Quick bit of self-promotion ( Read more... )

Your Socks

Last night I spent several

hours bundling the socks

you will never wear again.

Many of them were missing their

pair.  For those I found another

single and bundled them together.  A

few were worn thin like

gauze.  I bundled them up.

Others had stains:  mud,

grass.  I also bundled those.  Some of your dress

pairs were ( Read more... )

i am in a lot of physical pain right now.  but i'm okay with it, because it's all due to helping out a friend who really needed it.  frank's basement was inundated in a major way, but luckily the second half of truman rehearsal was a big stress reliever.  we have a new opening tune that i think will make our sets much more cohesive and dense ( Read more... )

deserts have mirages.  the midwest has fog ( Read more... )

I'm not the biggest fan of Daniel Tash, but I do think he's got some funny bits, particularly when he mentions the show Survivor.  Only in America would we create a game show out of people "struggling for survival" in places that people already live, and have lived, and will continue to live ( Read more... )

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did i completely alienate all of my friends from high school, or does it just seem that way because most of them make absolutely no effort to remain in contact with me ( Read more... )

Scene 1

(Students are off to stage right and left, chatting quietly. The bell rings and more students file through backstage.  Sean and Jake walk together, in the same direction but not to the same class.  They both carry Chemistry textbooks.  They stop near the staircase to talk.)

Sean M.:  Roberts is so easy.

Jake:  Yea, but I get ( Read more... )

i have found nothing so satisfying as having someone to share my life with, even for a time.

Okay, everyone. I wanted to post this because I want to know what you all think of it, if you have opinions, that is. My sense of it is that I can say "Hell yes!" but largely because of who Dave Eggers is and the fucking amazing things he has done for literacy etc (if you live in Chicago, you should know the Boring Store and the true story behind ( Read more... )