You gotta land sooner or later

I’m wondering if this is still a thing. It conjures memories of a rickety card table set a reasonable social distance away from the big-people’s table. When you’re 9 it seems a bit like punishment but upon reflection I find myself taking stock of the advantages. There isn’t a crowd surge when the passing begins.…

I humbly ask my fellow actors to submit to my will. Forsake any other publisher. Pledge your allegiance, devote yourself to our common cause. Rise up with laptop in lap and render unto me an offering. Gosh I love writing flowery language. Maybe that’s what I love about the stage, about the camera, about the…

What Is Enlightenment?Immanuel Kant 1 Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one’s own understanding without another’s guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one’s own mind without another’s guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.)…

I don’t actually watch TV, I get the Reader’s Digest condensed version on YouTube. You see, I actually prefer to get my news through the filter of comedy. At this particular moment in history, life is a binary choice. You can either laugh or you can cry. So I browse through my late night subscriptions…

I have directed dozens of plays and operas and musicals. God I hate directors. They’re just so….bossy. But that’s not really what this post is about. It’s about ego. Years ago, when I was learning the craft as a young actor, I sucked. Not as an actor, but as a person. You see, it is…

No matter which worldview you come with, smile. I know that I am. It was an odd sense when it first happened. At the end of all of the tumult, I looked over at the AP newsfeed and the number flipped like the scorecard at a little league game. It was like taking a cleanse.…

Lordy Lordy. I sit at my computer in the wee hours staring at the Associated Press data. It isn’t moving I can only think they have found a way to make time stop. We haven’t been looking big picture enough. While we have been listening to the whining and the fur on our backs has…

Its almost a line from a sitcom. We might even associate it with the banter a couple might use when quarrelling. “What have you done for me lately? For the past 4 years a single tiny word has changed without notice to “What have you done TO me lately”. It happened so quickly that we…