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I recently stumbled across Priscilla Ahn on iTunes and downloaded her Live EP. I listened to the above song 67 times while writing the first draft of my short play Uriel’s Garden. As I settle in to spend a quiet afternoon on draft 2, I thought I would share this lovely little ( Read more... )

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“I’m only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart.”
- Richard Yates

It’s been a week since I saw the film adaptation of Richard Yates’ Revolutionary Road, and I’ve wanted to comment on it but needed to give it some time to settle in. You see, it’s ( Read more... )

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As an avid reader of John August’s blog, I finally installed his nifty little Scrippets plugin and thought I’d take it for a spin.

JENNY and her IMAGINARY FRIEND sit, discussing the Scrippets plugin for Wordpress.

JENNY

Looks pretty good to me, so far.

IMAGINARY FRIEND

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Oh what fun! I can’t wait til the future gets here.

So, this is a little more personal than I tend to get on this particular blog, but since it’s mine, after all, I have decided that that’s all right. Thus, we have the obligatory Year In Review post on this, the last day of ( Read more... )

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I finally saw Blasted at SoHo Rep on Thursday night and I have to say - it completely lived up to all the hype. Never in my life have I been to the theater where it has become a truly frightening experience. I was sitting in the first row and was inadvertantly hit with a myriad ( Read more... )

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On Monday, we were lucky enough to have famous composer John Kander speak to us (for those of you who don’t know who he is, he wrote the music for such hit shows as Cabaret and Chicago, not to mention The Rink, Zorba andFlora the Red Menace.) He described himself as being among ( Read more... )

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Last night, I attended the New York City Protest of California’s Prop. 8 - a piece of legislation that rescinded the rights of same sex couples to marry. It was an exceptionally inspiring event that began outside of the LDS Church on 65th and Columbus and escalated into a march ( Read more... )

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Understand, I’ll slip quietly
Away from the noisy crowd
When I see the pale
Stars rising, blooming over the oaks.
I’ll pursue solitary pathways
Through the pale twilit meadows,
With only this one dream:
You come too.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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