Pip’s visit is off to a flying start!

Saturday morning I answered the phone to find only silence at the other end. I hung up & the phone rang again with an “unavailable number.” ( Read more... )

Several weeks ago, I bumped into Jill outside the Berkeley Rep. and gave her my number and e-mail after a moment of hesitation. When she was at our high school reunion, she had seen Colleen and found out we’re both in the Bay Area, but she didn’t ask for my contact info. I assumed, therefore, she wasn’t interested in getting together. I have ( Read more... )

To me it is a truth so self-evident as to require no articulation:

The Lord of the Rings should not be a Broadway musical.

(And yet, here I am articulating it.) It should especially not be a 3 hour and 40 minute musical. That truth, however, was far from self-evident to someone… many someones in fact… including the government of Ontario…

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I currently have the best temp job EVER and if I could (a) ensure that it stayed like this and (b) defer grad school for a year, I would. And I’d dedicate my first novel to this Illustrious Firm ( Read more... )

Black Book ( Read more... )

Wait Until Dark: An excellent thriller in the style of Hitchcock. ( Read more... )

Saturday night Gwyn and I watched "My Own Private Idaho." It's a Gus Van Sant film (which means little to me but everyone says it as though this is very significant) and has a neat concept: a modern retelling of Shakespeare's 'Henry IV part 2' in which Prince Hal, rather than heir apparent to the throne, is the son of a politician who rebels by ( Read more... )

Things in Berkeley are generally miserable and stressful and even the things which usually make me happy and less stressed are now infested with angst. Although I’ve started writing many entries on the subjectS, I’ve concluded that it only makes me feel worse so here, instead, for your fascinating are two long overdue play reviews. Enjoy ( Read more... )

Good news / bad news ( Read more... )

The Lives of Others, 5/5 ( Read more... )