#OnThisDay in 1917, #BettyComden, American #lyricist ("On The Town"; "Just In Time") and #playwright, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2006).
#RIP

Today in labor history April 28, 1896: Tristan Tzara was born. He was a Romanian-French poet, journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, film director. He co-founded the anti-establishment Dada movement. During Hitler’s rise to power, he participated in the anti-fascist movement and the French Communist Party. In 1934, Tzara organized a mock trial of Salvador Dalí because of his fawning over Hitler and Franco. The surrealists Andre Breton, Paul Éluard and René Crevel helped run the trial. In the 1940s, Tzara lived in Marseilles with a large group of anti-fascist artists and writers, under the protection of American diplomat Varian Fry. These included Victor Serge, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Andre Breton and Max Ernst. Later he joined the French Resistance, writing propaganda and running their pirate radio station. After the Liberation of Paris, he wrote for L'Éternelle Revue, a communist newspaper edited by Jean-Paul Sartre. Other contributors to the newspaper included Louis Aragon, Éluard, Jacques Prévert and Pablo Picasso. Varian Fry, and his communal home for radicals in hiding, was portrayed in the historical drama series “Transatlantic.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #dada #TristanTzara #nazis #antifascist #poetry #literary #communism #fascism #surrealism #maxernst #sartre #picasso #victorserge #dali #andrebreton #film #hitler #books #playwright @bookstadon

still building this beautiful #python #asetniop #curses editor with special focus for me as a #playwright.

unlike the screenwriter-focused #fountain, it is truly and fully #markdown based, with some additional styling added.

also it’s fully customizable; you just have to modify a very readable style.py to your liking! no .css vomit or wysiwyg menu hell

trying out #cryptpad since google and ms are eternally simps for fascism.

i am pleased! it even has dark mode!

I recently wrote my first #Playwright tests.

When I run them with "npx playwright test --ui", they always pass.

When I run them with "npx playwright test", there is usually one test that fails.

Anybody have an idea what might be going on here? Thanks!

16 Apr 1689: d. Aphra Behn #playwright #poet #writer #otd (St Hilda's College, Oxford)

"Whenever the #author and #playwright Samantha Ellis tries to define her heritage to people, she often finds them correcting her. “So many times I’ve said I’m an #Iraqi #Jew and been… told ‘you mean you’re mixed’ or ‘which parent is which?’ or just ‘how weird’,” she writes in her richly detailed #memoir, in which she explores the complex, centuries-old history of the Iraqi-#Jewish community and its vanishing language, #Judeo-Iraqi #Arabic.

The daughter of Iraqi-Jewish #refugees who came separately to #London with their families during periods of persecution for the community in #Baghdad, Ellis is moved to seek out #stories, expressions and objects that will fill some of the gaps in that #history when she realises that she lacks the vocabulary to pass on the language of her childhood to her own young son."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/06/chopping-onions-on-my-heart-by-samantha-ellis-review-an-iraqi-jews-celebration-of-an-endangered-culture

My April workshop schedule is up https://prelude.tech/upcoming_workshops

I now have some 4 day workshops (mon to thurs) as well as weekend workshops, to suit different schedules and time zones.

Topics include: #Django #Git #HTMX #Tailwind #Playwright #AlpineJS #AllAuth

Today in Labor History February 26, 1616: The Roman Catholic Church formally banned Galileo Galilei from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun. In 1633, they tried and convicted him of heresy, and imprisoned him for the rest of his life. Bertolt Brecht wrote the play “Galileo” in 1938, which first played in Zurich, in 1943. Brecht fled Nazi Germany in 1933.

#galileo #BertoltBrecht #FreeSpeech #science #inquisition #censorship #drama #playwright #heresy #catholic #workingclass #nazi #LaborHistory @bookstadon

#RicardoAntin

#LosEjecutivosTambiénTienenAlma ("Executives Have a Soul Too")
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#Advertising #creative, #novelist, #poet, #playwright, and #musician.
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Today in Labor History February 10, 1898: Marxist playwright Bertolt Brecht was born. Brecht was a doctor, poet and playwright. He fled the Nazis only to be persecuted in the U.S. by HUAC during the Cold War. He is most well-known for his play, “The Three Penny Opera.” He also wrote “Mother Courage and Her Children” and “The Days of the Commune,” about the Paris Commune. Additionally, he wrote poetry and composed the lyrics to many of the songs performed in his plays, like “Mack the Knife” and “Alabama Song” (AKA Whiskey Bar). https://youtu.be/6orDcL0zt34

#workingclass #LaborHistory #nazis #fascism #huac #Anticommunist #witchhunt #BertoltBrecht #marxist #Poet #books #writer #author #fiction #playwright #ParisCommune @bookstadon

#OnThisDay in 1902, #LangstonHughes, American #poet (Weary Blues), #playwright (Mulatto), and librettist (Troubled Island), born in Joplin, Missouri (d. 1967).
#RIP

