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: Trump might want to remember how Pearl Harbor turned out for Japan.
: “For the intellectual an exilic displacement means being liberated from the usual career, in …
: Finished Reading: "Dark Renaissance" by Stephen Greenblatt
: “A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with …
: The unintended irony of this book’s title made me laugh… American Intellectual History: …
: The questions asked by 3 psychological traditions
: George Saunders's "Vigil": a metaphysical romp
: “In a wonderful scene in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet, detective Sherlock …
: “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody …
: “No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living …
: Thought Experiment: The Height of the Rim in Basketball
: Definition of Greatness in Art (John Ruskin)
: Katherine Addison's "Witness for the Dead"
: Help! Problem Scrolling Down Left-Side Column of Links on MB
: OK, the furnace is back sending steam throughout the radiators. Our furnace guy is the BEST!
: I really want Obsidian to be useful for my writing, but it isn’t easy. This is what I liked …
: Filed my taxes today. Always good to have that out of the way.
: A Theater Historian's Response to Alan Jacob's "Reorientation"
: I just finished snow blowing a circuit in the back yard so the dog can have some place to go when we …
: I spent part of the day sealing up a couple drafty windows before the Big Freeze hits tomorrow …
: An uplifting article about intergenerational arts attendance as a way of combating loneliness in …
: Fizzy and Me: Adventures with Kan Ban
: The Outrageous Price of Books
: Help Needed: Online Book Publishing
: Book: The Wild Robot Escapes by Peter Brown
: Panthers win the division! Thanks, Falcons!
: Go Falcons!!! (Never thought I’d say that…)
: The Enshittifcation of the NFL
: No, AI coding is "not the same" -- so?
: Really? “Fear Factor”? What is the matter with you, America???
: The Quest to Disconnect from the Global Internet
: Images, Parables, Paradoxes, Religion, and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
: OK, Claudia Scheinbaum, the President of Mexico, is 5' 3". Check the horizontal lines running …
: One of my former professors is called a “theatrologist” on Wikipedia. Theatrologist??? …
: I’m slow in observing things sometimes. It wasn’t that long ago that FOX broadcast the …
: A Poor Player on the Season of Hibernation
: Ezra Klein, Sheila Liming, Loneliness, and Winnie-the-Pooh
: Finished reading: The King of Torts by John Grisham 📚 (affiliate link) A cautionary tale about the …
: Winnie the Pooh and Josh Aronson's "Florida Boys"
: Finished reading: The Wild Robot by Peter Brown 📚 Wrote about it here.
: On Reading "The House at Pooh Corner"
: A lovely song by Tuck and Patti: Christmas Wish,
: Greater Detail Concerning My Shift Back to MB
: This summary of Guy Debord’s analysis of our culture by Nobel prize winning novelist Mario …
: Does anyone else find the pardoning of a turkey by the President a macabre tradition?
: Happy Thanksgiving to one and all, especially my friend @apoorplayer who may or may not be buried in …
: (sneaking in the side door) Shhhh. Don’t mind mind me. I’m back. Again.
: Books written for K-12 teachers are mind-numbingly awful. It’s amazing anybody decides to …
: Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution: Cooking at Home
: Milton Understood the 21st Century Mind
: Thomas Merton on the Interior Life
: Today is my 30th anniversary, and I am the luckiest man alive.
: I Changed Lila Shroff's ChatGPT Query to
: I love this version of Blind Willie Johnson’s song “Sorrow Will Soon Be Over” sung …
: I’ve just finished the first part of Jon Cohen’s beautiful novel, “The Man in the …
: Here’s a question: at a time when anyone with $10/month can have their own website, why are …
: I’m getting so tired of bad faith efforts by journalists (yes, I’m looking at you, …
: Welp. I seem to have started to work on another book project.
: Theater people, you DON’T NEED purpose-built buildings. www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/v…
: Politicans and parents think they know about education because they once went to school, which is …
: We finally have a dog who doesn’t give a hoot about fireworks.
: Reading The Hidden History of Neoliberalism by Thom Hartmann. It’s a book that puts the daily …
: Rush Would Not Be Pleased with US Today
: Do you know what would be the best use for AI? It should be trained on tax law, and then set loose …
: I spent some time trying on the ideas of small-c conservatism (i.e., pre-Trump conservatism), but …
: I don’t know about you, but I find this shocking. Stock ETFs that buy the same thing that …
: Unboxing! 3rd Edition of my textbook "Introduction to Play Analysis"
: For those of you who are still willing to learn about AI, Ethan Mollick does a good breakdown of the …
: Ted Gioia declares that long form material has made a comeback. I think he’s right! …
: adam@social.lol “suspended” me, whatever that means. What a coward. Apparently, my posts …
: Bounded Source AI and Google's NotebookLM
: Really? We’re going to judge learning effectiveness based on (checks notes) an EEG assessing …
: The Age of Futility and the Age of Sensibility
: 125 Years of Theater Centralization
: Trump Admin members cash in on tariffs
: I have a new author page that includes a blog: scottwalters.net.
: OK, this is cool. Falcons nest on the roof of the UMass W. E. B DuBois Library where I get my …
: Just finished “The Heartbeat Library” by Laura Imai Messina. A beautiful, deeply-felt …
: Hey, look, Ma! My letter is in American Theatre Magazine!
: This post by @ayjay pretty much describes me as well. “Back to My Books,” by Alan …
: Yesterday was my birthday, and my wife and I went to the Habitat ReStore and I bought a used desk …
: A Rational Approach to the Presidency?
