Gotta say, I'm not really a fan of winter. It's not my favorite season--that distinction is reserved for summer. (Ah, summer, with your long, long days; your lazy lethargy; your warm sunshine... but I digress.) It may not have been the main reason I moved to L.A., but the weather has certainly been one of the biggest perks of living here for the ( Read more... )

It's the responsibility of any artist to champion the creation of art that he or she disagrees with, doesn't understand, or is offended by.

This is a theory that I've been mulling over for a while--about a year now, I guess--and I think that I can fairly confidently boil it down to that statement.

( Let's explore that statement, complete with footnotes. )

Goodness. I haven't posted a real summary of the weekend yet. I was too busy getting over the cold that I caught from Colin that he caught from Jakob ( Read more... )

It's exciting to watch history being made, regardless of where I stand on the issues. On more than one decision, I was undecided until fairly late in the game -- a political stance is not always the same as a moral stance, even though the latter informs and influences the former, and for now, that's all I'll say about who/what I voted for ( Read more... )

I'm officially a size 6. Not that my clothes are a 6--most of them are an 8, and I still have some 10s and 12s kicking around, but they really need to go, because I put on a size 12 skirt yesterday, and it literally fell off of me. Last night, though, I was digging around in Mariah's closet for something to wear, and all of her pants are size 6, ( Read more... )

Half of yesterday's post-mortem meeting was focused on coming up with ways to enhance the audience experience, train volunteers to be useful and to carry out the vision of the show as a whole, teach audience members how to behave properly, and teach parents how to expect proper behavior from their children ( Read more... )

Here we go, into weekend #2... a show tonight, and then shows tomorrow and Sunday afternoons. And then a week of strike, beginning with the post-mortem on Monday morning ( Read more... )