbQ23qB5-6c
- Reposted by Emperor NortonRIP Fred Smith of Television — one of the coolest bassists of all time.
- One of the joys of watching wrestling is seeing a guy who's great in the ring but death on the mic finally find a gimmick that works. Like Ricochet's evolution from "boring flippy man" to "bald dickhead" or Andrade from "too many managers/not enough managers" to "hot guy everyone wants to fuck"
- Reposted by Emperor Norton
- Reposted by Emperor Norton“I didn’t realize how much I missed the simple joy of losing myself in words until these massive tranches of sex crime files were released,” said Indianapolis resident Greta Livingston
- Reposted by Emperor NortonThere's exactly one normal man left on planet Earth.
- Finding out that the husband of the most produced living playwright in America was super tight with Epstein is already a huge plot twist but the fact that she’s currently working on a musical about *checks notes* the victims of Larry Nassar pushes it into the realm of cosmic absurdity
- Reposted by Emperor Norton
“In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.” ― Roberto Bolaño, Distant Star - Reposted by Emperor Nortoni am trying not to joke about the Epstein stuff because it's so horrible but there's also this ridiculous element where it's like... discovering Dracula is real, he's taken over human society at the highest levels, he's involved in tons of evil and also he's a huge dipshit
- Reposted by Emperor NortonThese people convinced you vaccines were dangerous and that scientists were lying and clinical trials weren’t real. That you could cure cancer with beet roots. That you could pay $1000 to have a shaman pray away your diabetes. You all let a group of pedophiles convince YOU to kill your own kids.
- Reposted by Emperor NortonWe gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
- In no order: Rio Bravo Johnny Guitar Red River Lemonade Joe Rancho Notorious My Darling Clementine Dead Man McCabe & Mrs. Miller The Stranger and the Gunfighter Once Upon a Time in the West
- Reposted by Emperor NortonSomehow we wound up getting professional wrestling, the clergy, and concealed carry bros.
- Reposted by Emperor NortonWow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event
- Reposted by Emperor NortonThe people with the most power in our society appear to be nothing more than a pack of rabid chimpanzees singularly focused on destroying the works of people immeasurably better than they are.
- Reposted by Emperor Nortonone of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things
- Anytime someone mentions the pandemic one of the first things I think about is Stone Cold Steve Austin in an empty WWE Thunderdome doing the call & response "give me a hell yeah" and the camera hard cutting to a bunch of empty chairs
- Reposted by Emperor Nortonbro they're playing your leitmotif pizzicato. there's a slow clarinet lurking beneath it. you better not be about to betray me right now i swear to god bro
- Reposted by Emperor Norton[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Emperor Norton[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Emperor Nortonworth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
- Reposted by Emperor NortonDemonschool is good
- Re-watched FALLEN ANGELS (1995) tonight and this is basically Takeshi Kaneshiro's gimmick from that film
- look at what hustle culture has done to us www.newsobserver.com/news/state/n...
- Reposted by Emperor Norton
- BONJOUR TOUT LE MONDE www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- MY THERAPIST: Smooth Alan Grant isn't real, he can't hurt you-
- Xfinity has just released its Jurassic Park-themed Super Bowl ad that features a digitally de-aged Sam Neil, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum. bit.ly/4rmRhrK
- I’m not one to spend too much time basking in the warm glow of the I Told You So Zone but today a close family member called me and apologized for clowning me over the last decade for responding to every political argument with “Guillotines.” “Dude, I get it now.” “Guillotines?” “Guillotines.”
- Reposted by Emperor NortonFUCK NO.
- Reposted by Emperor NortonDefinitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
- I really do hate to be doing some old man lamenting 'they don't make good shit anymore' but look at how bad this looks, man. People sitting around a kitchen table shouldn't look this cartoonishly fake. Not even going to bother to ask how much of this is AI because if it's not it may as well be.
