#Spontaneanation

[paulftompkins]

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 4th 10pm THE GREAT STAR THEATRE SponTourCo with Eugene Cordero, Tawny Newsome, Paul F. Tompkins & Janet Varney

TICKETS

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 5th 7:30pm THE SYDNEY GOLDSTEIN THEATRE Varietopia with Paul F. Tompkins & Special Guests

IN-PERSON TICKETS

LIVESTREAM

[theneighborhoodlisten]

Ep 105: This week, Burnt and Joan go in deep on processed wool allergies, baby flamingos, and what really happened at the Dignity Falls Apartments? Plus, Christine (Jean Villepique) stops in to discuss dog shampoo and unrequited love.

[academy-x]

i started watching lower decks (i like startrek now i guess) its so funny how eugene cordero tawnee newsome and all the non starring voice actors are friends in real life?? or at least all friends with paul f tomkins? and all have improv backgrounds???

[allstarsmash]

HAPPY SECOND-TO-LAST MONDAY (MY LAST OCTOBER 23RD) TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

[devantesmithpelly]

rules: tag 9 people you want to get to know better. i was tagged by @msmargaretmurry

last song: well ive been on taylor swift lockdown for the last week but the last song i listened to is whatever was playing when i left the bar i was at last night... i dont remember what it was but the playlist slayed and i know i heard me and my husband by mitski near the end so lets just go with that

last show: im choosing to go podcast for this one. ive been marathoning paul f tompkins's old podcast spontaneanation over the last couple months so as a little birthday treat yesterday i relistened to my favorite episode for the.... 8th time at this point? it starts with an interview with ira glass and then afterwards theres a narrative improv about jury deliberations and its 4 people playing like 15 characters trying to keep track of it all and it makes me laugh out loud every time

currently watching: YELLOWJACKETS!!!!!!! i was sick last week and marathoned the entire show and its SO CRAZY!!!!! WHATTTTT A SHOW!!!!!! im not the hugest tv show watcher especially not... prestige tv? im either watching the reality dating show of the month with my bachelor watch group (we are actually off the bachelor these days but we havent found a better name yet) OR im rewatching the same 3 shows i already like. so its exciting to be invested in a new good tv show that im watching all by myself without anyones help!!! cant wait to see whatever fucked up shit those girlies do next

currently reading: i just finished reading (an incredibly overdue library book called) Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals and now im starting (a less overdue library book called) Death in the Mudlick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic. as you can see i went to the library in january planning to go on a nonfiction kick which has now turned into a finish all my library books so i can return them before i have to pay to have them replaced kick!

current obsession: i cannot stop watching sheep shearing videos on youtube. it started with cow hoof cleaning which became horse shoe replacing and i cant imagine where the algorithm will take me next but im keeping fingers crossed its yarn spinning!!! other obsessions include like... everything ive already mentioned of course. and also the improv class im taking right now which i cant shut up about because its one of THE funnest things ive ever done. AND ALSO im obsessed with actively pursuing closer friendships with the people i think are super cool. so its very exciting that you tagged me in this!!!! thanks!!!!!

im tagging: anyone who wants to play the game! if youre seeing this consider yourself tagged

[lboogie1906]

Egobunma Kelechi Nwodim (born March 10, 1988) is an actress, comedian, writer, and singer. Nwodim has been a cast member on Saturday Night Live since 2018, beginning with the show’s 44th season.

She was born in Baltimore. She graduated from Eastern Technical High School in Essex, Maryland. She received a BS in Biology from USC. Deciding to pursue a comedy career, she began taking classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. Until joining SNL, she was a regular cast member at UCB, where she performed her one-woman show Great Black Women...and Then There’s Me.

She was named one of the New Faces at 2016 Just for Laughs festival. She performed at the CBS Diversity Showcase. Supporting roles on television include Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders, 2 Broke Girls, and Living Biblically. Impersonating Maya Angelou, she roasted various celebrities and companies in a 2017 Funny or Die sketch. She has made several guest appearances on podcasts such as Comedy Bang! Bang! and Spontaneanation.

On September 8, 2020, She was promoted to a repertory player ahead of the forty-sixth season of Saturday Night Live.

