this morning--snow!

ok, so this isn't actually a photo from this morning but it's almost like that. and it's still snowing.

Got some good news last night. I'll tell you all about it soon.

An open letter

To the people who are searching for reviews of my play
Deflowering Waldo and stumble on my blog instead:

First of all, why do you care? Either you like the
play or you don't. Either you want to do it or you
don't. Why do you care what other people say?

Second, you're not going to find a review of it
online. We performed it in secrecy. At night. You
had to know a special password to get in. And you had
to be able to say it correctly, in Russian. And you
had to pay a lot of money directly to a Swiss bank
account prior to the performance. And we did it in my
basement. And the people who saw it were sworn to
secrecy and could never talk about the experience.
Because we didn't want the riff raff to see the show
and then write an online review.

I hope this information helps.

Sincerely,
Adam

from the Guardian

Fail better

What makes a good writer? Is writing an expression of
self, or, as TS Eliot argued, 'an escape from
personality'? Do novelists have a duty? Do readers?
Why are there so few truly great novels? Zadie Smith
on literature's legacy of honourable failure

http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,1989004,00.html

tuesday 23, 2:30 pm in NYC

I'm having a reading of my new play Searching at
Juilliard.

It's a dark comedy and goes back and forth between our
president plotting to get unlimited terms and 3
soldiers in the desert searching for Osama. There is
also a love triangle in the desert and unrequited love
between Bush and Cheney.

Let me know if you want to go and I'll put you on the
list.

also

http://www.szymkowicznaked.blogspot.com/

Floyd Britchcraft

The voice of God? You be the judge.

http://www.floydbritch.blogspot.com/

frtom Bob Geiger

Speaker Pelosi also confirmed what Bob Cesca wrote in
Tuesday's Huffington Post: That one of the conditions
being placed on the Iraqi government by the White
House is that American oil companies be given first
shot at Iraqi oil and be allowed to keep 75 percent of
the profits.

"In the president's proposal, one of the standards
that he's setting for them to meet is that 75 percent
of the oil production goes to U.S. companies," she
said. "This is stunning -- 75 percent of the
production goes to the U.S. Is this what our kids are
over there for?"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-geiger/pelosi-on-opposing-iraq-e_b_38260.html?view=print

a book of poetry by my high school english teacher

http://www.antrimhousebooks.com/stanizzi.html

in the desert

I'm having a reading of my new political play
Searching at 2:30 at Juilliard on the 23rd. If anyone
wants to come please let me know and I'll put you on
the security list.

bush, sociopath?

http://mrexcitement.blogspot.com/2007/01/bush-is-sociopath-says-psychoanalyst.html

I have this recurring daydream that I will lose all my
memory and will have to use my cell phone to figure
out who I am. And I try to imagine what people in my
cell phone would say if I called them and asked them
who I was. I've been thinking about this a lot.
Maybe it will become a play.

I recently put in my parent's phone number into my new
phone under "mom and dad" even though the number has
remained unchanged for all my life and there is no
sane reason for me to have that number programmed into
my phone. I'd like to think that when I get amnesia I
will call them first. Of course they won't be home
and I wouldn't know to call K. I may change her
number in my phone to say girlfriend. If you had
amnesia, would you dial the number programmed into
your phone as significant other or would you assume
it's a business or something?

what is your recurring daydream/fear?

on writing

http://www.writingproject.org/cs/nwpp/lpt/nwpr/456

thanks to malachy

http://litdept.blogspot.com/

it stopped snowing

It's snowing

It's cold! Thank God. I thought I would never see
snow again.

K and I joined the Y on Atlantic. We are very excited
and going to go there tonight and work out for the
first time. They have a pool and a basketball court
and it is only 40 bucks each a month because of her
insurance.

I just have to actually go there. I think I can do
it. It seems like a place I will enjoy going to.
right? I just have to not be so freaking lazy all the
time.

