As I was falling asleep last night, I wondered why the musical JC Superstar has been in my brain all week. I mean, it's not the SEASON for JC Superstar. I've not seen or heard it recently ( Read more... )

"Happy Equinox," my mother told me.
"Is it today?"
"It started at 3 AM."

The leaves here are starting to turn. The tips of the sugar maples shimmer. I have to close my window at night, because I am cold.

"Clothes are Important," Delia wrote in an email. I had been telling her how I'm trying to plan what to pack for New York and San Diego - ( Read more... )

I wrote my ten-minute play!

IT IS CALLED "Sing Zing-Zou-Zou!"

It took me two hours!

But it includes the Muppet Liberation Anthem (only I don't call them Muppets in my play, because they're not, they're DOOWACKIES!), and a fight scene - with a SHIV and a BAYONET - and it is sad and gross and maybe, at times, if the actors are sharp, funny. ( Read more... )

tinaconnolly and I are going to attempt to write 10-minute plays this weekend for a fringe festival ( Read more... )

I mean - to come to work and see this!

About my OWN JACK YAP!

After staying up until two AM writing - and FINISHING!!! - Canary of Candletown.Well, first draft, that is. But done! In a shape I can recognize as a STORY ( Read more... )

Work on "Martyr's Gem," and on Milkmaid, and -- let's face it -- on Shadowstalkers has been put on hold in favor of The Canary of Candletown, formally known as "Canary's Kiss," which started out as an idea the Belgian gave me on one of our train rides, when I was happy about being invited to submit to Steam-Powered II, and he was all like, "What is ( Read more... )

andelku's been posting these "Hedgehog" entries recently under F-lock, and then today she opened them to the public! And I have to say...

I'M SO GLAD!!!

They can be found here under the Hedgehog Tree; remember to read from the bottom up ( Read more... )

On the train this morning, I came to blame three things for last night's dream and today's music making.

1.) shadesong writing yesterday:

"At my birthday Muppet marathon, I was reflecting on how very lucky I was to be born at just the right time. How very lucky I was to be born into the age of Sesame Street and the Muppets. And now I'm thinking how ( Read more... )

Dreams from the Muppet Liberation Front. Apparently, there is a world where muppets and humans live side by side, like Sesame Street for grown ups, like Galaxy Quest but grounded ( Read more... )

- Steampunk Miner's story

Why? Well, there was an invitation. But also, on train this morning...

Belgian: What are you reading?

Me: Steampunk'd. I have to write this story, and I'm trying to get a feel for the genre ( Read more... )