She is related to English footballer Eberechi Eze, who plays for Crystal Palace F.C. in the Premier League. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #womenshistorymonth

[matildazq]

Chicago has reached the bipolar phase of its winter where it tries to kill us all by snowing, then getting outrageously cold, then snowing again before the temperature rises to just a teensy bit above freezing, then drops again. So the streets and sidewalks are deathtraps, but the Danger Beagle laughs in the face of peril. She still wants her 6+-mile walk everyday. So I have these yaktrax things that help at least a little with not dying of the sidewalk bashing in my occipital. They are a sort of rubber frame that, in theory, stretches around the outline of the sole of one's shoe. Except my winter boots are for dudes, because I have not found a pair for women that are not absurd in prioritizing look over functionality (see above re: mandatory 6+-mile Danger Beagling daily). I bought the yaktrax for my dainty lady feet shoes, though, and my boots are, of necessity, rather too big for my feet. The result is that he yaktrax seem to want to escape. Yesterday, I lost one and the Spousal Unit graciously hunted it down. Today, I suddenly realized outside the dog park that I had lost both. I was going to write them off, but I was pretty sure it had only been a short while since I lost them. An apparent digression: Lately, I have been re-listening to all of "Sparks Nevada: Marshal on Mars" in order. I am out of the Pod F. Tompkast, Spontaneanation, Stay F. Homekins, and The Neighborhood Listen. I am out of Craig's List and Settling the Score. Danger Beagling consumes a LOT of podcasts, friends. So, Sparks it has been, and I have this to say: —Goddamn if that theme song is not a jolt of endorphins every single time —Sara Watkins' POW! is still the POW! to beat —I can't believe I'd forgotten how straight @paulftompkins plays it when he sings the theme song when the Jupiter Spy is Sparks —I can't believe I'd forgotten how he then utterly destroys MEJ when the Jupiter Spy is Croach and MEJ is just trying to get through the song. ANYHOODLES. Despite my LIMITED HUMAN SENSES, and my life-long urban dwelling, I was inspired NOT to surrender to the loss of my yaktrax, because there's crunchy, crunchy snow all over, so I was leaving two sets of footprints (no, Jesus does not come into this), and I was reasonably sure that the tall weeds (Danger Beagle loves the tall weeds—she once flushed a Bun and a Barn Cat in rapid succession and she will NEVER FORGET) immediately next to the off-leash part of the dog park was the most likely place for them to have been yanked off.

Reader, I tracked those yaktrax. Praise Nanotech.

[svyat0s]

263. Du elektoj por hodiaŭ:

- la unua. Montru spontanean bonkorecon kaj rakontu al ni pri tio. Kaj memoru, ke bonkoreco estas  malegoismo, antaŭ ĉio.

- la dua. Rakontu ajnan verson de Agnia Lvovna Barto.

PS. Vi povas plenumi ambaŭ taskojn.

#Mi_estas_ĉi_tie_eterneco

263. Two choices for today:

- the first. Show spontaneous kindness and tell us about it. And remember that kindness is selflessness, above all.

- the second. Tell any verse of Agnia Lvovna Barto.

PS. You can complete both tasks.

#I_am_here_eternity

263. А задания сегодня на выбор:

- первое. П - прояви спонтанную доброту и расскажи нам о этом. И помни, что доброта - прежде всего бескорыстие.

- второе. Р - расскажи любой стих Агнии Львовны Барто.

Пыс. Можно выполнить и оба задания сразу.

#Я_здесь_вечность #Веснушка2023 #Задание11

Ну, первое не получится. Потому что это как не думать о белой обезьяне. Ты выполняешь задание. Это уже не спонтанно, а запланировано. И это уже не бескорыстно, потому что прянЪ же. Так что миссия невыполнима. Хотя, конечно, сделать и запланированное доброе дело ничто не мешает. Ну, просто, чтобы запустить круг добра. …Про круги добра у меня забавный рассказ есть По завету Люцифера. Прочитать можно на сайте https://albireo-mkg.com/product/po_zavetu_lucifera.

А второе. Барто, конечно, я, как всякий совковый ребенок, люблю. Отличать бы ее еще от Баруздина и Благининой))) Но лучше не отличать. Мне стаи единомышленников нравятся больше. Это на психологии как-то мы изучали всякие пирамиды потребностей, круги личных пространств, все вот это вот. И там вот было наложение двух кругов, мол, если они полностью совпадут, то тебя-то не будет. И я думал, ну какая-то сраная глупость, как не будет-то, это и будешь ты, полностью понятый и понимаемый. Куда, блин, лучше-то? С чего ты-то исчезнешь? Вообще, как по мне, самое красивое, это когда ты превращается в мы. И никакая уникальность при этом не теряется, этой уникальностью мы только обогащается. Ну, понятно, что до мы нужно дорасти. Мне в этом плане просто сильно повезло. Я из стаи, из неотъемлемой стаи. И попал я туда ну не в первые дни создания, но все равно очень рано.

