Thursday, April 29, 2010

Laughs from Around the World

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Working long hours this week and finding amusement in bizarre news articles from around the globe: From Phnom Penh, Thailand: Five-Legged Pi...
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Saturday, April 24, 2010

The Man Who Turned Me Into a Lyric-Writing Snob

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Terry Teachout's loving blog post in tribute to his friend, the lyricist and jazz historian Gene Lees , alerted me to Mr. Lees' rece...
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Thursday, April 22, 2010

The Short-Play Crash Course

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I wrote a couple of weeks ago that one of my priorities, these days, is to amass a good portfolio of short plays, because that's the way...
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

De Beauvoir's Doppelganger?

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Looking through a recent New York Times slideshow of photos of Simone de Beauvoir , a thought occurred to me: Someone ought to film an Engli...
Thursday, April 8, 2010

What to Read During Proxy Season

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So, it's "proxy season," the busy time of year at my job. I work for a company that writes reports about corporate shareholde...
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Saturday, April 3, 2010

April is the Cruelest Month

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Last year around this time I wrote a post titled My Soul is Fettered to an Office-Stool . And yeah, due to the nature of my job, it's h...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

"Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi": A Thriller of a Play

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So, one of the reasons I was so eager to share with you that I am on the Cutting Ball Literary Committee is because it affects the way I di...