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Tuesday Afternoon Diversion: Dramatic Readings of Facebook

By Kevin Robinson in Arts & Entertainment on Feb 7, 2012 9:00PM

When this Chicagoist was in high school, he read the "How to use Cliffs Notes" page as an audition for the school play. As a junior, it seemed like a clever way to give a dramatic reading without having to be, well, too dramatic. Fast forward 20 years to the modern age of Facebook and all of the humor sites making fun of the juvenile and dramatic posts, and we get to today's diversion: the dramatic interpretation of a real conversation from a seventh graders Facebook.