MAESTRO: WaySide Story
** out of **** We find ourselves in that time of year where films in which studios have no faith are dumped on the American public. The...
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Dec 29, 202312 min read
2023 in Perspective
Greetings, readers, writers, and supporters. It’s time once again to recap the year at the writer’s desk. In addition to my first full...
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Dec 22, 20234 min read
Underrated Christmas Specials, pt. 4: TIM AND ERIC AWESOME SHOW, GREAT JOB! CHRIMBUS SPECIAL
So, for the past three weeks, I’ve chosen heartwarming, fun Christmas fare. Offbeat perhaps, but traditional. Now. It’s time for the dam...
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Dec 15, 20233 min read
Underrated Christmas Specials, pt. 3: MICKEY'S CHRISTMAS CAROL
While I will stipulate that the story of Christ’s birth is perhaps the Greatest Story Ever Told, I maintain that Charles Dickens’ A...
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Dec 8, 20234 min read
Underrated Christmas Specials, pt. 2: WILL VINTON'S CLAYMATION CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION
Premiering with A Garfield Christmas Special in 1987, Will Vinton’s Claymation Christmas Celebration is another underrated gem of a...
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Dec 1, 20235 min read
Underrated Christmas Specials, pt. 1: A GARFIELD CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
Welcome to the holiday season. In my lifetime, Christmas has gone from something you might start celebrating the day after Thanksgiving...
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Nov 24, 20236 min read
Native Children
In the early 2000s, I inherited a book collection from my former theatre teacher. It was a virtual treasure trove of hardcover and...
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Nov 17, 20233 min read
Top 10 SOUTH PARK Episodes
This article originally appeared on an earlier blog and was included in the collection Everyone Else is Wrong (And You Know It):...
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Nov 10, 20232 min read
The Reason: A Veterans Day Prose-Poem
At a bachelor party in the prairies. Here for my friend’s wedding. I have nothing in common with these men in uniform, but am happy to be...
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Nov 3, 20235 min read
Hated Math, Loved MATHNET
I have always hated Thursdays. I consider them insufferable twenty-four periods you have to wade through to get to Friday and the start...
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Oct 20, 20235 min read
Fourth Publication this Year!
I find myself often at a loss as to what publishers of poetry and drama want these days. I’m told the subjects to which I’ve always been...
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Oct 13, 20234 min read
Our Furry Friends: A Goodbye to Macey
In March of 2007, I was picked up from the hospital by my folks and nephews. Unbeknownst to me, I had an allergic reaction to sulfa drugs...
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Oct 6, 20234 min read
Soundbite Obits
Last week, like countless others, I was moved by the death of Michael Gambon, a British actor who did amazing things onstage and off. As...
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Sep 29, 20238 min read
A Writer Looks at Forty
Yes, I am a poet (playwright), two hundred years too late… I was born with the umbilical cord wrapped around my neck, choking me. When I...
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Sep 22, 20237 min read
Acting in WAITING FOR GODOT: A Recap
All photographs, save the last image, appear courtesy of Steven Ross. For more information about his work, visit his website. The odds...
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Sep 15, 202310 min read
New York, New York
As we have just passed the 22nd anniversary of the terrible loss on 9/11/01, I thought about old New York. I was scrolling through social...
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Sep 8, 20236 min read
Jimmy Buffett (1946-2023): A Legend
After seven weeks of hashing out words (when I was able) about the rehearsal process for a production of Waiting for Godot I’m currently...
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Sep 1, 20234 min read
An Actor's Journal- Part 7
I’m still vertical. It’s a low bar for living, but there you are. After this experience—rehearsing for my first stage role in nearly 20...
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Aug 25, 20235 min read
An Actor's Journal- Part 6
Last Friday night, the show finally settled into a place where the bones were there. I don’t know when we started using the word bones to...
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Aug 18, 20239 min read
An Actor's Journal- Part 5
Week 5 As mentioned last week, Virginia Samford Theatre, near Linn Park in Birmingham holds a lot of special memories for me. Between...
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