Today I am 32. (Older than I've ever been, and now I'm even older.) Every year, "half my life" encompasses more. This year I can say that I've been driving for half my life (including learner's permit time -- I have to wait till 33 to say I've had my license for half my life ( Read more... )

A wise writing friend has been urging me for months to read Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need, by Blake Snyder. She says that the book is just as useful for novels as for screenplays, because it's about how to craft a good story in general. She's right, and it turns out this was exactly the right time for me to ( Read more... )

Hooray for all the people who came to see Clearly Marked last night! For those who missed it, bearsir will be back in San Francisco in the fall, so there will be more opportunities. Perhaps I'll even get roped into selected to stage manage again. I did an adequate job in my role, and Bear and everybody else was kind enough to pretend afterwards that ( Read more... )

Back in January I posted about Clearly Marked, a solo theater performance by bearsir on the subject of identity and labels. Bear is back in the Bay Area and will be performing at Stanford this Wednesday. If you wanted to see the show before but didn't, perhaps because San Francisco is too far away, here's your chance. And, as an added bonus, if you ( Read more... )

Hooray for another long weekend, though it does seem a bit of a waste for it to come when we've only just gotten back into the swing of the five-day work week. I spent last night up in San Francisco, and I did a couple of neat things. ( Clearly Marked and open mic )

My very talented friend S. Bear Bergman (bearsir on LJ) will be in San Francisco on Friday performing hir solo show, Clearly Marked. If you are in the Bay Area, and if you are interested in: A) thinking about identity, B) messing with gender stereotypes, C) laughing at smart humor, or D) listening to stories, then this is the show for you. And if you're ( Read more... )