Twitter Plays, part CCVI nyneofuturists: It’s Twitter Plays CCVI! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that takes place in a NEWSROOM. Here are your plays starting with @Jeremy_Gable who should have been chosen by DC over Orson Scott Card. (Lights up on Daily Planet. A sign reads “Casual Friday”. SUPERMAN enters, sits at desk, starts working. Everyone freaks out. Bows) #tp206 — Jeremy Gable (@Jeremy_Gable) April 2, 2013 Editor: Press time. Need your copy. Op-Ed: It’s not true yet, give me an hour. E: Why? You think anyone’s gonna read it? O: … Here. #tp206 — Sam Swift Shuker (@s_swift_shuker) April 2, 2013 @nyneofuturists Year 2020. Lights up on Newsroom. Pause. Wind whistles. Tumbleweed rolls through. Pause. Blackout. #tp206 — michael rock (@michaelrock) April 2, 2013 @nyneofuturists #tp206 “Good evening. Nothing interesting happened today. We’ll do the weather and then we’ll let you get to bed.” — Tim McMackin (@timothymcmackin) April 2, 2013 Rosco smoke fills newsroom as smoking writers in large thick glasses & wide colorful ties pound typewriters.Enter BOSS.”Copy!”FIN#tp206 — Dan D. (@fakewindow) April 2, 2013 A: So we’ve decided to downsize the entire newsroom & only use wire stories because nothing interesting happens in this city anyway. #tp206 — Heather Morrow (@theatrejunkiehm) April 2, 2013 MAN: Big enough for the kids’ room?WOMAN: So many little cubbies for them!REALTOR: In olden times this was a newsroom.M&W: A what?#tp206 — Chris Barlow (@iamchrisbarlow) April 3, 2013 [NEWSROOM IN THE AGE OF INTERNET] *long silence* Reporter: Did you read the story about the…? Other Reporter: Yup. *more silence* #tp206 — Catherine B Smith (@catherineblakes) April 3, 2013 Read More

Twitter Plays, part CCVI

nyneofuturists:

It’s Twitter Plays CCVI! This week’s assignment was: write a 1-tweet play that takes place in a NEWSROOM.

Here are your plays starting with @Jeremy_Gable who should have been chosen by DC over Orson Scott Card.

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sslyby:

USA SUMMER TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT - We’re going on a short co-headlining tour with Ha Ha Tonka and Ezra Furman and the Harpoons in June. We’ll be road testing some new songs from our respective forthcoming new albums. Here are the dates: 

Thur, June 20 @ Off Broadway in St Louis, MO
Fri, June 21 @ The Frequency in Madison, WI
Sat, June 22 First Avenue & 7th St Entry in Minneapolis, MN
Mon, June 24 Schubas Tavern in Chicago (*SSLYBY ONLY)
Tues, June 25 @ Rumba Cafe in Columbus, OH
Wed, June 26 @ DC9 Nightclub in Washington, DC
Thur, June 27 MilkBoy Philadelphia in Philadelphia, PA
Fri, June 28 @ Middle East in Cambridge, MA
Sat, June 29 @ Mercury Lounge in New York City, NY

Send us your suggestions for fall tour dates. 
Thanks and sorry.
B. Yeltsin

Photo by Gussifer/TheColorAwesome.com.

Seattle!
ilovecharts:

Coffee flavor chart at my local coffee shop, Mocha Joe’s, in Brattleboro, VT
-Tim Guarente
fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

Federico Garcia Lorca was a Spanish poet and playwright. He was born in June of 1898. His works were highly controversial for the time. He was murdered in August of 1936 by Francisco Franco’s troops. No one knows where his body is and historians are still trying to find it.
Since it’s raining, only water resistant items allowed this trip. My movie screen turned tarp is soaked. #movebybike
Turns out I don’t have to work today. And that’s okay. #theatreworkisjustasimportant
Comic Con Smut at Spin the Bottle Last night at Annex Theatre, I read my first original smut at Spin the Bottle. It was exhilarating, nervous-making, and tremendously wonderful. Bret Fetzer, producer, prompted me to write my story about Emerald City Comic Con(this weekend, in Seattle!). I… View Post

Comic Con Smut at Spin the Bottle

Last night at Annex Theatre, I read my first original smut at Spin the Bottle. It was exhilarating, nervous-making, and tremendously wonderful. Bret Fetzer, producer, prompted me to write my story about Emerald City Comic Con(this weekend, in Seattle!). I…

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Valentines I made this week! #collage
Morning cappuccino. Too beautiful to not have nearly every day. #somedayillmakeitlikethis