Good News

Well, I’ve got a really amazing article coming up for a magazine.
I know a lot of people who wind up doing articles on “how to save money on car insurance” and “how to prevent mold” and such. I respect people cutting their teeth on those but I’ve been holding out for something better, however questionable [...]

So it goes.

Kurt Vonnegut died on April 11th 2007. He was 84 and had suffered a major head injury which had caused brain damage.
At 22 or so, he had been captured by Nazis and was forced to gather corpses for cremation. Prior to that, his mother had committed suicide. Years later, his sister would die of cancer. [...]

Variations on the Death of Trotsky Design Notes

For future blackmail/reference purposes, here are my overbearing and eccentric notes to the designers for the one act David Ives play I directed entitled Variations on the Death of Trotsky:
Notes to Designers Christian Boy and Alice Bristow
Statement of Vision
Variations on the Death of Trotsky is a dark comedy. It is both Post-Modern and Existentialist. On [...]

Tangent Universe Censorship

Ah… Irony!
From the American Family Association:

Couple Says School Violated Kids’ Innocence, Parents’ Rights With R-Rated Film
By Jim Brown
August 17, 2006
(AgapePress) – A Los Angeles pastor and his wife say they are preparing to sue a public charter school for showing an obscene, sexually explicit, R-rated movie in their daughter’s ninth-grade English class last February.
According to [...]