JoeTalk: Megillah Tweets

Hi all. Tweeted the megillah. It was fun.

@arijay918 The megillah read's like an old man's inglorious basterds - A Jewish wet dream of vengeance.

Anyone else a bit skeptical of the Jew's ability to decimate their enemies, is that an inappropriate question?

Today is international women's day. Which is cool because the megillah really represents women well #sarcasm

Movie idea: Esther played by #EmmaStone as awkward but snarky. Or #ZooeyDeschanel as quirky, lovable.

Another basic creative writing lesson - one ending per story. Megillah has like five #learnhowtowritebetter

After this whole episode, who would stay in any of these countries. King A. throws around genocides like nobody's business - #getoutofpersia

Anyone else think it's funny how quickly everyone in the story just solves problem through hangings? #reignofterror #megillah

When Haman finds out that King A. plans on celebrating Mordechai and not him = true sad face emoticon #feelings#megillah

With all due respect to King A. - A horse ride? How about money, power, one of your 127 nations, some women, anything but a horse ride...

Man, how whiny does Haman sound when he brags to his wife that only got invited to the party - he also needs more hugz #megillah

If I was reading the Megillah for the first time, I would probably guess that Haman was gonna lose pretty soon into the story #sixthsense

King A. = ridikulous. I will give you half the kingdom? What! Esther could not have been that pretty. dude needed more hugs as a child.

It seems that Mordechai and Esther never talk to each other directly. #BadCommunicationSkillz

Mordechai knows everything, so connected. His seems like Carcetti on Game of Thrones, except he doesnt own a brothel, I dont think...

Basic tenet of creative writing = show not tell. Megillah is all tell. Sometimes sounds like a kid wrote it - then this happened... #Megilla

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See previous tweet, but that's basically the story of this bachelor, except he gives a ring instead of a crown...#megillah

The king loved Esther above all the women... so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti - verse 17

King A's way of choosing way women seems oddly similar to the oddly popular show the Bachelor...just sayin' #megillah tweets

Why is it that no one actually does any work in the megillah. Everyone is always just lounging around, or partying, it's like Gossip girl

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One of the crazier parts of the megillah - six months of oil baths and six months of makeup - can you imagine that kind of pampering?

I think Vashti is totally underrated. What a baller. Who says no to the king? She does. She might the biggest baller in the story? #megillah

King A. reminds me of how I imagine Rick Ross lives - 100+ days of partying, flowing wine, showing off women, an entourage giving bad advice

Ari Schwab's Tweets

@JosephWinkler I like how we're remindEd at the end that Haman was the villain...in case we forgot. totally diff story if he was hero.

@JosephWinkler wouldn't be a happy ending if Mordy didn't get decked out in full swag....phew, that happens.

@JosephWinkler #Wire wisdom from megillah: the king stay the king. No matter how smart those pawns be.

only thing keeping Haman from being a comic book villain is he forgets to monologue his plan and cackle. @JosephWinkler

Movie idea: Esther played by #EmmaStone as awkward but snarky. Or #ZooeyDeschanel as quirky, lovable.

Megillah thoughts: Haman, Achash, even Mordy&Esther were all the 1%. #WeAreThe99%

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