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THE EPIC JOURNEY OF BERTHA DEBLUES
Gina Wilhelm - Sam Longoria
4 Years To Travel 1.76 Miles! (2013-2017)
Cost $500 million!
Bertha DeBlues by Gina Wilhelm @BerthaDeBlues
Sam_Longoria by Sam Longoria @Sam_Longoria
No longer underground, but still tweetin'!
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria 21 minutes ago
Here to help
THE END
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues 21 minutes ago
I'm SO free.
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues 21 minutes ago
Dusty, rusty, and tired. But oh!
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria 12:56 PM - 5 Apr 2017
@TedLandK5 @BerthaDeBlues
Bertha! Good work, good job, you've actually Broken Through!
Lots of dust, lots of noise. How are you, Bertha?
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues 29 minutes ago
What a long, strange trip it's been.
Seattle's tunnel boring machine Bertha reaches end of long, troubled journey
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues 39 minutes ago
I'm reborn! I'm a born-again tunneler. I feel like going door-to-door.
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues 39 minutes ago
I'm so cute, with my big head and little(ish) body!
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria 39 minutes ago
You're a reborn born-again, Birtha! @BerthaDeBlues!
Waaaaaaaaaaa!
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues 41 minutes ago
Hinky!
Bertha @BerthaDigsSR99
Fun fact: #BerthaBreakthrough is happening on the
Alaskan Way Viaduct's 64th birthday.
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues 3 hours ago
#IEndMyDayBy triumphantly emerging from the ground! #Howdyalikemenow
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues 3 hours ago
Going!
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria 3 hours ago
Go go go, Bertha!
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues 3 hours ago
What's the lesson
What is the take-away
Don't mess with Bertha when she's on the break-away
#BerthaBreakthrough #Moana
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues 3 hours ago
Had my own darn #PrisonBreak today.
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues 3 hours ago
BTW, where was the sun? I'm highly disappointed.
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria 3 hours ago
Go go, Bertha! @BerthaDeBlues
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues 4 hours ago
Always lead with your chin.
Bertha @BerthaDigsSR99
Still can't see the cutter-head. The machine is rising at a 4 degree angle, so the bottom of the head will appear first. #BerthaBreakthrough
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues 4 hours ago
I'm so close, I can FEEL it!
Bertha @BerthaDigsSR99
Contractor reports the cutter-head is about 1 foot from daylight. it remains very dusty in the pit. #BerthaBreakthrough
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues 5 hours ago
Bertha's busting out all over!
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues 18 hours ago
Ready or not, here I come! #berthabreakthrough
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria 3 hours ago
Go, Bertha! @BerthaDeBlues
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues 20 hours ago
The end is near! Abandon all hope, ye who exit here!
The end is near for Bertha... @washtimes
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues 20 hours ago
It'd be way easier to push a giraffe through that giant tunnel behind me. #justsaying
Marsh Ray @marshray
FB is having a race between a giraffe transiting
a birth canal and a tunnel boring machine.
@BerthaDigsSR99 @BerthaDeBlues
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria 3 hours ago
@BerthaDeBlues @KING5Seattle
ONE SIDE - SHE'S COMIN' THROUGH! GANGWAY! - STEP LIVELY! - #BERTHABREAKTHROUGH
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues 18 hours ago
The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades. I hope. #scusemewhileiseetheskyforthefirsttimeinmonths #berthabreakthrough
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria 16 hours ago
@BerthaDeBlues @KING5Seattle
Hot plate! Comin' Through! Nothing to look at here, only the Biggest Boring Machine in the world! Make way! Make way for Bertha DeBlues!
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues 22 hours ago
@sam_longoria @KING5Seattle
Hot soup!
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues Apr 3
I can practically see the end!
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria 16 hours ago
@KING5Seattle @BerthaDeBlues
Well step aside, and let us see...
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues 16 hours ago
@sam_longoria @KING5Seattle
And yet, they never talk to me personally. Who knows
what secrets I'm hiding?
KING 5 News liked a reply to you Apr 3
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues Apr 3
Yeah, but I think @KING5Seattle may be serious this time.
At least, I hope so.
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Apr 3
@BerthaDeBlues @KING5Seattle
That was 1989, and I'll bet they've had to fact-check and verify every little thing they've said, since then.
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Apr 3
Of course, that's KING-TV 5, the station that said the Space Needle collapsed.
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Apr 3
You have only 89 feet to go, Bertha! They say you're...almost...there!
Then you dig other projects.
