We just got done with a full day of auditions for GIBBERISH MOSTLY. It was really rewarding and fun, and I think we’re going to end up with a great cast, no matter who makes the final cut. I imagine the decisions will be made later this week. This is a draft of the...
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Found Photos
When I was at my dad’s house this past week, I found these two photos behind a door on an old dusty shelf. The first one (me!!) was taken when I was 21 or 22 outside the garage apartment I lived just after college. I remember liking it so much that I figured I...
Continue readingWelp, it’s official
At an informal gathering of neighbors* earlier this week, my kids were officially deemed “the coolest in the neighborhood (and beyond).” ** So… Life Objective #1 is now complete. *okay, so maybe a couple of the neighbors were a little tipsy at the time **and maybe that parenthetical was implied not spoken But still. Boom....
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In the last few days, I’ve gotten invitations to both surf in San Diego and tell a story in Portland. So now I’m thinking it’d be great to string these events together into a fall tour. I’m looking at events in Seattle, San Francisco, The Bay Area in general, LA and San Diego. We’ll...
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Got some exciting news today. A play I originally wrote almost fifteen years ago is getting a new life. GIBBERISH MOSTLY, which had a reading at Hyde Park Theatre and Boston Theatre Works in 2003, is slated to be the season opener this fall at a theater I really like. I’m still getting all...
Continue readingBig Comedy Tour This Saturday
I’ll be making the rounds this Saturday in case you want to try to come out and support some local art. From 7am-9am I’ll be cracking wise along the 10.1 mile loop from MoPac to the Longhorn Dam. Come join the fun!* From 10am-12pm I’ll be at Cherrywood Café trying to work on Pong:...
Continue readingSports as Religious Experience (1 in a possible series of 2)
Earlier today on the BBC I heard a reading of a piece that David Foster Wallace wrote in 2006 about Roger Federer, and I thought Hey, that’s not a bad piece of writing but surely there are other, more recent, sports experiences we can write about. So here’s one. It’s from a game my...
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I know, right?? This is the subject (and the working title) of the play I finished quickly last weekend. What if you were able to converse with (and confront) your own self at different stages of your life. You could ask your old self what was going to happen to your young self. Your...
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Dear Friend who’s considering running for Congress in a heavily Republican district, You should totally do it You have the skills The time is right Your lack of funds should be highlighted as an asset Your passion for being an underdog is a motivator You have powerful rhetoric which can inspire I know how...
Continue readingThe Sprint to 50
Once again, not an age-related thing. I’m okay taking my time with that. It’s this damn full-length-play-writing workshop. The full draft is due on Monday and I’m not happy where I am so I’m trying to speed-rewrite the whole stupid thing in two days. As of 8am today, I was on page 4. I’d...
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