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I promise you despite the look on Seb’s face he had a good time at this shoot. #gh4

And I promise you, despite how conventional this shot appears, this project will be one of the weirdest things. #macomeon

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TONIGHT ON HBO: PROJECT GREENLIGHT RETURNS!

I was a huge fan of this show during its original 3 seasons– it’s HUGELY compelling reality TV. Basically, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck hold a contest and pick someone to direct a feature film.

The show itself isn’t about the competition– it usually opens with the winner being picked and then follows them as they struggle mightily to make a low budget movie.

For this 4th season, they narrowed it down to 10 finalists and asked them all to shoot the exact same 3-minute script by The Farrelly Brothers.

The winner was Jason Mann, and he won with the above effort which stars me along with familiar NYC Comedy Faces Jo Firestone, Jim Santangeli and Charles Gould.

You can see the other finalists’ versions of the same script on the same Project Greenlight YouTube channel. One of the rules limited the number of changes you could make to the script, but I’m happy/proud that 3 of the jokes in Jason’s version were swapped out with things I improvised on set. (Unsurprisingly, I think my lines were darker and sadder versions of Comedy, since I think that’s sort of my deal at this point, right?)

Anyway, I think this short turned our really well, and I’m looking forward to seeing the series itself and the resulting film which will air on HBO after the finale.

annarubanova

So coooool.

I love seeing improvisers act.

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Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.

Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via alliterate)

OH WAIT LEMME TELL YOU ABOUT CECILIA PAYNE.

Cecilia Payne’s mother refused to spend money on her college education, so she won a scholarship to Cambridge.

Cecilia Payne completed her studies, but Cambridge wouldn’t give her a degree because she was a woman, so she said fuck that and moved to the United States to work at Harvard.

Cecilia Payne was the first person ever to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College, with what Otto Strauve called “the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy.”

Not only did Cecilia Payne discover what the universe is made of, she also discovered what the sun is made of (Henry Norris Russell, a fellow astronomer, is usually given credit for discovering that the sun’s composition is different from the Earth’s, but he came to his conclusions four years later than Payne—after telling her not to publish).

Cecilia Payne is the reason we know basically anything about variable stars (stars whose brightness as seen from earth fluctuates). Literally every other study on variable stars is based on her work.

Cecilia Payne was the first woman to be promoted to full professor from within Harvard, and is often credited with breaking the glass ceiling for women in the Harvard science department and in astronomy, as well as inspiring entire generations of women to take up science.

Cecilia Payne is awesome and everyone should know her.

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Remember this, next time you’re hearing someone talk about how men just naturally excel more at math and science and are driven to excellence and blah blah blah.

Women are driven to achieve, and just as capable of great discoveries, inventions, and successes.

Men are are just more driven to cover up and erase women’s achievements.

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Jess posts the best stuff. I learn a lot from her tumblr.

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1or3

isn’t it weird how the US not only has a hugely large prison population and that we also make it illegal for felons to vote even after they have been rehabilitated by prison (which is actually not the case in like canada or europe where even inmates are allowed to vote apparently)? so we have effectively taken millions of people out of the voting pool and that group of people is overwhelmingly poor and are mostly people of color?

I just looked up stats: we have over 20% of the worlds prison population in the US alone. 1/31 adults is under some form of correctional control. 58% of the US prison population are African American or Hispanic people even though those groups combined make up only 25% of the United states population. The NAACP estimates that if trends continue 1/3 black men alive today could expect to spend time in prison in their lifetimes… thats 1/3 black men who wouldn’t be allowed to vote. thats a pretty sick facet of the prison industrial complex that i don’t see addressed often. Apparently the technical term for it is “felon disenfranchisement”.

queerqueerspawn

Wait you want to hear the cherry on top? Where are most of those prisons? That’s right, rural areas that are judged to be “low risk” of criminal activity to assist prisoners escape or do something similar - so basically comparatively White areas that are largely lower population density. Except, because the census and related counts of people are based off of where people are in a given moment, those lower population densities are upped a bit, to include the incarcerated. Who can’t vote.

And this isn’t some fudging the numbers a small amount kind of thing, as some experts on felon disenfranchisement have noted:

Disenfranchisement is a strong political and electoral weapon in the competition between NYS and strongly democratic NYC, especially because approximately 80% of the black and Latino prisoners upstate come from 10 NYC neighborhoods (East Harlem, Washington Heights, Lower East Side, Hunts Point, Morrisania, Soundview, Central Brooklyn, East New York, Jamaica and St Albans). Republicans control the NY Senate whereas Democrats control the NY Assembly and the competition between the two for votes is strongly impacted by the “invisible” disenfranchised populations of upstate New York. Peter Wagner’s study, “Importing Constituents: Prisoners and political clout in New York”, shows that at least 7 senate districts in NYS exist directly because of prisoners. In the past, senators who may not have been elected if not for their hometown prison population have, in a vicious cycle, become the heads of committees that make crime and justice policies. It is not a coincidence that only one prison has been built in New York City since 1982 whereas 40 have been built in rural cities in upstate New York: the location of prisons is a crucial political tool. Re-enfranchised ex-prisoners eventually return to their home cities and are not able to vote for or against the people who are in office thanks to their prison stay, and who control prison policy.

