Going back to my bread and butter this year, doing a self-deprecating projector/screen piece about relationships, trying to convince someone in the audience to stick with me, despite my numerous flaws. There’s a twist (or two or three!) at the end, which I’m hoping goes over well. I name-check a friend who recently successfully...
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Remnants of Squid
Yesterday the exhibit we had up at Ground Floor Theatre finally came down; this is the one by artists with autism that I’d worked with Dr. Becker to get up for the November 19th show. He’d been going back to the gallery on a regular basis before other performances the past 5 or 6...
Continue readingOh Goodness, it’s a Squeaker!
Three days left of voting (I think?) and within striking distance. Still don’t think it’s gonna happen, but until the Republican primaries in February, this is about as good as percentage-watching gets (for me)....
Look’d, Hook’d, Book’d, Cook’d
Summer of 2016! Train across the country from Dublin to Killarney, on to Kerry and Dingle (yep, Dingle). If it sucks, you’ll hear about it. (oh, and if Shane, Glen, Imelda or even Andrea ask me to plays drums in their band, I may never come back…)...
“Oh man! My dad sucks!”
So my son’s teacher handed me an essay he’d written about someone he admires today during their end-of-year holiday party. The essay starts: Have you ever thought “oh man! My dad sucks! I hate my dad! I want a different dad!” Boy, that is a rough start to an essay. Who knows where it’s...
Continue readingHey, it’s a Race! (kinda, sorta)
I think this is as close as we’re gonna get, so I’m saving it here for future reference. But that’s kinda up there, right? Within the margin of error, perhaps? Yeah, maybe? Someone send over the crosstabs so we can run some numbers. Anyway, there’s that. The other category…. not so much. But top...
Continue readingAward Nominations for GWfBC
So I just discovered the other day that we’d been nominated for a couple of Broadway World Austin awards for our June production of GOOD WEATHER FOR BUNDT CAKES. I guess they’d been up for a week or two but I had no idea. Anyway, it’s nice. The nominations are for Best Site Specific Production...
Continue readingThe Lessons of Little Rubber Things (essay)
Okay, I’ve been inundated—inundated!—with requests for more creative posts on this site, and fewer posts about boring old random life stuff that happens to everyone (yawn). Fair enough. I mean my life may be boring to you, but it’s not (always) boring to me. So maybe I’ll post an essay or two from a...
Continue readingThe “Worst” Year Approaches
This is kind of apropos of nothing, except that I’ve been having a few more conversations about the topic lately as the kids get older and have older friends. As my son enters his 13th year this month and starts to act more and more like a jaded teen and less and less like...
Continue readingSquid Show Recap (hey, it worked!!)
So I don’t know what you were so worried about. The show went great, exceeding attendance goals and fundraising goals. We actually didn’t have enough seats set up for people so they were standing on the sidelines and finding other places to sit. The show itself fell together smoothly, transitions worked well, everyone was...
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