About ten years ago, shortly after I’d decided to give up the uncertain and (for me) unsatisfying waters of advertising for a sensible career in acting, I thought it might be a good idea to take a class or two, since I had no idea of what I was doing. Of course, being hopelessly goal-oriented [...]
November 2004
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From the mouths of a**holes
One of my continual frustrations as a theater rat with a scrabbly foot in the design world is the unforgivable lack of pretty in most show flyers. They’ll pay the lighting designer, they’ll pay the costume designer, they’ll sure as shit pay the director, they’ll get everything on stage looking Sunday-go-to-meetin’ purty, and then crap [...]
Because I do not have enough to do (wait…hahahahahaha!…okay…), when they put out the call for replacement bloggers over at blogging.la, I threw my gigantic (7 1/4″) hat into the ring. Either they were more desperate than I thought or I managed to hoodwink them into thinking I could hang with the excellent crew already [...]
Upside of being in Peace Squad Goes 99: The Greatest 99¢ Only Story Ever Told…Ever!: you will, apparently, play to packed houses full of cheering audience members who throw the love at you across the footlights in overwhelming waves. Downside: 3.5 hours/night strapped into plastic clothing with packing tape. You just have no idea how [...]
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Personal Swag ≠Breaking the Boycott
Well, before I read this morning’s excellent anti-consumerist post by Eschaton, I spent eight hours putting up swag on the 99¢ Show Store. So just to clarify my position, do not under any circumstances buy holiday gifts here. Go and support a brilliant theater company. Go here and show your love for the greatest holiday [...]
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Buy now, pay later
As if the disturbing display of consumptive zealotry to the left above (found at Drudge via my new-favorite blog, Gawker) wasn’t enough incentive, an excellent post this morning on Eschaton has me pondering the heretofore unthinkable: a gift-free holiday season. Hecate’s point is to use a shop-out in protest; as he says in the headline [...]
Okay, that’s not exactly how I feel. And I’m not an advocate of stirring up trouble, really. Hell, I barely have any family left to throw up against the metaphorical wall, anyway. Alcoholism, workaholism and ridiculous squabbling over money have reduced my once-vast clan to a small (but fantastic, generous and hardy) few (for whom [...]
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Game over, alright.
A random email turned up this game, designed for kids (although the patronizing “good!”s and “okay!”s would piss off anyone over the age of 3, if you ask me) but kind of eye-opening for adults. I mean you know where Kansas is, basically, but unless you’re from one of the six contiguous states that surround [...]
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Alexander the “enh”, part deux
How much do I love David Edelstein? Not that any half-sighted monkey couldn’t tell this movie was gonna blow from frame one of the trailer, but Edelstein does the ninja-critic moves on Alexander. I was driving back from the gym when I caught this bit of his review of Oliver Stone’s shiny turd on NPR: [...]
