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“Don’t try to tell me that hungry is not an emotion because I feel that shit deep in my soul.” –A Friend, Nina Gallant |
4 October, 2014
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“I don’t believe grief ever leaves you.You just learn to live with it deeply rooted in your soul.” — A friend, Brian Thomas |
27 September, 2014
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“Oh shame upon earth! Apollo! Apollo! Lord of the ways, my ruin You have undone me once again, and utterly.” — Cassandra crying out as she sets foot on Greek soil, from Aeschylus’ Agamemnon |
I’m opening a Nightclub . . .
We are are opening Friday Night: V2 – Vula Vala – (open/close in Zulu) – the 2 Virtues. How did this happen? See you there.
Speech (Never Made)
The speech I wrote (but never made) at my student’s showcase last week.
“Stories are how we make sense of the world. They surround us everyday: from banter at the taxi rank, to chats with friends and colleagues, to talk at dinner – we only need to listen. I can think of no other vocation I’d rather share than to be story teller, each day working in my shop, constructing stories I hope will change the world. It has been an honor to share this story telling world with these students. I invite you now to listen to their stories – and I hope you find, in them, as I have, some extraordinary glimpses of who we are and what we can become. Enjoy.”
Playwriting Class Showcase
My class had it’s final showcase a couple days ago. 14 students all reading bits of their work. We did it in a friend’s bar in the afternoon. I found it awkward and at moments wonderful, tedious with bits of brilliant. The director reminded me this is a showcase: the good, bad, and the ugly. In any case, I still love the students.
20 September, 2014
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“Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.” — Tupac Shakur |
13 September, 2014
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“Let me speak, let me spit out my bitterness Born of grief and nights without sleep and festering flesh Do you have eyes? Can you see like mankind sees?” — Joni Mitchell, Sire of Sorrow (Job’s Sad Song) |
6 September, 2014
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“Money, power, & respect, the key to life . . . “ — ‘Lil Kim |
30 August, 2014
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Grief In the night I brush my teeth with a razor — A poem by Kevin Young
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