Marissa Skudlarek

photo of a mug printed with the text "Apollonian in the streets. Dionysian in the sheets."

Got the perfect Valentine's Day gift!

Hi folks. We're dropping our paywall on this story about the scourge of AI pitches for the day, so give it a read and share widely. www.coyotemedia.org/how-coyote-a...

*yeets a golden apple engraved with "To The Least Problematic" into your group chat*

Norwegian Biathlete, At Summit Of His Life’s Work: I Cheated On My Girlfriend | Defector The biathlon encourages athletes to balance two things at once. A competitor must be able to ski a great distance at an immense speed, and then, as if turning off a light switch, lower their heart rat...

can this man call me? I have 100 questions defector.com/biathlon-oly...

Duolingo just informed me that one of my friends “came back to learn Spanish after 3 years”… the power of that halftime show…

I really do think this is an excellent metaphor for the moment.

William Blake’s illustration for “The Tyger” has what appears to be a dippy grin for some reason.

The wonderful thing about Tyggers
Is Tyggers are burning bright
Their tops are made out of rubber
In the forest of the night

What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy,
Immortal hand or eye
Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers,
Their fearful symmetry!

maybe Bad Bunny's next hit song, after he reminded us to take more photos of our loved ones, should be to remind us not to use AI to curate photos belonging to our loved ones

Macbeth: SHIT

halftime show

what a shot

:guy who has only seen In the Heights: I’m getting In the Heights vibes from this

Cover of “The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit” by Beatrix Potter

What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss? Anton Chigurh here for FanDuel,

[photo of a pottery bowl with the stylized face of an owl] Columbia River region, Washington or Oregon Owl Effigy Bowl, Pre-contact

Guys, guys—I found a Superb Owl that is also a Super Bowl!!!

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Castro Theatre Again | KQED At the reopened theater's first movie screening, the pessimism I've carried for four years melted away.

Went to the Castro Theatre reopening last night to see a movie, and was very surprised to find myself thinking: "Could it be that all my worries were unfounded? What's happening here?!"

Presumably, while watching the women’s figure skating at the Olympics, Lady Catherine de Bourgh (Barbara Leigh-Hunt) says, “If I had ever learnt, I should be a true proficient.” From Pride and Prejudice (1995).

All of us during the Olympics:

“If you’d like me to take a look at that, please open a GitHub issue and assign it to me”

this false spring in the Bay Area on Super Bowl week beginning to piss me off. the very nice weather deprives SF tourists a core local experience: frantically buying a $100 low-quality sweatshirt bc the fog rolled in and they are caught in shorts and a t-shirt

Blueskyese and Xian share an obvious common root as both being Twitteric languages, the difference is that after the split Xian became a hybrid Twitteric/Channer-linkedin tongue, while Blueskyese changed less overall but did pick up some tumbleric and redditor loanwords

I’m perversely grateful that it’s SUCH obvious slop and that it doesn’t include my name (or that of anyone else we had on board in 2020)

Excerpt of AI-generated slop text with a "Cyrano de Bergerac" theme from a sports betting website. "Today’s actors face new challenges. They wonder if new tech beats old makeup. But nothing beats the feeling of wearing a heavy nose. Prosthetic Nose Realities The nose in Cyrano is a big challenge: Era Nose Material Biggest Challenge 1897 Stage Wax/Leather Projection through face armor 2020s Screen 3D-Printed Silicone CGI integration Method Actor Permanent Glue Forgetting it’s removable Coquelin’s actors had strong jaws from speaking with a nose. Today, actors might prefer CGI. But do they lose something real?"

I have to admit I laughed way too hard at this though. "Forgetting it's removable"!

Oh my god: not only did the pandemic kill my "Cyrano" production at Cutting Ball & then the theater itself, now its website has been taken over by AI gibberish and if you google "Cyrano Cutting Ball" you get THIS: cuttingball.com/play/cyrano-...

I love all of the books you've mentioned SO much and my other favorite in that vein (juicy Broadway book) is "Song of Spider-Man," Glen Berger's memoir about being the librettist for "Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark"

There's no easy way to say this: isthmus

At my company, there is definitely a push from corporate management to work more with AI, but it’s not yet a part of my individual performance metrics or something my direct manager is monitoring.

I'm 24 hours later getting to this than you, but, same.

lmao wait this happened in LAKE OSWEGO

well, good news, I showed up to Zazie to end my Dry January and get some reading done, and there are 2 customers here chatting away in French. Had to sit far away from them so I’m not tempted to eavesdrop!

also, maybe it's just that I'm American, but Queen Victoria lived in an era before color photography and I doubt most people know what color eyes she had! I could kind of understand blue contact lenses for a Frank Sinatra biopic, but this just seems overly fussy