politics and quotes

 

from Kevin Drum--  http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2007_07/011739.php

 

h/t isaac  http://parabasis.typepad.com/blog/2007/07/yes-yes-yes.html

 

"You have to give Republicans points for consistency. They bring the Senate to a halt and then blame Democrats for not getting anything done. They destroy FEMA's ability to respond to natural disasters and then hold it up as an example of why you can't trust government to do anything right. They lose a war via unparalleled military incompetence and then claim that liberals are defeatists for pointing it out. They spend 20 years claiming that Social Security is going bankrupt and then use the resulting public insecurity about Social Security as an explanation for why the whole system needs to be privatized."

this photographer is fantastic!

http://www.lifemagical.com/

Wikipedia Plays Soon

cool visual from the folks at Ars Nova

visual dramaturgy

http://www.benjaminjames.com/uploads/neighborhoods/1411987.jpg http://www.trevorlittle.com/media/washsquarepark.jpg http://www.pictureninja.com/pages/united-states/new-york/new-york-city-fire-escapes.jpg http://www.indospectrum.com/10dimages/nyc2/cd031_02may04_nyc_subway.jpg

http://photo.net/philip-greenspun/photos/pcd0451/brooklyn-bridge-97.tcl

I was really down yesterday.  I was like this is pointless.  What am i doing with my life, how can I keep doing this, why am I so poor, why do I deal with this uncomfortably crowded long commute each day?  Why am I still writing if I'm not getting anywhere?  Do i even know how to write a screenplay?  Is it a waste of my time?  How will i afford a wedding?  Will i ever be taken seriously as a playwright by the larger theatres?

 

But today I am much more optimistic and i don't feel that way at all.  I like what i wrote this morning.  I think my fringe play will go well.  I got some other stuff coming up.  I can do this.   Good thing I didn't blog about this yesterday, huh?  then you would know I have doubts about the sustainability of my life and writing career.

 

But we dodged that bullet.