I know! I know! You’ve been on pins and needles, those of you not on tenterhooks. (Go on, click. I didn’t know what they were, either.) Here’s the second half of my Sweetly Grouchy Look Back at 2008. Which, to wrap it up in a sentence, wasn’t bad, exactly, but felt an awful lot like [...]
List-o-rama!
Dec 30, 2008
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100 Things I Learned in 2008, Part II
Dec 27, 2008
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100 Things I Learned in 2008, Part I
I love lists. Making them is soothing, stimulating and illuminating all at once. (Also, a hands-on lesson in the old saw that making something look easy is hard work.) I’m not sure how good this year’s list is; honestly, I think that having so much social media in my life has acted as kind of [...]
Posted in: The Personal Ones,The Silly Ones
Dec 29, 2007
9
100 Things I Learned in 2007, Part II
Wrapping up this fine and crazy year in 50 short-to-medium numbered items. If you have OCD or something like that, you might want to read the first 50 short-to-medium numbered items first. I may not be a dog person, but I’m definitely an Arnie person. In every possible figurative sense, my eyes will probably always [...]
Posted in: The Personal Ones,The Silly Ones
Dec 23, 2007
10
100 Things I Learned in 2007, Part I
Hard to believe this is the fourth installment of listy, round-up goodness. However, time cares not what we believe, continuing to march the hell on, regardless. And so, without further ado… Money might spend itself, but it does not reconcile itself in the QuickBooks. Goals, on the other hand, neither make nor complete themselves. No [...]
Posted in: The Personal Ones
Sep 7, 2007
26
If you can’t develop yourself via at least one of these sites, there’s no hope for you
Thank you, Priscilla, for starting it. Thank you, Adam, for adding me. This is already such a comprehensive list, it’s tough coming up with more names. But I’ll throw in… Evelyn Rodriguez of Crossroads Dispatches (one of my early blogular inspirations) Ben Yoskovitz of Instigator Blog (soooo much good stuff) Chris Brogan of ChrisBrogan-dot-com (knows [...]
Posted in: The Quotidian Ones
There are lots of tools the great actor has in her toolbox, but most of them really only gain utility with time. Script analysis, the ability to quickly access one’s emotions, physical flexibility, vocal projection, even memorizing lots and lots of text is a skill that can take years to learn. But there is one [...]
Posted in: The Useful Ones
Aug 16, 2007
7
What I learned on my trip to Seattle
The standards for Seattle coffee are so high that even Starbucks tastes better there. The early settlers accidentally built all of their gift shops underground. Two miles feels like 22 when it is all uphill. Mel Brooks has another big hit on his hands. Crumpets taste better by the water. Ditto cupcakes, ham & eggs, [...]
Posted in: The Silly Ones
Jun 24, 2007
6
Anatomy of a meme
This comes to me via my pal, Jeremy Cherfas. I admit to being completely befuddled when I first looked over the questions. Then bummed. And then, I figured out what to do with it… 1. What’s in your pocket? Left rear: a rectangle of vivid orange velvet, trimmed for me from a larger rectangle of [...]
Posted in: The Personal Ones
Jun 21, 2007
6
The Life, Death and Rebirth of a theater company: a brief History and Cautionary Tale
small but passionate band of artists form company in 1995 entire company sucks it up/busts hump to help build amazing reputation/following reputation/following grows reputation/following grows reputation/following grows heartless capitalist landlord gives band of artists the heave-ho awesome (loaded) members of company contribute huge sums of money, buying the theater a home to live in awesome [...]
Posted in: The Quotidian Ones
Jun 6, 2007
21
8 random facts about the communicatrix
What do I love after I’ve been sucked dry and spit out by a 21-Day Saluteâ„¢? I loves me a meme! Like the title sez, 8 utterly random facts about the communicatrix: 1. The first “rock” concert I went to was Sonny & Cher. 2. The, um, second “rock” concert I went to was also [...]
Posted in: The Personal Ones
