FADE IN: EXTERIOR: We see a sidewalk and a city street whose traffic is facing towards the audience. STAGE RIGHT: We see a wall which takes up roughly half the stage, behind which the interior of The Diorama will soon be visible to the audience. This wall is the brick facade of a bar named […]
Read more "Antenna, Santa Rosa (A play for the stage)"So here’s the thing about the freedom of speech; it’s an easy win. It’s the first amendment, the one that even those assholes who can’t find Canada on a map can tell you they know. What’s left to say about it that we don’t already know? And even if we can find some nugget of […]
Read more "The Freedom to Lie"“Who me? Give a speech? No, really, I couldn’t. I’m really not one for speeches. What can I say? (Shrug and bring index finger up to lip. Pause indicating reluctant acceptance). I’ll tell you what. I’m gonna tell you a story. The first time I saw this guy, we must have been X years old. […]
Read more "So This is Awkward…(Mass Shooting at the Teddy Bear Picnic)"Politicians and the word “jobs” are clearly BFFs. There’s not really another kind of person that runs around skipping and holding the hand of this word like politicians do. If there were some kind of game show where we had to listen to someone talk for thirty seconds and then guess what they do for […]
Read more "Jobs! OMG My BFF."So I was thinking about this Israel Hammas thing and isn’t it accurate to say that a huge part of the conflict is built into the idea of how “the nation” is going to work as a thing? Like you go, Israel is a nation for exiled Jews. Okay. But wait, so is there a […]
Read more "Hummuna Hummuna Hammas"Let’s imagine for a second that you’re really excited to go to some live musical event. You’re also Mr. and/or Ms. High Tech Gear and you’ve got some virtual reality set up that makes it so you can step into your living room and it looks like you’ve stepped into the music hall where the […]
Read more "The Poser Problem"Hey you know what sucks? Dying. That’s a pretty uncontroversial idea most of the time, until of course someone dies and we have to guess who did it. Suddenly anyone who has ever had a hangnail, written a melodramatic poem or owned a Korn CD is getting stood over by some group of investigators […]
Read more "Mr. Ok Cowboy and the I Have No Intention of Hurting Myself or Anyone Else or Disappearing For Any Reason Rodeo"Whenever we talk about “the street”, we take for granted that other people will know what we’re talking about. Half the reason to even bring up “the street” is always just to create an excuse to tell someone else that they don’t know shit about it, but no one is so dense that they think […]
Read more "Princess Fantastic’s Guide to the Street"Guns and the military are two things that can’t be pulled apart. Something can have guns and not be a military, but nothing is going to be a military for very long if it has no guns. If we saw the secret service standing around the president, waiting to defend him with the most spirited […]
Read more "You’re an Asshole and Your Gun Control Opinions Are Evil and Wrong"You’re looking for a baby sitter and there are only two agencies in town. After looking around on the websites of both these agencies, you’ve found out that neither one of them screens for registered sex offenders, despite the fact there have been several complaints from parents in your town about sitters from these agencies […]
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Princess Fantastic 