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Apr 3
The sequel has two tracks, so it is
stereotonous.
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues 22 hours ago
How monotonous.
(Eartha Kitt sings "Monotonous.")
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria 25 hours ago
@BerthaDeBlues @KING5Seattle
That particular Troll is prepared. He has brought his Eartha Kitt.
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues Apr 3
They don't already? I mean, besides the one eating a Volkswagen.
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Apr 3
Moles and voles all live in holes, And party then with Bertha. Should moles and voles prefer...the knolls, Then TROLLS would dig the Eartha!
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues Apr 2
Working. And partying with the moles.
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Mar 30
"What is HE doing in the Chunnel?" And what are YOU doing, Bertha?
What on or under the Earth is going ON down there? What?
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues Mar 3
"Everyone out of the Chunnel!"
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Mar 2
Bertha's Favorite Movies, including Underground Hit "Chunnel."
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues 20 hours ago
Check out my measurements!
Bertha @BerthaDigsSR99
Bertha is now 127 feet from the disassembly pit.
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues Mar 31
The Internet definitely needs cat pictures.
At least, THESE cat pictures.
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Mar 31
Maybe some encouragement today, Bertha?
To chew rocks into dust.
The most beautiful cat in the world.
Fizzgig 01
Fizzgig 02
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria 16 hours ago
@BerthaDeBlues @KING5Seattle @king5news
I meta bunch of 'em!
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues 16 hours ago
@sam_longoria @KING5Seattle @king5news
And how many Berthas have you meta?
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria 23 hours ago
@BerthaDeBlues @KING5Seattle @KING5NEWS
It's GOOD you're meta, Bertha! I never meta Bertha I didn't like!
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Mar 30
You ARE, Bertha. "Meta" is "self-referential," "beyond," or "beneath reality."
NO MORE beneath reality than YOU! I dig!
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues Mar 30
@sam_longoria I am SO meta.
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Apr 3
In the gravy,
He can sail the seven seas,
In the gravy,
He can put his mind at ease.
In the gravy, come on now people!
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues Apr 2
But is he wavy?
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Apr 2
I am so glad. I do prefer the one. Gravy explains
why he's hitting the sauce of late. And of early.
Swacked all day. Drowned.
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues Apr 2
There's probably more gravy than a grave about him.
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Mar 31
Joe Gillis was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that.
His Death Certificate was signed by the LA County coroner in ink.
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues Mar 31
She turned out better than Joe Gillis. AND she was famous. Famous!
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Mar 30
Don't emulate Norma Desmond, she met a bad end. Wait, Norma
got into a movie, and in fact became famous again. Bad example.
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues Mar 30
I AM big. It's the news that got smaller.
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues Mar 30
I drove almost 2 miles for you. Well, all of you, really. Sorry.
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Mar 30
Of course you strong, Bertha. Drove 500 miles for you yesterday.
Would I do that for anybody else? No, I would not.
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Mar 27
Bertha's Favorite Movies, including Underground Hit "Chunnel."
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Mar 22
Bertha is not weak. Bertha is strong, and BIG. Held up better than anybody else. Bertha's core needs slip safely away.
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Mar 22
I still believe in you, Bertha DeBlues! And I still have faith!
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Mar 22
Not her fault. Poor Bertha! It is cold and dark, and it grows so, every day.
I have two things for Bertha, to help.
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Mar 22
The spotlight gets off-Bertha each day. You need a bigger world-stage character, to voice and act. Bertha is fading.
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Mar 22
Poor Bertha! And you know what that really means. It's really you - inside the character - inside the ninja bore-machine suit
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Mar 22
I try to Sweep at least once a week. Really, I try.
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Mar 22
You picked the metaphor, because you need to externalize your story.
You need sweep, honey, and money, and one worthy.
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Mar 22
Oh, Bertha! I hear you baby. That's what this whole meta-for is, Bertha. You're down in a hole in the ground, working late.
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues Mar 22
Sweep is for the weak.
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Mar 4
Round rules! Rigorous rolling! Right on! Glad your show is showing.
I'm cleaning up after the Oscars. They want me to sweep.
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Mar 7
Round round get around, I get around. Round round get around, I get around. I get around!
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues Mar 3
I definitely would have fit in on that roundy stage thing they
had going this year. Round rules!
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Feb 26
I hope to see you up here. Come up! If you were topside,
I'd be taking you to the Oscars today. Your favorites?
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Feb 27
I'm sorry I hurt you, Bertha. I will never do it again.
