This video is bizarre and gorgeous and I kind of love it.

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One thing that I found really frustrating during residency was the constant hammering of the notion of keeping your play as basic as possible because otherwise, nobody would want to produce it. Keep your cast tiny. Keep your sets minimal. Your milieu inexpensive. Your themes current. Make sure the audience understands it and blah blah blah. It was ( Read more... )

When I am home for Christmas, I want my mom to help me make a very important gamepiece for The Stand. Control of the land surrounding the town and the various features of that land matter a lot to the plot of the game, so I wanted a large and well-illustrated visual representation for it. What I want is for my mom, who is an artist, to draw or ( Read more... )

Saw Secretariat this week and really enjoyed it. He's always been my favorite racehorse. As great racehorses go, people tend to disagree whether Secretariat or Man O' War was the greatest of all time. Man O' War had the better, more consistent record of winning races, but I have always preferred Secretariat because when it came to sheer equine ( Read more... )

Today is Epiphany, as well as Carmen's birthday. She would have been fifteen today; this is the first birthday she's not been around for. My dad put a picture on her on the refrigerator of when she was in her prime. She really was a beautiful dog.
Had a riding lesson today. Went better than I expected it to, given how long it's been. But I'm pleased ( Read more... )

Just got out of the first shower I've taken in the brand-new shower my parents had built in the master bathroom at my house. It's really beautiful, all black marble tiles with white veins to match the bathroom floor. The fixtures are all brass, with two showerheads, one a huge wide rainshower spout, one more like a traditional kind on a rod so you ( Read more... )

Amazing how I can be home for three days and have already turned my bedroom into a disaster area. Perhaps some cleaning is in order.

I went to see my family's horse Braveheart today. Well, mostly my mom's horse, but we all love him. For those of you who haven't seen his picture on my phone six or seven times, he's a pinto bay Tennessee Walker who is ( Read more... )

Today is St. Patrick's Day, and my dear, mean old horse's birthday. Rish would have been 24 today. I miss you, you jerk.

I thoroughly enjoyed my do-nothing-be-useless weekend, so much so that I am very sad to see it go. I got my car back from my brother, who used it to go home for break. This week shouldn't be so bad, but still, there will be stuff ( Read more... )

Had my first riding lesson since I've been back today. It was good to be back at my old barn. I ride a big chestnut ex-racehorse named Kincaid. He needs a lot of retraining; he doesn't carry himself properly at all, so I've been putting him through a rigorous dressage regimine to teach him to use himself like he should. Dressage is a style of ( Read more... )