Klarion, trying to be menacing: If you keep getting in my way, I'm going to dig your grave.
Danny, blushing slightly; touched flattered and surprised: A grave...? For me? You- you'd give me a grave?
Klarion, confused but still trying to threaten: Yes...?
Danny, tearing up: No one's ever given me a grave before. *Sniffle* Thank you, I'm so honored
Klarion, thoroughly confused and concerned: ...what.
Got the idea from this amazing thing, but wanted to focus on the digging your grave bit more bc it's hilarious
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HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY @twiafom!!! I’M SO VERY HAPPY WE’RE FRIENDS!!
Everyone meet the character lineup of their original project “Transversal”!!! From left to right, we have Arc, Laur, Rita, and Cell!! I’m so so stoked for the story already!!
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Sometimes when a text is super open to interpretation and multiple contradictory readings that’s a sign of complexity and nuance and sometimes it’s because the writing was incoherent and kind of sucked
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I totally didn't just hit 100 followers and make a dtiys on my pinned post.
You should def not reblog it
And instead you should ask me
"Will you marry me"
Once again.
YOOOOO CONGRATULATIONS DUDE!! 💥🎉🎉🎉🎉
also but like……..
what if i did BOTH? ;)))))))
so.
WILL you marry me? :) 🫴✨💍
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Ever follow a tag through your old posts and realize that you reblogged something several times, managing to forget about it each time? Maybe making the same joke or comment each time? Yeahhhh, that's not a great feeling.
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The Algonquin Round Table Onstage
One hundred years ago today, on April 30, 1922, members of the Algonquin Round Table rented the 49th Street Theater for the evening and invited their friends to a satirical revue called No Siree. Its name was a takeoff on that of an immensely popular revue called La Chauve-Souris. Each performer chose his or her guests, ensuring an enthusiastic audience.
Heywood Broun was the MC. The first number was a parody of Eugene O’Neill’s plays Anna Christie and The Hairy Ape called The Greasy Hag (music by Arthur Samuels, played by Jascha Heifetz, no less). It featured an all-male chorus line of F.P.A. (Franklin P. Adams), Robert Benchley, Marc Connelly, George S. Kaufman, John Peter Toohey (a theatrical press agent), and Alexander Woollcott. The setting was up to the audience, multiple choice:
According to Connelly, the sketch included “a line so full of swear words that no one would quote it in mixed company” (the Twenties weren’t that far off from the Victorian Age).
The next number was He Who Gets Flapped, a not-so-subtle play on the title of a current drama called He Who Gets Slapped. It featured an original song by Dorothy Parker and Deems Taylor, “The Everlastin’ Ingenue Blues,” which included the lines
We are little flappers, never growing up,
And we’ve all of us been flapping since Belasco was a pup.
We’ve got the blues, we mean the blues,
You’re the first to hear the devastating news.
We’d like to take a crack at playing Lady Macbeth,
But we’ll whisper girlish nothings with our dying breath.
As far as we’re concerned, there is no sting in death
We’ve got those everlasting ingénue blues.
It was sung by the 6’8” Robert Sherwood, in white flannels, blazer, and bowler, surrounded by petite chorus girls who included Tallulah Bankhead, Helen Hayes, Ruth Gillmore, Lenore Ulric, and Mary Brandon (whom Sherwood married later that year).
Above: Dorothy Parker in 1924 and Robert Sherwood in 1928.
Robert Benchley delivered a monologue (which was left off the program, to surprise the audience) that he had thought up in the cab on the way to the theater: a rambling, disjointed report delivered by an ill-prepared company treasurer at a meeting of the board of directors. It was so big a hit that it was filmed six years later, thus beginning a new career for Benchley in Hollywood. It was included, in modified form, in the 1943 film The Sky’s the Limit:
Other highlights of the program included a spoof of popular playwrights Zoe Akins, called “Zowie, or the Curse of an Akins Heart,” and A.A. Milne, called “Mr. Whim Passes By.” After the show, cast and audience (i.e., their friends) went to a party at the home of Herbert Swope, the editor of the NY World (newspaper), who often played poker with members of the Round Table. It lasted till 4:00 a.m.
A review in the Times the next day called the show silly and amateurish, but a later critic theorized that it marked a turning point in the Vicious Circle, ending their apprenticeship phase and moving into more serious comedy.
Photos: Painting of the Algonquin Round Table by Milton Yarensky via the Great Neck Record; Dorothy Parker by Vandamm via NYPL; Robert Sherwood by Vandamm via Wikipedia; program from Ashcroft & Moore Auctions
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