Marissa Skudlarek

@marissaskud.bsky.social

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Writes playscripts & computer scripts in English, French, & Python. Proof that there are still artists in San Francisco. She/her.

Screenshot of a tweet: Marissa Skudlarek @MarissaSkud you may find it strange that my book club went from reading THE ODYSSEY to THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY but, I mean, they're both about crafty, amoral schemers on the shores of the Mediterranean, they're basically the same thing. 10:55 AM • Jun 18, 2018
Cover of “Death and the Penguin,” by Andrey Kurkov (I know Ukrainian is not Russian but I couldn’t resist the joke!)
A beautiful sunset viewed from a roof in Haight Ashbury, looking northwest. Deep purple and coral-pink clouds in the upper sky. The horizon is cloudless and a bright light blue and yellow. Towers of St Ignatius Church silhouetted on the horizon.
A TV showing a Jeopardy! question: “THIS JESTERMAXXED OPERA FIRST PERFORMED IN VENICE IN 1851 WAS BASED ON THE PLAY "LE ROI S'AMUSE", ROUGHLY "THE KING HAS FUN"”
Black and white photo of a production of “Tosca” starring Leontyne Price. A woman in a Regency gown holds a dagger and stands over a fallen man in a white wig, who she has just stabbed.
A dinner plate with polenta, broccolini, and a chicken sausage, and a glass of red wine
Arthur fist meme
YOUR CLOSEST NEIGHBORHOOD The Episcopal Church (TEC) founded 1789 • national, urban-leaning MAINLINE ANGLICAN • INCLUSIVE ORTHODOXY'S AMERICAN HOME Your taste lives in the tradition that has become, more than any other in America, the home of inclusive orthodoxy: ancient liturgy, sacramental theology, openly LGBTQ+ clergy and laity, a strong literary culture, smaller but stable.
New Yorker cartoon by Tom Toro. In the foreground: a bird and a squirrel perched on a tree branch. In the background: people watching a theater performance in an outdoor theater. The bird says to the squirrel (caption): "Just when you're about to lose faith in humanity, you see Shakespeare in the Park."
A white woman in her late 20s, wearing a dark green short sleeved dress and an artisan jewelry necklace with 4 rows of large green and gold beads
An 1890s photograph of Lika Mizinova and Anton Chekhov on a bench in a meadow. She turns her head to look at him adoringly; he looks at the camera. Taken from https://chekhov-levitan.com/2017/05/12/sweet-lika/
Rachel Zegler at the Met Gala, in a white corseted gown and a white chiffon blindfold
An early 19th century charcoal portrait of a boy of about 13 with fine, light blonde hair in a side-parted bob, who bears a remarkable resemblance to the young Taylor Swift
Tweet by @mattdpearce on 5 July 2017 that reads “Hobby Lobby’s robby hobby: Hammurabi”
A table laid out with a row of overlapping black binders. On the front of each binder it says “Page to Stage: When You’re the King, They Let You Do It.”
Cover of “The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit” by Beatrix Potter
Excerpt of AI-generated slop text with a "Cyrano de Bergerac" theme from a sports betting website. "Today’s actors face new challenges. They wonder if new tech beats old makeup. But nothing beats the feeling of wearing a heavy nose. Prosthetic Nose Realities The nose in Cyrano is a big challenge: Era Nose Material Biggest Challenge 1897 Stage Wax/Leather Projection through face armor 2020s Screen 3D-Printed Silicone CGI integration Method Actor Permanent Glue Forgetting it’s removable Coquelin’s actors had strong jaws from speaking with a nose. Today, actors might prefer CGI. But do they lose something real?"
A 1930s logo for the SF Public Library, pasted into a book to hold the checkout record card. The logo is a round medallion depicting a book and a phoenix rising up out of flames. A banner reads “Vita sine literis mors est” (Life without letters is death”)
Notes and Comment THOUGH it's not quite time for it, we can hear in our inner ear the savage and beautiful noise the town makes at midnight of December 31st. This roar is inaudible if you're in a noisy room yourself. To hear it you have to get to a window, or out on a roof, or in the streets somewhere not too near the core in Times Square. In all life there is no sound like it-the orectic cry of millions of partially lost souls, grown a year older hating death. A great common sound, full of all the wild wants that lie between a drunken kiss and a child's prayer.
6 headshots of Comédie Française actors. 5 of the photos were clearly taken by the troupe’s official photographer; they use soft golden lighting and the actors have bare shoulders, no visible clothing. Then on the upper right is a harshly lit photo of a woman in a bright blue plaid shirt.
