My friends sophomore Stuart and freshman Kaylie are about to lose their scholarships due to low GPAs in academics. Stuart goofed off and partied way too much, but Kaylie really, really tried. She just blew it in everything. She can’t read. She can’t do math. She’s from Sedalia, and I know their schools aren’t any worse than mine were. You can ( Read more... )

An OLD one. I still laugh:

There’s this actor who was once a great, a legend, but now could no longer remember his lines. After many years he finds a theatre where a friend is directing a play. The director is willing to give him a chance.

The director says, “This part is the most important, but ( Read more... )

The Xians wrote something in the UMKC paper protesting the degenerate state of the arts that are supported by taxpayers.

They mentioned the “rumor” that the department is featuring a show “glorifying” prostitution. I sincerely hope they’re talking about mine - you can’t buy publicity like that.

“Glorifying.”

I get raped, beaten, abused, treated ( Read more... )

OK, so the Mae thing is kicking off. First hurdle was getting the part. Next hurdle was breaking to my dad that I’m playing a whore onstage. Next hurdle was convincing the author that a white woman can play the part.

This woman - the author (I won’t link to her because she may track back to this) - wrote it for herself; she wrote it with the idea ( Read more... )