Laura Denton

Actor - Artist - Screenwriter //// I have an extreme fear of ice skating.

[Laura Denton @RockyRoadkill]

Jesus, I'm JUST learning how to contour, guys "Pokémon Makeup Is Real" https://t.co/H8cnE7Aqfv

[Valley Writers Meetup @ValleyWritersMU]

We haven’t gotten any less awkward during our brief summer hiatus. Come and see next week! Wednesday 8/14 at @Lawlessbeer #valleywritersmeetup

[Rolando Joseph Herrera @ScrawnyStrange]

@marktaylormusic 💯💯👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
@TonyaSeverance @RockyRoadkill
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[Laura Denton @RockyRoadkill]

TONIGHT!

[Valley Writers Meetup @ValleyWritersMU]

🚨SAVE THE DATE 🚨it’s our two year anniversary! Come join us at the next #valleywritersmeetup on Wednesday May 15th from 6-9. There will be sweet treats and even sweeter hosts… and maybe more!? Who knows! See you there!?

[Laura Denton @RockyRoadkill]

HEARD 👩🏻‍🍳

[Laura Denton @RockyRoadkill]

@slpgfinch Hey Sarah! I have a sci-fi thriller that placed as a Finalist in a WeScreenplay Feature lab and is in the Top 7% on Coverfly. Would love to connect

[Laura Denton @RockyRoadkill]

Please god yes 🙏

[Dan Ast @Dan_Ast]

Y’all think we can work another season of Mindhunter into the demands when we win this strike?

[Joe Russo @joerussotweets]

It’s September 1st.

Spooky Season is HERE!!!!

[Valley Writers Meetup @ValleyWritersMU]

SAVE THE DATE!! The next #valleywritersmeetup is right in the middle of Spooky Szn! See you October 18 from 6-9pm at @Lawlessbeer for a bewitching time! 👻

[Laura Denton @RockyRoadkill]

Success! 👀

[Valley Writers Meetup @ValleyWritersMU]

Not sure if any writing group love was found last night at our #valleywritersmeetup but we get asked all the time if we know how to start a group or how to find a group to join. Doing what we can to help!

[Laura Denton @RockyRoadkill]

@thewalkerdw Took it like a champ! Honestly it was so hot outside, it looked refreshing. Glad you had a great time ❤️

[Laura Denton @RockyRoadkill]

It was a great one! 🍰

[Valley Writers Meetup @ValleyWritersMU]

From all of us at #valleywritersmeetup thanks for coming! We will see you at the next one!

[Laura Denton @RockyRoadkill]

@GiveThemDiamond @ValleyWritersMU @Cheesecake @CalifMaidenMan That’s RIGHT! Virgos Unite! ♍️ 🫡

[Laura Denton @RockyRoadkill]

❤️❤️❤️

[Valley Writers Meetup @ValleyWritersMU]

Congrats to @GiveThemDiamond & Andrew Malone for each winning a $50 gift card to the @Cheesecake Factory! Donated by the gals of the @ValleyWritersMU & past raffle winner @CalifMaidenMan who wanted to pay it forward! Thank you all for coming out tonight!

[Laura Denton @RockyRoadkill]

@GiveThemDiamond @ValleyWritersMU @Cheesecake @CalifMaidenMan WAIT WAS IT YOUR BIRTHDAY YESTERDAY??

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

12 Reasons Why Cities Need More Trees:

1. Temperature Control

One large tree is equivalent to 10 air conditioning units, and the shade they provide can reduce street temperature by more than 30%.

2. Noise Reduction

Trees can reduce loudness by up to 50%. In urban areas filled with the sound of cars, construction, sirens, aeroplanes, and music, trees are essentially the best way to block noise and keep cities — along with the homes and workplaces in them — quieter.

3. Air Purity

Trees remove an astonishing amount of harmful pollutants and toxins from the air. In urban areas air quality is often disastrously bad — with severe consequences for our health. Trees make the air we breathe much cleaner.

