My workshop has become a treasure room. I’ve got a shelf full of stuff I bought on ebay while depressed. Enough boxes, bubblewrap, and packing material for all of it. All of my artwork is out of storage (and I have no more storage units). I also bought more artwork. Among the treasures are maybe […]
Sometimes, the best that someone can do is attack someone vulnerable. Sometimes, we were the vulnerable target. Sometimes, my mom when she felt low went after me. It started the same way every time. She had a bad day. But I don’t mean normal disappointments. I mean BAD. Like, a fight with my dad or […]
Don Draper does some awful things. Just about every character on Mad Men has, with perhaps Joan being the closest to an exception. As the show evolved, each character ends up having an arc, and ends transformed. Don’s character, to me, represents something I think about often. A person who’s suffered and experienced tragedies, and […]
I’m a very rational person, who’s experienced a lifetime of incredibly irrational things. I decided a few months ago to let myself see, enjoy, and be inspired by beautiful coincidences, my interpretation of Jungian synchronicity. I had some long talks with my therapist about it in our last sessions together. The fictional character I felt […]
The novel Shogun is an under-researched artifact, an impressive literary achievement that manages to be a 20th century version of late 19th century British obsessions with Japan as a fictional place; Shogun is a more-advanced version of The Mikado, with Japan as another planet, a place of the mysterious other, rooted mostly in the viewpoint […]
I love how many kids who grew up with the prequels became adults with families who show a lot of love to Hayden Christensen and others. I know it’s text only today, but this link to his interview at Celebration was pretty cool. https://youtu.be/4XIv8_RfKko
I’m teaching my first Magnet class, and it’s about character artistry called ‘Funny Voices and Feelings.’ It’s about using a fun voice to find a character, whether through a bad impression, or simply changing up how you talk in simple ways with voice, pitch, and more, and letting that inhabit in your improv. Change the […]
Ona Vicente and Dmitry Shein are COOL! They’re so cool, they’re both fellow comedy performers and amazing Magnet people, and they’ve started Blue Hause photography because they’re COOL! Which fits, you should see the pictures they take. I got to be in a photoshoot they did, and this picture, I look like I’m on the […]
Okay, so, the goofy thing I did about the 2020 Republican National Convention actually did capture that traffic I noticed on google console. Most of the people who clicked through got the joke, and laughed, a few people didn’t and that’s all good. But there were two VERY weird outcomes I had no idea were […]
I did a search yesterday to see if I could find the attendees for this year’s Republican National Convention. This year has been awful, so much death, and so much scapegoating and cowardice from the people who led us here. I didn’t want to watch the convention. I just wanted to know who was going. […]
“Mad Men” has this great scene, where Don Draper and the team present a really new idea to Heinz ketchup for an advertisement, at least in the context of the story. The client does exactly what you describe, just reject the idea after thinking about it. I just read that ‘Heinz’ ad company is actually […]
I started writing these on my own, then at classes at the Magnet and the Upright Citizens Brigade, because I wanted to get better at comedy writing. I wrote out a pilot for 'Bobidoo and Me', basically the third stab at it, and realized that the problem was the comedy bits.