It seems impossible that my cohort is turning 50, and yet, there it is. I’m sliding into it myself, just three years and change to go. Truth be told, I can’t wait: my 40s were so much better than my 30s, which were so much better than my 20s, which were so much better than [...]
creativity
I was going to sit down and talk about how hard the past week was…how draining. And it was, in its way. For whatever reason, there was an abundance of drama over the past eight days, the missed deadlines, botched communication and general farkakte-ness that seems to accompany Mercury going retrograde. (I wonder, could things [...]
I’ve been working on a super-secret web project for an interesting, celebrity client who is using her high profile in the real world for, as I like to say, the powers of Good and not Evil, something I always try to support here at communicatrix-dot-com. Hell, that’s kind of my modus operandi for life in [...]
I’m back from a three-day spree in the desert. Usually, these trips involve prodigious amounts of whooping it up; this time, it was me and 200 of my new-best nerd friends, hanging out, talking shop about…talking. I might get around to talking about talking (or speaking, as they call it) more at a later date. [...]
I spent the bulk of yesterday at My Country House (a.k.a. The BF’s), cleaning up. That wasn’t my original intention in staying over; to be 100% honest, the real reasons were: My Country House is closer to the FAKE gallery, where I finally caught Matt North‘s hi-larious music-and-comedy act, HAIL THE SIZE!, and I hit [...]
I left the cocoon of Harvard, I left the cocoon of Saturday Night Live, I left the cocoon of the Simpsons. And each time it was bruising and tumultuous. And yet every failure was freeing, and today I’m as nostalgic for the bad as I am for the good. So that’s what I wish for [...]
I have a series of frames in my bathroom. One holds a picture of a glass half-full, a cover from the New Yorker on my mother’s birthday the year after she died. Most of the rest of the frames are empty, or hold the “For Display Only” shots of nameless brides and sunlit couples and [...]
“Beware of the “golden handcuffs.” Beware of a profession that pays you so well in money that you enter into a lifestyle (house, cars, a great deal of stuff) that traps you. You may end up in a vicious cycle of trying to earn more in order to maintain the material things that give you [...]
“Funny always wins out. I always think that women who complain about people who say women aren’t funny are probably not funny. Because, really, who gives a shit?” , Sarah Silverman in an interview with Jenelle Riley in Back Stage, the actor’s newsweekly TAGS: Sarah+Silverman, comedy, comedians, standup, female+standup+comics, excuses
