Marissa Skudlarek
@marissaskud.bsky.social
Writes playscripts & computer scripts in English, French, & Python. Proof that there are still artists in San Francisco. She/her.
not enough of you are following the delightful & serendipitous @iambic.bot
November 2, 2025 at 6:04 AM
not enough of you are following the delightful & serendipitous @iambic.bot
I’m at Standard Deviant in the Mission, having a cider and trying to learn my lines for the freewheeling “Much Ado” production I will be acting in here in 10 days! I am playing Don Pedro — the Denzel Washington role, for those of you who remember the Branagh movie.
October 12, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I’m at Standard Deviant in the Mission, having a cider and trying to learn my lines for the freewheeling “Much Ado” production I will be acting in here in 10 days! I am playing Don Pedro — the Denzel Washington role, for those of you who remember the Branagh movie.
Today in Excessively Obvious Metaphors: I just passed by Trump Tower, it is rather chaotic outside because the President is (about to?) pay a visit, and it’s protected from the public by a long line of garbage trucks
September 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Today in Excessively Obvious Metaphors: I just passed by Trump Tower, it is rather chaotic outside because the President is (about to?) pay a visit, and it’s protected from the public by a long line of garbage trucks
I had a similar feeling yesterday at the NYPL exhibition when I saw how the New Yorker‘s landmark “Hiroshima” issue was first presented
September 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I had a similar feeling yesterday at the NYPL exhibition when I saw how the New Yorker‘s landmark “Hiroshima” issue was first presented
Screenshot from my phone just now
September 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Screenshot from my phone just now
Such a lovely wishteria vine we are all collectively growing tonight 🙏
August 30, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Such a lovely wishteria vine we are all collectively growing tonight 🙏
TIL that the French equivalent of "the quick brown fox…" is this sentence about "naïve Lætitia," who, with "a disappointed heart but a joyful soul," goes to "exile herself near the maelstrom"
August 16, 2025 at 11:32 PM
TIL that the French equivalent of "the quick brown fox…" is this sentence about "naïve Lætitia," who, with "a disappointed heart but a joyful soul," goes to "exile herself near the maelstrom"
got an email from a clothing co. advertising their new "Marissa Dress — a modern reinterpretation of 18th century silhouettes" and I can't help feeling they should have called it, like, Eliza or Georgiana instead. No one was named Marissa in the 18th century!
August 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
got an email from a clothing co. advertising their new "Marissa Dress — a modern reinterpretation of 18th century silhouettes" and I can't help feeling they should have called it, like, Eliza or Georgiana instead. No one was named Marissa in the 18th century!
Major props to @bardtheatre.bsky.social for having their online ticketing form pre-populated with fake data that gave me a giggle! This is the kind of stuff I do to amuse myself when I'm testing software & I appreciate the attention to detail here
August 13, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Major props to @bardtheatre.bsky.social for having their online ticketing form pre-populated with fake data that gave me a giggle! This is the kind of stuff I do to amuse myself when I'm testing software & I appreciate the attention to detail here
I saw this post, & then I saw this ARC from a British author I follow on Instagram. Maybe not quite the same b/c only 2 colors, but that distinctive text placement again!
August 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I saw this post, & then I saw this ARC from a British author I follow on Instagram. Maybe not quite the same b/c only 2 colors, but that distinctive text placement again!
I strongly suspect the painting on the left behind Bilal is by Yukari Sakura, the local disabled artist who did the poster for my (pandemic-cancelled) “Cyrano”!
July 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I strongly suspect the painting on the left behind Bilal is by Yukari Sakura, the local disabled artist who did the poster for my (pandemic-cancelled) “Cyrano”!
Successful li’l West Coast Tony Awards party feat. my “Operation Mincemeat” turkey meatballs, “Oh, Cherry!” clafoutis, and Audra McDonald crop top
June 9, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Successful li’l West Coast Tony Awards party feat. my “Operation Mincemeat” turkey meatballs, “Oh, Cherry!” clafoutis, and Audra McDonald crop top
this is the best San Francisco street sign prank since someone changed all the Bush St signs to Obama St on Inauguration Day 2009
May 24, 2025 at 2:20 AM
this is the best San Francisco street sign prank since someone changed all the Bush St signs to Obama St on Inauguration Day 2009
so the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is ideal reading before going on a wine-tasting excursion in Uncertain Times
May 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM
so the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is ideal reading before going on a wine-tasting excursion in Uncertain Times
Stand with Duo the Owl, not Hedwig the Owl
April 2, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Stand with Duo the Owl, not Hedwig the Owl
Peter Sarsgaard has the ideal look for ‘80s Steve!
