Marissa Skudlarek
@marissaskud.bsky.social
Writes playscripts & computer scripts in English, French, & Python. Proof that there are still artists in San Francisco. She/her.
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When all of this is over we are going to have to collect all of the gold in the world and launch it until the sun
Same with the letters X, Q, and the word Trump
Same with the letters X, Q, and the word Trump
November 30, 2025 at 3:45 AM
When all of this is over we are going to have to collect all of the gold in the world and launch it until the sun
Same with the letters X, Q, and the word Trump
Same with the letters X, Q, and the word Trump
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'Tis (almost) the season for the Met Opera's Saturday radio broadcasts and I just added the 2025-26 selections to the public calendar I made for this. Link below to add this to your own Google calendar #OperaSky calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0...
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November 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM
'Tis (almost) the season for the Met Opera's Saturday radio broadcasts and I just added the 2025-26 selections to the public calendar I made for this. Link below to add this to your own Google calendar #OperaSky calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0...
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As Stoppard wrote, and as I contemplate often: “I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.”
November 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
As Stoppard wrote, and as I contemplate often: “I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.”
Let’s not let this get overlooked: Stoppard basically invented 2 very popular theater subgenres. There’s a direct line of funny riffs on canonical classics descended from “Ros & Guil,” & a direct line of dual-timeline science plays descended from “Arcadia.” So much other work wouldn’t exist w/o him!
November 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Let’s not let this get overlooked: Stoppard basically invented 2 very popular theater subgenres. There’s a direct line of funny riffs on canonical classics descended from “Ros & Guil,” & a direct line of dual-timeline science plays descended from “Arcadia.” So much other work wouldn’t exist w/o him!
The other eerie thing: this piece mentions the Riemann Hypothesis, b/c I wanted something abstruse/nerdy that, to my knowledge, Stoppard *hadn’t* ever mentioned.
Then 4 years later “Leopoldstadt” opened & the Riemann Hypothesis comes up several times in Scene 1.
Could I have…? Now I’ll never know.
Then 4 years later “Leopoldstadt” opened & the Riemann Hypothesis comes up several times in Scene 1.
Could I have…? Now I’ll never know.
whoa, this is a little eerie... it is almost exactly 10 years to the day since The Toast published my "How To Tell If You're In a Tom Stoppard Play" web.archive.org/web/20160323...
How To Tell If You Are In A Tom Stoppard Play - The Toast
Oh, so you feel like playing a game of Questions Only?
web.archive.org
November 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The other eerie thing: this piece mentions the Riemann Hypothesis, b/c I wanted something abstruse/nerdy that, to my knowledge, Stoppard *hadn’t* ever mentioned.
Then 4 years later “Leopoldstadt” opened & the Riemann Hypothesis comes up several times in Scene 1.
Could I have…? Now I’ll never know.
Then 4 years later “Leopoldstadt” opened & the Riemann Hypothesis comes up several times in Scene 1.
Could I have…? Now I’ll never know.
whoa, this is a little eerie... it is almost exactly 10 years to the day since The Toast published my "How To Tell If You're In a Tom Stoppard Play" web.archive.org/web/20160323...
How To Tell If You Are In A Tom Stoppard Play - The Toast
Oh, so you feel like playing a game of Questions Only?
web.archive.org
November 29, 2025 at 5:29 PM
whoa, this is a little eerie... it is almost exactly 10 years to the day since The Toast published my "How To Tell If You're In a Tom Stoppard Play" web.archive.org/web/20160323...
What is it with my favorite 20th-century theater writers dying on Thanksgiving weekend?
(Sorry, I don’t have anything else clever to say, I’m going to go to the coffee shop and read his last play, “Leopoldstadt.”)
(Sorry, I don’t have anything else clever to say, I’m going to go to the coffee shop and read his last play, “Leopoldstadt.”)
November 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
What is it with my favorite 20th-century theater writers dying on Thanksgiving weekend?
