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Friiiidaaaay Fuuuuntiiiimes

@Munchmeat2015 From Last Night’s ‘Parks And Recreation’ Is A Real Twitter Account (from UPROXX)
Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is (from Whatever)
Kids Reenact ‘Sabotage’ to Honor the Memory of the Late MCA (from Gawker)
The 50 Best “Very Special” Episodes In Sitcoms (from BuzzFeed)
The Depressing Commentary on Stardom in ‘Smash’ (from indieWIRE)

Zac Efron Cloth

My friend Daphne created an answer to my previous question. Ladies and gentlemen, THIS is a Zac Efron cloth:

Keyword Me This

Here are some of the ways people found my site!!!! I really truly sincerely hope if you were searching for these things that you were thrilled to make your way to TheAmySpalding.com!

Hey, dudes, that is NOT how my name is spelled. There is no “U”. Get it? One of my best friends insists that “Spaulding” and “Spalding” are pronounced differently, and anyone should know from how I say “Spalding” how it’s spelled. As much as I wish this was true, I’m pretty sure it’s not. But I do know how my name...

Sleeping Violet

Here’s a short film I made about my dog’s subconscious!

Musical Theatre Monday – Meghan Deans on Titanic

I am thrilled to welcome this week’s guest bloggist, Meghan Deans.

MEGHAN DEANS: So, I like Titanic. The musical, oh my god! Not the movie, obviously not the movie. Not the ship itself, that thing was a bastard. But the musical, the thing opened on Broadway in 1997 and actually, did you even know this? Won the Tony for Best Musical! That is true! And it’s crazy for a number of reasons, including, do you know what should never ever have worked? Is a musical about the Titanic. I mean sure, somet...

Friday. Fun. Times.

Is An ESPN Columnist Scamming People On The Internet? (from Deadspin)
Revenge of the Nerds: Broadway’s Handsomest Men… Wearing Glasses (from The Craptacular)
14 Photographs That Shatter Your Image of Famous People (from Cracked)
The Hulk on Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk (from The New Yorker)
‘Mad Men’ Death Watch (from The Daily Beast)
MCA’s Feminist Legacy (from The Nation)
Who’s Afraid Of Sendak’s Stories? Adults, Mostly (from NPR)
The Trouble With Prince Charming or He Who Trespassed Against Us (from The R...

Writing Tips!!!

Considering I won’t have any books out until next year there’s no real reason to take my writing advice. But I’m gonna give it anyway!

If you’re unsure how to get exposition across, consider a loquacious dorky character who says every frigging thought that crosses his mind.
If in real life you have an enemy, consider naming a villain or other nefarious or gross type after them.
To be sure the love interest is aptly described as hot enough, think about comparing him/her to a celebrity your young...

Musical Theatre Monday – Kayla Cagan on Chicago and Cabaret

I’m really REALLY excited to launch the guest bloggist component to Musical Theatre Monday. There is an amazing and varied group of people who will be blogging here about musicals that changed them, inspired them, made them laugh/cry/etc.

The inaugural guest bloggist for Musical Theatre Monday is Kayla Cagan.





KAYLA CAGAN: I was a late-bloomer when I allowed musicals into my life. I was a theater kid who grew up on “straight” plays (and by straight, I mean kitchen-sink dramas and well-made comed...

Fuhfuhfriday Funtimes

Seeing Double: Portraits of Girls and Their American Girl Dolls (from MSNBC)
Hate-Watching Smash (from The New Yorker)
A Highly Scientific Film Analysis: 17 Again (from Forever Young Adult)
What Zac Efron’s Beard Means For Men And Women In Hollywood (from, yes, NPR, in this stunning move in which I link to two Zac Efron-related articles)
Perfect Strangers, the Game (from JODA)
Revisiting “It’s My Party,” the Best Episode of Family Ties Ever (from Culture Brats)
27 Reasons Why NBC’s “Best Friends Fo...

GUEST BLOGGIST: Other Writing Groups that Don’t Suck!

Today I have a lovely guest bloggist, Brandy Colbert, who has a different but also awesome writing group. I could tell you WHY and HOW and WHAT but you should just read what she has to say instead!

BRANDY COLBERT: If you’d told me a year ago that I would be a member of an in-person critique group, I would have laughed. I would have laughed even harder if you’d told me that I would look forward to the meetings and actually miss them when we have to postpone for a few weeks.

When I first began wr...