Erik Gratton
@erikfallsdown.bsky.social
Off-Broadway Guy in SoCal. Made in KC and Detroit.
Narrator, TNG Podcast host.
Grimm, Mrs Maisel, Kimmy Schmidt, etc
Stage: Buddy the Elf at MSG. Homer Simpson, Shrek, Billy Pilgrim, Paul Sheldon, Andrew Cuomo, Hamlet, Benedick and Rosalind.
Narrator, TNG Podcast host.
Grimm, Mrs Maisel, Kimmy Schmidt, etc
Stage: Buddy the Elf at MSG. Homer Simpson, Shrek, Billy Pilgrim, Paul Sheldon, Andrew Cuomo, Hamlet, Benedick and Rosalind.
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If you haven't checked out SAGindie before, their site has a wealth of information to help indie filmmakers get their projects made. Easy to navigate, practical info broken down by state 👇
www.sagindie.org
#Scriptsky #Filmsky
www.sagindie.org
#Scriptsky #Filmsky
SAGindie - Independent Film Information, Resources, and Events
Learn how to hire professional SAG-AFTRA actors for your indie film with SAGindie, a free resource for independent filmmakers.
www.sagindie.org
November 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
If you haven't checked out SAGindie before, their site has a wealth of information to help indie filmmakers get their projects made. Easy to navigate, practical info broken down by state 👇
www.sagindie.org
#Scriptsky #Filmsky
www.sagindie.org
#Scriptsky #Filmsky
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🚨Red Alert! New Episode!🚨
s7e9 - Force of Nature
The warping. It's been killing us all along. That and the fact that Data can't train his dang cat. Spot steals the show, and the dilithium! Also, the environment!
Re:Engage w/ every episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
linktr.ee/reengagetng
s7e9 - Force of Nature
The warping. It's been killing us all along. That and the fact that Data can't train his dang cat. Spot steals the show, and the dilithium! Also, the environment!
Re:Engage w/ every episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
linktr.ee/reengagetng
November 18, 2025 at 5:53 AM
🚨Red Alert! New Episode!🚨
s7e9 - Force of Nature
The warping. It's been killing us all along. That and the fact that Data can't train his dang cat. Spot steals the show, and the dilithium! Also, the environment!
Re:Engage w/ every episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
linktr.ee/reengagetng
s7e9 - Force of Nature
The warping. It's been killing us all along. That and the fact that Data can't train his dang cat. Spot steals the show, and the dilithium! Also, the environment!
Re:Engage w/ every episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
linktr.ee/reengagetng
November 19, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Ponied up for a month of newspapers.com, went right to the New York Daily News and quickly found this gem from Feb 16, 1936.
November 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Ponied up for a month of newspapers.com, went right to the New York Daily News and quickly found this gem from Feb 16, 1936.
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Interesting email here from Elisa New, Harvard professor and wife to Larry Summers, to Epstein, reflecting on Lolita.
"...it's about a man whose life is stamped forever by his impression of a young girl."
"...it's about a man whose life is stamped forever by his impression of a young girl."
November 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Interesting email here from Elisa New, Harvard professor and wife to Larry Summers, to Epstein, reflecting on Lolita.
"...it's about a man whose life is stamped forever by his impression of a young girl."
"...it's about a man whose life is stamped forever by his impression of a young girl."
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The Catholic Church abuse files are full of people who claim to care for victims but don’t want to be embarrassed or go bankrupt. Not just the church, either - families. You see them rationalise & justify in real time.
The notion abusers need to resort to conspiracies and subterfuge is more comforting than the truth that many people will readily look the other way when confronted with sexual violence if doing otherwise would even slightly inconvenience them
Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The Catholic Church abuse files are full of people who claim to care for victims but don’t want to be embarrassed or go bankrupt. Not just the church, either - families. You see them rationalise & justify in real time.
Actors are creatives, too. No director or writer has ever fully designed a character that an actor gives a performance to. Apologies, but it’s a collaborative art form. All creatives.
November 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Actors are creatives, too. No director or writer has ever fully designed a character that an actor gives a performance to. Apologies, but it’s a collaborative art form. All creatives.
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I no longer ‘support’ NYT because the labor - recipes, games, celebrity puff pieces, PR-level arts coverage - lack of Metro & sports coverage - elementary political analysis that a dead president often beats - nevermind the vicious editorial slant against Gaza & trans people - doesn’t benefit me
When you subscribe to a news source, you are not “supporting” it. You’re paying your fair share for labor from which you’re benefiting.
November 12, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I no longer ‘support’ NYT because the labor - recipes, games, celebrity puff pieces, PR-level arts coverage - lack of Metro & sports coverage - elementary political analysis that a dead president often beats - nevermind the vicious editorial slant against Gaza & trans people - doesn’t benefit me
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THE MERCY MAKERS is a Kindle Daily Deal today! Only $2.99 for six hundred pages "alight with glorious epiphanies!"
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The Mercy Makers (The Moon Heresies Book 1)
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November 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
THE MERCY MAKERS is a Kindle Daily Deal today! Only $2.99 for six hundred pages "alight with glorious epiphanies!"
www.amazon.com/Mercy-Makers...
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I picked this up at Clint’s (KC) as a kid, like halfway through the run of Gruenwald’s Squadron Supreme 12-issue. Hell yeah.
May as well read some Avengers.
John Buscema and Bill Everett covered Avengers 85 (1970).
