(Guy is straightening his tie in company washroom. He looks up into the mirror and sees a fellow worker named Ted. He makes eye contact with him and then looks away. Unable to hold in the anger, Guy addresses Ted ( Read more... )

So my good friend Panooch is directing once again at MCC and has chosen to do The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail- which reminds me a lot of The Band's 'The night they drove old Dixie down...' but I digress. He called tonight to say, "Patrick, it's abysmal. Just abysmal. The seven year old and the twelve year old I had to cast were correcting my male ( Read more... )

Come on- is that the best Burger King can do- Dr. Angus? Dr. Anus is more like it. I'm OLD enough to remember when they had the actual Burger King hawking their hamburgers. He had this blow-dried red hair, feathered in the middle and puffed up like a bag of cotton candy with a plastic crown pushed down on it. He wore a red and yellow leotard and ( Read more... )

Chad Johnson is student teaching in theatre at Stevenson this year. He once played a black, manic-dperessive Santa Claus to Steve Moreo's Figure of Death in an in-class one act production called, of all things, Santa Claus Encounters Death. Later he went on to play Big Jules in Guys and Dolls. He went solo in Forensics doing a piece about a boxer ( Read more... )

Well I've done it ( Read more... )

Randomness of t.v. commentators:

Those hands have touched many balls today.

Nothing like the ability of teenage breast strokers.

They have been waiting to stroke all day.

More to come I'm sure...

No play tonight. I am hooked on the escapist entertainment of Blind Date. What a cake job to write the captions! Sometimes I laugh, sometimes I cringe, sometimes I just shake my head. The best part is that it is on two channels at two different times otherwise I would need Tivo.

No play tonight. I am hooked on the escapist entertainment of Blind Date. What a cake job to write the captions! Sometimes I laugh, sometimes I cringe, sometimes I just shake my head. The best part is that it is on two channels at two different times otherwise I would need Tivo.

Interlude ( Read more... )

Here is my latest short piece. Remember, I control all production rights. Post here if you want use it ( Read more... )