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09/03/2024

Taco Tuesday at 7 then VERSE ALOUD at 8:45pm if you pleaseee

08/21/2024

Biden is still president and still basically a piece of s**t

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08/21/2024

Welt·schmerz
/ˈveltˌSHmerts/
noun
a feeling of melancholy and world-weariness.

08/15/2024

i forgot to say august 20th imagine a star wars crawl at 8pm The Rat NYC at 68 jay st in brooklyn off the York stop on the F train
ONE
1667. Paradise Lost.
The Verse.
The Measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and Virgil in Latin;
TWO
Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter;
THREE
grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern Poets, carried away by Custom, but much to thir own vexation, hindrance, and constraint to express many things otherwise, and for the most part worse then else they would have exprest them.
FOUR
Not without cause therefore some both Italian, and Spanish Poets of prime note have rejected Rhime both in longer and shorter Works, as have also long since our best English Tragedies, as a thing of itself, to all judicious ears, triveal, and of no true musical delight;
FIVE
which consists onely in apt Numbers, fit quantity of Syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one Verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoyded by the learned Ancients both in Poetry and all good Oratory.
SIX
This neglect then of Rhime so little is to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar Readers, that it rather is to be esteem'd an example set, the first in English, of ancient liberty recover'd to heroic Poem from the troublesom and modern bo***ge of Rimeing.
SEVEN
Book one.
Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit�Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast�Brought Death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of EDEN, till one greater Man�Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,�
ONE
Sing Heav’nly Muse, that on the secret top�Of OREB, or of SINAI, didst inspire�That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed,
In the Beginning how the Heav’ns and Earth�Rose out of CHAOS: �
TWO
Or if SION Hill�Delight thee more, and SILOA’S Brook that flow’d
Fast by the Oracle of God; I thence�Invoke thy aid to my adventrous Song,�That with no middle flight intends to soar�Above th’ AONIAN Mount, while it pursues
Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime.
THREE
And chiefly Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer�Before all Temples th’ upright heart and pure,
Instruct me, for Thou know’st; Thou from the first
Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread
Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss�And mad’st it pregnant:
FOUR
What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support;�That to the highth of this great Argument�I may assert th’ Eternal Providence,�And justifie the wayes of God to men.
FIVE
Say first, for Heav’n hides nothing from thy view
Nor the deep Tract of Hell, say first what cause
Mov’d our Grand Parents in that happy State,
Favour’d of Heav’n so highly, to fall off
From their Creator, and transgress his Will�For one restraint, Lords of the World besides?
Who first seduc’d them to that fowl revolt?�
SIX

Th’ infernal Serpent;
SEVEN STEPS FORWARD AS SATAN
he it was, whose guile
Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv’d�The Mother of Mankinde, what time his Pride
Had cast him out from Heav’n, with all his Host
Of Rebel Angels, by whose aid aspiring�To set himself in Glory above his Peers,�He trusted to have equal’d the most High,
If he oppos’d; and with ambitious aim�Against the Throne and Monarchy of God�Rais’d impious War in Heav’n and Battel proud
With vain attempt.

SEVEN
Him the Almighty Power�Hurld headlong flaming from th’ Ethereal Skie
With hideous ruine and combustion down�To bottomless perdition, there to dwell�In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire,�Who durst defie th’ Omnipotent to Arms.

08/15/2024

Gonna be a blast

Celebrate classics of English poetry with a modern twist!

07/29/2024

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07/08/2024

I am very serious about this poetry s**t 16th and 30th hear WWI and Emily Dickinson ignoring the civil war 8pm at the RatNYC YOU KNOW The Rat NYC

05/23/2024

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Welcome to the Unscripted Shakespeare Festival!!! Get excited to learn improv in a whole new way! Important information about the workshops! All workshops will take place in Midtown Manhattan, Kips Bay. Location info will be emailed to those who sign up. All shows and showcases will take place in th...

05/21/2024

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03/30/2024

Vaccines don’t cause autism! You’re thinking of marching band!!!!!!