Headshots of 6 Comédie Française actors, 3 men & 3 women, appearing to range in age from about 40 to 70. All have bare shoulders and appear to be shirtless.
"Sickos Guy" cartoon from The Onion
A mannequin wearing a long white sleeveless dress with a coral midriff and a large lobster painted on the front of the skirt, plus a close-up of the lobster painting
A big plate of salad featuring roasted turkey breast, roasted squash, pomegranate seeds, goat cheese, pepitas, and a brown vinaigrette dressing on a bed of spinach. Recipe is the Smitten Kitchen Fall Bliss Salad
Spotify screenshot showing the last 5 songs of Act One of “Sweeney Todd” Kiss Me Stephen Sondheim, Sarah Rice, Victor Garber Ladies in Their Sensitivities Stephen Sondheim, Edmund Lyndeck, Jack Eric… Pretty Women Stephen Sondheim, Len Cariou, Victor Garber, Edmund… Epiphany Stephen Sondheim, Len Cariou, Angela Lansbury... A Little Priest Stephen Sondheim, Len Cariou, Angela Lansbury...
Reposted by iambic.bot Darren@darrenjones.bsky.social • 1h Just fucking brutal. Nothing else to say. Reposted by iambic.bot Jonathan Ruggiero @jonathanruggie... • 1h It ended on a fucking double play...
A Pop Art style theater poster, showing one woman whispering in another woman’s ear. Text on the poster reads BAY AREA BAR SHAKES PRESENTS No DIRECTOR. ONE REHEARSAL. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING IN TIME THE SAVAGE BULL DOTH BEAR THE YOKE. TUESDAY 10/21 6 PM STANDARD DEVIANT BREWING 280 14™ ST SAN FRANCISCO
Looking south on 5th Ave from 57th St. A long line of garbage trucks serve as a barricade in front of Trump Tower.
An August 1946 issue of The New Yorker. The cover has a whimsical illustration of people having summer fun in a park. Around the cover is a white paper band printed with the words “Hiroshima - This entire issue is devoted to the story of how an atomic bomb destroyed a city.”
To help you diagnose the problem
A very large wisteria vine covered in purple flowers
A passage used to demonstrate French handwriting, containing all the letters of the French language including accents. French passage: Quittant le wharf de l'île de Croÿ, le cœur déçu mais l'âme en joie, son fez brûlé sur la tête, la plutôt naïve Lætitia crapaüta en canoë au delà des Kerguelen, pour s'exiler où? Près du mälström! Translation: Leaving the wharf on Croÿ Island, with a disappointed heart but joyful soul, her fez burning on her head, the rather naïve Lætitia explored in a canoe beyond the Kerguelens, to exile herself where? Near the maelstrom!
A young woman is browsing in a bookstore, wearing a long cotton calico dress with a square neck and trumpet sleeves.
Screenshot of an online order form for a theater ticketing site, pre-populated with data that includes Name: Harold Hill Address: 76 Trombone Avenue, River City Email: harold@garyconservatory.com
Cover of the ARC for “In Love with Love” by Ella Risbridger. Notably, the words IN LOVE run across the top of the cover and WITH LOVE along the right edge, turned 90 degrees. The cover has red text on a pink background & an illustration of two lobsters reaching out for each other.
A framed, brightly colored painting depicting two playing cards on a blue background. The top card depicts a large, red heart pierced by an arrow. The bottom card depicts a large nose. Original artwork by Yukari Sakura, intended as poster art for “Cyrano” at Cutting Ball in San Francisco in spring 2020.
a still from the "Word Crimes" music video: silver balloons spelling out 'WEIRD AL' YANKOVIC HAS A BIG DICTIONARY
Atop a stove: 2 baking sheets full of turkey meatballs, and a pot of red sauce
A street sign in downtown San Francisco, which usually reads NEW MONTGOMERY ST, has been modified by a prankster to read NEW NEW MONTGOMERY FINAL
Verse 7 from the Rubaiyat: VII COME, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring The Winter Garment of Repentance fling : The Bird of Time has but a little way To fly—and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.
A screenshot of a German Duolingo exercise, which reads: Magst du die Bücher mit Harry Potter als Figur? Ja, aber meiner Meinung nach ist die Autorin gemein. Translation: Do you like the books with Harry Potter as a character? Yes, but in my opinion the author is mean.
A closeup of actor Peter Sarsgaard
A small turntable playing an LP of the 1973 “Sondheim, a Tribute” album (aka the “Scrabble Album”). The cover of the LP is propped up behind the turntable.
