What is the opposite of “Ignorance is bliss”? Asking for a friend.
Posts by Jean Koppen
My favorite TV show that I never saw when it was never on is 100% #PhillyJustice.
Love: longer daylight days
Don’t love: guilt resulting from said longer daylight days.
Something the Netflix series #TheResidence NAILS is how if you stay silent long enough people will spill their guts. A secret trick from my focus group moderation days.
Just because
They are doing the worse things they can do. Intentional cruelty. I hate to image what’s in store, but we have to be prepared.
Today I am grateful for the time difference which means that 9pm EST I will be asleep.
I think everyone needs to prepare for him cutting down the California Redwoods. Literally, and figuratively, prepare yourself to handle what’s coming.
Cooper River Indivisible organized this amazing protest today in Cherry Hill, NJ at Cherry Hill Tesla The protest had over 300 people! No one likes Elon Musk or his co-president. Way to show up South Jersey! #BoycottTesla #teslatakedown
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It may feel weird or somehow improper to talk about your art or your writing, but we need it. It can’t be wall-to-wall nightmare all the time. Art is both counterweight and context. It’s escape and enlightenment and a mirror of our own exasperation. We need it. We NEED it. Keep showing us.
It’s pretty exciting to see my two published plays at The Drama Bookshop. And when Lin Manuel Miranda shows up and insists I sign copies, I guess I have to.
Forgot to mention, I also saw #OperationMincemeat for the second time because it’s delightful and I enjoyed it just as much second time around. Get your Broadway tickets immediately
Thoughts on recent #WestEnd experiences: Ballet Shoes (charming, i was seat dancing at the end), The Tempest with Sigourney Weaver (meh), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (well done and catchy ComeFromAway-like music), Kyoto (good, US audiences will like it). Message me for elaboration.
mood
Fantastic!
No Sugar January first breakfast was a struggle.