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"If you have something you don't want people to know maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place"
-Google Executive ChairmanThe day the computer first came into our home it was 1994. It was bulky and white, with a puffy blue television screen and was the size of a small Backstreet boy. It literally took up the entire desk in our spare room ( Read more... )

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The director of this year’s Tony awards in his element. Watch the right side and then watch the left. Glenn Weiss is a living example of what it means to Receive fully. This isn’t about listening. It has nothing to do with listening. This isn’t about his ears. It isn’t about what he hears or even what he sees. Those are physical qualities and in ( Read more... )

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There's a raw sexuality in Jones that only a man who's completely available to it is able to release. Think of Elvis in his prime, or Timberlake at his peak. These are men who innately understand what it means to let go of whatever gender rules they were taught or were supposed to follow, and simply allow the music to infiltrate their artistic ( Read more... )

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I miss Stewart, but this is really worth watching.

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Gender has colors to it. I used to think it was one thing and that it had definitions and what I’ve learned and accepted as the truth is that it has combinations. I don’t have to be one thing and if I don’t fit into someone’s idea of what makes them comfortable, then that’s all right. That’s just fine ( Read more... )

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Nichols and May never played a scene as if it were supposed to be funny. The humor is in the intelligence of the two people and their relationship with each other. At no time are we commanded to laugh. This scene isn’t littered with jokes, or one-liners, or bits. Even within the hilarious duet Shapes the two of them make during the moments they ( Read more... )

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When we lose a parent we can tend to canonize them. All their faults, all their human qualities may fade away and what we are left with is barely recognizable. It isn't always true, and usually if it happens, it happens within the first few years, and then resolutely and with time, we see them for who they actually were: People who did the best ( Read more... )

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When you spend too much time worrying about how masculine you are, how tough you need to be, and how to express all that, there’ very little time for anything else. Compassion, love, affection, tenderness, kindness, all these things are given a feminine construct in American males, and that’s a gigantic no-no. So we’re left with men of a certain ( Read more... )

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“An asshole has no idea they’re an asshole. That’s what makes them an asshole.”

I tell my students this so they can get the idea out of their heads that they have to show us something. What I mean is: if you’re playing a villain, you don’t have to show us you’re a villain, you simply have to be the villain. Evil isn’t about ( Read more... )