Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

The willow is too close to the house.

We still have time to mess this up!

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

We will not go back.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Their shamelessness is their super power.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

Our messy unity will be our strength.

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

You cannot shame the shameless.

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Two fun opportunities for a bit of Christmas magic!

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Ruemara’s Zoom Reading of Gift of the Magi (and more) at 6pm ET Today

Today I’ll be performing an African folktale, & O. Henry’s Gift of the Magi, at about 6 pm ET.

If anyone is interested, feel free to shoot me an email for the zoom reading link. Just doing something fun for people who don’t get to witness a table read.

Next year, I’ll be starting a table read workshop (The Rising Workshop) focused on giving under-represented minority writers a chance to have their works read/performed. We’ll see how it goes, I’m not exactly a very important person. We’ve nearly made it to the end of 2020. That’s not a bad thing.

Christmas Eve reading at about 6 pm ET.
Email ruemara or me for a link.
(Her address is just like mine, only ruemara instead of watergirl.)

I had to ask Rue if she has a fundraising link, in case anyone is so inclined.  She does!  Any donations will go to fund the table read workshop she mentions above.  Donations welcome but not required.

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Miss Bianca’s Christmas Play with a Modern Twist tonight at 10 pm ET and tomorrow 8 ET

Letting you know, in case you find yourselves with an odd hour to kill, that my theater, The Westcliffe Center for the Performing Arts, just did a radio production of “The Business of Good Government: A Christmas Play”, by John Arden – a Nativity/Epiphany Play, but with a modern twist – will be airing tomorrow night, Christmas Eve, at 10 pm ET, and Christmas Day, 8 pm ET, on our local community radio station, KLZR-FM – you can stream it here: https://klzr.org/

It’s rough-cut, not polished – we basically knocked it out in a couple days, in the theater, all masked up and with socially-distanced microphones scattered around the stage. Some stuff got cut that I wanted to keep, and some stuff I wanted to cut, got left in. You can hear pages rustling and footsteps and hum from the room. The sound quality differs depending what day we were on.

In short, it sounds like…a community theater doing a Nativity play. On the radio. : ) But it’s got heart. Like Arden would have wanted, I think. We threw it together for KLZR, but also for ourselves – we hadn’t seen each other or tried to do anything for almost a year. I’m sure you can understand.

Christmas Eve performance time is 10 pm EST
Christmas Day performance time is 8 pm EST

I asked Miss Bianca about a fundraising link, too.  Donations welcome but not required.

OPEN THREAD.

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41Comments

  1. 1.

    Alison Rose

    Huzzah for technology!

    OT: What’s the origin story of “jackals” as referring to BJ commentariat? I checked the lexicon and it’s not there, and I don’t recall when I first started seeing it used here.

  5. 5.

    WaterGirl

    @Baud: Yes, that change happened last year at the request of a jackal, who had a good reason, and Cole approved, and so we had the official dropping of “vicious” from the phrase.

    Since you googled, who called us that?

  9. 9.

    Miss Bianca

    Hi, folks! Merry Christmas! Thanks for the notice, WG! I will try to zoom into Ruemara’s reading, if I have the time – I joined a Zoom reading of A Christmas Carol with a lot of my old theater buddies last night, some of whom I hadn’t laid eyes on since leaving Chicago 20-*mumble* years ago. It was an oddly moving experience. Couldn’t believe how many of them said they had never read it before! : )

  13. 13.

    Scuffletuffle

    Into hour number 4 of waiting in a parking lot for a covid test…3 positive coworkers diagnosed this week.

     

    Best healthcare in the world….if you are a Trump or his minion…fuck the rest of us.

  15. 15.

    laura

    I’m not exactly a very important person.

    Au Contraire Ruemara- you are exactly a very important person just as you are. I’m so glad you were willing to take a chance on the rest of us and join in as a citizen (you too Schrodinger’s Cat). Your posts are a treat – cooking, cats, commentary, career – an interesting life examined. I think you are important.

  18. 18.

    jeffreyw

    @WaterGirl:

    It was requested by a commenter who raises jackals as pets and is disturbed that they are just misunderstood and are getting an undeserved bad rap and anyway they haven’t eaten any babies so far?

  23. 23.

    Royston Vasey

    Good Morning and a Merry Christmas to all the Jackals,

    It’s Christmas Day morning, just gone 7am, here in New Zealand. Hope you all have a great Christmas!

    All the best,

    RV in NZ

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    Feathers

    Got a text from my sister yesterday as to if I had a preference for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day for the family Zoom get together.  Told her had no preference, whatever worked for everyone else. Just checked my email and it was at 10:30 this morning. Fuck my life.

  27. 27.

    Royston Vasey

    @WaterGirl: Yes I have. Most cool to see NZ on here. *beams*

    I have been thinking of writing and submitting an On The Road myself, probably in the new year.

    RV in NZ

  31. 31.

    WaterGirl

    @Feathers: Well, that sucks.  I think of Christmas Eve as evening, not 10:30 in the fucking morning.

    Note to self: don’t be so agreeable next time.  :-)

    edit: they couldn’t TEXT you the time???

  33. 33.

    Kattails

    Looking for Mazedancer–I know it’s Christmas eve, but i did manage to get a few postcards printed in town on Wednesday and sent in a request for names, I saw that the mailing deadline is Saturday. I’m rarely in town at this  point and a friend actually gave me some $$ toward the printing. Have not seen anything come through.  I figure I’m stuck at home and could bang out 25 or 30 & get them in Saturday morning’s mail.  Last Minute Lizzie here but the tpresent I decided to do for my sister is a lot more complicated than I’d figured.  It’ll be worth it but schedule is blown to hell.

    Also can’t remember which front pager wanted to see pics of the Christmas quilt I mentioned in a thread several days ago.  TaMara? AL?  WaterGirl? Took a few pics before I mailed it.

  34. 34.

    Scuffletuffle

    @WaterGirl: when I think about how quick and easy it is for my “betters” yes, it is very frustrating. Finally got in sometime in the sixth hour.

  36. 36.

    WaterGirl

    @Kattails: I’ll email MazeDancer and see if she can pop into the thread for you.

    edit: I put up the bat signal for MazeDancer, so if she doesn’t show up right away, maybe check back to this thread later?

  38. 38.

    MazeDancer

    @Kattails:

    You should have your addresses.

    Checked before I went out at noon, but your email hadn’t yet arrived.

    Got WaterGirl’s message, so you’re should be good to go now. Thanks for writing for GA!

  40. 40.

    Miss Bianca

    Oh! And one thing I forgot to mention to WaterGirl is that if, like me, you just can’t get enough of A Christmas Carol at this time of year, that KLZR https://klzr.org/ will be broadcasting an Orson Welles reading of it before the airing of the radio play. 7 pm MST, 9 pm EST.

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