Hey all,

I’m trying to make my website look slightly less like something a scammer would set up in a hurry and one of the things I’ve been told I need is some new testimonials. So I appeal to you, faithful reader: Would you be willing to be quoted saying something nice about Mercury Improv?

You can use the Google Form I made for this, but you could also just respond to this email.

Either way, if I quote what you say I’ll only use your first name and the first initial of your last name (unless you tell me you want to go by a different name).

No sweat if you don’t feel like it, but it would be very helpful! (For the record, I also want to hear if you have anything negative to say about Mercury Improv – truly! – but I probably won’t put that on the website.)

In the meantime, the next round of Improv for Introverts is open for enrollment, and you can still take advantage of the special buddy system deal to save fifty bucks when you sign up two people at once. Are you tired of me saying “Such a deal”? I don’t care, I speak my truth and this is SUCH A DEAL.

That’s all for now. See you soon, I hope.

Till then,
John

P.S. I went back and forth about using the Norman Rockwell painting (actual title: Freedom of Speech, part of the “Four Freedoms” tetraptych¹). One the one hand, it illustrates one of our nation’s founding principles, which is freedom of speech. On the other hand, it also illustrates another of our nation’s founding principles, which is white men deciding things.

I actually went looking for some modernized version of this in which my demographic is not so overrepresented and found this:

I mean, I don’t disagree with the sentiment, and I don’t want to make fun of someone for not clocking a remix of a famous painting, but I’m not at all sure this version works on its own, maybe because I feel like turning Young Abe Lincoln into Young Paulina Porizkova does not serve the piece’s larger themes? YMMV.