4. Oxygen

And, while absorbing all those pollutants, trees also put more oxygen back into the urban environment. Oxygen levels are significantly lower in cities compared to the countryside; trees help to solve that problem.

5. Water Management

Trees do more than just shelter us and our buildings from rain — which is, in fact, extremely important. They also absorb huge quantities of water, reduce run-off, neutralise the severity of flooding, and make flooding more unlikely altogether. Not to forget that their roots absorb pollutants and prevent them from feeding back into a city's water supply.

6. Psychological Health

Studies have proven what we instinctively know to be true: that human beings are significantly happier when surrounded by nature rather than sterile urban environments. Our emotions, behaviour, and thoughts are shaped by the places we spend time — and trees have a profoundly positive effect on our psychology. The consequential benefits of being happier and more peaceful — as individuals and as a society — are immense.

7. Physical Health

Beyond all the other ways in which trees improve air quality and the urban environment, much to the benefit of our health, they also encourage people to go outside. Cycling, running, and walking are all more common in urban areas with plenty of trees. A knock-on effect of people spending more time outdoors is also social integration and stronger communities.

8. Privacy

A simple point, but not inconsequential, is that trees provide privacy.

9. Economics

The total economic benefit of urban trees is hard to calculate. There are costs, of course, including the repair of infrastructure damaged by roots and maintaining the trees themselves. But the total economic benefit — a consequence of everything else in this list and more — far outweighs the expenditure. Trees make cities wealthier.

10. Wildlife

Trees are miniature cities all of their own, serving as a habitat for hundreds of different species, including birds and mammals and insects.

11. Light Pollution

Trees don't only block the light shining down, therefore keeping us and our cities cooler — they also disrupt light shining up, from street lighting, cars, houses, and billboards. Skies are clearer in cities with more trees.

12. Aesthetics

And, finally, trees are beautiful. They break up the potential monotony of urban environments — the sharp geometry, the greyscale roads and buildings, the endless rows of cars — with their trunks, boughs, canopies, and flowers.

Just think: the gold and red of falling leaves in autumn, the white and pink blossom of spring, the vast green canopies of summer, and the branches lined with hoar-frost in winter. Every single tree is a myriad of intricacy and texture, of colour and scent, of dappled light on the pavement, mottled bark, knotted roots, of clustered leaves and delicate petals and stern boughs.

Few streets would not be improved by the kaleidoscopic aesthetic delights of a tree, not to mention the many different species of tree, all over the world, whether willow, oak, lime, cherry, aspen, maple, birch, horse chestnut, dogwood, hornbeam, ash, sycamore... the list goes on.

There are some drawbacks to urban trees, most of them context-specific, and they are not — of course — universally appropriate. But it seems fair to say that many cities would benefit from at least a few more trees here and there.

[Valley Writers Meetup @ValleyWritersMU]

Hey @ItsMeCarolAMPTP we're giving away two @Cheesecake gift cards to needy writers at #valleywritersmeetup - see you there! ;) And see everyone on Wednesday from 6-9p at Lawless Beer.

[Valley Writers Meetup @ValleyWritersMU]

Reminder that the Westside Writers Meetup is tomorrow eve. Meet the Godfather of Writer Mixers (@DavidHSteinberg ) himself!

[Laura Denton @RockyRoadkill]

Literally AMPTP & WGA/SAGAFTRA

#WGAStrong #WGAStrike #SAGAFTRAstrong #SAGAFTRAstrike.

[Valley Writers Meetup @ValleyWritersMU]

Now that there are two strikes going on consider throwing a few bucks towards the #pizzastrikefund - every bit counts!

[Joe Russo @joerussotweets]

Together, We’re about to reshape the industry. The actors, the writers and the direc—

Wait. I mean the actors and the writers.

The directors, well, they got their “historic” deal while we’re about to go make REAL Hollywood history happen.