DO NOT START
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FEBRUARY is a state of mind.
Large (extremely large) chunks of falling ice, the size of a man who plays professional football, are falling from a great height. Small heaters keep the pipes from seizing. Art studios continue to be rented by painters and fashion people. Members appear from nowhere, wandering in off the frozen streets. An indoor lawn appears as…
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The Art of Being People
Coming soon to a DO NOT START near you. Is it a club? A class? A philosophy exercise? An activity meetup? A weird experiment? An attempt at group healing? A book club? A secular church? An antidote to THEM? A nude mudwrestling competition? A community outreach program? A trick of the light and too much…
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COMING IN FEBRUARY
“A bi-weekly Thursday gathering for Grand Rapids performance artists & theatre kids. A group designed for us to discuss our ideas, find collaborators, host classes or workshops, do scene studies and exercises, and ideally, devise original work to perform in a not-for-profit artistic home. Whatever we want it to be, can be. With 14,000 square…
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JANUARY! Where have you gone?
Michigan winter is both an atrocious burden full of psychotic driving choices and indoor huddling (mostly to avoid others’ psychotic driving choices) and also an eyeblink of malleable time that shoots right past us. Last week was December 1st, according to all internal clocks, and yet the calendar refuses to agree. Apparently it is the…
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It took two people to make a headline+blurb this stupid
Social satire is literally impossible when reality itself has jumped the shark. And somewhere out there right now someone is complaining about the insane stress that attempting to navigate the modern world causes while their AI girlfriend makes comforting, adaptive cooing noises and provides words of affirmation. Gerassi had a lecture where he was briefly…
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Tonight 6pm-10pm (ish)
Front or rear door. Better parking out back. Do not try entering the giant loading bay door itself. There’s a wee door off to the right. Please close it behind yourselves. Drinks and snacks on hand, or BYOB. We have enough chairs now, as long as 100 of you do not show up simultaneously. But…
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Fun times, fun times …
So Dani got dragged on Reddit because she doesn’t know how to use Reddit and had the very audacity to be excited about her little corner of the warehouse that she hoped to fill with people like her, who work from home or have kids and houses that despite loving they need a break from…
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Coming in December
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TESTING
Let us assume one wanted to return to writing nonsense on the internet for nobody to read, after over a decade of not doing that. Would one do it here? Would this be the place for such a thing? Probably.