- Reposted by Emperor NortonDOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression. CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school? DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town. C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name? DR: Now look
- Reposted by Emperor Norton[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Emperor Norton“bari weiss’s wife in the epstein files” is simply too perfect
- Reposted by Emperor NortonThe Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
- Reposted by Emperor Norton[Not loaded yet]
- Johnnie To, putting the monkeys in at the end of ELECTION (2005):
- Reposted by Emperor NortonElon Musk publicly slandering that cave diver as a "pedo guy" after he begged Jeffrey Epstein for island party invites is just incredible
- Caught the restoration of HARD BOILED in a theater this week and the crowd rightfully went apeshit over this moment- simultaneously the coolest and hardest anyone has ever looked in the history of film
- What's crazy is HARD BOILED also has the second most "coolest anyone has ever looked in a movie" scene w/ Tony Leung's entrance (sweet clothes, sweet car, driving to New Jack Swing, swaggering into a library to kill a man w/ a Shakespeare gun) and the third (Chow Yun-Fat going apeshit on a clarinet)
- Reposted by Emperor Nortondudes rock
- GOD: what do you think? EDITOR: first off, you got this guy threatening to set off a war because he didn’t get a PEACE prize? Little on the nose, don’t you think? GOD: well- EDITOR: -then you have the evil police force—named Ice—kill people whose names equal Good & Pretty. Real cheap symbolism there
- Reposted by Emperor Norton[Not loaded yet]
- As a lifelong Aronofsky skeptic I’m feeling insanely vindicated right now
- My immediate reactions to hearing Simon Reynolds is dropping a book on shoegaze- 1: how has it taken this long for that man to write a book about shoegaze 2:
- Reposted by Emperor Norton[Not loaded yet]
- Bro, you need to come pick me up, I’m all faded on that ghost face
- Reposted by Emperor NortonI love when people who are professionally wrong for a living describe it as being really into "nuance"
- It’s so funny that Criterion put out a collection of Man Ray films where all the extras on it are just about Jim Jarmusch’s band. Looking forward to their Maya Deren disc where the extras are Zoom recordings of Thurston Moore asking his accountant if he has to pay taxes on his alimony payments
- lmao Pitchfork is paywalling now?! come the fuck on
- Me, watching FAT CHOI SPIRIT, a movie about mahjong: wow this game looks so cool... I don't understand a single thing about this game
- Reposted by Emperor Norton[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Emperor Norton[Not loaded yet]
- Ever since I decided to admonish my dog when he misbehaves by saying Italian words at him my quality of life has improved 200%. "Rigatoni! Mozzarella! Buca di beppo!" *dog walks away* Yeah, he knows what he did
- Reposted by Emperor Norton[Not loaded yet]
- A podcast where liberals listen to conservative media? Stupid waste of time, disgusting, have some respect for yourself. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to record the first ep of "I Don't Like Sands," my pod where I watch nothing but Netflix Sandler movies- just the bad ones, no "Hubie Halloween"
- Reposted by Emperor NortonJD Vance Places Candle Outside Hooters Where ICE Agents Were Heckled
- While it sucks yet another media outlet has been transformed into uncut fash propaganda it's been great watching Bari Weiss eat so much shit. Absolutely nobody is buying it, her staff hates her & leaks like a pasta strainer- it's nice to see a loser get the lack of respect they deserve
- Reposted by Emperor Norton"We should make some more rules" as a response to "these psychos constantly ignore all the rules" is the kind of stupid idea that I personally would be embarassed to suggest in public
- Reposted by Emperor Norton[Not loaded yet]
- Rewatched THROW DOWN tonight and once again hooted and hollered over the film ending with this perfect one-two punch
- “We are clean on opsec”- me to my zoom group call after my dog finally leaves the room
- He released this statement right after receiving photos from his wife of his chain wallet & collection of voluminous JNCO jean shorts being held hostage in a shadowy warehouse
- * FETTERMAN: SUPPORT STRIPPING DHS FROM APPROPRIATIONS BILL #PAsen
- Reposted by Emperor Nortonthe "medieval people didn't know how to draw animals" crowd has been real quiet ever since john siferwas dropped the Perfect Woodcock
- Wrote this a few years ago after re-watching CHUNGKING EXPRESS (a film I re-watch every year). Watched it again tonight and not only do I still feel this way about it, at this point the baby carriage is probably full of nothing but copies of CHUNGKING EXPRESS
- Reposted by Emperor Norton[Not loaded yet]
- They’ve lost the hoopers, it’s over
