This week, my blog has been taken over by a dear gem of a person: Christina Li. She has a blog here that talks about technology and communication, and if you're looking for a post from me this week, you might just find that I've written a little ditty on texting over there as well. …
Continue reading The Best Made Plans Oft Go Awry: A Guest Post By One Of The Best People I Know
So, ah, I missed Earth Day. By a few days. It was one of those times where I was incredibly scattered and then I showed up on Facebook for a few minutes (hours?) and saw all of the posts reminding me to recycle and be aware of plastics and litter and energy consumption, and I immediately felt …
College hunting means lots of hotels. Hotels, at least in my family, means our rare bout of access to cable TV with all the channels. And for my household, full access means a marathon of HGTV. I will admit that there has been an exponential spike in my interest in residential real estate and the current …
Continue reading I Think I’m Addicted To Reality Real Estate
At this very moment, I am writing this blog entry at the desk in my bedroom upstairs. Below me, my grandmother is being interviewed; a process which involves voice recorders, pads of paper, and many snacks (the last of which I have snuck down to steal two times and counting). See, my family just met …
Hey y'all, guess what's happening this coming Tuesday!!!!!!! For those who are living under a rock or who are reading this in the future (hey there) Tuesday is Valentine's Day, aka one of the grossest times of year to be out in public, in the vicinity of lovestruck teenagers...or really anywhere. For those of us with significant others, …
Let's talk about unconventional, abstract theatre!!! (cue: sound of readers clicking away) Hello, you one dear reader who has stayed. Herein lies a topic that few people are actually interested in. The words "abstract theatre" hit their victims like an obsessively and pretentiously aged cheese: you're told that it will be Powerful and Nutty and Revolutionary, …
Continue reading Three Reasons Why This Weird Play Needs To Stay Weird
As the new year has rolled around and I know that exactly none of you (well, maybe a special few) have resolved to read more complex and meaningful fiction. That said, if I may humbly ignore your inferior resolutions to recommend the following: Here's what happens: magicians Celia and Marco are raised from a young age …
Continue reading What’s black and white and turns up unexpectedly at night?
An important mentor of mine has impressed upon me the following over time: some kinds of things are easier for us to understand than others (crazy insightful, I know, but let me explain). We have the brains of hunters and gatherers: solid and concrete things that we can observe and interact with have a lot …
Those who know me well know that I have strong ties to the classic holiday ballet, Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker; those who have dealt with me at any point in the last two weeks will know that I recently just finished my 10th and final year in my local production (these same people will also know that …
Donald Trump will be America's 45th President. Furthermore, our country is divided. The thing about this map is that it does not show this fact in quite the same way. Even though the map looks veritably swallowed by red, Hillary Clinton is being shown to have clinched the popular vote of the country. The country has …
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