Marissa Skudlarek

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

Like every artistic director in the American theater, Donald Trump has decided his performing arts organization needs a new building.

when your public moment of vulnerability undergoes memetic semantic degradation

Why Do So Many Judges Cite Jane Austen in Legal Decisions? - Electric Literature It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen quotes and references are constantly showing up in court

judges do love citing Jane Austen, after all! electricliterature.com/why-do-so-ma...

great news, and a great righteously angry piece of legal prose, but they really missed an opportunity to quote "it does not say RSVP on the Statue of Liberty"

people don't expect me to be a Slob, but I totally am

I tried to keep my "👏 concert 👏 movies 👏 are 👏 documentaries" rant in check, but the Swiftie in me cannot allow the the claim that Melania had the biggest documentary opening in 10 years to go unanswered when the Eras Tour movie cleared $130 million in three days

I have GOT to be invited to a winter wedding at some point in my life so I have an excuse to get a rose velveteen suit like Pharrell's

Actress and activist Ruby Dee — in costume, dressed in a light-coloured woven ribbon gown and dark-coloured high-necked cape with ribbon detail, wearing a crown — captured facing the camera while looking into the distance, her left hand in front of her, right arm by her side, posed against a black backdrop, in a black-and-white medium close-up shot taken while Dee was starring as Cordelia in a production of King Lear at the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Connecticut

Actress and activist Ruby Dee — in costume, dressed in a light-coloured woven ribbon gown and dark-coloured high-necked cape with ribbon detail, wearing a crown — captured facing the camera while looking into the distance, her left hand in front of her, right arm by her side, posed against a black backdrop, in a black-and-white medium close-up shot taken while Dee was starring as Cordelia in a production of King Lear at the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Connecticut

Actress and activist Ruby Dee — in costume, dressed in a dark-coloured high-necked cape with ribbon detail, wearing a crown — captured facing the camera while looking into the distance, posed against a black backdrop, in a black-and-white medium close-up shot taken while Dee was starring as Cordelia in a production of King Lear at the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Connecticut

Ruby Dee as Cordelia in the American Shakespeare Festival's production of King Lear, 1965

who's going to be brave enough to interview Chotiner and ask if he's seen that viral "Chotiner interviewing the guy who runs Shirley Jackson's lottery" humor piece and whether it inspired him to lean even more heavily into this style of interviewing

Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.