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So I’m sitting in theater history on Thursday, and we’re discussing Beckett and Albee, when all of a sudden there is a knock on the door. Probably just a late-comer, right? We’re only 20-minutes into the three-hour class, so that’s a fair assumption. But I didn’t notice the ( Read more... )

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I feel like a ghost in this town.
It’s good that I never fell in with the wrong people, for I have this insatiable desire to scratch the dark underbelly of a city of sin. It would be easier, it seems to me, to cease upon the midnight with no pain, form of: white powder, small ( Read more... )

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i. I have been a negligent blogger, primarily due to my participation in the tech for Baal at Columbia Stages. I was taught how to run a light board and program a show and have subsequently done both of these things for hours and hours over the weekend and after class and/or ( Read more... )

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Look, we’re all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house-in the bedroom he’s asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he’s rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he’s paying his taxes, in the yard he’s raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he’s making a ( Read more... )

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I have been thinking of getting a fish.

You know, a living creature at whom I can point my outward ramblings and feel ever so slightly less insane. Then I remembered that we have a fish who lives in a cup on top of our microwave. He lives in a cup because he gets lost in a bowl ( Read more... )

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A friend of mine recently wrote a blog post that got me thinking about the nature of ambition, which is apropos as I kill my two-hour break between class and the infamous Collaboration Weekend here at Columbia (read: I am vanished for 4 days). I remember reading somewhere, and ( Read more... )

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This needs no introduction.

Aaron Sorkin Conjures a Meeting of Obama and Bartlet
By MAUREEN DOWD

Now that he’s finally fired up on the soup-line economy, Barack Obama knows he can’t fade out again. He was eager to talk privately to a Democratic ex-president who could offer more ( Read more... )

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EDIT: [TITLE OF SHOW] TO CLOSE ON OCT. 12 - SO GO SEE IT! QUICKLY!

Guys. Seriously. [title of show]. See it now.

For all you theater/performing artists, this is actually a really important show in a lot of ways. Yes, it’s a silly comedy, but it very earnestly deals with the ( Read more... )

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So, my negligent blogging is primarily due to the high volume of homework I have on my plate (I’m churning out upwards of 50 pages a week - how fantastic and overwhelming is that!?) but it’s also because I have discovered a little gem of a program that my petty side is enjoying ( Read more... )

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This is what I heard on the subway on the way to school yesterday morning. Typically, the people who speak to a subway car on the whole are muttering crazy-people or religious enthusiasts with too much time on their hands, but I thought this man was actually exceptionally ( Read more... )