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April 28, 2010
March 22, 2010
The Secret History Music Video
My good friend, Ben Hughes, has directed a great new music video. Great band. Great video.
Check it out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvmfsbT2NfY
February 22nd, 2010
New Short Plays from Samuel French!
Went to the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival Book Launch at The Drama Bookshop tonight.
It was a great evening of great new plays! Check them out!
http://www.samuelfrench.com/store/produc
February 10th, 2010
CLICK!November 7th, 2009
Sparrow Hall / Two Blue Wolves
Just wanted to give a shout out to great writer and friend Sparrow Hall who is currently working on a campaign to fight Alzheimer's. Go to his site and see how you can help.
Two Blue Wolves is a great short story and it's a great project to support. For more info go to:
Author: Sparrow Hall
July 18th, 2009
Doll Play had its performance at the Sam French Short Festival last night. The actors nailed it and the audience really enjoyed. Special kudos and thanks to all the folks at Samuel French who put the whole event together. They rocked it out. It was an amazing time. I loved meeting other playwrights and seeing all the great work out there.
Two days left in the festival -- if you haven't done so already I highly reccomend you stopping by and checking it out. You'll be glad you did.
http://www.samuelfrench.com/oobfestival/
February 5th, 2009
Saw an amazing production of Uncle Vanya at the Classic Stage Company last night. From top to bottom - translation, direction, acting, set design, costume design and sound design -- it was a thrilling experience.Rush to see this while you can still get tickets!
Bearing Arms By Benjamin Busch
Just read a fantastic piece in Harper's Magazine (February 2009) entitled: Bearing Arms: The serious boy at war. It is a memoir written by Benjamin Busch.
I can't say enough about it.
Here's the link:
http://harpers.org/archive/2009/02/0082382
10-28-08
I've been having this heated politcal discussion about the upcoming election with a conservative friend of mine. About half-way into the discussion everything turned away from actual issues and deteriorated into name-calling and unsubtantiated accusations about Obama.
Here's a short list of his favorite attacks:
Obama's a Marxist.
Obama is not an American citizen and he's hiding his "real" Birth Cerificate as proof.
Obama pals around with terrorists and Anti-American zealots.
And, my favorite, "I wish you luck voting for Barack HUSSEIN Obama."
All of them are ripe but this last one is priceless because my friend likes to lean on Obama's middle name as though in doing so he's exposed Obama's true nature. What that true nature is he won't exactly say. I asked him, but he wouldn't say anything, preferring only to smile in a "I think you know what I'm talking about" sort of a way.
Anyhow, it was a little sad how far away from the issues our conversation had strayed. When I pointed out that this was quite possibly one of the reasons why McCain was down in the polls - that he had strayed from discussing the actual issues that were important to most Americans and it was essentially turning them off, he sent me an email saying how Obama has been working closely with ACORN for the last twenty years and was actively conspiring to steal the election with the help of all the major networks except FOX News. The "liberal" networks were putting out phony polling data to help confuse the American people, according to him.
I ignored his email about ACORN and the liberal networks because I tend to get hives whenever I discuss FOX News and the last time we discussed an ACORN related issue he couldn't even tell me what ACORN stood for.
Instead I sent him an email wishing him luck voting for John SIDNEY McCain. He emailed back suggesting I was being silly.
Well said, my conservative friend.
Well said.
8-15-08
After last night's performance of STAIN, I met a man who told me he was the inspiration behind the "mullet". He told me it was a creation of function rather than fashion -- his hair would keep getting in his face and so, finally, he grabbed a pair of scissors and went to work. He went on to tell me that another man (with the last name of Mullet) saw him, claimed it, gave it the famous name it now goes by and the rest was, well, revisionist history. He also told me he was the fastest man on skis. (110 MPH downhill; 160 MPH in the air) He seemed like a great guy, this man.
He was with a friend, a man who's running for President. (as he does every four years - his friend) He gave me a bumper sticker with the information on it and told me how one time, years ago, he ran with Hunter S Thompson on his ticket. He seemed like a great guy, as well.
He told me other things, too, his friend. Things about cancer -- don't drink water from plastic bottles or drink through plastic straws because the chemicals from the plastic ultimately get into the water and give you cancer. Don't eat ice cubes because the Freon from your freezer ultimately leaks into your ice and gives you cancer. Don't use air conditioning because the Freon mixes with the air you breathe and ultimately gives you cancer.
The two of them told me a lot more last night -- but I don't want to write any of that down for some reason.
They were with another friend, a very nice woman, who asked me if I had ever been to the Wailing Wall in Israel (I make a passing reference to it in the play that all three just happened to see that night by chance -- they just walked by the poster outside the theatre and decided to give it a watch.) When I told her that I hadn't been to the Wailing Wall, that I hadn't even been to Israel, she stopped speaking to me altogether, although it's possible I was just being sensitive about it.
I still have the bumper sticker.
August 5th, 2008
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