: OK, I’m settled in for the NFL draft. I’m not hard-core: I’ll probably turn it off …
: Do stock market people ever get tired of knee jerk responses? “Oh, look!” Trump said …
: It seems to me that a large portion of new ideas that, when eventually adopted, turn out to be game …
: Regrets: I Have a Few (On Teaching)
: Last Night's Entertaining Dream
: Freakonomics on the Economics of Theatre
: The Importance of Imagination to Social Change
: The Death of PAJ: Performing Arts Journal
: Erich Fromm "On Disobedience"
: Total market manipulation. I have put all of my retirement savings into cash and CDs. I will not …
: Stand by for Threads Deactivation in 3...2...
: On Edmund Wilson's Style and Career Path
: Jaron Lanier's "Oy, AI" -- Don't Try to Hide the People
: BREAKING: Only 12% of the 1903 general public believed that the flight at Kitty Hawk would affect …
: So here’s the problem: American-made cars aren’t made with American-made parts. So …
: For some reason, I decided to post something about AI on Threads. 2 stars. Would not recommend.
: The Size of Grants to Individual Artists
: On AI in Music Composition and Image Generation
: It's Just My Opinion and Other Time Wasters
: The Barter Theater and the Importance of Alternative Stories
: Using AI as a **partner **in a research team.
: The Lack of Inspiration in US Politics
: There is so much BS in this article from American Theatre Magazine about what theater students …
: I'd Come Out of Retirement to Do This
: Something is wrong with my Social Security
: A Play, a Pie, and a Pint -- Why I Appreciate Scotland's Famous Lunchtime Theater
: Ivan Illich, John McKnight, and Asset-Based Communities
: Michael Rushton does it again, this time calling BS on arts districts. …
: “The end of the world as we know it is not the end of the world, full stop. Unless we can …
: Gradually, Then Suddenly: The Birth of Show BUSINESS (Part 2): The Resistance
: You know what I think is weird? That people will condemn you for not keeping up with the news while …
: Thoughts on Style While Feeling Crummy (Embracing My Inner Paglia)
: Gradually, Then Suddenly: The Birth of Show BUSINESS (Part 1)
: Nicholas Carr on the Contemplative Gaze
: Michael Rushton is doing an excellent job of dismantling all the ways we miss the boat when …
: The Rise of the Combination Company and the Death of the Resident Stock Company
: Trains, Canals, and Uncle Tom's Cabin (The Rooted Stage, Part 4)
: “My poetry is basically a poetry of praise. It’s an affirmation of the world, of the …
: When i largely disconnected from social media, I remembered what it was like to have only my own …
: Theater Ideas Weekly Newsletter
: I Need Ideas About Getting Formatting into EPUB
: I just made the mistake of checking in on Threads. Good God, it’s just one person after …
: playbill.com/article/b… Brown and Trinity Rep shutting down MFA in Acting and Directing. Let …
: playbill.com/article/b… Brown and Trinity Rep shutting down MFA in Acting and Directing. Let …
: What You Have to Do to Get an NEA Grant Now
: I Interview Myself (The Rooted Stage -- Introduction)
: Sophia Efthimiatou On Receiving
: Who Owns the Buildings (The Rooted Stage, Part 3)
: Fichandler: The Burden of the Nonprofit System in US
: What Happened in 1870? (Not So Fast) (Part 2 of The Rooted Stage)
: I’m fascinated by the Scottish theater company A Play, a Pie, and a Pint. They’ve just …
: The Rooted Stage: Beginnings (Part 1)
: "Snakes on a Plane" is a better movie than "Oppenheimer," or Why Artistic Categories Can Make It Easier to Talk about Art
: I’ve been reading Michael H. Shuman’s books for 20 years. This one really has me …
: social.ayjay.org/2025/01/0… Lately, @ayjay has been the source of a lot of new thoughts and …
: It seems to me that what micro.blog is helping me to do is avoid what Ed Zitron describes here.
: As tech moguls each “contribute” money to Trump’s “inauguration fund,” I am …
: Michael Rushton asks “what is public funding for the arts for?” He offers a starting …
: Notes Toward an Article on the Arts and Effective Altruism That I Didn't Post
: “Along with Joseph Addison, Shaftesbury paved the way for a new approach to English writing, …
: I like Austin Kleon’s idea of keeping track the books he __didn’t__read (h/t Alan …
: Wow. I just spent 3 hours writing something that could have been created by 3 monkeys pounding on a …
: A Different Vision of Education
: A fine line, but the best playwrights and artists understand.
: Definition: Anti-Intellectualism
: “The theater’s rich intellectual inheritance serves as a buffer to society’s recrudescent …
: Alan Jacobs on The Work Itself
: Alan Jacobs, Ross Douthat, Margo Jones, Tony Kushner and the Fate of (Pop) Culture
: Interactive Theater In Person AND Online
: I hate the post-Fed-announcement hysteria that hits the stock market every time the Fed cuts …
: There are few things better than a good rant, especially if it is about the internet. Well done! …
: So here’s a question I’d be interested in hearing you talk about: if we just stopped …
: If Rushton is really calling that “ingratitude,", it should serve as an illustration as …
: “Adaptive problems are embedded in social complexity, require behavior change, and are rife …
: “we have lost sight of any collective belief that society could be different. Instead of a …
: ”The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has …
: Diane Ragsdale Provides a Thanksgiving Pi
: “Murdoch believed we should cultivate a kind of ‘mindfulness’. By making a habit of focusing …
: “Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull …
: A Time of Leisure and Freedom
: “The arts can turn a piece of banal knowledge into a truth that has the power to move us, when …
: “Although Goethe was intimately connected to the social and cultural life of his time, he also …
: “Resistance is first of all a matter of principle and a way to live, to make yourself one …