So, my birthday is on April 8th. Within this past year, I've gotten very, very into the vlogbrothers, novelist John Green and his brother Hank's YouTube channel that started as a little brotherly new years resolution and became a movement ( Read more... )

I was 14 when the first iteration of Cosmos began. My parents and I would watch it together. That part was great. The dreadful part was that my parents would tease that I should grow up to marry Carl Sagan. I have no idea WHAT the hell their motivation was for this. I can remember them saying "But he's so smart, like you!" This did very little ( Read more... )

An explanation of yesterday's facebook post "Achievement unlocked ( Read more... )

In Hamlet's play-within-a-play, the Player King (representing Hamlet's late father) tells the Player Queen that he's sure she'll remarry when he dies. She doesn't just say "No, of course not, honey," she says, in essence, No, noooope, nopity-no-no, never, lock me up, starve me, never ever will I EVER remarry, no way, no how ( Read more... )

This has not been a reading year for me. There are various reasons. One, I am sure, is that social media has gotten me used to reading things in bite-sized chunks. They are often wonderful things, useful things, things that start amazing discussions that make me happy to have the brilliant friends whom I have. But SHORT things ( Read more... )

I told this story several times yesterday, backstage and on, quietly and not-so, making it sound period when needed, and figured it's worth the writing down.

I have known the lovely and talented chuckmckeithan for almost 24 years. My brain is insisting that this CANNOT be right, but simple math tells me that it is, I met him sometime in the Spring of 1990, at ( Read more... )

That's why I say thanks every day ( Read more... )

ihaveatiara, aka Mrs. Fezziwig, was kind enough to let me know that Fezziwig's, partly inspired by this entry of mine, gave over some of their rehearsal to veteran cast members letting newer people know some of the questions that patrons might ask and kind ways to answer the questions without breaking character ( Read more... )

As someone who has worked with the public, both professionally in retail and as a volunteer at various Fair(e)s, I would never say "There are no stupid questions." However, many of the questions being cited in response to/empathy with this article really AREN'T that stupid ( Read more... )

Dear Wonderful Company for whom I want to work ( Read more... )