Барто, конечно, великая. Я уже писал про нее, это она после войны устроила что-то вроде "Жди меня" и помогала потерявшимся людям найти друг друга.

У меня любимых стихов ее много, самые любимые, наверное, Я привыкну, Приходите мне помочь, Не поймет Егорка, Весна идет, Мы очищали старый сад, и сакральное Весенняя гроза, про гром и черемуху ^__^ Я сакральные стихи у поэтов особенно люблю, по понятным причинам. Ну, я вообще люблю когда вдруг показывают всеобщее, но с другой грани. Ну там, Семейка Адамс (сериал), Особь, Звонок японский (история любви), моя любимая Некроменция, и того же Пирри - Проклятье спящей красавицы.

Но рассказать нужно какое-то одно стихотворение, поэтому я расскажу вот это:

Мы очищали старый сад

От вредных насекомых.

В саду увидели отряд

Мальчишек незнакомых.

Они пришли не просто так —

На грядках выпололи мак.

А через час явился в сад

Другой мальчишеский отряд.

Отряд пришел не просто так —

Ребята вытоптали мак.

Мы удивились: как же так?

А на осине два дрозда

Нам объяснили: — Да, да, да!

Разделение труда.

Так у людей бывает:

Один отряд сажает сад,

Другой его ломает.

[pagetgram]

“SPONTANEANATION” with Paul F. Tompkins Episode 17: Science Fair 

Special Guest: Paget Brewster & Improvers: Amanda Lund, Craig Cakowsk, Eban Schletter & Maria Blasucci  (x)

[spiritintheteapot]

Went to see SponTourCo on Sunday! You know, the bigger the animal, the more okay it will be.

Bonus: @paulftompkins dreaming of a square tortilla

[paulftompkins]

Hey! I want to talk about my longtime friend Eban Schletter WHO IS STILL VERY MUCH ALIVE. After 20+ years of frequent collaboration with me (and SO MANY other people) Eban is finally taking the time to focus on his OWN projects.

I cannot fully express how much better Eban has made everything he’s touched. Working with him on various projects has been nothing but a dream. I think we only ever had two arguments in all the years we’ve worked together & they were both brought on by extreme stress. Not bad!

He is able to do so many different things: write, play, produce, goddamned SOUND EFFECTS, whatever. All at the same time. And always excited, always laughing, always amped by creativity (and an inhuman amount of coffee).

He has done so much for me (and countless others) and I am so, so happy that he is putting his foot down and doing his own projects. He has more than earned the right to be choosier about what he does  and focusing on his own creativity.

In addition to being a creative genius he is a gracious, graceful man, one of the best people I’ve ever known. He is a wonderful husband, father and friend. I hope he’ll jump on stage with me every once on a while to play piano while I ramble on and on.

I’ll be doing some live shows soon, and normally he’d be there for these types of shows. It’ll definitely be an adjustment without him, but his spirit will be present in the stuff I do that I built with him way back when. I can’t wait to see what he builds himself.

I love you Eban! SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND

[keeyo7]

Spontaneous Asks

Here are some questions from a thing.

How does Mad Men end?

What is your favorite food to eat when you’re feeling sad? And if you don’t feed your feelings like I do why are you a robot?

Do you have a perpetual age in your head that when you think of yourself at that age and if so what is that age and why?

Who was your hero growing up? Fictional or otherwise. And if you could would you trade places with that hero?

What was the first time you experienced the emotion “humiliation?”

If someone asked you when you were 13 years old who are the 5 people you’d invite to a dinner party who would you have said?

Where were you when you realized god was a holy implausible lie?

What’s your favorite invention? How many inventions do you think there are?

What do you like most about yourself?

What animal would you save from extinction if you could?

What is the earliest memory you have of doing something cruel?

What is the thing you desire that you are ashamed of desiring?

Do you have social anxiety and if so how does it manifest?

Why did you choose that outfit today?

Did you ever name your car? If not, what the hell is wrong with you?

Do you believe in ghosts? Where is your evidence?

Why would you never talk to your cousin again if you needed a reason?

You win a contest which allows you to draft a 28th amendment to the constitution, guaranteed to pass. The only stipulation is that it must be food-related. What is your amendment?

Gun to your head - choose a reality competition show to come to your home.