John Buscema and Bill Everett covered Avengers 85 (1970).
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I picked this up at Clint’s (KC) as a kid, like halfway through the run of Gruenwald’s Squadron Supreme 12-issue. Hell yeah.
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A colleague once pointed out to me that a huge problem of being an artist talking to executives is that you’re a contractor talking to people on salary. You just fundamentally don’t experience life in the same way. The above is a similarly comprehensive divide.
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
A colleague once pointed out to me that a huge problem of being an artist talking to executives is that you’re a contractor talking to people on salary. You just fundamentally don’t experience life in the same way. The above is a similarly comprehensive divide.
Sincerely, abolish the Senate.
November 10, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Sincerely, abolish the Senate.
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i don't think democratic voters should have to spend this much time whipping democratic elected officials.
November 9, 2025 at 11:48 PM
i don't think democratic voters should have to spend this much time whipping democratic elected officials.
I’ve been lucky, hitting the library sales this fall. Pop used to volunteer for a week for the one at his college. The union provides for 300lbs of shipping for this contract. Gonna use it all on books, records and DVDs.
November 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I’ve been lucky, hitting the library sales this fall. Pop used to volunteer for a week for the one at his college. The union provides for 300lbs of shipping for this contract. Gonna use it all on books, records and DVDs.
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I'm old enough to remember being an adolescent and watching this on PBS.
billmoyers.com/content/secr...
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The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis | BillMoyers.com
This fascinating and revealing documentary examines the Iran-Contra scandal as the most recent example of the continuing abuse of democratic values by unaccountable intelligence operations during the ...
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November 9, 2025 at 5:53 AM
I'm old enough to remember being an adolescent and watching this on PBS.
billmoyers.com/content/secr...
billmoyers.com/content/secr...
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Alfre Woodard turns 73 today.
November 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Alfre Woodard turns 73 today.
Hell yeah, poster for Dreamcoat at what was the Entermedia Theatre, now Village East (by Angelika). :))))
November 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Hell yeah, poster for Dreamcoat at what was the Entermedia Theatre, now Village East (by Angelika). :))))
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So I finally watched THE BLACK HOLE after it came up on and thought it was...great! No joke!
I had no idea it was a blatant space adventure retelling of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea which is both one of my favourite books and movies of all time, and I think TBH did right by both of them! 🧵
I had no idea it was a blatant space adventure retelling of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea which is both one of my favourite books and movies of all time, and I think TBH did right by both of them! 🧵
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
So I finally watched THE BLACK HOLE after it came up on and thought it was...great! No joke!
I had no idea it was a blatant space adventure retelling of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea which is both one of my favourite books and movies of all time, and I think TBH did right by both of them! 🧵
I had no idea it was a blatant space adventure retelling of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea which is both one of my favourite books and movies of all time, and I think TBH did right by both of them! 🧵
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Every time we organize
you rich guys pull a fast one
We might lose many a fight,
But we’ll damn sure win the last one.
-Woody Guthrie
you rich guys pull a fast one
We might lose many a fight,
But we’ll damn sure win the last one.
-Woody Guthrie
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Every time we organize
you rich guys pull a fast one
We might lose many a fight,
But we’ll damn sure win the last one.
-Woody Guthrie
you rich guys pull a fast one
We might lose many a fight,
But we’ll damn sure win the last one.
-Woody Guthrie
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Leonardo Da Vinci :
Birch Copse (A stand of trees), c.1508
Red chalk
193 x 153 mm | 7.59 x 6.02 in
Royal Collection Trust
©His Majesty King Charles III 2022
Birch Copse (A stand of trees), c.1508
Red chalk
193 x 153 mm | 7.59 x 6.02 in
Royal Collection Trust
©His Majesty King Charles III 2022
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Leonardo Da Vinci :
Birch Copse (A stand of trees), c.1508
Red chalk
193 x 153 mm | 7.59 x 6.02 in
Royal Collection Trust
©His Majesty King Charles III 2022
Birch Copse (A stand of trees), c.1508
Red chalk
193 x 153 mm | 7.59 x 6.02 in
Royal Collection Trust
©His Majesty King Charles III 2022
I’m so fucking proud of Krista. Annie Wilkes for the ages. :))))))
November 3, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I’m so fucking proud of Krista. Annie Wilkes for the ages. :))))))
Closed Misery today! Unemployed for a day and then doing my first Christmas Carol adaptation since 2009.
November 3, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Closed Misery today! Unemployed for a day and then doing my first Christmas Carol adaptation since 2009.
Closing the show today. Third closing performance in two months. And it’s the 150th or so closing show of my career. Probably the final violence-heavy performance I’ll physically be able to do. Couple million folks have watched me develop advanced arthritis in the neck/knees. No more falling down.
November 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Closing the show today. Third closing performance in two months. And it’s the 150th or so closing show of my career. Probably the final violence-heavy performance I’ll physically be able to do. Couple million folks have watched me develop advanced arthritis in the neck/knees. No more falling down.
During a pretty heavy scene, from the front row:
“Oh look at his little face!”
“Oh look at his little face!”
November 2, 2025 at 3:57 AM
During a pretty heavy scene, from the front row:
“Oh look at his little face!”
“Oh look at his little face!”
Gaining an hour before a Sunday matinee is a wonderful thing.
November 2, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Gaining an hour before a Sunday matinee is a wonderful thing.