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Feb 27
YOU AM! Never said otherwise, Bertha. I have always believed in you,
and supported you even when others didn't. Still do!
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues Feb 24
Thank you! I AM pretty great, aren't I?
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Feb 19
We won't let them dismantle you, Bertha! I believe in you.
We all believe in you! You are the finest boring machine ever!
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Feb 17
Of course you have, poor Bertha. Can you see this job drawing to a
close? Is there a light? Is it at...the end of the tunnel?
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues Feb 13
I've been digging like crazy, keeping my cutter-head down.
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Feb 11
Bertha! Are you all right? How are you doing? Haven't heard from you. What's the latest?
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Jan 29
Ratings, Bertha! They listen to us sing and dance! Click clickety click!
16.7k (16,700) this month of January 2017! Hurray!
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Feb 17
I know it seems there are spiders, but that's because you're on the
World-Wide Web. What are your plans, after this tunnel?
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues Feb 13
There are already too many spiders down here.
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Jan 22
With great power come great utility bills! And with a great big really,
really long cable, come big big long movies. Yee-haw!
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Jan 22
Cable? That's just a long wire! I always think of you as a DISH, girl!
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues Jan 20
I have a really, really long cable.
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Jan 9
Bertha, you get TV down there? You can read Tweets, but
do you see news of the world? Or it all just a grind?
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Feb 26
It has to stay cool, Bertha, or it evaporates. Get past this
boring job, Bertha! I hear you, I understand what you're saying.
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues Feb 24
Better food than rocks? I can do that.
The booze is still cool, though, right?
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Feb 19
We're all rooting for you Bertha! Eat better food, keep your
eyes on the prize, and resume your plan! You'll get there!
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Feb 17
You ARE awesome, Bertha! When you come up for air, you can
stretch and be active. That will fix you right up. Courage!
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues Feb 13
It's because we're so awesome. As in huge. I inspire awe.
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Jan 25
Your hole family is pretty holey. Keep on grindin' Bertha! You'll get
there, unless you stop or get "underground depressed."
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues Jan 20
Technological marvel, yup, that sums up the family pretty well!
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Jan 7
Bertha, your family history! Big, bigger, biggest tunnels in the world.
See if you recognize anybody!
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Jan 4
Dis is de end a de song...Beginning is at de bottom...
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Jan 4
(With apologies to Alan Menken and Howard Ashman) 01
© 2017 Sam Longoria, All Rights Reserved
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Jan 4
Under da sea, under da sea, under da sea… 02
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Jan 4
Up in de town good work is gone, both for MS and Amazon.
Don’t slave away, or live grey-to-day, just go bore away! 03
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Jan 4
Under da sea, Under da sea, Bertha it's better,
Filthy and Wetter, Dig it and see! 04
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Jan 4
We go to dinner and we go dance! 05
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Jan 4
Bertha come here and dig in England, a Chunnel that goes to France. Chunnel dig finish, and it gets do-ne. 06
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Jan 4
Up on de road dey work all day, Seattle Town dey slave away.
Worthy of notin', Hikin' and Boatin', dose just don't pay! 07
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Jan 4
Under da sea, Under da sea, Bertha it's better, Dirty but wetter,
Dig it and see! 08
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Jan 4
Grumble and stumble to rainy goals. 09
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Jan 4
Workin' down where you dig the tunnel, You grind the rocks,
just to dig big holes, Jerks up above you, dey ain't too happy. 10
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Jan 4
Dressed in their skeevvies, watching their TVs,
They dig the Chunnel Channel, under the sea. 11
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Jan 4
Chunnel is the Tunnel, beneath the English Channel, everybody
sees it, on the BBC. Chunnel Channel, England-France all on TV. 12
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues Jan 4
Where's "Chunnel?"
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Jan 2
BERTHA DE BLUES - SEATTLE TUNNEL MACHINE - NEVER BORING
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Jan 5
And a YO-YO is double-talk.
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Jan 6
Certainly not in England.
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues Jan 6
I ain't no bum!
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Jan 5
Shh! He'll hear you. Rocky's rootin' for you, Bertha!
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues Jan 5
I assumed everyone from Philadelphia talked like that.
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Jan 4
How do you explain his accent?
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues Jan 4
He hardly chewed any rocks at all.
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Jan 2
Well, there is “Rocky.”
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues Jan 1
Any movies about downtrodden tunneling machines, who defy
the odds and a grumpy city to victoriously dig a big hole?
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Jan 1
You are a tunneling MACHINE, Bertha, but you are never boring.
