Alex Burger

Play Reading Tonight

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It’s been a year since I’ve done a large scale play/film reading at my house.  Tonight is my “Rumble in the Jungle” play reading.  Blessed to have friends and community to do this with.  Here are the pics from last year.

11 November, 2011

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Quote of the week:
“Lions.  You know, like in front of a museum or a post office.  You know, concrete lions.  My house has lions.  Get a house with lions.”
– Prologue to Sanchez’s book.

29 October, 2011

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“Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.”
– Shakespeare (As You Like It) as quoted by Don King in Kinshasa, Zaire 1974.

25 September, 2011

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Ìyàwó àkófé kì í rá’hùn okó, òkèlè àkóbù kì í rá’hùn obè  (A man’s first wife never complains of neglect from the penis, the first morsel never complains of insufficient sauce)

 – a Yoruba saying

Breakfast in Johannesbug

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I’ve woken up each day this week to work on my world food film with my co-creator Jim.  I’m at a fancy hotel in Johannesburg, South Africa, anId he’s some 9,000 miles away in Oakland raising a near one year old, so we connect before work, my time, and before bed, his.

 

 

I eat waffles, fresh fruit, and strong tea as we write through drought in Ethiopia, embattled corn harvest in Mexico, grain trading in the USA.  These characters, whom I know better than most of my friends, and Jim’s voice threaded through the computer surround me alone, perched in my Johannesburg hotel room.