The Hysteric wants the hole package. The Obsessive is moored in the hole, summing parts. The Pervert swears he saw the hole thing. For the Psychotic, it’s no holes barred.
Category: Musings
Musings
How to avoid storytelling in the theatre…
Part 1 Formal strategies are very important. Processes, too, are crucial. Choose them and trust them. I found myself wanting to do something with verse. I decided to invent a line. I arrived at three iambs followed by three trochees: ,/,/,//,/,/, And that would be followed by a line consisting…
Protected: Mugshots: What’s under the kilt? Plenty, boyo, plenty.
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L. 12. 1 Bear Hunt Song, or rules of creative conduct revised
Be wary when it feels like a word association game. What is the form? Form is the wheel you don’t have to re-invent. If it’s truly new, it should be somewhat off-putting, something you would just as soon skip past or avoid, like a stranger who a year later is…
Never become a Christian
I was going to email everyone this, but I think it’s time we had a good old Lichtenbergian discussion right here. It’s a brief interview with the Indian mystic known as Osho. Although he seems to have fallen prey to the traditional impulses of cultic leaders in his later years,…
Politeness
We’ve been watching the original Dark Shadows on Netflix Instant View. (No, we’re not hip enough to have known that Depp and Burton are doing a remake. Found that out later as I looked for links. It was truly just a desire to relive childhood memories.) As the vampire Barnabas…
We all have come short
This is from today’s Writer’s Almanac. Today we celebrate the birthday of dime novelist Ned Buntline (books by this author), born Edward Zane Carroll Judson in Stamford, New York (1813) — probably, but not certainly, on this day. As a boy, he got in a fight with his father and…
Protected: On being Schrödinger’s Cat
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