I remember an extended period of time in my childhood when my favorite solitary game required only a bag of marbles, several plastic figurines from a "fantasy realm" playset (knights, goblins, wizards, etc.) and the dozens of incomplete decks of cards we had lying around the house.

I would build massive--we're talking approximately five-foot square ( Read more... )

Last night I was introduced to The Books, through this video, which I am sure physically changed the shape of my brain.

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I have been absolutely obsessed for the past week with the below video and the song for which said video was made. It is an electronic-trance song composed almost entirely of sound samples from Disney's Alice in WonderlandDon't hurt your brain or spend unnecessary time trying to decipher the words Alice is speaking, in the hopes that it creates a ( Read more... )

I don't know which college basketball team performed far better than expectations this year, in part because I'm not a March Madness junkie. I don't know because I generally don't care.

But I'll tell ya...you don't know from Cinderellas until you've had a chance to witness 47 year-old Briton Susan Boyle show up to the big dance ( Read more... )

Dramatic readings of comments posted at online religious fundamentalist forums. Shockingly, some of this language is NSFW.

(h/t Oliver Willis)

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Below is a Flip-video recorded, iMovie-edited, one-take-only film of cognito/communicado, a play I wrote for Too Much Light last year and which I decided to commit to video for purposes of sharing it on the World Theatre Day tumblelog. It's not only one of the TML plays I'm proudest of creating, it also ranks fairly high on the scale of theatrical ( Read more... )

Hypothetical situation ( Read more... )

Pride and Predator.

"Oh, I do not like that Predator. He is too uncouth, too bloodthirsty, too impossible to find without infrared vision technology."

This [expletive deleted] Election.

If I may be forgiven for quoting myself...this is the sort of thing I was referring to when I had a character observe in my short play Staring Contest, or The Enemy in Orange that the reason we use the word report to describe both a news item and a rifle firing is that the media is something we no longer listen ( Read more... )

The Crooks and Liars blog last night posted this karaoke clip of "The John Birch Society," first performed by the Chad Mitchell Trio in 1962.

Insert names you may have recently heard spat from the mouth of Sarah Palin and you have a sadly relevant little novelty tune for 2008.

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I'm not particularly worried about the outcome of the election ( ( Read more... )