December 2011
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6h057:
When you’re a snarky ass hole, sincerity is your weapon.
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“I am converting religions to whichever one doesn’t believe in The Nutcracker.”
– (via westsidetheaterfestival)
“And when you’re consoled (everyone eventually is consoled), you’ll be glad...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince (via liquidnight)
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“Whoever that girl on com is, I am pissin’ her off sumthin’ fierce”
– company manager / stage manager / head teacher / lead performer (via westsidetheaterfestival)
2011 can go fuck itself
HIGH FUCKING FIVE TO THAT.
Rodescent →
Well, I know one tumblr that will enjoy this, so here you go! Hilarity.
“Consider what it was in them that you valued and cultivate those qualities in...”
– Bill T. Jones was asked in an interview, “How do you cope with the loss of those whom you love?” (via turtalia) (via ismycopilot)
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“I don’t know any more. I used to know, but I lost the knowledge a long time ago....”
– J.D. Salinger, “A Girl I Knew” (via liquidnight)
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Things no one tells you.
It is possible to live in the same house for 30+ years and not know where the extension cords are kept and when the person who does know is no longer there you are going to come home, realize your mother’s idea of “efficient” is to have to lay on her stomach under the Christmas tree in order to plug in the lights, and then you are going to spend a really ridiculous amount of time...
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howmanyareinspace:
All on the International Space Station.
(Watch today’s docking video)
Thank you, most useful website on the Internet.
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“Do you know anything about booms for what shall hence-forth be referred to as...”
– -things Benjamin says. (via westsidetheaterfestival)
Good luck saying anything I will think is funnier today.
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Things no one tells you.
You’re going to forget. Twelve times a day you are going to forget and you are going to think things like “He’ll think this is funny I should call —- (get punched in stomach by reality)”. Or “Oh seed catalogs are starting to come, I wonder if he got them yet — SERIOUSLY STOP DOING THAT” or “In 2 days I will be at home for Christmas hanging...
“One of these shortcuts is a belief that theatre – especially political theatre –...”
– Easy way out: why it’s weak to walk out on theatre | Stage | guardian.co.uk (via slavin)
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“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated (via liquidnight)
Everything is punching me in the stomach today.
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via mypeanutgallery)
well that’s the problem, isn’t it?
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Things no one tells you.
When I started drinking coffee I always drank it the way my dad did - plain. I was unaware there were other options; we were the only coffee drinkers in the house. Eventually, much later, I started putting milk in it and one day I was home and started putting milk in my coffee and heard “what are you doing?!” I think he was disappointed. He very quietly does not approve of stuff in...
résumé?
Okay for real, doesn’t Word have like a resume layout or something so I don’t have to make this shit up?
I have zero office skills. zero. (see also zero patience for them)
Why yes, I am making a resume for the first time in, oh, 12 or so years. Stagehands: not so much with the needing of these things. Until you have to apply for the job you already have because they’re...
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Things no one tells you.
You’re going to have problems with tense. You will amaze yourself with the ways you can find to avoid saying the word “was”.