Month: March 2001

There is a certain sweet naughtiness in dressing yourself up for a date – and there’s the expectation that you may be dressing down before it is over. You think of the sequence in which the clothes come off… will my shirt come off first or my shoes? Will I unzip my pants or will […]

from Nathalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones Push yourself beyond when you think you are done with what you have to say. Go a little further. Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that’s why we decide we’re done. It’s getting too scary. We are touching down […]

from Metafilter: In an appeal to the sexes to “walk a night in one another’s shoes,” Bogota’s offbeat mayor, Antanas Mockus, staged a “Night Without Men” — imposing a voluntary curfew encouraging women to go out and dance until dawn and men to stay home and watch the kids. Hmmm… what if they also had […]

Had a nutty day yesterday. The plays opened and suddenly I’m useless again. That’s the craziest thing about stage directing is that you create this entity that you are so intimately involved with and intensely aligned with for two or three months and just as you are most integrated with it you have to drop […]

Add this to the ‘duh’ list: The SEC is investigating stock sales by Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos just before a negative report was released.

Gee – I sure hope my tax dollars are paying for this: TBS Superstation Offers Unprecedented Look at U.S. Military Combat Scenarios in WAR GAMES

Chilling. Absolutely chilling: This guy reframed iconic events of the past few decades in the sterile visual style of a Sim game. I know my apartment’s radiators are working overtime when I can’t tell if I’m having an anxiety attack or if I’m just sweating my balls off.

Tonight’s performances went well. Bruises‘s timing seemed a split-second off-kilter but the girls closed the gap towards the end. And the play left the audience stunned – so wonderful. Worms and Bared Soles went well as well. Anthony was my date for the night – I was very happy he enjoyed the plays – he’s […]

Last night went well. I am surprised I’m awake at 10 AM. By the time we actually got to opening night I was just sorta non-plussed about the whole thing. But I think there’s such a build-up that unless it’s standing room only with people on the floor clutching their bellies with laughter I’m not […]

Put this in the Wake-Up-And-Smell-The-Coffee Inbox: (from Salon) Venture capitalist greed — which funneled hundreds of millions of dollars into bogus business plans while hoping to hit it big on premature IPOs — killed the Internet economy. Marketing directors — eager to spend millions more on glitzy television campaigns for Web sites pushing products that […]