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Joyful Jackalope and Happy Mardi Gras!
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I made a commercial for my book.
I might be more proud of the commercial.
have you ever been in one of those moods where you don’t really know whats wrong but you feel really irritated with everyone and everything?
At the risk of sounding optimistic, let me share what is genuinely the best and most consistently useful life advice I have ever received:
If you think you hate everyone, eat something. If you think everyone hates you, go to sleep. If you think you hate yourself, take a shower.
When I finally get this whole chronic migraines thing under control I’m going to write a book.
Not about my experience, oh, no.
In honor of my husband, who has spent months stumbling around in the dark, covering all the windows with towels and blankets to make the rooms less spicy, and constantly feeding me random foods and ginger ale…
I’m going to write The Care and Feeding of the Domestic Vampire, a how-to guide so others can have the kind of support I’ve gotten.
Thanks, baby 💋
Did you ever make a simple design that you just 💕? This one is mine. SAFETY PINS! These little doodads are close to my heart in so many ways. #makermonday #redbubble #redbubbleart #theatre #theatrekid #alltheworldsastage #learnyourlines #offbook #theplaysthething #digitalart #digitalillustration #theatrememes #theatrejokes #backtowork #colorsmakemehappy #supportcreatives #breakaleg #gafftape #safetypin #whatsmymotivation #places #line #rehearsal #icantihaverehearsal #stagecrew #castgifts #crewgifts #cue1go #wearingblack https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb8IWhmvluD/?utm_medium=tumblr
Today we celebrate the invisible ninja ghosts that haunt theatres of every size and make magic happen. Yep, it’s #stagecrewsunday ! “You say superstitious like it’s a bad thing,” “Gaff Tape Fixes everything,” And my personal favorite, “Wearing black makes me invisible.” All are printed on black in a subtle dark gray, suitable for many backstage environments (but not all! Consult your friendly neighborhood #stagemanager if unsure) Available on hats, masks, hoodies, and shirts, so you can add some “color” to your wardrobe without, you know, adding color. #redbubble #redbubbleart #theatre #theatrekid #alltheworldsastage #theplaysthething #digitalart #theatrememes #theatrejokes #supportcreatives #breakaleg #gafftape #places #rehearsal #stagecrew #castgifts #crewgifts #cue1go #wearingblack #stageops #stageblacks #backstage #gafftape #superstitious #theatresuperstitions #wardrobe #dresser #quickchange #drama https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb5FGAaub6s/?utm_medium=tumblr
If yesterday’s stickers were a little bit too #gray for your taste, check out this #rainbow version! Even better, this pattern is available on a #makeupbag , #coffeecup , #travelmug , #blankets , and a fun #alinedress , perfect for #openingnight or a #castparty ! Come back tomorrow for more! #redbubble #redbubbleart #theatre #theatrekid #alltheworldsastage #learnyourlines #theplaysthething #digitalart #digitalillustration #theatrememes #theatrejokes #colorsmakemehappy #supportcreatives #breakaleg #gafftape #safetypin #whatsmymotivation #icantihaverehearsal #stagecrew #castgifts #crewgifts https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb2g4fpgzig/?utm_medium=tumblr
Theatre Phrase #stickers ! These sticker sets, in dark grey and available on white or transparent backgrounds in a variety of sizes, make great decorations for water bottles, makeup cases, or notebooks. Use them as cast or crew gifts or keep them all to yourself 😇. Set 1 features tech/crew phrases, set 2 is designed for performers, and set 3 contains both. New work will be appearing in my Redbubble shop all week (link in bio). #redbubble #redbubbleart #theatre #theatrekid #alltheworldsastage #learnyourlines #offbook #theplaysthething #digitalart #digitalillustration #theatrememes #theatrejokes #theatrejokethursday #backtowork #colorsmakemehappy #supportcreatives #breakaleg #gafftape #safetypin #whatsmymotivation #places #line #rehearsal #icantihaverehearsal #stagecrew #castgifts #crewgifts #cue1go #wearingblack https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbzvqw2OQ8k/?utm_medium=tumblr
THE ART GOBLIN IS BACK! Did you miss me 😉? I’m back at work and embracing my theatre kid roots. New work will be appearing in my Redbubble shop all week (link in bio). #redbubble #redbubbleart #theatre #theatrekid #alltheworldsastage #livelaughlove #learnyourlines #offbook #theplaysthething #digitalart #digitalillustration #theatrememes #theatrejokes #theatrejokethursday #backtowork #colorsmakemehappy #supportcreatives https://www.instagram.com/p/CbxlvpnOYUT/?utm_medium=tumblr
The urge to go out tomorrow dressed as Human!Wakko Warner……..incomprehensibly strong.