(Sorry, I don’t have anything else clever to say, I’m going to go to the coffee shop and read his last play, “Leopoldstadt.”)
(Sorry, I don’t have anything else clever to say, I’m going to go to the coffee shop and read his last play, “Leopoldstadt.”)
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Et, in Arcadia:
We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it...
We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it...
November 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Et, in Arcadia:
We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it...
We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it...
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RIP great genius and legend playwright Sir Tom Stoppard has passed away, aged 88 - will never be forgotten: a huge loss x
November 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
RIP great genius and legend playwright Sir Tom Stoppard has passed away, aged 88 - will never be forgotten: a huge loss x
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across all the variations: the Baum novel, the original film, the Wiz, Wicked (the book), Wicked (the musical), the Great and Terrible, Wicked (the film), Tin Man, the common theme that unites them all is “Americans are especially susceptible to propaganda from conmen and shysters”
One of the things about the Wizard of Oz, and the Oz series in general, is that it's arguably the first big fantasy series heavily steeped in Americana.
one of the core myths of American stories and art. i really enjoyed the documentary “Lynch/Oz” which came out a few years ago, about the ways WoO shows ups in Lynch’s works
November 29, 2025 at 5:07 AM
across all the variations: the Baum novel, the original film, the Wiz, Wicked (the book), Wicked (the musical), the Great and Terrible, Wicked (the film), Tin Man, the common theme that unites them all is “Americans are especially susceptible to propaganda from conmen and shysters”
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It's Sad Shakespeare In Love, why is everybody on either side of the love it/hate it divide so excited
not sure what Gen Z has to do with a 43-year-old’s adaptation of a 52-year-old’s novel—and lest you think it’s just the hed, the piece calls Hamnet “mumblecore Shakespeare, conceived for the TikTok generation,” never mind that mumblecore predates TikTok by like 20 years
November 28, 2025 at 11:28 PM
It's Sad Shakespeare In Love, why is everybody on either side of the love it/hate it divide so excited
big leftover salad time
November 28, 2025 at 10:10 PM
big leftover salad time
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I’ve talked before about how AI represents the inevitable outcome of techbros’ lack of distress tolerance for the messy business of relating to and interacting with other human beings
but I think the logical outcome of having that skill issue humored is becoming unable to relate to yourself, either
but I think the logical outcome of having that skill issue humored is becoming unable to relate to yourself, either
there's "lazy" and there's "not wanting to exist as a person in any meaningful sense" and a lot of sloppers are careening towards the latter category, if not already in it
November 27, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I’ve talked before about how AI represents the inevitable outcome of techbros’ lack of distress tolerance for the messy business of relating to and interacting with other human beings
but I think the logical outcome of having that skill issue humored is becoming unable to relate to yourself, either
but I think the logical outcome of having that skill issue humored is becoming unable to relate to yourself, either
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Patti Warashina, Airstream Turkey, 1969. Earthenware with low-fire glaze and low-fire luster, 9 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. x 19 3/4 in (Seattle Art Museum)
November 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Patti Warashina, Airstream Turkey, 1969. Earthenware with low-fire glaze and low-fire luster, 9 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. x 19 3/4 in (Seattle Art Museum)
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An increasing number of bookstores in Japan are leasing out their shelves to book lovers to allow them to sell the works they want to recommend, fostering communities of such “shelf owners.”
As bookstore numbers decline in Japan, many are leasing out shelves
The shelves are leased out to book lovers to allow them to sell the works they want to recommend, fostering communities of such “shelf owners.”
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November 27, 2025 at 7:27 AM
An increasing number of bookstores in Japan are leasing out their shelves to book lovers to allow them to sell the works they want to recommend, fostering communities of such “shelf owners.”