Sir or Madam, how do you sleep at night?

When was the last time that you felt furious?

What ridiculous formality do you slavishly observe?

If you were forced to make a career change, and your success was guaranteed, what would you do?

What was the last thing you've done that you've considered 'brave'?

When did you realize you weren't alone?

If you could eat all the dessert and never have any ill effects, but all you could eat is dessert, would you?

What's the worst advice you've ever received?

You can use your rib to make another living thing, but not a human, what do you make?

What is your earliest memory?

If you could be invisible and go visit a current celebrity's home, who would it be?

Corn or Flour?

If days of the week had colors, what color would each day be and why?

What was your best mistake?

You can switch bodies with one person for one day - who would that be? And describe your one day as that person.

What is one event that you would go back and change in your life?

What's one thing that everyone in the United States can agree on?

How do you want people to remember you after you die?

What's the worst fear you ever overcame, and how did you overcome it?

What's the dumbest thing that ever sent you to the emergency room?

What is a trait of yours that other people compliment you on most often?

What's the deal with Mario Lopez?

What's the best gift you've ever given?

What is the loudest thing you've ever heard?

If you could spend a week in any TV show, what would it be?

Would you rather live without electricity, or a toilet forever?

What is your million-dollar idea?

Does everyone deserve to be heard?

What about baseball?

What's a good New Years's resolution?

How are eyeglasses made?

Which person (any person) would make the best sibling?

What is something you've considered telling one or both your parents but have not?

If you were to be a famous religious leader who would you be?

Do you toilet paper every toilet seat you use or is there a public toilet you wouldn't?

What laws do you regularly break?

Was your parent's divorce your fault?

If you were going to get a tattoo in one hour, what would you get?

Why is the suit purple like this pen?

When was the last time you told your parents and siblings you loved them?

Can you fix a bad kisser?

What book influenced you most as a kid?

Why the long face?

When's the last time you felt tricked?

Who would you kill first if murder was legal?

What existing superhero do you relate too?

Define magic

If you met yourself as a child, would the child you honestly like the adult you?

What was the last item you donated to charity?

What bad job of yours would you erase from your personal timeline?

Data or data, how do you pronounce it and why?

What's your favorite Prince song?

What was the singular childhood trauma that has defined you as an artist?

What sport would you play if you had all the physical ability but no mental awareness?

Whose hair would you like to find in your soup?

What toy from your childhood do you miss the most, and if it broke, how?

What is the first thing you broke that wasn’t yours?

What kind of small business would you like to own?

What was the last dream you can remember, and why do you think you dreamed it?

Who was your childhood hero? Are they still?

Do you consider cheeseburgers to be a part of the sandwich family?

Did silent movies have to be pitched back in the twenties?

Do you still eat pudding as an adult?

It's 3am, you're up. What are you doing?

What brings you fulfillment?

When did you first realize you didn't fit into society?

If you could eat one fruit for the rest of your life, what would it be?

What's the most fun you've had in a hospital?

What is your sliding doors alternate career?

Why do you care about God?

Where was the first slice of pizza you bought as a youngster?

Who was your mentor getting into your profession?

When did your parent or caregiver most hurt your feelings?

What is the first joke you laughed at?

What was your first suit?

What day would you like to go back and re-live? PS: You can go back to change things?

How did the movie The Sandlot effect your life? If you haven't seen it, what is the medical condition that prevented you?

What's the song to which you lost your virginity?

What happens if the Supreme Court gets rid of Roe v. Wade?

Have you ever called 9-1-1 to help a stranger? Tell us why?

At this very moment, a health inspector is about to walk into your home. What rating would your kitchen receive?

What sport or game could you kick my ass in?

Are you a bad girl? Are you? Are you?

What is the last great meal you ate and who did you eat it with and what did you talk about?

What clubs were you in in high school?

What do you do for exercise?

Have you ever been arrested?

In an apocalypse, what will be the most valuable item to trade?

If you could remain one age for your entire life, what age would it be and why?

What food item have you consumed the most of in your lifetime?

What's the most scared you've ever been?

What animals have you seen in the wild?

What song do you always have stuck in your head?

When was the last time you cried out of happiness?

Stipulating that there's nothing wrong with "here", if you could be anywhere else right now, where would that be?

What is the most embarrassed you've ever been?

What was the worst encounter with a stranger you ever had?

What is the best or worst travel injury you've sustained?

When did you first learn what sex was, and how?

When is the last time you vomited?

