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TENNYSON TWINK PRO WRESTLING Featuring BRYAN WALSH

thanks to @wrestlingjobbers for the clips

The End is Near!     

The end of the semester looms ever closer and your list of things to do may seem out of control.  Get a broader perspective with the “weirdly hopeful” writings of Bryan Walsh and Jairus Victor Grove. “Weirdly hopeful” was used, in fact, in separate essays by different reviewers to describe these books.  The books are unflinching in their descriptions of the challenges we face on a planetary scale.   

In End Times, Walsh systematically surveys the “mortal threats” and “cascading catastrophes” that threaten humanity.  Walsh asks the reader to not turn away, but to look and understand, as a “critical step toward taking responsibility for saving us from ourselves.”  

Savage Ecology is characterized as “eco-pessimism” by another reviewer, and it is apt. Geopolitical violence of an apocalyptic scale dominates Grove’s writing.  Rather than viewing apocalypses, whether geological, ecological or on a human scale, as inevitable, Grove “reads them as transformations of bifurcation points where other ways of life become possible.”

50/50 at the Montreal Improv : What’s My Next Line?

Improv isn’t just about making people laugh around pop culture themes. It’s also a craft and an art that its practitioners can study and practice. To do so, there are a variety of improv exercises and games, some of which become full shows. Montreal Improv is building a show around pairing acting with improv. That’s right.  50%  of the show will be actors performing from a memorized script and…