Sh*t Happens: The Book

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I started reading this, meaning to read it bit by bit, but could not put it down! It is very funny, very sad and the description of being in hospital is very realistic! Write some more!” While it is possible to start memorizing the misery index scores, there are enough cards to prevent that from happening for a while, especially if you mix in expansions (which use decimal points!). In any event, the game is less about who wins and more about the process.Can SHIT HAPPENS turn 2020 around? I guess anything is possible at this point! It's something I have been threatening to do for many years - I used to write a lot when I was younger, but was stopped by anxiety, crippling perfectionism and other things which got in the way. ZF: How did you come up with the idea for the script? Also, how did you two work together dividing directing duties?

As polemic, it is a provocative argument couched with controlled intelligence and voiced with discrete anger. Only the somewhat awkward ending—a direct entreaty to the audience, “What are we going to do about it?”—strikes a clumsy if appreciable note, its pertinence and assertion of wider responsibility undeniable. Gameplay: This game is pretty fun. While the designers may disagree, the fun is more about the debates and conversation than winning. Interestingly, my wife managed to literally get every single question wrong, which either means she leads a pretty good life, or she just stinks at this game. If we judge something to be bad enough it can amplify all the other bad things that happen. It can be the first thing we think about after waking, and the last thing before falling asleep. It feels like we’re being sh*t on. MM - DS: The very base of the film was a part of Michaela's bachelor film, when we were studying at VŠMU in Bratislava 6 years ago. She was developing her script, when the teacher Patrik Pašš jr., came up with the great metaphor for the theme that she was working on. Michaela ended up never finishing VŠMU or the film. At that time, it would probably be very shitty film, ha! We tend to judge what goes on in our daily lives as either good or bad. We get a promotion or someone gives us a compliment – good. We make a mistake or do something to embarrass ourselves – bad.Although harrowing in places, she says Verlaque's story is also very funny with "big peaks and troughs", but what attracted her most to the part was the honesty of the writing. SHIT HAPPENS from Goliath Games is a social party card game for 2+ players – the goal is to rank bad situations from the least crappy to the worst. Unlike many other social games in which you are appealing to a player to determine which answer wins, SHIT HAPPENS relies on a ‘scientific’ misery index to rank the cards. ZF: Any script or design ideas that came up to you, and you had to abandon in the creative process? The play - which is essentially a love story - speaks to everyone and it is also everyone's collective responsibility to contribute to social change. There is still a long way to go."

The project is realized in the co-production of BFILM.cz (CZ), FAMU (CZ), Bagan Films (FR) and Arte (FR). The realization was supported by Czech Film Fund, Slovak Audiovisual Fund, the programme of European Union Creative Europe MEDIA, CNC, Procirep-Angoa and Literary Fund. In this part of the world, I feel alcoholism has such a grip on so many people and you'd be hard-pressed to find someone that doesn't know someone directly or indirectly affected by it," she says. "It's part of the culture; it's everywhere. It’s a tale of isolating threat and terror at a time when Northern Ireland’s religiously-accented opposition to homosexuality was undisguised, and its tentatively emerging LGBTQ+ community unprotected by law. Though much has changed—albeit with glacial slowness, same-sex marriage in the region legalised only as recently as 2020—little seems to have materially improved, homophobic hate crimes increasing by 26% in 2021, as Verlaque’s portrait of herself as a young woman puissantly points out. Hello Charlie is inspired by my journey to sobriety - I'm three years into my sobriety now - and it's a story about trauma, sisterhood and breaking those familial addictions. It was a cathartic thing to do.

Series 1, Episode 3 - Sh*t Happens

So, basically I've been taking lots of vitamins, drinking gallons of water with honey, ginger - all that. I'm in training and treating myself a bit like an athlete building up to a marathon. I've been careful in rehearsals, not to push myself too much because I could burn out - and I'm not in my 20s any more."

A powerful, provocative monologue, Amanda Verlaque’s This Sh*t Happens All The Time at the Lyric, Belfast poses a question that ought never have to be asked: why should love provoke violence?The situations range from mildly uncomfortable to downright nasty. Suffice to say, if the name of the game doesn’t make it clear enough, YOU SHOULD NOT PLAY THIS WITH KIDS. You may not want to even play this with your parents without removing some cards!

My boyfriend and I decided to part ways in early 2023. This was a big decision that neither one of us took lightly. Given we lived together, it was a lot to unwind. Logistically and emotionally.First, remember these things aren’t happening TO YOU, they’re just happening. Life is full of challenges and opportunities and I equate them to waves in the ocean. Some are big, and some are small. They come in, and they go. But I always remember the universe is working in my favor, not against me. So instead of asking “why is this happening to me?” ask instead, “what are the lessons that are presenting themselves to me right now?” My good buddyGlenn Ambrosesays "life is a schoolhouse". We all have different curricula, but we will be presented with lessons all along the way. I just decided to stop [drinking] and then, being sober and having that clarity, I thought, 'I'm an actress of a certain age and I'm just going to write myself a part that nobody will give me'. It was also that thing of being able to laugh in the face of your own misery." SH_T Happens has its world premiere at the 76th Venice Film Festival (28.08 - 07.09.2019) and its directors are looking forward to watching for the first time the film with an audience. But I have a business to run! I have clients who count on me each and every day to show up as my best self and help them crush their goals. Work doesn't slow down when life happens. It seems to ramp up as soon as we need a breather. Presented as part of Imagine! Festival of Ideas and Politics, This Stuff Still Happens (as it was demurely referred to on a local radio interview) is set in Belfast in 1992 and based on Verlaque’s own experience of coming out as gay, falling in love and having her life threatened by her new lover’s homophobic ex-boyfriend.