still in MA

So I got my ten pages for clubbed thumb application, wrote a couple thousand more words for the novel that will be finished one day, and I revised Susan Gets Some Play (this year's fringe, baby!) and I finally got the screenplay outline to a place I can live with and now I'm writing the damn thing. It won't write itself, sadly. But, I'll do my best to finish it as soon as humanly possible.

quote of the day

"Let's be clear about blogging: It is a way for those
of us with computers to elegantly express our
importance."

Matthew Freeman

http://matthewfreeman.blogspot.com/2007/07/interview-with-author-advertising.html

discounts for Sam and Betty at NYTW

New York Theatre Workshop
THE BLACK EYED,
the New York Premiere of a new play
written by Betty Shamieh, directed by Sam Gold.

Tickets for all performances July 17 – August 19 are
just $35 each (reg. $50).

Use code BEBLG28 when ordering.

To purchase tickets, call TeleCharge at (212) 947-8844
or visit
http://www.broadwayoffers.com/go.aspx?MD=2001&MC=BEBLG28

New York Theatre Workshop also offers both Student
Tickets and CheapTix Sundays.

CheapTix Sundays: All tickets for all Sunday evening
performances at 7pm are just $20 each! Tickets are
available in advance but must be purchased at the NYTW
box office on a cash-only basis.

Student Tickets: Full-time students with a valid
student ID may purchase $20 tickets for all
performances (subject to availability). Limit one
ticket per ID. Tickets must be purchased in person and
require an ID at the box office.

The NYTW box office is located at 79 East 4th Street
(between Second Avenue and Bowery) and is open Tuesday
- Saturday from 1pm - 6pm.

great post--excerpt below

http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2007/07/l33t-justice.html

h/t

http://lucaskrech.livejournal.com/153697.html

We are faced with utterly shameless men. Cheney and
the rest are looking our representatives right in the
eye and saying "You don't have the balls to take down
a government. You don't have the sheer testicular
fortitude to call us lying sonuvabitches when we lie,
to stop us from kicking the rule of law and the
Constitution in the ass. You just don't. What's beyond
that abyss -- what that would do to our government and
our identity as a nation -- terrifies you too much. So
get the fuck out of our way."

And to a great degree, the White House is right. You
peel this back, and you reveal that the greatest
country in the world has been run, for the last six
and a half years, by men who do not give a shit about
the Constitution, or fair play, or honesty. No, not
just run by corrupt men, or bribe-takers, or
adulterers or whatever, we could handle that --no we'd
be admitting It Went Wrong.

There is a sizeable population in America that just
does not, cannot wrap their head around the fact that
the President may be a Bad Man who does Bad Things.
He's President of America. We're Americans. We're the
good guys. Remember, the Nixon mythos in America is
that the system worked. "See, in America, even the
President is not above the law."

winter in darfur

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/winter-miller/in-darfur-in-central-pa_b_55304.html

retreat in MA

I've been outlining a screenplay all week. i was
hoping to have it done monday but it stretches on and
on as i reject previous plot points and search for
missing plot points. I'm getting to know the
characters and gradually the story is coming into
focus but I'm so impatient to start writing it I can't
stand it. Maybe by the end of the day I'll be close
enough to just start banging it out.

Frustrating. Still a couple important things missing.
And i clarify one character and then my main
character is all of a sudden getting lost. arrgh.
I'll get there.

cut from Susan gets some play

SUSAN
And another thing, where is the love for the funny
girls. It's like all the movie stars are so bland
these days. It's like society tells girls not to be
funny, but to just be pretty and boring so then they
can be like the pretty and boring girls in films with
no personality who are just waiting for the guy to
come along and like carry them away. I say bring back
the personality.

hal brooks

http://halbrooks.blogspot.com/