LiveJournal, you have served me well for more than a decade, but the time has arrived to migrate.

Future blog posts can now be found at the new Wordpress-based blog, Creative Control Mark II. I am slowly migrating the majority of these posts to that space and giving each one a cursory makeover. I will leave this blog active for as long as I'm ( Read more... )

Rick Santorum is not going to be elected President.

I am not a political scientist or a pollster. I have no advanced degrees that give me the authority to appear on a nightly news show and make that statement. The statement is true nonetheless. Rick Santorum is not going to be elected President.

That should make you furious.

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This is a thing I need to say. It's been four months since I've needed to say something in this space but this is something I need to say.

One day you decide that you'll learn to play an instrument. In many cases this is very nearly decided for you by the instrument itself--something in your fingers itches for the keys of the piano, something in ( Read more... )

Below is a two-minute play called Our Oath, Your Office, which I wrote for Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind in 2009. It was first performed in January, the Friday immediately following Barack Obama's inauguration. I feel a need to revisit and share it in light of the deep fissure that this past week has rampaged its way through the ranks of ( Read more... )

I am not blocked, I write in the text window. This is not block.

But it had been months, it seemed. It had been years, been centuries. Worse than that; it had been minutes, bound fast to the bottom of the hourglass, each grain landing square on the bridge of the nose and bouncing off to join the pile of eventual asphyxiation. Water torture made of ( Read more... )

For those curious, below are the three one-minute plays that I wrote for the first Chicago One-Minute Play Festival this past Sunday and Monday at Victory Gardens Theater as part of their Fresh Squeezed initiative. Dubious, The Pebble, and Lucille and Lefty Meet Their Maker were directed by Megan Carney, Brant Russell and Kathryn Walsh, and Erica ( Read more... )

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And there are those times that we treat it, the theatre, the thing that we all love so much that we sacrifice sleep and money and relationships with other human beings for it; there are times we treat it like a patient with an illness we cannot identify but we are all more or less in agreement that the condition is terminal. Indeed, the prognosis ( Read more... )