03/24/2024

Please be early tonight at The Wild East Brewing Co. to see the premier of Thorn & Petal Stick, a completely improvised Shakespearean company. 6pm! At 5, I’ll be singing two notes at the same time, Jane Austen Bookclub will perform, and at 7 it’s Improvised D&D! Alongside Thorn & Petal Stick at 6, YOU ARE NOT ALONE will perform, a show about depression. So teams of the PIT and The Magnet, FOOD, BREWS and the shows are free

03/17/2024

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03/16/2024

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Sonnet 81 - Shakespeare - Ian McKellen - Self-tape - 4K - He bestowed us with this wonderful gift during the COVID-19 pandemic first lockdown.Read Shakespear...

02/29/2024

I waited for this day

02/26/2024

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02/18/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb0vGxjQy10

The Vancouver Youth Choir, under the direction of Carrie Tennant, performs "Water Fountain" by Merrill Garbus, arranged by Kristopher Fulton.Recorded on Marc...

02/06/2024

Apologies to All the People in Lebanon
BY JUNE JORDAN
Dedicated to the 600,000 Palestinian men, women, and children who lived in Lebanon from 1948-1983.

I didn’t know and nobody told me and what
could I do or say, anyway?

They said you shot the London Ambassador
and when that wasn’t true
they said so
what
They said you shelled their northern villages
and when U.N. forces reported that was not true
because your side of the cease-fire was holding
since more than a year before
they said so
what
They said they wanted simply to carve
a 25 mile buffer zone and then
they ravaged your
water supplies your electricity your
hospitals your schools your highways and byways all
the way north to Beirut because they said this
was their quest for peace
They blew up your homes and demolished the grocery
stores and blocked the Red Cross and took away doctors
to jail and they cluster-bombed girls and boys
whose bodies
swelled purple and black into twice the original size
and tore the buttocks from a four month old baby
and then
they said this was brilliant
military accomplishment and this was done
they said in the name of self-defense they said
that is the noblest concept
of mankind isn’t that obvious?
They said something about never again and then
they made close to one million human beings homeless
in less than three weeks and they killed or maimed
40,000 of your men and your women and your children

But I didn’t know and nobody told me and what
could I do or say, anyway?

They said they were victims. They said you were
Arabs.
They called your apartments and gardens guerrilla
strongholds.
They called the screaming devastation
that they created the rubble.
Then they told you to leave, didn’t they?

Didn’t you read the leaflets that they dropped
from their hotshot fighter jets?
They told you to go.
One hundred and thirty-five thousand
Palestinians in Beirut and why
didn’t you take the hint?
Go!
There was the Mediterranean: You
could walk into the water and stay
there.
What was the problem?

I didn’t know and nobody told me and what
could I do or say, anyway?

Yes, I did know it was the money I earned as a poet that
paid
for the bombs and the planes and the tanks
that they used to massacre your family

But I am not an evil person
The people of my country aren't so bad

You can expect but so much
from those of us who have to pay taxes and watch
American TV

You see my point;

I’m sorry.
I really am sorry.
June Jordan, “Apologies to all the People in Lebanon” from Directed By Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2005). Copyright © 2005 by The June M. Jordan Literary Trust. Used by permission of The June M. Jordan Literary Trust, www.junejordan.com.
Source: The Collected Poems of June Jordan (Copper Canyon Press, 2005)

01/11/2024

Available coach for improv? It is i

12/28/2023

Tom Smothers and John Lennon played acoustic guitar during the live recording of Lennon's 1969 song "Give Peace a Chance".[2]

11/30/2023

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11/30/2023

Does everyone realize I regularly do three hour solo performances

11/15/2023

Rest in peace, you sweet sweet man

The Official Video for Mark's new single "Talk to Yourself," dropping on January 15th.Dir. of Photography: James McGettrickEditing: James McGettrick

11/02/2023

Does keeping everyone posted mean privately contacting people over the course of a month. Does this web even site anymore

10/28/2023

https://www.timeout.com/newyork/theater/the-drunk-texts-thou-wilt-scream

Thy favorite scary movie, oh, what is't? Brooklyn’s Random Access Theatre’s boozy-geeky Drunk Texts series muddles classical texts—or modern ones reimagined a

10/04/2023

08/20/2023

THIS EVENING IN ASTORIA QUEENS.

COMEDY.

08/20/2023

We dare you

I dare you to scan this

08/19/2023

Are y’all excited about that show QED?? Sunday?!