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I am home for the holidays, trying (and not completely succeeding) to balance the desire to stay at my brother's (lovely place in the woods, lots of places to walk to, comfortable and easy) with the obligation to also spend as much time as possible at my mother's (40 minutes away by the car I don't have here, nobody else but her, not lots of places ( Read more... )

LJ tells me you've got a birthday today.  Cake all 'round!!

John Scalzi writes on his blog today, "It's all beautiful, and nothing lasts."  He surrounds it with assurances that this does not spring from any great, impending tragedy, but instead from the recognition that everything is fleeting and that recognizing the beauty in that impermanence is important.  And this resonates with me today, in the cool, ( Read more... )

I was reading an article today in the LA Times about the "crisis" in television comedies (i.e., there aren't very many of them that are succeeding right now).  The author made reference to "the so-called 'single-camera' comedies."  They are "so-called" because are shot with a single camera instead of with multiple cameras ( Read more... )

I am in rehearsal for a site-specific show that takes place in a mortuary (an actual, working mortuary---gardens, halls, a chapel, a two-story mural hallway, offices, a gallery, and, across the street, a large cemetary).  The audience gathers to participate in a framing show that sets this up as taking place on a night when the dead can commune ( Read more... )

I would explain that if my computer would cooperate but it won't, so never mind.

The one good thing about a long return journey is the way it mitigates the sadness of parting and the feeling that time together with kindred spirits, working in a convivial and inspiring atmosphere simply flies by.  Our time in the same rooms is too short, but it is, alas, what we can all spare, and so it has to do ( Read more... )

*smooches*


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(For those of you in the USA.  International Flisters, ignore, please.)  If you're home this coming Monday night, look for the cranky lady in the diner on "2 Broke Girls" at 8:30pm on CBS.  http://www.cbs.com/shows/2_broke_girls/ She might look a little familiar....