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We broke down our set yesterday. The Flaming Eyeball is history. It was kind of sad, but at the same time kind of liberating to take the s...

Hey if the "long emergency" (no oil, no power, no internet, no electrified gizmos to entertain us), is coming, we will be ready. ...

Last night was all about comedy at our little theater space. We were on the bill with Valid Hysteria, an all woman improv group. Female, ...

I thought of this last night as we were video-taping our play. This is probably unfair to butterflies... When we act, write, direct, we are...

I trained down to the big city yesterday for a big power meeting. Meeting with the big boys, don't cha know? The city was alive, a sun...

We had a WWSP band rehearsal last night. Three of us, minus our fabulous drummer (he will be with us on Saturday). It was great to sit and...

I've set myself up for one of those impossible tasks again. It happens all the time. My life is full of impossibilities. It's pro...

I came across a phrase this morning, that kind of resonates with me: "a broken-down idealism." Kind of sums up where I'm at....

The second to last weekend of the Flaming Eyeball show. We weathered a snowstorm on Friday night and still had a great little audience. An...

Pawns: I came across this line, looking for something else: "We are all pawns in a game whose forces we largely fail to comprehend....

This is from E.J. Dionne in the Washington Post: Listen to what (Martin Luther) King said about the Vietnam War at his own Ebenezer Baptist...

Think Wallace Shawn (one of America's greatest playwrights) as an evil genius in gaudy eye make-up and a frou-frou toupee. Think Buffie...

Atrios (Duncan Black) a primarily political blogger based in Philadelpia, is one of my favorite reads. He's always got his finger on th...

Sometimes I read books, and sometimes I just read reviews of books. It's kind of nerdy. I know. Here's some stuff I came across f...

If you want to get from one side of Chicago to another on a Sunday trek, and you are in tune with the Public Transportation Gods, there'...

How to deal with the doom and foreboding? Serpentine! Keep moving. Spin. Never stop. Unless you're unconscious. And even then...we...

I woke up with George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass," swirling around in my head. Feelings of doom and foreboding. I put ...

We've made new friends working on our latest theatrical production. People from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Serbia. Chicago is such an i...

John Lilly talked to dolphins, he wrote a book, and they made a movie about it starring the great George C. Scott. I grew up watching ...

Every day some information comes through the air that is sort of difficult to process. Yesterday I learned: 1. The EPA has buried the fact...