What ingredient would you remove from the world and why?

What is the first song you remember hating?

Tell me something your hometown is known for?

Who was your best friend as a child and what would you do together?

Which job from earlier in your life would you like to do again, and what would it have to pay?

What's a memory from your childhood you wish you could change?

At what point in your life did you feel your most 'hot' and most 'not'?

Is it racist to do an Italian accent?

What is your favourite font?

What time period do you think you belong in?

What movie have you lied about seeing?

How do you feel about your eye colour?

When was the last time you pretended to know something?

How many times have you googled yourself this week?

What do you think is your finest quality? What do you think is your worst?

Have you ever gotten lost?

At what moment have you felt the most adult?

If you could only eat one type of cuisine for the rest of your life, what would it be?

What is the best gift your parent ever gave you?

Favorite author when you were a teen and why?

What flaw in your character has been most beneficial in your life?

What's your favorite ancient civilization,and why?

Have you ever stolen anything?

Have you ever had a religious experience?

Do you know your neighbors, or do you try avoid them and why?

Choose one exotic pet: macaw, tortoise, boa or alpaca. You must choose.

Of all life's great firsts, which was your favorite?

What movie universe would you most want to live in?

What is your most embarrassing superstition?

Are you excited for the singularity or are you terrified?

Name three celebrities you would recruit to your post-apocalyptic survival team and why?

What's the best thing to find underwater?

Lyft drivers: What do you think?

How many eggs can you eat in one sitting?

What is your least favorite question strangers often ask you?

Would you invite yourself somewhere?

What is a place that gives you immediate joy?

It's 1967, you're in San Francisco: what are you up to?

If you were going to commit a crime, what crime would you commit?

What do you want someone to whisper in your ear?

What is your biggest failure?

Why are you here?

If you were to name a star, what would the name be?

Which one of your family members reminds you most of Denzel Washington?

What is a dream you've had that is actually interesting?

What would you have your evil twin do, if you had an evil twin?

If the purge were real, who would you kill first?

Hi, hello, are you single, and will you date me? I'll make you so happy.

What is a time in your childhood that you were at your happiest?

Who was you favorite teacher?

If someone wrote a musical about your life, what would it be called and what would it be about?

What's a style concept that you've always wanted to try (mohawk, tattoo, piercing)?

You can make a souvenir penny machine for any person, place, or thing - what would you make it for, and why?

If you were calming eating, say, a banana split, and you looked across the room and saw yourself from five minutes earlier, what you you do?

If your spirit animal were an animal you had met or seen, who would it be?

If you were born the opposite sex, what would your name, personality, and occupation be?

Do you pretend to like/read famous writers when they die?

Why are you here?

What's your first memory?

What song do you put on when a hook up is coming over?

What is the most romantic country in the world and why?

How many kangaroos are in the San Antonio zoo?

What was your first pet's name?

What was your first job?

If you could start any conspiracy theory what would it be?

You have full funding to recreate any album with you as the lead singer, what album do you choose?

Are there any recurring dreams that are significant to you?

Worst first kiss?

When was the last time you were in a stream?

What is your relationship with God like?

Who is your secret crush right now?

Where do you plan to spend the apocalypse?

Which celebrity would you like to die in the arms of?

If you were a neighborhood in either Los Angeles or New York, which would be and why?

If you could be killed by any weapon (not gun), what would it be and why??

How are you like your parents, good and bad?

If you could go back in time and kill one person, who would it be?

What is your favorite vacation destination?

What was the last thing you did that made you feel like a kid?

When was the most attractive you've ever felt?

What is the most uncomfortable place you have sneezed?

If you could make a themed restaurant, what would it be?

[annadiplosis]

Goodbye forever until who knows, Spontaneanation. Thanks for everything.

[cuoreincasinat0]

Nonostante tutto sono ancora qua,peggio de na droga non me riesco a staccà

[petesmediadiary]

January 7th 2019

Podcasts: Never Not Funny -- 2319 Michael Carbonaro (video) Comedy Bang Bang -- 580 Legend of Mr. Met Spontaneanation -- 198 In A Magician’s Apartment My Favorite Murder -- Minisode 104 The Flagrant Ones -- 8 Rating NBA City Edition Uniforms Hey Riddle Riddle -- 21 Jester Tester with Brooke Breit TV: Gotham -- 5x01 Seach Party -- 1x07, 1x08 Marvel’s Runaways -- 2x12 Corporate -- 1x01

[longowatchrepair]