Mental Illness is soooo 2012
In the wake of the Newtown shooting there has been a lot of talk about needing to open up the conversation about mental illness. As I started listening to the coverage and conversations I started to...
View ArticleThe Cult of Optimism within the Hardcore Movement
The word cult gets thrown around a lot. Whenever someone uses the term it is usually aimed at a group of people who are behaving in such a manner that arouses suspicion. We live in a society, therefore...
View ArticleIt’s Perfectly Acceptable to Judge the Hell Out of People
I was once in a situation where everyone at a meeting kept talking about how upset they were about the fact that they were self-judging themselves so harshly. There’s a lot of hubbub around dropping...
View ArticleGiving Up the Territory: Sharing Information for Art’s Sake
While riding the bus back to MA from NYC last spring I noticed a bird had shit on my backpack. The metaphor was apt for a conversation I had just been having in a wide-open conference room about how...
View ArticleSuccess Doesn’t Even Make it into the Equation
It seems that every two weeks the last couple months I’ve been hitting the same exact wall around being a theater artist. It’s the common “Why do I do this?” existential crisis. At least that’s what it...
View ArticleBad Advice for Good People: Misanthropes and Cucumber Faces
I don’t like people. What do I do? Wow, that’s an open-ended question that could lead to all sorts of crap advice, but I’ll go with first thought, worst thought. You need to learn how to garden and...
View Article#1000thankyous
So I’m having major resistance to writing these thank you notes that I was supposed to write over a month ago. To get myself over it and create a new mindset I’m doing a tweet-a-thon with the hastag...
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