Eric Pfeffinger

Writing a play: "Can't do that; that adds a fourth character." Writing a spec screenplay: "And then, oh, let's say a helicopter." #newplay

Dang it why can't theater be more like a wax museum

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of conversion therapy yesterday, but for context please note that Justice Thomas thought he was voting in favor of converting his chair at the bench into a fully horizontal recliner.

@GenTXer2 It’s great, so maybe, but it’s not as great as their Radio City or 3rd.

This album DID NOT make my Top 70 albums of the 70s list but does it make yours? 🤔 Big Star: #1 Record (1972)

For a fraction of a second on Tuesday night, Scott Jennings was unexpectedly confronted with an unvarnished awareness of what he’s done with his life.

They also should be forbidden from casting any actors who weren’t born in the 18th century. ACCURACY!!!

@GenTXer2 Doug Henning and the Magics

Can you identify this 70s band? 🤔 (if not, I don't think we can be friends)

@GenTXer2 Ooh yeah this one just keeps getting better every time I listen to it.

This album DID NOT make my Top 70 albums of the 70s list but does it make yours? 🤔 Ramones: Ramones (1976) Ranked #1 on Rolling Stone's 100 Best Debut Albums.

Let’s see if this thing is any good

There’s a reason the dictionary has changed its entry for False Dichotomies to False DiScottomies

US paratroopers are being sent into the Iran conflict. Asked whether the American people are ready for boots on the ground, Mike Johnson said it’s okay because these are just boots in the air.

Trump's gotta be mad that his approval numbers are sinking below Biden's worst polls. But at least in terms of cognitive decline the two of them are pretty much even.

Mueller seemed pretty unflappable but he had to be at least a little bummed at the world he left behind when he died. It's like if Isaac Newton died knowing everyone was like "Gravity? Total hoax, I don't buy it."

@DanFriedman81 @jibbles_au True: using "said" synonyms is awkward and amateurish. That said (heh), an overlong string of "he said" "she said" "it said" lines creates its own awkwardness, not so much fiction as transcript. I speak as a playwright who creates this problem myself when I try to write fiction.

@jibbles_au Actually, dialog tags should usually just be “he said.” That is not the issue with Weir’s prose.

Writers like Dan Brown and Andy Weir, who write ugly and clumsy prose at the sentence level, are sometimes extremely engaging storytellers in ways that transcend their technical deficiencies. “Project: Hail Mary” is a story about a lonely astronaut who undertakes a one-way mission into deep space to do a science thing that is the only hope to save the world, and when he gets there, he encounters an alien bug who is also a lonely astronaut on the same kind of mission, and they become best friends and work together to do their science thing and find a way to get back home. It is utterly charming, and everybody knows it. All these dunks are meaningless.

Installing a Christopher Columbus statue at the White House is very on-brand for Trump, insofar as Trump’s preeminent brand is “Racist & Rapey.”

@AngelaBelcamino Man, poor Timothee Chalamet keeps getting edged out of every title he goes for.

Am I off here, or is Chappell Roan becoming one of the most insufferable celebrities right now?

Forgivable though when you realize "J.R.R. Tolkien" is an anglicized translation of his real name "Tydium Onthenose."

Robert Mueller’s family confirmed that he has died at the age of 81. President Trump has condemned the announcement as a hoax, saying Mueller isn’t really dead and also that he’s been dead all along

Y’all can have your Tonys, your Pulitzers, your People’s Choice Awards — a show I wrote is mentioned in Nothing For the Group. Bucket list updated.

It’s always been part of the marvel that is Donald Trump that he embodies such a dazzling rainbow of many shades of racism. Including, as we discovered yesterday, the kind of racist who, when he meets someone who’s Japanese, can’t think of anything to talk about but Pearl Harbor.

@GenTXer2 Was just listening to some songs from this! One of my favorites: a zero-skips virtuosic pop songwriting classic.

This album DID NOT make my Top 70 albums of the 70s list but does it make yours? 🤔 Joe Jackson: Look Sharp! (1979)