Zip, Zop, ZAP! Turn The Second City into a Laser Tag Arena
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Zip, Zop, ZAP! Turn The Second City into a Laser Tag Arena

This Year of Our Lord, 2020, has revealed quite a few things about us. The recurring theme is that it’s high time our greatest institutions must die. The mighty must fall. So, as someone who interned at The Second City, went through several training programs, produced plays for its stages, here’s what I suggest happen to that theater: Turn it into a laser tag facility. Call it Zip, Zop, ZAP!

You may argue that now is not the time to open a new business, what with the pandemic and all. But laser tag is the perfect pandemic business.

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pANDEMIC eCCENTRIC
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pANDEMIC eCCENTRIC

I hope things never go back to how they were. That normal wasn’t normal. Lost to digitized history seemed to be leisure with gravity, interstitial tranquility. The accuracy of vacancy. Nilness.

I want to lose track of days and check the time only to be surprised at the lateness of the hour. Dusk looming, innocent as a satellite.

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Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of March 9, 2020
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Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of March 9, 2020

Slowly but surely, if the U.S. doesn’t get its hands and head around this pandemic, it will consume us. It will destroy the markets because of fear, quarantines, and no one spending. We’ll crumble before we come out of it. And our leader is so unbelievably clueless to it. The health officials have to contradict him with the facts at every turn. Everyone thought it was a joke. Nope. Idiots. All of us. And Tom Hanks is going to die. That is our ultimate punishment.

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Enjoying the Perks of Novel Coronavirus COVID-19
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Enjoying the Perks of Novel Coronavirus COVID-19

COVID-19 is coming for our favorite food, our favorite professional sports league that doesn’t have cheating champion teams, and the one Baby Boomer white man of all America can get behind. Things seem bleak. But after spending forty years in this body and several thousands of dollars on therapy, I am well-equipped to find the silver lining in any situation. I’d tell you that I’m a positive person in moments of crisis, but I feel that telling you I’m positive in this climate would only scare you off.

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