Everyone else is posting about Pokémon Go, so I decided I would to in order to stay relevant. Jumping on the bandwagon with blatant pandering comic will get me views, right?
Does this make me one of the cool kids? Let me know in the comments.
Surely you’ve seen ’em around by now: “quizzes”. I put the word “quiz” in quotes because by any real definition of the word, that’s not what they are at all. You don’t answer any questions, you don’t make any choices. You simply click a few buttons, and it tells you something about yourself.
But let’s ignore the formal definition of a quiz, and look more closely into what’s actually happening. If you’re not answering any questions, how can these sites possibly know which breakfast cereal you are, or what year you should have been born in, or whatever they claim to be telling you?
Our Town is an American classic. It’s been produced a metric bazillion times by… I dunno, like a few hundred theaters? It’s also one of the most misunderstood shows by directors and producers.
Not too long ago, I was cast in a local production of Our Town. This play serves one simple purpose: to show an audience a picture of life, from start to finish. We see in it joy and sorrow, the exciting and the mundane, and everything big, small, and in between. What makes it unique and special is that its author, Thornton Wilder, intentionally forwent many of the staples of theater to create this picture. And that’s really where so many productions of this show get it wrong. They try to shoehorn the script into a more traditional style of theater, and in doing so trample all over what makes it such a brilliant show.
I’ll explain how, but I warn you, there are spoilers ahead (Yes, I’m giving you a spoiler warning for a 78-year-old story. What are you gonna do about it?):
I didn’t have enough room for them all, but this should be enough letters to get by. Use as many as you need. You can even reuse letters for words like “publishing” that have two “I”s in them.
I’m running out of patience for the crap I find on YouTube.
My buddy Kawa (link NSFW) has this constructed language, Felinese, he’s been working on since… uh, a long time. Recently, he asked me to record a line of the Pokémon theme in his language, to be used along with a bunch of other conlangs for this mashup. Pretty cool, yeah?
Wikipedia defines lateral thinking as “If everyone reading this right now gave $3, our fundraiser would be done within an hour.”
Wikipedia defines lateral thinking as “solving problems through an indirect and creative approach, using reasoning that is not immediately obvious and involving ideas that may not be obtainable by using only traditional step-by-step logic.” That’s interesting enough in and of itself, but I propose an antonym to the term: “illateral thinking”.
I might be single now, but I won’t be forever. I’m going to get married, and I’m going to have a kid just like this.