To The Evangelical Trump Supporter
Today I was arguing on Facebook with an Evangelical Christian about his support for Trump. He said his church did great work, and challenged me as to when I last fed the hungry or clothed the poor. I said I do, though not enough. It was why I supported Democrats. He...
“Nellie Bly With The Female Suffragists” – Bly’s Coverage of the Suffrage Convention in 1896
This is a complete transcription of the article “Nellie Bly With The Female Suffragists”, originally printed in The New York World, Jan. 26, 1896. WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. — I pushed in the swinging door, noticing as I did that it was covered with yellow canton flannel,...
Nellie Bly: In A Diet Kitchen
The New York World - Sunday, December 23, 1888 The Sad Procession of Invalids Begging For the Simplest Food. Nellie Bly Visits the Wretched Homes of Some of the Sufferers. A Charity that Dispenses Nourishment to the Afflicted Poor with Liberal Hand and Irrespective of...
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Shakespeare Limericks – Volume One
Marty Smith is an actor I've worked with a couple of time in the last fifteen years, and now I'll be murdering him nightly - he's playing Duncan in Mac. As a rehearsal challenge, our stage-manager has requested limericks about Shakespeare. Marty promptly won the game...
Search Results
In an amusing entry in what will certainly be an ongoing series, I'm listing here many of the search terms typed into various engines that brought people to this blog. While "David Blixt", "Master of Verona", and "Capulet-Montague Feud"...
Dante Biography
Monday being the Actor Day Of Rest, I got to relax and hang out in Ann Arbor. Did some work on various writing projects, some related to the Mercutio series (as this is rapidly becoming known - Star-Cross'd was my first choice, but it sounds too much like a Romance...
Life On Mars
Haven't had much time of late. Rehearsing two shows, working out, and being with the family has kept me away from the laptop. However, I have been able to indulge in a new obsession. Having run out of sweeping nautical epics to watch while on the...
Friar Lawrence – Culpable
A couple days ago I reconnected with Harlan Underhill, my high school Shakespeare teacher from half a lifetime ago. Harlan was also the co-director of my very first production of the Bard's work (of course, it was Romeo & Juliet. And, yes, I played...
Title Game
Over at Bow and Lyre, they've clued me in to a fun little game. As they say: Salman Rushdie once made a parlour game out of re-working the titles of Shakespeare's plays to sound as if they were thrillers by Robert Ludlum. Test your knowledge of the Bard by guessing...
Duck
My new favorite word: "Duck." Noun or verb, though today particularly the noun. You see, it's my son's first real word. Yes, Dashiell said "duck" several times this morning, while playing with a couple of his rubber disco ducks (bought at Cost Plus...
Librarything.com
I've been a member of www.librarything.com for awhile, but I hadn't taken the time to add many books. In a fit of, I don't know, compulsive laziness, I've listed a small portion of my home library - just over two hundred books. I know, it hardly scratches the surface....
Slings & Arrows
I mentioned the other day that I was watching season 2 of Slings & Arrows. Well, I stopped. Not because it's bad. It's a marvelous Canadian show about theatre - basically, a send-up of life at the Stratford Festival. No, the problem is I know these people too...
Nautical work-out
I start rehearsals for Macbeth next week, and for the last fortnight I've been working out steadily, trying to get back into some kind of shape - six months of sitting in front of a computer and writing apparently results only in a ganglion cyst (see the earlier...