tonight

http://szymkowicznaked.blogspot.com/

Incendiary coming soon

a scene i had to delete from incendiary

i like this scene. i'm sorry to have to lose it. Scene 25 (TOMMY, JIMMY, GARY and CARRIE in CARRIE’s burnt office. JIMMY is flipping through a phone book.) CARRIE My rug. TOMMY And you sure she went to this boyfriend’s house. CARRIE I’m not sure but where else would she go? JIMMY Statberg? CARRIE No. It was Jake Statsomething. JIMMY Stathouse? CARRIE No. TOMMY Keep looking. CARRIE I loved that rug. I can’t believe she burned that rug. You remember when I got that rug, Gary? Gary? GARY So we’re cool now, right? TOMMY I don’t know what you mean. Do you know what he means? JIMMY I haven’t the foggiest. GARY So you can leave me alone now and go after her. TOMMY Well, how do we know she set the other building on fire? JIMMY That’s true. We don’t know that. CARRIE She did set it on fire. GARY When you catch her, I’m sure she’ll tell you all about it. JIMMY Yeah but . . . GARY What? TOMMY See the thing is, you can’t really believe what people tell you under torture. GARY Then why do you do it? JIMMY It’s our nature. Statler? CARRIE No. GARY So what? I have to go with you? CARRIE Yeah, yeah, let’s go with them. GARY Darling. CARRIE What? GARY You’re not helping. TOMMY You still owe Liz some spy stuff, right? I think you better come along with us at least until we get a hold of this dame. GARY But he’s a cop. Why am I following you to some cop’s house? JIMMY He’s a cop? CARRIE Yeah. Detective Jake Stasomething. TOMMY We’re going to some detective’s house? JIMMY What, all of a sudden you are afraid of the law? TOMMY I just want to get it clear. We’re going to go in there and get some broad from some cop? GARY You can’t handle that? TOMMY I can handle don’t ask me what I can handle. CARRIE Do you think I’m a bad therapist? I mean she’s right, I didn’t help her stop setting fires. But sometimes it made her so happy I didn’t even want to help her. Helping her would hurt her. You should have seen the look on her face when she talked about it. It was like when we were first married, Gary how you used to look at me. Why don’t you look at me like that anymore? Was it something I did or something I said or did you just grow sick of me or is it something else? You know, we go to school get our license and everything but really it’s all instinct and my instinct was telling me to let her set fires throughout the city. Am I a bad person? Is that why you don’t look at me like that anymore? JIMMY Hey, now, I bet you’re a really good therapist. TOMMY Jimmy Splinters is right. I already feel better just being in this room. Although I do think you should get a new rug. JIMMY I know a guy. CARRIE But do you feel your antisocial impulses confirmed? TOMMY I’m very social. CARRIE Or are you going to give it all up because you realize it’s wrong and harmful to society. JIMMY What we do is not harmful to society. We are like checks and balances. Some guy gets out of line, he’s got to be put into check. GARY How noble. TOMMY Don’t get smart. JIMMY Wait, is it Jake Stratford? CARRIE Yeah. I think so. JIMMY Tommy, you remember Detective Stratford? TOMMY No . . . oh, yeah. (sincerely) A shame about his wife. JIMMY That was a shame. Here it is. Twenty Sixth street. TOMMY Let’s go. Scene 26

short play going up in dc

http://www.madcapplayers.com/ anuary 19, 20, 25, 26 and 27, 2007 at 8:00 PM January 21 and 28, 2007 at 2:00 PM Pay-What-You-Can Preview January 18, 2007 at 8:00 PM (Pay-What-You-Can tickets are only available at the door on January 18 after 7:00 PM.) Run time: 2 hours and 15 minutes including one intermission. H STREET PLAYHOUSE 1365 H Street NE, Washington, DC Click here for a map to the theatre. There is ample on-street parking available after rush hour (6:30pm). ALL TICKETS ARE $15 available by calling 1.800.494.TIXS or visiting www.boxtofficetickets.com The Junior Banana-Boat Free-Balloon Special By Joe Byers Directed by Christopher Snipe Featuring: Grace Ross, Terry Nicholetti and Fredric Ashley Surprise By Mark Harvey Levine Directed by Patrick Torres Featuring: Jason McCool, Erin Kaufman and Samantha Merrick Howard By Mark Harvey Levine Directed by Akiva Fox Featuring: Leo Goodman, Neil Conway and Bill Brannigan The Lullabies of Farewell By Gary Raymond Fry, Jr. Directed by Paul Douglas Michnewicz Featuring: James Ray Biggs and Vanessa Kinzey High Noon By Adam Szymkowicz Directed by Chris Davenport Featuring: Peter Stray, Ashley Demain and Lucas Maloney Writer's Block By Hilary Trudell Directed by Merry Alderman Featuring: James Garland, Annie Mueller and Peter Stray Adonis Written and Directed by Shanna Beauchamp Choreographed by Andrew Honeycutt Featuring: Miriam Ganz, Lucas Maloney, Alex Zavistovich and Jjana Valentiner Lost Sock: Have You Seen Me? By Shawn Northrip Directed by Betsy Rosen Musical Direction by Jeffery Watson Featuring Matt Lopez, Andrew Kreysa, Tyler Smith, Katie Molinaro, Meredith Rachlin, Leo Goodman and Brianne Cobuzzi