rumor has it that SEPTA workers might go on strike next week. that means i would have to wake up about 45 minutes earlier than normal so that i can walk from Broad and Tasker to 7th and Market. i suppose things could be worse. i guess i should be thankful that Philadelphia's not a super huge city, so walking to work is always a realistic ( Read more... )

well i'm back from Chicago. what a great weekend. allow me to gush about the show for a second before i make any major philosophical observations. ( if you don't care at all about Caryl Churchill, don't click here. )

does anyone else find it odd that The Faint is on the Saddle Creek label? and that Interpol is on Matador?

this morning i had installment two of my first dental cleaning in sixty-eleven years. i was greeted by the same hygienist i had a few weeks ago. the one who reprimanded me for not going to the dentist regularly. so as she sat me in her chair and "bibbed" me (i'm not sure "bib" really works as a transitive verb . . . or as a verb at all, for that ( Read more... )

I KNEW IT! there is a full moon approaching. this saturday, in fact. ever since i moved to philly, i've become more aware of how the full moon affects people's behavior. i guess i didn't notice it so much in chicago because i was working in theatre, and theatre people are a little bit strange all the time. but now that i'm in the semi-corporate ( Read more... )

there are some days when i feel like my cynical exterior is nothing more than an exterior. like underneath the disguise is a guy who thinks movies with super-cheesy unrealistic happy endings are great, who thinks babies and cute little puppy dogs are gifts from heaven, who thinks optimism is not such a bad idea.

( today is not one of those days. )

is it any wonder i'm stressed? there've been a lot of "closed doors" around the office lately. i sit in the administrative corner of the office, so i'm surrounded by "important" people, and i HATE it when they shut their doors to talk to someone or have a "meeting." it just makes me feel so paranoid ( Read more... )

since the Oscars were incredibly boring this year, i was excited to learn of this little tidbit:

"There was some consolation for the artistic vandals responsible for Gigli. The record for most Razzies, now in their 24th year, still belongs to Showgirls and Battlefield Earth which amassed seven each ( Read more... )

so the Oscars are on. which makes me want to be directing again. i miss that feeling i get when i'm creating something. it's the greatest feeling in the world, and it makes me feel like a true artist. of course, i am in the performing arts, so i'll freely admit that part of me does want to gain some sort of recognition for what i do. but that's not ( Read more... )

at our new year's party, we discovered that we had a mouse in the apartment. i mean, we suspected a rodential presence in the house well before that, but it wasn't until new year's that we finally saw the mouse. then a week or two later, the mouse limped his way out into the kitchen, and we caught him in an old plastic chinese food container and ( Read more... )