Jul 30, 2008
today
All my things that fit are in one of these now on the way to MN. The things that don't fit are no longer my property. Thanks Herbert, Isaac and Larry, and parents of min!!
Jul 29, 2008
McCain and Big Oil
https://pol.moveon.org/donate/29guesses.html?r=3987&id=13350-6686652-e1zlBqx
the thing that people don't understand is that drilling is not going
to make our gas prices go down. It will only affect the world supply
of gasoline. And it will not affect it in a significant way.
Jul 26, 2008
wow
this article (h/t Daisey) blew my mind. As someone who went to public high school, and then a state school and then went to Columbia and Juilliard for grad school, I have noticed some of this first hand and then not noticed other parts of it that have been insidiously working inside me unaware. I am aware working at Columbia that despite all the bluster, many of our work studys are rather dumb, and I've noticed with envy the connections and support the rich kids have. I've seen the talented not succeed and the untalented but connected succeed in ways I don't understand. Adn now, as someone with feet in both worlds, with a day job that has prevented me from being the intellectual I've wanted to be, I feel both sad for what i can't have and triumphant on what I have allowed myself to be.
Anyway read this article about class and Ivy league and the vast gulf that we see today in economics and class.
and ask the big questions. (whatever they are) because if you don't, who will?
WTDWYHAYF
Looking forward to this. Have you seen it yet?
From Variety:
"The worst thing about this silly, stellar production is that it's puttering along at a tiny theater off the beaten track in Midtown. Kunofsky has an intensely theatrical gift for comedy, and his cast and crew have risen to the challenge of his smart, heartfelt play. Why then isn't this play at a great big nonprofit Off Broadway house? Kunofsky and Krueger should see if they can at least get a grant to hand out bullhorns to the audience so they can spread the word as they leave, massaging their aching sides."
saturday is packing boxes day
I just came back from Bennington College in Vermont where I had a reading of Incendiary with the LAByrinth folks. It went extraordinarily well. It was an amazing cast and they fed off the audience and the whole thing was a love fest. I'm still buzzing off it. All the readings of this play have gone well, but this one especially so. It's one of those things where I know it works. I'm just waiting for a theater to realize it and put it up.
So now I'm back and I need to pack up the apartment and get ready to pitch my pilot. So that's what I'll be up to.
Here is a monologue for you (with bonus song) that may or may not be in a new play:
SANDY
Hello everyone. Thank you for this interview. I am a traditional girl. I believe in the separation of church and state. I am a strong believer in fair treatment for everyone and a workplace free from sexual harassment and all other kinds of harassment. I think harassment has no place in the workplace. Or anywhere else actually.
There are times when you can’t stop harassment in life, but we think of a workplace as a utopia of sorts, even our workplace, so we think harassment can be stopped. Identified and stopped. Really the identifying is the problem. One person’s harassment is another person’s good time.
But the bigger problem is, I think, a lack of respect. When people are ignored or talked down to or looked down on by other people those people become unhappy and it leads to a non-productive environment for everyone. It makes everyone assholes. The people who don’t respect the other people are assholes and then the people who are treated badly become assholes to the original assholes in response to the assholic treatment they receive.
For that reason I come here today not to get this job but to get Eric fired. Eric is an asshole. Like the biggest asshole around. You may not know that but it’s true. He yells at me for things I have nothing to do with and then doesn’t apologize when he’s wrong. He tries to foist off his work on me and then when I complain, Elizabeth tells me to just do it. Well, that won’t happen anymore, because Elizabeth got away from him but that doesn’t change the fact that Eric is a big asshole and you need to recognize that and fire him.
In addition, because I have you here and you’re a captive audience, I would like to take this opportunity to sing you a song. Up until now, I have been to scared to get in front of people and sing, even though deep down I think I’m talented. I figure I can do it now and then if it goes badly, it’s no big deal. This is a song I wrote when I was commuting to work. It’s called commuting to work.
Commuting to Work
SOMETIMES I’LL LOOK UP
AND I’LL SEE A FRIENDLY FACE
IT MIGHT BE A HOOK UP
IF WE WERE IN ANOTHER PLACE
BUT WE’RE ON THE TRAIN
UNDERGROUND
THIS LIFE IS A DRAIN
ALL AROUND
OH, WE’RE ON THE TRAIN
I FEEL I’M GOING TO DROWN
COMMUTING TO WORK
ERIC IS A JERK
COMMUTING TO WORK
SOMETIMES I FEEL ALARMED
WHAT’S THAT DIGGING INTO ME
IS THAT YOUR ARM
TELL ME IT’S YOUR KEYS
OH WE’RE ON THE TRAIN
UNDERGROUND
THIS LIFE IS A DRAIN
ALL AROUND
OH, WE’RE ON THE TRAIN
I FEEL I’M GOING TO DROWN
SOMETIMES I CAN’T BREATHE
IT SMELLS LIKE SOMETHING DIED
IS THAT A DISEASE?
ARE YOU EATING SOMETHING FRIED
BUT WE’RE ON THE TRAIN
UNDERGROUND
THIS LIFE IS A DRAIN
ALL AROUND
OH, WE’RE ON THE TRAIN
I FEEL I’M GOING TO DROWN
COMMUTING TO WORK
ERIC IS A JERK
COMMUTING TO WORK
Thanks for listening. You guys have been great. Give me the job. Fire Eric. Thanks a lot!
Jul 18, 2008
Al Gore's speech
Read about it here. or here.
“Our dangerous over-reliance on carbon-based fuels is at the core of all three of these challenges – the economic, environmental and national security crises,” Mr Gore said. “We are borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of that’s got to change.”
Jul 17, 2008
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