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First-time director has some notes
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Continue reading →: First-time director has some notesI’m making my directing debut at the 2023 Reading Theatre Project’s 5-Minute Fringe Festival.
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Playwrights you should read, part one
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Continue reading →: Playwrights you should read, part oneOne in an irregular series of posts, giving well-deserved shout-outs to writers I admire.
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When the resolution goes astray
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Continue reading →: When the resolution goes astrayMy plan to finish a full-length play went a little off course, but in the service of another creative project.
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For the new year, a simple resolution
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Continue reading →: For the new year, a simple resolutionI posted this on Mastodon earlier today, just a kernel of a thought. Since one of my New Year’s resolutions is (or ought to be) more blogging, it seems fitting to re-post it here as an actual blog post. In 2023, my New Year’s resolution can be boiled down to…
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Continue reading →: 5 Things I learned from writing a play every day in FebruaryThis year, as with every year, I made a New Year’s resolution to write “more.” Whatever that means. The best way to do this, of course, is to actually write more. Write every day. It’s that simple, and that complicated. But if you want to be a writer, that’s what…
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That time Ray Bradbury railed against Common Core
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Continue reading →: That time Ray Bradbury railed against Common CoreI can’t read just one book at a time. At any given moment, I’m in the midst of reading as many as a half-dozen books. (According to my Goodreads account, I have 11 books on my Currently Reading list.) As a result, it takes me forever to finish a book.…
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Continue reading →: Confessions of a non-lifelong Seahawks fan
Sports fans are made, not born. Most of the time, team devotion is handed down from parents to children. In my case, I learned to love the Seattle Seahawks with the help of some friends, and with the help of a profound sense of loneliness. I became a Seahawks fan about ten years ago. That…
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Continue reading →: New video: Static Jacks, ‘I’ll Come Back’
I’ve been beating my head against a wall for the last few weeks, trying to figure out what kind of music blog I want to write. (If you take into account the time that’s passed since my last true music blog, which I wrote at my last job, then it’s…
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Streaming music is all wet
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Continue reading →: Streaming music is all wet(This post also appeared at Medium.com.) If you want to know what music I like, just ask. I’m happy to tell you, and I don’t need Rdio, iRadio or any other misspelling of the word “radio” to broadcast my questionable tastes. When it comes to listening, it’s better to keep…
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In concert: Lez Zeppelin plays Reverb in Reading
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Continue reading →: In concert: Lez Zeppelin plays Reverb in ReadingMany, many people in Berks County will get their jazz fix this weekend. Those with more rockin’ sensibilities still have options for live entertainment, however. The tribute band Lez Zeppelin, based in New York, comes to town Saturday for a show at Reverb. You can read my profile of the…
