Ruth Virkus
@RuthVirkus
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Co-Artistic Director, Freshwater Theatre
Minneapolis
Joined July 2010
Today I learned that if you set fire to a porta potty, all that remains is a small amount of plastic and a pile of shit.
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If you let any story cut through all the Twitter noise today, please let it be this: At least six local news websites across Alabama and Florida have been secretly taking payments from power companies to run stories attacking clean energy + other policies https://t.co/Z9hCG8IOHU
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Alabama Power and Florida Power & Light hired the consulting firm Matrix to help shape their fortunes. Matrix funded six sites that covered politics, filling a void left by the decline of local news.
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It wasn't a normal middle finger, y'all.
NEW: A trucker in the convoy says he’s taking a day off from driving in laps around DC because “3 young girls in a blue Hyundai” flipped him off. He says he’s now fearful: “It wasn’t just a normal middle finger that was relaxed... It messed me up.” (per 1st Responders Media)
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If you can't beat them, feed them.: Ma's Peanut Butter Jumble Cookies
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I have decided to use my Instagram to document the wit and wisdom of Ma Virkus' texts. Please enjoy as I upload these for posterity.
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"I sure haven't been given accurate second hand information about this"-- Ma Virkus
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"I raised accomplished women, but when I brag, I brag about raising compassionate women." Ma Virkus (the GOAT of Mas)
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Auction closes on 10/24- pick up some holiday gifts:
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Silent auction 'Freshwater Home Shopping Soiree' hosted online at 32auctions.
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Weekly Art Hounds recommendations: Wildlife photographer Dudley Edmondson captures the beauty of northern Minnesota’s waters @MMAMArtStream; a digital one-man play by St. Paul actor Jeremy Motz (@JustMotz) and “The Red Shoes” @openeyetheatre. https://t.co/4KkTJ2didT
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Wildlife photographer Dudley Edmondson captures the beauty of northern Minnesota’s waters. Art Hounds also recommend two one-act shows running through Halloween which make audiences question reality.
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Do some holiday shopping and support Freshwater Theatre!
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Silent auction 'Freshwater Home Shopping Soiree' hosted online at 32auctions.
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I am having such a bad mental health day that I'm making bread from scratch without measuring anything as an exercise in harnessing my own chaos. My own structural integrity feels like it's hanging on the structural integrity of this ad hoc bread.
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The other thing haunting me is my sister's story about the 4 friends who made a NYE resolution not to shit their pants this year and none of them made it past March
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I'm dreadfully certain that some asshole somewhere named their kid Taco Tuesday and I can't stop thinking about it
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the closed captioning just spelled ganache GNash and I am now obsessed with this fictional rapper
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I just watched a pair of Canadian geese proudly walk their baby goslings down the street and I just yelled, "That's so cute! Too bad you'll grow up to be jerks!"
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Men will literally partake of the forbidden fruit and then get kicked out of the garden of eden and blame the damnation of all mankind on their wife instead of go to therapy.
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If thousands of people retweet this, they probably won't fire Louis DeJoy, but it's worth a try
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