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

three more readings at soho rep

http://www.sohorep.org/current.html

call for subs from Ars Nova

a work of genius

last night's 30 rock, episode 213

watch it here:

http://www.nbc.com/30_Rock/video/episodes.shtml

once you go black

you save energy?

http://www.blackle.com/about/

http://www.blackle.com/

what I'm up to

planning a wedding fleshing out pilot ideas getting ready to move working all day

get your NYTR

http://www.avltheatre.com/forte/2008/04/ny_theater_review_2008.html

from boing boing

Against Ben Stein's wishes, lizards rapidly evolve after introduction to Island

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/23/against-ben-steins-w.html

Liz Flahive's play

25 bucks if you're a student

http://www.mtc-nyc.org/current-season/From-Up-Here-site/tickets.htm

30 bucks if you're under 30

http://www.manhattantheatreclub.com/30UNDER30/

coming up

The Imagination Compact--I wrote something for the first night

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

Also check out their Midsummer

http://www.fluxtheatre.org/current/2008/midsummer

Matt gets some nice press

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/theater/reviews/23cloc.html

What I'm impressed with

Theresa Rebeck's new book: Three Girls and Their Brother

Fanfuckingtastic. A novel about celebrity culture. highly readable. fascinating characters. And it's really well constructed, such that you get to the end and you see how all sort of innocuous seeming details added up to something more.

I highly recommend it.

new

Great post from Isaac on the NEA

http://parabasis.typepad.com/blog/2008/04/nea-funding-now.html

Last Night

Last night I read for 15 min or so from the novel that I am trying to write in fits and starts with long stops where I am interrupted by plays, a tv spec, a film script, etc. I do plan to finish one of these days. Except writing one novel is like writing 3 or 4 plays. It's hard to find the time. All of this is just to say that I really enjoyed reading my fiction in front of a crowd and that I thought it went well. I know I can write plays but the jury was still out on fiction. Last night was encouragement to go forward. Not sure when, but eventually. I also forgot how much I liked to perform. I used to act, yes but it made me anxious and it stopped being fun and so I went to writing instead. So I've been hiding behind actors. But when it comes down to it, acting is fun. Being up in front of people, feeling them facing you, responding in front of you, instead of around you. It's kind of a high. I forgot about that. Also, I'm good at reading my own stuff. I know how it's supposed to sound and I can often get near what I want it to be. I don't want to go back to acting or anything, but I hope I do get this book written and published just so that I can read in front of people. It was fucking fun.