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I feel like there's a joke in a publication called Telos taking so meandering a path to get to its conclusion
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I feel like there's a joke in a publication called Telos taking so meandering a path to get to its conclusion
I’m going to France over the holidays and I just purchased the last available ticket for “Le Misanthrope” at the Comédie-Française on my last night in Paris
and for this, I paid the princely, top-tier sum of 48€
and for this, I paid the princely, top-tier sum of 48€
November 25, 2025 at 5:11 AM
I’m going to France over the holidays and I just purchased the last available ticket for “Le Misanthrope” at the Comédie-Française on my last night in Paris
and for this, I paid the princely, top-tier sum of 48€
and for this, I paid the princely, top-tier sum of 48€
My parents have complained several times that “younger people aren’t showing up to the weekly Saturday protest” in their wealthy blue-state suburb
they don’t quite realize that housing there is so expensive that there are 1.5x as many residents in their 60s/70s as in their 20s/30s
they don’t quite realize that housing there is so expensive that there are 1.5x as many residents in their 60s/70s as in their 20s/30s
this is not a drag of the writer of this particular piece, which is largely sympathetic, but this line of argument makes me nuts
young people are involved in protest and organizing at several levers of power—but they're not able to show up to photo op street rallies at the same rates as retirees
young people are involved in protest and organizing at several levers of power—but they're not able to show up to photo op street rallies at the same rates as retirees
My @nytimes.com op-ed: The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o... (gift link)
The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
The key point: "The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning."
November 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
My parents have complained several times that “younger people aren’t showing up to the weekly Saturday protest” in their wealthy blue-state suburb
they don’t quite realize that housing there is so expensive that there are 1.5x as many residents in their 60s/70s as in their 20s/30s
they don’t quite realize that housing there is so expensive that there are 1.5x as many residents in their 60s/70s as in their 20s/30s
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Please enjoy this list of ways that the NY Times crossword puzzle has clued the word SEXT, it's my sexy gift to you.
November 24, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Please enjoy this list of ways that the NY Times crossword puzzle has clued the word SEXT, it's my sexy gift to you.
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I'm just a great composer
And not a violent man
But I lost my composure
And I shot Ferdinand
Crying "it's well and kosher
to say you don't understand
but this is for Holland-Dozier-Holland"
His last words were
We don't know anything
His fading words were
We don't know anything
And not a violent man
But I lost my composure
And I shot Ferdinand
Crying "it's well and kosher
to say you don't understand
but this is for Holland-Dozier-Holland"
His last words were
We don't know anything
His fading words were
We don't know anything
November 23, 2025 at 5:22 AM
I'm just a great composer
And not a violent man
But I lost my composure
And I shot Ferdinand
Crying "it's well and kosher
to say you don't understand
but this is for Holland-Dozier-Holland"
His last words were
We don't know anything
His fading words were
We don't know anything
And not a violent man
But I lost my composure
And I shot Ferdinand
Crying "it's well and kosher
to say you don't understand
but this is for Holland-Dozier-Holland"
His last words were
We don't know anything
His fading words were
We don't know anything
my greatest post-pandemic achievement may well be moving to a rent-controlled SF 1BR in February 2024 💅
I think this is mostly San Francisco finally shrugging off the pandemic, but it is *really* funny that rent prices in San Francisco shot up *immediately* after the city banned RealPage and other algorithmic price setting software.
My pre trends are incredible!
My pre trends are incredible!
November 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM
my greatest post-pandemic achievement may well be moving to a rent-controlled SF 1BR in February 2024 💅
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too bad “Hamilton” doesn’t have a song about how ordinary citizens felt when they read the Reynolds Pamphlet
November 22, 2025 at 9:09 AM
too bad “Hamilton” doesn’t have a song about how ordinary citizens felt when they read the Reynolds Pamphlet
too bad “Hamilton” doesn’t have a song about how ordinary citizens felt when they read the Reynolds Pamphlet
November 22, 2025 at 9:09 AM
too bad “Hamilton” doesn’t have a song about how ordinary citizens felt when they read the Reynolds Pamphlet
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They line up perfectly.
November 22, 2025 at 2:32 AM
They line up perfectly.