Inertia. Oh it's so hard to get something moving once it has stopped. I'm working on some new things. It's a slow process just now.
I'm looking for countries I might move to with my family. You know, it's election year and it always freaks me out and the freak has started earlier this year. Last week someone suggested Dubai. Yeah. Maybe they were joking. Hard to tell these days, isn't it?
Post-Dramatic Stress Disorder.
Idealistic playwrights who take issue with our occasional anti-playwright attitude should perhaps take note of the fact our issue is less with the fact you wrote something as it is the fact you wrote something un-questioningly for mainstream theater production, the same beast so many playwrights find fault with while never stepping back to think critically about whether the very faults they find with the production model (NPD hell, anyone?) are not informed by a set of ideological assumptions that likewise inform the very aesthetic practices they present onstage.I just want to record that and play it over and over again until it strips every last nerve. Actually, I want to write this on the wall in my studio because it's nice to have an affirmation. Stay tuned...
Playwrights Are Not Writers.
From Francis Bacon to Hobbes to Turning: George Dyson on the History of Bits. And then there's this list.
NYT Critic Watch. It's fun to read the reviews and rate the critics. It kind of affirms the status of the NYT as cultural arbiter, but I won't beat that dead horse. It's in the name of research, so give it a try.
Print Culture 101: A Cheat Sheet and Syllabus. Where are we going with this? Trust me. I don't know.
Top 10 Scenes in Literature to Bring You Terrorsleep: Part 1 & Part 2 because it serendipitously mentions the name Gerald, I like the word terrorsleep, and I've read a few of the books listed. I highly recommend Blood Meridian and As I Lay Dying.
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