March 2009
38 posts
The recession has hit the theatre world (and the arts scene in general) very hard - but some argue that theatre practitioners aren’t doing themselves any favours when seeking funding. The main question insufficiently addressed is “who is the funding for?” - hint: it’s not about you. Approaching theatre as a product isn’t working, not when MFA acting...
“To Have Without Holding
By Marge Piercy
Learning to love differently is hard,...”
musicmademe:
decemberists - the rake’s song aha!...
Chester By John Koethe
Another day, which is how they usually come: A cat at the foot of the bed, noncommittal In its blankness of mind, with the morning light Slowly filling the room, and fragmentary Memories of last night’s video and phone calls. It is a feeling of sufficiency, one menaced By the fear of some vague lack, of a simplicity Of self, a self without a soul, the nagging fear Of being...
“The other trouble with originality and inventiveness is that they literally pay...”
– Joseph Brodsky arguing that boredom is a “natural condition of life”
Gees, can anyone guess how I’m feeling these days? My job has proven even more boring lately. And there’s nothing to do except wait it out.
Tacky Weddings →
Ask Me By William Stafford
Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done is my life. Others have come in their slow way into my thought, and some have tried to help or to hurt: ask me what difference their strongest love or hate has made.
I will listen to what you say. You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is...
“3. Men favor heroes who are tough and hard: tough with men, hard with women....”
– Margaret Atwood, “Women’s Novels”
I could, would, should, write my master’s thesis on this short prose poem.
Also:
She had a feral gaze like that of an untamed animal.
“The irony of commitment is that it’s deeply liberating — in work, in play, in...”
– -Anne Morriss, Starbucks customer
Truly embarrassing source, but this was on my starbucks tea cup (which my boss purchased for me).
I really try not to support Starbucks, which requires very little sacrifice on my part, as I do not drink coffee. But recently, a good friend of mine got a job...
THE ALL NEW WEDDING APPLICATION
1. Name of the husband-to-be: 2. Name of the subservient wife-to-be: 3. Please affirm that you are both biologically different genders. __ Yes __ No 4. Please affirm that you practice a monotheistic religion regularly. __ Yes __ No 5. Please affirm that you are marrying for the sake of reproduction. __ Yes __ No 6. Please affirm your registration in the Republican,...
Miriam Toews explains
adrienejade:
“We’re Mennonites. As far as I know, we are the most embarrassing sub-sect of people to belong to if you’re a teenager. Five hundred years ago in Europe a man named Menno Simons set off to do his own peculiar religious thing and he and his followers were beaten up and killed or forced to conform all over Holland, Poland and Russia until they, at least some of them, finally landed...
Aussie Writer tells Wives to put out →
“Whatever happened to wifely duty?” asks Bettina Arndt in The Canberra Times. Modern wives should put out for the good of their marriages, she says, even when they don’t want to.
celebrate square root day!
Trying to figure out how to use Yahoo Music Player...
