Mr Verloc
Secret Agent
(Playwright, Allegedly)
- woman who hates the Beatles is excited about her new tamagotchi & her Zoom picture is an AI seal inserted into Munch's The Scream
- 'my tamagotchi had a baby with the tamagotchi in the kiosk' well gee I guess I'll die
- Two year old on the zoom call for the last five minutes, will to live approximately at 'World War I poetry' level
- I am doing slightly better at my job & have bought myself some time. How much, we'll see. But my boss has just been talking about Michelle Obama's sleep routine from Amy Poehler's podcast, so who really won here?
- Dramaturg calling a five-hour (!!) play by a young writer 'the definitive play of its generation' while pointing out that it's a product of their oh-so-helpful workshop system is a bad fucking look, & something that the theatre's founder (he haunts the building, I'm serious) will not take lightly
- My job is full of indignities but this morning I discovered I work with a 'Haha the Beatles were never good' person and a 'Ringo never did anything' person
- we're into the morning meeting talking about Love is Blind & The Bachelor - the longer this goes on the more drunk I am going to get with my brother later, pray for me
- Kafka hated his job with white hot fury but I haven't written The Trial, so
- You know what's funny & ironic? Saying 'Happy Monday!' because it's not really happy, is it? Hahahahah yeah I'm sure that'll put a smile on their f
- Boss discussing her robot vacuum as a family member. The only time I've ever wanted a drink this early in the morning was on holiday in the Caribbean...
- Been told that per HR I have about a month at this job. One boss was sympathetic. They can see I work hard. 'You're an artist. Artists don't think like this.' I need the money but if I lose the job it will be worth not having the same grinning dolt purr 'Good mooooooorn-inggg!' on zoom every day..
- One reason why I live in horror of my job - an awful lot of it is clear use of the English language, yet I work with people who have a 'cute' little running joke about how they can't believe the plural of mouse is mice not meese
- The son of a bitch is imitating me looking at this Zoom call
- Fourth Harry Potter joke of the morning
- - These are my friends and colleagues - Oh, your cohort - My friends and coll-- - Your cohort? - No, my fri - - What are these words? I only know 'cohort'
- The total incompetence of so-called efficiency experts at my job is allowing me to listen to the end of this baseball game in peace
- The Skilling family is so interesting. One brother is all HEY GUYS THE WEATHER IS SO COOL & IMPORTANT, LET ME TELL YA - the uncle you drink Chicago Handshakes with - while the other is a supervillain
- Always had sympathy for kids going to school on Zoom but now I have to spend several months learning something on it & I want to swallow gold leaf. The trainer talks like a minor Tennessee Williams heroine though, at least there's that.
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- When Nixon moved back to New York in 1978 he found he didn't like it - among other things he was disturbed by kids (girls, even!) smoking weed at the school across from his house. So he did the sensible thing & MOVED TO JERSEY
- Let's turn it around. I don't understand living in a cabin in the woods. It frightens me. I don't understand seeing your neighbors once a week at church. Isolation is sick. Subdivisions destroy mind, body, & soul. I'd rather eat baked beans on toast than go to Applebee's. The tanks roll in an hour.
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- True of any scene. The Haight was a nightmare after 1966. The Village, too. People talk about Brooklyn in 2002 like it was some paradise... 🙄
- I was thinking of music/hippies but the Village had a longer run in the broad sense.. Joe Cino opened his Caffe in 1958
- I've had a bunch of jobs & do my best to get on with everybody. I've never really had a problem. But of the many ways I'm not really suited for respectable work, one of them is that I'm revolted by people saying 'Starbies.'
- Every 20-30 years a generation discovers this stuff & thinks they invented it - it's almost always done badly & leaves the audience feeling empty/assaulted. See countless plays written in the 1990s, including ones by me
- It took me 15 years' more work to learn how to do this stuff well, & then only once, and it's still more in the audience's head than anything else
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- Doing a play in a college training program that's been done 900 times in the regional theatre - was just done in NY, again - and therefore will be done ad nauseam - again - is dereliction of duty. It's the equivalent of cutting the humanities for STEM.
- Your students will probably never get to do Sheridan, Wilde, Titus Andronicus, Threepenny Opera, or Peer Gynt. They will absolutely go up for [middlebrow garbage]
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