today

Instead of fleshing out my pilot ideas, what have I been doing? Reading Jonathan Lethem's As She Climbed Across The Table. Making a list of funny/quirky/angst-ridden slogans that would look good on t-shirts and then trying and failing to make them into jpegs that could actualy go on T shirts. doing work at the day job. eating lots of cookies. heading to Ars Nova Play Group tonight.

Jewno (spoof) my friend Alissa is in

http://www.funnyordie.com/mtv_movie_awards/playlists/135103

visit Rachel

Shukert has a book out. It is no doubt brilliant.

Visit her here:

http://www.rachelshukert.com/

Buy her book here:

http://www.amazon.com/Have-You-No-Shame-Regrettable/dp/0345498615/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209560889&sr=8-1

short fiction for tuesday

There is a couch in a room somewhere. And no one is sitting there. There is a sun on a beach somewhere no one is sitting under. There are words in a safe somewhere no one will ever read. There is a signal high up in the air no one will ever see. When the children go out, they fill up their packs--sandwiches and juice boxes, lucky rocks, extra socks. They need to bring everything in case they go somewhere where there is nothing, or not enough. they need to be everything to know everything to see everything They need to breathe everything be everything When the children go to sleep, their dreams are watercolored versions of stories they've heard. When the children grow up, they dig a big hole in the sand, throw their packs in and bury them. Then they go for a walk and never come back. "Never come back!" they chant. "Never come back."

bike sharing in DC

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/us/27bikes.html?em&ex=1209528000&en=e96dfe185ff29d7d&ei=5087%0A

Available Light Theater's Pay What You Can Policy

It worked out well for them:

http://www.avltheatre.com/forte/2008/04/pay_what_you_want_kicks_some_a.html

DIY theater

http://d-o-cat.blogspot.com/2008/04/american-theater-diy-me.html

h/t daisey

http://www.mikedaisey.com/2008/04/daughters-of-catastrophe-american.sht

so I guess I'll

see you here tonight

http://fluxtheatreensemble.blogspot.com/2008/04/imagination-compact.html

RRT this weekend--from isaac

This week is our final show of new work this season (our best of will be on Friday, May 16th) so we decided to go out in style with the Rapid Response Team's Guestapalooza!! Guests include: Critically acclaimed devising companies Collaboration Town and The Team, both of whom will be creating a new short radio piece based on the week's news, progressive blogger / youtube bandit extraordinaire Max Blumenthal who is just back in town from finishing his new book on the American Right, and the Food Network's latest star The Amateur Gourmet!! Neato. And you still get new short plays and sketches based on the week's news and a brand new story from resident storyteller Clay McLeod Chapman, hot off the victory lap that is Hostage Song!!! Stories we're working on include: ***Renting kids to perpetrate child support fraud***Branding children with crucifixes**PETA's Lab Created Meat***The Cult of Oprah***Staring on Subways***Candidates on WWE**And More! Here's the info: Rapid Response Team's Guestapalooza This Sunday, April 27th at 8PM The Bowery Poetry Club on 1st and Bowery Tickets are $10 at the door. See you then!

travel to see them all

two more performances of Deflowering Waldo in Racine, WI

http://kiosk.racinepost.com/2008/03/oohps-presents-deflowering-waldo-at.html

two more performances for Food For FIsh at Dickinson State in ND

http://www.dickinsonstate.com/digest.asp?ArticleID=2312

then you have to wait till June for another full length of mine--Nerve on Long Island

http://www.arenaplayers.org/pages/ss/ss-p1.html