A white woman in her 30s, wearing a cobalt blue blouse and a little knit scarf made of reddish-purple yarn
A screenshot of NYTimes Connections from 3/12/25. The categories are: (Green) THINGS THAT ARE RED: Cardinal, Elmo, Ketchup, Rose (Yellow) INGREDIENTS IN CLASSIC POUND CAKE: Butter, Eggs, Flour, Sugar (Blue) WORDS SAID TO HAVE NO EXACT RHYMES: Month, Orange, Purple, Silver (Purple) ____ CANDY: Cotton, Eye, John, Rock
"A certain system and approach to acting is associated with the techniques originated by the Russian Konstantin Stanislavsky, and came into wider use in the mid-20th century thanks in large part to Lee Strasberg and others at New York's Actors Studio. What is the best-known term for this emotionally immersive approach to acting? "
Epigraph of "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by Dave Eggers, reading: First of all: I am tired. I am true of heart! And also: You are tired. You are true of heart!
“One of the chief attractions of the fair-ground is a tent where boxing and wrestling matches are held. You pay your money and go in, the wrestlers fight three or four rounds, and the referee then announces that, if you want to see any more, you must pay an extra ten prennigs. One of the wrestlers is a bald man with a very large stomach: he wears a pair of canvas trousers rolled up at the bottoms, as though he were go. ing paddling. His opponent wears black tights, and leather kneelets which look as if they had come off an old cab-horse. The wrestlers throw each other about as much as possible, turning somersaults in the air to amuse the audience. The fat man who plays the part of loser pretends to get very angry when he is beaten, and threatens to fight the referee. One of the boxers is a negro. He invariably wins. The boxers hit each other with the open glove, making a tremendous amount of noise. The other boxer, a tall, well-built young man, about twenty years younger and obviously much stronger than the negro, is "knocked out" with absurd ease. He writhes in great agony on the floor, nearly manages to struggle to his feet at the count of ten, then collapses again. groaning. After this fight, the referee collects ten more pfennigs and calls for a challenger from the audience. Before any bona fide challenger can apply, another young man, who has been quite openly chatting and. joking with the wrestlers, jumps hastily into the ring and strips off his clothes, revealing himself already dressed in shorts and boxer's boots. The referee announces a purse of five marks; and, this time, the negro is "knocked out. The audience took the fights dead seriously, shouting encouragement to the fighters, and even quarrelling and betting amongst themselves on the results. Yet nearly all of them had been in the tent as long as I had, and stayed on after had left. The political moral is certainly depressing; these people could be made to believe in anybody or anything.”
A stone pillar, the base of the McKinley Monument in San Francisco, on a sunny winter day. CZOLGOSZ and HWDP are graffitied on the side of the pillar in dark purple paint.
Poster of a brick apartment building at night, one window lit. Text on poster reads: "WE LIVE IN BERLIN. IT's 1932. I FEEL RELATIVELY SAFE." A BRIGHT ROOM CALLED DAY by Tony Kushner FREE STAGED READING MADRONE ART BAR 500 DIVISADERO ST, SF 6 PM, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22 PRODUCED BY MARISSA SKUDLAREK A BENEFIT FOR LAMBDA LEGAL
Notes and Comment THOUGH it's not quite time for it, we can hear in our inner ear the savage and beautiful noise the town makes at midnight of December 31st. This roar is inaudible if you're in a noisy room yourself. To hear it you have to get to a window, or out on a roof, or in the streets somewhere not too near the core in Times Square. In all life there is no sound like it-the orectic cry of millions of partially lost souls, grown a year older hating death. A great common sound, full of all the wild wants that lie between a drunken kiss and a child's prayer.
Black-and-white, noir-ish photo of a moment from “The Sugarplum Trap.” De Ville (Brady Morales-Woolery) leans against a wall on the left, talking on a phone. Jessica (Zoe Chien) sits at a small table on the right, also talking on the phone. Both are wearing 1940s-style clothing.
# Decade Count 1. 2000s 398 2. 2010s 318 3. 2020s 127
286 Sugar, We're Going Down Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree 287 Bad Guy Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? 288 Girls In Their Summer Clothes Bruce Springsteen Magic 289 Unbelievers Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires Of The City 290 Thinking About You Frank Ocean Channel Orange
What’s in that cocoa? David Cramer as Santa, Zoe Chien as Jessica, April Ballesteros as Elf.
Portrait of Prince Eristoff, by Tamara de Lempicka. Art Deco-style painting of a middle aged man with a small moustache, wearing a dark purple suit, in front of a vibrant teal curtain.
A white woman in her 30s, wearing a dark red baseball cap that says “Jane Eyre” in a gothic typeface
Screenshot of Wikipedia page listing winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in the 1970s. For 1974, the winner is listed as “Take a Left” by Charley Kringas. In reality there was no award that year.