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Apr 6, 2007

explain this to me

OK, so I'm not like checking this all the time or
anything and I do do work at work. i swear. Just ask
the pile of completed work. but someone please
explain to me how my amazon sales rank was around 2
million yesterday and now is at 126,643. I mean I
know it doesn't mean I sold a couple thousand books
yesterday but what does it mean exactly? How is it
possible for something to fluctutate like that?

OK, sorry for bothering you. Go buy my play.

http://www.amazon.com/Deflowering-Waldo-Adam-Szymkowicz/dp/0822221365/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-1699331-0565554?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1175865671&sr=1-1

A show I'm looking forward to



It's by "blogger" Larry Kunofsky and it's a riot. I highly recommend. I'm going opening night. There's a party after. You should go.

Dying City discounts

The following discount codes work on
broadwayoffers.com:

With a student I.D., up to two tickets @ $10/ticket:
DC4TONY

Up to 6 tickets @ $45/ticket, open to anyone: DC45LCT

Apr 5, 2007

I have a play in this




I'm in good company. the other plays are by Anne Washburn and Quiara Alegria Hudes. The book also includes an intro by George Hunka and essays by Caridad Svich, Garrett Eisler, Alan Lockwood, and Brook Stowe.

Also photographs from all the productions and from the benefit at the brick featuring some other great theatrical luminaries.

In Seattle very soon

Apr 2, 2007

Plays you should know

Dead City by Sheila Callaghan The Internationalist by Anne Washburn Clean House by Sarah Ruhl Tragedy: A Tragedy by Will Eno Mr Marmalade by Noah Haidle The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow by Rolin Jones

interview of David Cote

http://praxistheatre.blogspot.com/2007/03/10-questions-david-cote.html

"7) How much do you think artists should be changing
their work or their creative direction based on
critics' feedback?

Well, if the quality of critics were high, I'd say
that they should. But generally, theater critics are
almost as irrelevant as theater is to the average TV
and film-addicted booby. My younger colleagues are
smart and talented, but the most influential critical
posts in this city are jealousy guarded by a wizened
knot of nostalgia-drenched mediocrities who have no
idea what the next generation is doing and can barely
stay on top of what's happening on Broadway. They are
advocates of nothing but their own pathetic memories
of musicals or plays in the 60s and 70s; they have
about as much vision as the bureaucratic philistines
we call artistic directors."

noveling or playing

Remember that novel I was supposedly writing? Well I
got sidetracked I guess and am working on this play
now. I was about 16 thousand words in which is about a
full length plays worth and I do plan to go back to
it, and hopefully still have a draft before my 30th
birthday in August if at all possible. But damn it was
so hard. So hard. But yeah maybe after this play is
done, or after the next one...or once i find some time
to sit down.

Anyway, here is a post from Patrick about writing
novels vs. plays:

http://writinglife3.blogspot.com/2007/03/why-writing-novels-is-harder-than.html

soon

watch this site for your chance for your very own copy of the 2007

ny times article

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/30/nyregion/30poverty.html?bl&ex=1175659200&en=a6986c5fe5b6802d&ei=5087%0A

"What is troubling is the focus on personal behavior
as the solution to what is at least in part a problem
of the economy," she said. "Given what we know about
the growth of low-wage jobs and the shrinking of the
middle class, it will be, in fact, impossible to bring
more people into the middle class unless we improve
the labor market as well."

Food For Fish Tix now on sale

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/14109

Apr 1, 2007

Book for Sunday

I'm halfway through this book by Chuck Palahniuk
called RANT which I highly recommend. It's really
fantastic. This is his seventh book, but I never read
any of the others, although I may start now. He wrote
Fight Club which I thought was a pretty cool film and
based on what I'm reading now, must have been a great
book.

I picked up this book for free outside a book store
and I just realized by looking at Amazon that it is
not available until May. I count myself lucky in that
I get to read it now and didn't even have to have a no paying or low paying job in publishing or retail. Sometimes it
helps to be at the right place at the right time.