So yeah, holy fucking shit. Now also recall how that parallels the history of the 3/5ths rule, which insured that slave-holding areas had their (non-voting) slave populations counted for representation purposes, inflating the political power of those permitted to vote in those areas. This is part of why people discuss mass incarceration as a dimension to how slavery-based economic and political organization has continued to operate post-abolition.

thatdiabolicalfeminist

And it all ties in to the prison industrial complex, where those disenfranchised people of colour imprisoned on trumped up charges or drug possession, etc., are put to work to make money hand over fist for corporations.

Slavery is still alive and well - thriving, even - in the US today. Lock up your non-white population, deny them access to the political process while using their numbers to inflate voting power for white people in their area, and make money off their essentially unpaid labour.

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CHECK OUT OUR NEW SHOW “WHAT IF?”

“WHAT IF… HUMANS LAID EGGS?”

“What If…” is a satirical podcast in the style of RadioLab and This American Life. It asks the really silly questions and provides the even sillier answers.

Starring Anna Rubanova and Siobhan Thompson with special guests Betsy Kenney, Dru Johnston, Adam Bozarth and Jon Bershad.

Edited by Anna Rubanova.

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This is something new and special.

annarubanova

Comedy is like exercise. The older you are, the harder you have to work. And you can never stop or you won't be able to sit up out of a chair by yourself and everyone you love is gone and why are you still trying?

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THE RISE OF THE SEQUEL MACHINES

LHR’s live show is back this Saturday, 9:00 PM at Videology in Williamsburg, Brooklyn!

The Sequel Machine recruits 25 hilarious comedy minds and asks them to create a sequel to a popular movie franchise one page at a time. And just like an exquisite corpse, the writers only get to the one page before their own. The result is a twisted phantasmagoria of pop culture.

We are premiering the brand-new script, TERMINATOR 6! It is gory, filthy, and a surprising parable about our love of technology. OK, maybe not so much a parable, but a haunted house ride at the carnival.

SPECIAL GUESTS: TIM AND TOM FROM “THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO EVERYTHING!” We are excited to have our special guests and Brooklyn locals Tim Daniels and Tom Reynolds, hosts of the hilarious “Complete Guide to Everything” podcast. Tim will be our narrator for the evening and Tom will be reading the part of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

THE SEQUEL MACHINE PRESENTS: TERMINATOR 6 SATURDAY, MAY 2nd, 9:00 PM VIDEOLOGY BAR, 308 BEDFORD AVE, BROOKLYN FREE!!! FREE!!! FREE!!! FREE!!!

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This is the funniest Sequel Machine script yet. You’re not going to believe your ears!

garlock

I believe I was page 3? It got filthy and ridiculous REAL quick!

micdotcom

An abstinence-focused sex education class in East Lansing, Michigan recently received a shock when one student’s sex-positive mother sat in on the proceedings — and live-tweeted them. Alice Dreger, a professor of medical humanities and bioethics at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, was invited by her son to join his abstinence-only sex education class, to see, in her words, “how bad it is.” And yes, it gets much worse.

whiteorangeflower

guise… It really gets worse… juts read the one about consent….

adamholwerda

east lansing why you gotta fail me so hard

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When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar,” she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. “My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.” It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions? How often had I sped past them as I learned of male achievement and men’s place in the history books? Then I read Rosalind Miles’s book “The Women’s History of the World” (recently republished as “Who Cooked the Last Supper?”) and I knew I needed to look again. History is full of fabulous females who have been systematically ignored, forgotten or simply written out of the records. They’re not all saints, they’re not all geniuses, but they do deserve remembering.

Sandi Toksvig,

'Top 10 unsung heroines'

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mrdestructo

I’m opening ‘50 Shades of Grey’ to a random page and posting what I find. Part six.

"So no means yes?" I asked.

"Yes," he said.

"Does that mean no?" I asked.

"No," he replied.

"So, yes?" I asked again.

"No."

"Yes?"

"Yes, but no. What I mean is yes-yes."

"To no-yes or yes-no?"

I had a lot to learn about sex.

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Episode 26 - Adam Bozarth and Anna Rubanova

Today’s Episode: Pizza Pizza

Today’s Contestants Are:

Adam Bozarth

Anna Rubanova

In this episode! - A semi-sequel episode as justice is attempted to be had! - A rare cartoon character impression is attempted and nailed! - Tales of random hearing loss to make you fear the randomness of existence!

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annarubanova

This was super fun!

robhuebel

You prolly didn’t know that I’m also the Killcameraman from Call of Duty. What’s your dumbass job?

annarubanova

This is very cool for very many reasons.

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I HAVE HONORED THE FAMILY. MY LASAGNA HAS HONORED THE FAMILY. I AM SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW GORDAN RAMSAY THINKS THAT MY LASAGNA LOOKS GREAT. MY LIFE HAS BEEN MADE. I AM SO HAPPY I AM ABOUT TO CRY

iloveyixingsomuch-blog

Jim Buchy, y’all, a Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives.

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I am once again unemployed! I am also less than flush with cash…

I’d love to do more coaching of improv and sketch. Please get in touch, or tell your friends!

Also, I am generally free to work together, too. I need to just make more stuff while I have the time.

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ucbcomedy

All the good makeup names are taken. New from The Punch!

annarubanova

Very proud right now.

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annarubanova

The sketch that ruined my chance of getting on a Digital Team. :P

Watching it again, though, I think it's hilarious.

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