four chairs play opens today

http://www.theatermania.com/content/show.cfm/show/131140

Class

At a union meeting yesterday we were to ratify the
agreement the union and university made (I'm an office
worker at a university). I haven't had an increase in
pay since October 2005. I will be getting an increase
finally and it will be retroactive to Feb of this
year. But it's 3 percent. Looking at the schedule
for the next five years according to the agreement,
there is no way we will ever get ahead of inflation.

I mean part of the reason I have this job is to pay
off student loans. It's not a job I have because I
love my work--it's a job for the money. And as jobs
for the money, it sucks, quite frankly.

I am able to pay the monthly installment on my huge
loans and buy food and see occasional plays but I have
nothing left over. I am breaking even. The only
money I have been able to save was the small amount
I'm making from royalties.

So that's my life right now. How are you?

Vonnegut's gone.

Long live Vonnegut

ny times article

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/health/10gene.html?em&ex=1176436800&en=931923a564fed9e9&ei=5087%0A

"It is a misconception that the differences between
men's and women's brains are small or erratic or found
only in a few extreme cases, Dr. Larry Cahill of the
University of California, Irvine, wrote last year in
Nature Reviews Neuroscience. Widespread regions of the
cortex, the brain's outer layer that performs much of
its higher-level processing, are thicker in women. The
hippocampus, where initial memories are formed,
occupies a larger fraction of the female brain."

and this:

Such experiments do not show the same clear divide
with women. Whether women describe themselves as
straight or lesbian, "Their sexual arousal seems to be
relatively indiscriminate — they get aroused by both
male and female images," Dr. Bailey said. "I'm not
even sure females have a sexual orientation. But they
have sexual preferences. Women are very picky, and
most choose to have sex with men."

these times

thanks to Lucas for this

http://lucaskrech.livejournal.com/

http://balkin.blogspot.com/2007/04/another-enemy-of-people.html

"I confess to having been furious that any American
citizen would be singled out for governmental
harassment because he or she criticized any elected
official, Democrat or Republican. That harassment is,
in and of itself, a flagrant violation not only of the
First Amendment but also of our entire scheme of
constitutional government. This effort to punish a
critic states my lecture's argument far more
eloquently and forcefully than I ever could."

Please mark your calendar

My play Incendiary will be read at Ars Nova Monday
April 30th at 7pm. Kip Fagan will direct. Hope to
see you there!

http://arsnovanyc.com/out-loud/

2007 nytr

The 2007 New York Theater Review is out and I have a
piece in it. Check it out. It's a very cool book!

http://www.nytr.org/

plugs for other people

First, Matt Freeman's Show With Matt J today and
tomorrow

http://matthewfreeman.blogspot.com/2007/04/dream-of-ridiculous-man-tonight.html

Second, see James Comtois dance around without a shirt
on. Really.

http://jamespeak.blogspot.com/2007/04/opening-tonight.html

Third the soho rep writer director lab.

http://jasongrote.blogspot.com/2007/04/soho-rep-writerdirector-lab-reading.html