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Auditioning people for a brevityTV adjunct live improv troupe today. Improv Philosophy a poem, by Deron Team play. Do. Learn. Be honest. No fear. Fail hard. Don’t try. Funny follows.

Here are my guesses for today’s results, light colors being the places where the candidate carries the state by 3% or less.  I sure hope I’m right. Meanwhile, today finally sees Obama go off the charts at RealClearPolitics.com, according to their aggregate tally of national polls:

What an amazing advertising campaign.  I mean political campaign. Either way, I’m a thousand percent happy to help.

Alan McCoy tagged me, and I didn’t even realize it.  But when I updated wordpress, there it was, the request for me to list six things people (generally) don’t know about me.  I won’t tag anyone else, because I’m pretty sure I’m the last blogger alive to do this one, but here are my six [...]

It was supposed to be a nice, relaxing summer.  My number of tutoring hours each week down to a trickle, I made no attempt to seek more work.  I could survive financially through the summer, and get some writing done. Life was slow and relaxing for a little while, but then August slammed me in [...]

Written earlier today: At this moment, there is an eyeliner pencil in my breast pocket, next to a red pen I’m using to do a script consultation. My fingers are sticky with spirit gum from just having applied a fake beard. Life is good. Here’s a weird tip: We were attempting to create a costume [...]

I’m not one to get worked up over the semantics of language. I have a friend whose pet peeve is people saying, “ATM machine.”  After all, he points out, the ‘M’ already stands for ‘machine.’  You’re effectively calling it an Automatic Teller Machine Machine.  (It doesn’t help that people use PIN numbers to access their [...]

  George Carlin, 1937-2008   

“I’m staying in this race until we have a nominee.” We do. It’s not you.

Watching the political campaign over the past few months, I’ve been disappointed to see Barack Obama occasionally falter in his effort to elevate this year’s political campaigning.  As he put it, “You get elbowed enough, eventually you start throwing some back.” I can’t help comparing Barack’s struggle to that of Luke Skywalker in the Star [...]

For the next few days you can hear an online preview of the new R.E.M. album at iLike. They’ve been my favorite band for a very long time, and yet it’s been hard to say that lately. But this new stuff is good! They emerged at the end of the experimentation tunnel with a few [...]