@empressbergeron how would you feel if I showed up tomorrow dressed as Human!Wakko Warner
@autisticyakkowarner I will always enable you because you enable me in return are valid
it’s so important for your health and well-being to get overly attached to a fictional man who is both deeply amoral and unbelievably, pathetically sad
every star wars alien is so good and then there’s
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yo man you talkin’ smack about max rebo you back off my blue elephant son
HIS WOOKIEPEDIA ARTICLE IS LITERALLY THREE SENTENCES LONG HOW DOES EVERYONE KNOW HIS NAME
Who the fuck is talking shit about Max Rebo????
Renowned jizz musician max rebo???
Renowned jizz musician and, most importantly, not an elephant Max Rebo.
nothing fills my heart with more violence than the sight of a naked wrapping paper roll
this is how Cain killed Abel
reblog to bonk the person you reblogged it from on the head
First look at Cyrano
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I NEED THIS IMMEDIATELY OR I SHALL SURELY PERISH
Y’all.
Y’ALL.
I have officially solved a personal mystery!!!
(No, not #ghosthorse, sadly)
So. I have, for YEARS, had a collection of utterly random movie scenes in my head that I could not for the life of me attribute to a source. (Hereafter referred to as the Mystery Scenes.)
Six of them, to be exact.
Some of them were completely weird, some were slightly disturbing, and all of them, ALL OF THEM, were from something I saw as a little kid that was not, I repeat NOT, appropriate for my age. Sometimes, in hindsight, it was the movie that was inappropriate, sometimes just the scene. And I couldn’t remember jack about what movies these things came from. Drove me NUTS.
And y’all, I’m old, so we’re talking pre-google, by a long shot.
Over the years, and at the expense of a lot of people thinking I’m bonkers, I managed to track down five of them (I will post about those eventually if anyone is interested), including several things a babysitter should have prevented me from seeing (#tragicbackstory, but we’re talking televised violence rather than anything worse), and one MediaMouse children’s movie that my poor mom would have had no idea contained that.
However, the sixth remained elusive.
Like, super elusive. Like… google just went “?!?!” whenever I looked up the particulars of the scene.
… which was strange, considering just how particularly particular the details were.
But y’all…
Last night I found it!!!!!!
So here’s the story. I’m going to tell it in excruciating detail for several reasons:
I’m proud of myself
It’s been OVER FIFTEEN FREAKING YEARS SINCE I SOLVED THE LAST ONE
The amount of effort and the number of lunatic logic leaps I had to take lead me to believe that figuring this mess out was a fluke because :
Google STILL doesn’t bring up the information even though it’s RIGHT THERE and;
I JUST HAPPENED to trip over a vague reference to it somewhere else so;
I’m putting this all out here to hopefully save someone else the brain ache.
And finally: my chagrin appears to entertain people. So you’re welcome.
So here goes.
Lately I have been on a mission to expand my other half’s horizons in terms of horror/thriller/chiller movies. He had not seen Psycho in years and barely remembered it, so we watched it. A+, everything went as planned, he loved it. We started talking about watching more Hitchcock, and he asked if I’d seen Vertigo, and I had a brief bluescreen moment while I tried to remember if I had, because one of the Mystery Scenes I figured out in college was from a Hitchcock but I’d forgotten the name again (turns out it was Spellbound.)
This got me thinking about that one last FREAKIN Mystery Scene, so I decided (masochistically) to try again.
So here’s what I remembered: a blonde burlesque dancer throwing fake snowballs into a crowd as part of her act, followed by a scary/ominous man catching one, sticking a knife into it, and throwing it back at her, where it stabbed her in the chest but no one noticed.