March 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Peter Sarsgaard has the ideal look for ‘80s Steve!
Merry Sondheimas Eve to me ($3.50 at Goodwill today, the gods of the theater smile on us)
March 22, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Merry Sondheimas Eve to me ($3.50 at Goodwill today, the gods of the theater smile on us)
hello, yes, last month I picked up my knitting needles for the first time in almost 2 decades
March 17, 2025 at 1:42 AM
hello, yes, last month I picked up my knitting needles for the first time in almost 2 decades
now that yesterday's Connections is not a spoiler I can use it as an excuse to share my favorite little-known Sondheim lore.
Challenged to rhyme the word 'silver,' he came up with:
"To find a rhyme for 'silver'
Or any 'rhymeless' rhyme
Requires only will, ver-
Bosity and time"
Challenged to rhyme the word 'silver,' he came up with:
"To find a rhyme for 'silver'
Or any 'rhymeless' rhyme
Requires only will, ver-
Bosity and time"
March 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
now that yesterday's Connections is not a spoiler I can use it as an excuse to share my favorite little-known Sondheim lore.
Challenged to rhyme the word 'silver,' he came up with:
"To find a rhyme for 'silver'
Or any 'rhymeless' rhyme
Requires only will, ver-
Bosity and time"
Challenged to rhyme the word 'silver,' he came up with:
"To find a rhyme for 'silver'
Or any 'rhymeless' rhyme
Requires only will, ver-
Bosity and time"
@isaacbutler.bsky.social it's not quite as cool as making it into a Super Bowl commercial but the Method was a LearnedLeague question yesterday (with an unusually high 95% get rate!)
February 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
@isaacbutler.bsky.social it's not quite as cool as making it into a Super Bowl commercial but the Method was a LearnedLeague question yesterday (with an unusually high 95% get rate!)
I’ve been reading Christopher Isherwood’s “Berlin Stories” and was astonished to see him draw a connection between pro-wrestling kayfabe and fascism, all the way back in the 30s
“The political moral is certainly depressing; these people could be made to believe in anybody or anything.”
“The political moral is certainly depressing; these people could be made to believe in anybody or anything.”
January 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I’ve been reading Christopher Isherwood’s “Berlin Stories” and was astonished to see him draw a connection between pro-wrestling kayfabe and fascism, all the way back in the 30s
“The political moral is certainly depressing; these people could be made to believe in anybody or anything.”
“The political moral is certainly depressing; these people could be made to believe in anybody or anything.”
Oh my God, someone graffitied CZOLGOSZ on the William McKinley Monument in Golden Gate Park
(now that I think about it, I guess Czolgosz was the Luigi of his day?)
(now that I think about it, I guess Czolgosz was the Luigi of his day?)
January 15, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Oh my God, someone graffitied CZOLGOSZ on the William McKinley Monument in Golden Gate Park
(now that I think about it, I guess Czolgosz was the Luigi of his day?)
(now that I think about it, I guess Czolgosz was the Luigi of his day?)
“We live in Berlin. It’s 1932. I feel relatively safe.”
FREE staged reading of “A Bright Room Called Day,” by Tony Kushner
Madrone Art Bar (500 Divisadero, SF)
6 PM, Wed Jan 22
Collecting donations for Lambda Legal
www.eventbrite.com/e/a-bright-r...
FREE staged reading of “A Bright Room Called Day,” by Tony Kushner
Madrone Art Bar (500 Divisadero, SF)
6 PM, Wed Jan 22
Collecting donations for Lambda Legal
www.eventbrite.com/e/a-bright-r...
January 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
“We live in Berlin. It’s 1932. I feel relatively safe.”
FREE staged reading of “A Bright Room Called Day,” by Tony Kushner
Madrone Art Bar (500 Divisadero, SF)
6 PM, Wed Jan 22
Collecting donations for Lambda Legal
www.eventbrite.com/e/a-bright-r...
FREE staged reading of “A Bright Room Called Day,” by Tony Kushner
Madrone Art Bar (500 Divisadero, SF)
6 PM, Wed Jan 22
Collecting donations for Lambda Legal
www.eventbrite.com/e/a-bright-r...