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)"If I have a talent for something, it seems like it’s pulling big ideas together out of long and layered thoughts. Go figure. Why not pottery? You can sell pots. This is bullshit. Must be nice. This is the one I’ve been working on. It’s a slippery little bugger. Basically I’ve been thinking about mirror […]
Read more "The Great Kiln Collection Drive"So let me start off by saying I’m a fan of Kanye West, or Jeezy or Je. If I could figure out what name he wants to be called by, I’d use that one, but since I’m more worried about you knowing who I’m talking about right now, we’ll stick with Kanye. Ever since he […]
Read more "Kanye and Donald, Sitting in a Tree…"Everybody knows what a gold digger is. We know it the way we know what a policeman or doctor is. A gold digger is basically a prostitute, but somehow less respectable, because at least a prostitute will give you a price list. The gold digger is a person who’s after all the same things the […]
Read more "I Ain’t Calling Her a Gold Digger…"Do me a favor. Think about all the situations where you’d realistically find yourself saying the following words: “You know. I thought we were better than this. I really did. Are you gonna make me sit down and hold your hand through every single step of what’s going on here? Jesus Christ you are a […]
Read more "Get Woke or Get Wedgied, Princess Fantastic’s Guide to British Universities"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"Trauma is a big word. By itself it works like a land mine, exploding out of conversation to devastate the mood of whatever we’re talking about. It tells us something big is here, some unerasable crime. As soon as we hear the word “trauma” we know that whatever we’re talking about was not some accident. […]
Read more "SKIG (Skin In The Game)"ACT 4: THE GUY YOU LOVE TO HATE COMPLIMENT SANDWICH So compliment: You didn’t kill me. Everybody who really knows me wants to. I’m sure it was hard now that you’ve heard. But you didn’t kill me, even though I really do deserve it, at least according to everyone who’s done the math. And now […]
Read more "Freedom’s Gayest Hostages, The Play That’s Not Acting. Ch.6"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"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 […]
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