Freaky, huh? And distinctive.
So I googled “movie,” “blonde,” “snowball,” “knife,” “burlesque,” “dancer,” “knife in snowball (and snow ball because I’m thorough),” etc etc etc. NOTHING. Sometimes google would grab one word and give me something (like “burlesque” gave me the Cher movie) but no amount of quotation marks or specificity gave me anything close.
Until:
One random combination brought up a google books entry for a book about spies that mentioned a knife in a fake snowball. JOY! So I looked for a movie by the same name.
Nuthin. Crap.
So I went back to the book… published in 2011. Double crap. This movie was in black and white and I saw it in the 80s.
(Agonized screaming)
But I kept digging. Eventually found the whole passage, and holy buckets, thank you Stuart M. Kaminsky because your book Smart Moves saved my sanity and solved a multi decade mystery (and reassured me that I hadn’t just dreamed up the whole insane scenario.)
Part of the passage in question (partially redacted, go read the book):
HOLY CRAP Y’ALL. I felt SEEN! I have never, NEVER seen anyone else refer to this freaking movie!!!! (And I concur, the scene isn’t funny, I was initially skeptical that it was even the same movie. Like, seriously, Bob Hope?! But I couldn’t accept that there were two movies with a scene like that and no one ever mentioned it. That way lies madness.)
Now, there was an unexpected amount of detective work left to do, apparently there are a surprising number of movies in which Bob Hope gets chased by spies, and none of them felt inclined to mention someone getting stabbed by a knife in a fake snowball. W.T.F.
But now I knew to look for a Bob Hope movie about spies AND had the name of the song. Progress.
FINALLY I found a summary for They Got Me Covered (1943) that listed “Palsy-Walsy” (which sounds like “pal,” as in friend, rather than the rather insensitive thing it looks like written down) on the soundtrack. Which led me to:
https://youtu.be/8hSpJGX7MY8
VICTORY!!!!!!!
It has been DECADES!
So here we are. I am vindicated, and now I understand better why I was allowed to see this (who would think to keep a child from watching a Bob Hope movie on network tv in the 80s?)
I’m not crazy (In this instance).
Apparently my memory is pretty good.
And I’m gonna tag the crap out of this post so that maybe someone else will be spared the pain.
Time to VENT.
This time it will take the form of advice... and a plea.
HEY ACTORS!
Particularly those with playwright friends:
If you are asked to be part of a reading and you can’t, don’t want to, think the play sucks, whatever...
SAY NO.
ESPECIALLY if said playwright has given you an out within the request itself, i.e. “if you have the time, would you be willing...”
Don’t wanna hurt their feelings? Oops, looks like you don’t have the time.
ESPECIALLY ESPECIALLY if you have asked for a copy of the script!!!
I have now had four actors, FOUR, all of them friends or friendly acquaintances, dip and decline to answer. Three did so after expressing some interest, citing a potential lack of time, and asking for a copy of the script.
Does this mean my script sucks? Possibly, even probably. Who knows!? Not me. It could also mean they had no time after all. It could mean they didn’t have the spoons to read the script.
All fair. All reasonable.
But I can’t help but feel that it is supremely UN-reasonable to not come back and say:
“Sorry, I don’t have the time.”
“The script is great, I wish I could but I’m swamped!”
“Something just came up.”
Or, here’s a thought:
“I can’t.”
“No.”
Both are complete sentences.
Instead I’ve been waiting and waiting, worrying, because the next actor I planned to ask might need to be asked to play a different role. Because I may not want to ask a busy actor or a loose acquaintance to participate if I don’t have enough actors to make the reading happen.
And now I think of all of these people differently. Because a timely “No” is far more respectful to me and my work and our relationship than an infinitely delayed maybe. And I will never know if that disrespect was intended, or if this was a misguided attempt to be kind.
So obviously no one who did this will see this message. It’s not THAT kind of vent post. But maybe it will help someone else.
TL;DR:
Actors: Delayed non-responses are not kind.
Playwrights: I’ve been there, and I feel you.