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Dec 31
HAPPY NEW YEAR, BERTHA DEBLUES! Down in a dark tunnel in the ground. Cold, pitch-black. Me too. I shoot movie Visual Effects.
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria 31 Dec 2016
Indeed, you're eminently diggable. Who else has your grace,
your facile wit, and pre-eminent tunneling ability? None, BDB!
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria 31 Dec 2016
Forward, Bertha! Onward! and eventually perhaps even, Upward!
Keep a'goin'! I think I can, I think I can, I think I can!
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria 31 Dec 2016
My computer plays "In lazy languor--motionless,
We lie and dream of nothingness; For visions come
From Poppydom" to awaken me
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria 31 Dec 2016
It is hard for heroines, and for me as well. I cannot do otherwise.
I've lost my heroines lately, and I am a heroine addict.
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria 31 Dec 2016
Poor Bertha! I miss you down there, and also up here.
Hang in there, poor tunneling waif. Undermine,
and you shall overcome!
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues 30 Dec 2016
I keep getting dirt in them!!!
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria 30 Dec 2016
"Long Night's Journey Into The Bay" if you fall asleep.
Keep those baby blues OPEN!
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria 29 Dec 2016
Don't be hard on yourself. (Hard - metal - ha ha!) You got all
the great qualities. I like a girl who goes slow, for example.
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria 29 Dec 2016
Me dig you long time!
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria 28 Dec 2016
Is there anybody else down there? Is that the Tunnel of Love?
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues 28 Dec 2016
If they served me, they would at least be serving metal.
Heavy metal, even!
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria 25 Dec 2016
When will Dick's Drive-in stop SERVING plastic?
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues 25 Dec 2016
Glad to hear Dick's Drive-In will start taking plastic.
When will @DicksDriveIns start underground delivery?
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues 31 Dec 2016
I've been dug!
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria 31 Dec 2016
DIG YOU BERTHA!
Sam Longoria @sam_longoria Dec 31
@DrTarnak @BerthaDeBlues @BerthaDigsSR99 @timoutoflove
There's taking a part, and then there's taken apart.
Brian Verhoeven @DrTarnak 29 Dec 2016
@BerthaDeBlues @BerthaDigsSR99 @timoutoflove
We’re going to have a disassembly party :)
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues 21 Dec 2016
It's #wintersolstice, which means the longest night of the year. As if that matters when you LIVE IN A HOLE. #EveryNightIsLongDownHere
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues 23 Nov 2016
What the heck is going ON back there?
Bertha @BerthaDigsSR99
New before/after photo highlights the changing
landscape at the tunnel’s future south portal.
Bertha DeBlues ryan @ryanrogers 6 Oct 2016
@BerthaDigsSR99 let's not get cocky just yet...
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues 6 Oct 2016
That's right, a PLANNED stop.
Bertha @BerthaDigsSR99
Bertha reaches planned maintenance stop. Crews
have tunneled 4,721 ft. and built 717 concrete rings.
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues 3 Oct 2016
Halfway through! Hey, @MarketMagicShop, can you help a girl out? #PrettyBalloons
Bertha @BerthaDigsSR99
By passing @pike_place, Bertha has reached the halfway
point of the 9,270-foot tunnel drive! #BalloonsOverBertha
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues 20 Sep 2016
What a relief, I was afraid people would be taking tours behind my bum.
Bertha @BerthaDigsSR99
Spots are filling up for our free bike tours of the future tunnel route!
Explore on two wheels, through end of October.
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues 15 Sep 2016
So take THAT!
Bertha @BerthaDigsSR99
Thurs. progress update: Seattle Tunnel Partners
has mined 4,222 feet and built 641 concrete rings.
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues 13 Sep 2016
"On the Road Again..."
Or in front of and under it....
Bertha @BerthaDigsSR99
Bertha back on the move
Bertha DeBlues @BerthaDeBlues 4 Sep 2016
I see I am now followed by @TVWritersVault. Has anyone pitched a show about a sentient tunneler trapped under a city on a fault line? Dibs!
THE BEGINNING
Scroll Down - Read Upward
THE EPIC JOURNEY OF BERTHA DEBLUES
Gina Wilhelm - Sam Longoria
4 Years To Travel 1.76 Miles! (2013-2017)
Cost $500 million!
The world's FIRST Twitter play!
Written over 8 months, at a cost of $500 million.
Available for Public Performance, contact us.
© 2017 Gina Wilhelm & Sam Longoria, All Rights Reserved
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