Today in Labor History January 31, 1912: A General Strike began in Brisbane, Australia. It lasted until March 6. The strike was a response to the suspension of tramway workers for wearing union badges. Within a few days, the strike committee became the de facto government of Brisbane. No work could be done in the city without the committee’s permission. They created their own independent police force and provided ambulance service for the city. They issued strike coupons, redeemable at stores that were in solidarity with the strikers. People wore red ribbons to show their support and even put them on their dogs and dray horses. On the second day of the strike, 25,000 people marched, with another 50,000 supporters watching. On Black Friday, February 2, the cops attacked a women’s march with batons. Emma Miller, a trade unionist and suffragist who was in her 70s and weighed less than 80 pounds, pulled out a hat pin and stabbed the rump of the police commissioner’s horse. The horse reared and threw the commissioner. As a result of his injury, he limped for the rest of his life. The courts ultimately ruled in favor of the unionists, and their right to wear union badges while on the job. Errol O’Neill wrote a play about the strike, “Faces in the Street.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #Brisbane #australia #generalstrike #policebrutality #union #eugeneoneal #solidarity #playwright @bookstadon

My next Modern frontend development with #Django, #HTMX, #Tailwind, #Playwright and #AlpineJS workshop is happening on 1 and 2 Feb. There are still some tickets left!

Learn more here: https://buff.ly/4hq7FUr

I also have some really cool bonuses for you.

Please share this with whoever might benefit!

draft draft draft
edit revise sleep on it
—press submit

#DailyHaikuPrompt (drafts) #haiku #senryu #poetry #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying #WritingLife #Playwright

Just squeaking in under the wire, my poem Angakkuq was published today by On Spec Magazine. https://onspec.ca/2024/12/30/issue-130-now-available/

I had an excellent year for publications. Twenty-one separate publishers shared twenty-five of my poems, essays, short stories, and plays. I was nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Aurora Award. I placed in a flash fiction contest, and was longlisted and shortlisted for a few more. I received a scholarship I received two grants for my writing. I wonder how next year will go? I can't imagine beating that! My hope is to polish up my novel and send it out for publication.

“Angakkuq.” Poetry in On Spec Issue 130. December 2024.
“Sirens Don’t Sing Underwater.” Fiction in Moonlit Getaway. December 16, 2024.
“Wolf Mother.” Fiction in Inner Worlds. December 13, 2024
“The Anxious Writer.” CNF in Breath and Shadow. December 2024.
“Daisy Chain.” Fiction in Against the Wall, Under the Armor anthology. November 30, 2024.
“Monsters.” CNF in Ex-Puritan. November 2024.
“The Yolk of the Moon.” Fiction in LSUA Flash Fiction Booklet and website.
“The T-Bone.” Flash memoir in The Masters Review. November 2024.
“Scarred.” Fiction in Meetinghouse Magazine. October 2024.
“The Snow Hath No Queen.” Fiction in MetaStellar. September 2024.
Excerpt from “The Tupilaq.” Fiction in Kinsman Quarterly. September 2024
“A Time For Dolls.” Play in Native Voices: A Literary Collection of Emerging Indigenous Writers.  
“The Last Trench.” Fiction in Bitter Become the Fields. Horns and Rattles Press. July 2024.
“Exile of Nuliajuk.” Poetry in NonBinary Review: Heredity Issue,  June 2024
“Keswick Valley Memorial, 1984,” “This is How to Not Give Up,” and “Salt Water Strider.” Poems in Event Poetry and Prose. Issue 53-1.
“Tom Thumb of the North'' & “Blubber Boy: A Traditional Inuit Tale Then and Now.” Fiction in Mihko Kiskisiwin/Blood Memory: An Anthology.
“Saddles in the Kitchen.” Memoir in Redivider. Nominated for Pushcart Prize.
“Hiding in Plain Sight: Life With and Without Masks.” Personal essay in Knee Brace Press.
“Saved” and “Wrassling’s Object Lesson.” Poetry in Eavesdrop Magazine.
“Thumbing to Sugar Daddy Oberon.” Short fiction in MetaStellar.
“This is the Time Just Before Spider Woman Meets Kiviuq.” Poetry in West Trestle Review

#PoetsOfMastodon #Author #AuthorsOfMastodon #WritingCommunity #publishing #Writer #IndigenousCreatives #poetry #essay #ShortStory #playwright @indigenousauthors

A #documentary on the life and work of the great #playwright and #poet, Bertolt Brecht.

#theater #drama #poetry #EpicTheater

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCjlN8kncV8

“Eight days in the rain and the sun and every day he’s droppin’ teeth on the blacktop and nobody’ll pick him up ‘cause his mouth’s full of blood.”
– from TRUE WEST by Sam Shepard, in “Seven Plays”

#page42

Rules of the game: 
- Grab the nearest book.
- Turn to page 42
- Find the 2nd sentence
- Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it
- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.

In the last three days I've read three plays by Sam Shepard.

Melodrama Play (1967)
Cowboy Mouth (1971)
Geography of a Horse Dreamer (1974)

At this point in his career, Shepard was considered a new and exciting voice in theater. These plays are interesting; somewhat absurd, comical, and strange.

I like them but I don't know what to make of them, yet.

#OnThisDay in 2006, #BettyComden, American #lyricist ("On The Town"; "Just In Time") and #playwright, died of a #heartfailure at 89. RİP
#RIP