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I just finished snow blowing a circuit in the back...
I spent part of the day sealing up a couple drafty...
An uplifting article about intergenerational arts ...
Fizzy and Me: Adventures with Kan Ban
The Outrageous Price of Books
The Quest for the Grail
Theater and Apple Vision
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&he...
The Enshittifcation of the NFL
No, AI coding is "not the same" -- so?
Ed Zitron needs an editor.
Really? “Fear Factor”? What is the mat...
The Quest to Disconnect from the Global Internet
Images, Parables, Paradoxes, Religion, and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
Time Out for "Salesman"
OK, Claudia Scheinbaum, the President of Mexico, i...
One of my former professors is called a “the...
I’m slow in observing things sometimes. It w...
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 Grisha...
Winnie the Pooh and Josh Aronson's "Florida Boys"
Finished reading: The Wild Robot by Peter Brown đź“š
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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...
Does anyone else find the pardoning of a turkey by...
Happy Thanksgiving to one and all, especially my f...
(sneaking in the side door)
Shhhh. Don’t min...
Books written for K-12 teachers are mind-numbingly...
Learn Like an Athlete
Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution: Cooking at Home
Milton Understood the 21st Century Mind
Clif Bar and Theater
Thomas Merton on the Interior Life
Today is my 30th anniversary, and I am the luckies...
I Changed Lila Shroff's ChatGPT Query to
I love this version of Blind Willie Johnson’...
I’ve just finished the first part of Jon Coh...
Here’s a question: at a time when anyone wit...
I’m getting so tired of bad faith efforts by...
Welp. I seem to have started to work on another bo...
Theater people, you DON’T NEED purpose-built...
Politicans and parents think they know about educa...
We finally have a dog who doesn’t give a hoo...
Reading The Hidden History of Neoliberalism by Tho...
Rush Would Not Be Pleased with US Today
Do you know what would be the best use for AI? It ...
I spent some time trying on the ideas of small-c c...
I don’t know about you, but I find this shoc...
Unboxing! 3rd Edition of my textbook "Introduction to Play Analysis"
The AI Discussion
For those of you who are still willing to learn ab...
Ted Gioia declares that long form material has mad...
adam@social.lol “suspended” me, whatev...
Bounded Source AI and Google's NotebookLM
Really? We’re going to judge learning effect...
The Age of Futility and the Age of Sensibility
125 Years of Theater Centralization
Pixar
The New Criterion
Trump Admin members cash in on tariffs
I have a new author page that includes a blog: sco...
OK, this is cool. Falcons nest on the roof of the ...
Just finished “The Heartbeat Library” ...
Arts Orgs and Markets
Hey, look, Ma! My letter is in American Theatre Ma...
This post by @ayjay pretty much describes me as we...
Yesterday was my birthday, and my wife and I went ...
Life Energy
A Rational Approach to the Presidency?
OK, I’m settled in for the NFL draft. I&rsqu...
Do stock market people ever get tired of knee jerk...
“In a letter to Menoeceus, Epicurus noted t...
Now Reading: On Consolation
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"
WTAF
Total market manipulation. I have put all of my re...
Cells in Cells
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
Jaron Lanier on AI
BREAKING: Only 12% of the 1903 general public beli...
So here’s the problem: American-made cars ar...
For some reason, I decided to post something about...
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
My Position on AI
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 ...
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 B...
A Personal Project
“The end of the world as we know it is not t...
Gradually, Then Suddenly: The Birth of Show BUSINESS (Part 2): The Resistance
You know what I think is weird? That people will c...
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 disma...
True Wealth
The Rise of the Combination Company and the Death of the Resident Stock Company
Independence
Trains, Canals, and Uncle Tom's Cabin (The Rooted Stage, Part 4)
The River of Vision
“My poetry is basically a poetry of praise. ...
When i largely disconnected from social media, I r...
Theater Ideas Weekly Newsletter
I Need Ideas About Getting Formatting into EPUB
I just made the mistake of checking in on Threads....
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Brown and Trinity R...
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Brown and Trinity R...
What You Have to Do to Get an NEA Grant Now
A Dream about Story
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)
On Restaurants and Theaters
I’m fascinated by the Scottish theater compa...
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
The More Things Change...
I’ve been reading Michael H. Shuman’s ...
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Lately, @ayjay ...
Tracing My Influences
It seems to me that what micro.blog is helping me ...
As tech moguls each “contribute” money...
Michael Rushton asks “what is public funding...
Notes Toward an Article on the Arts and Effective Altruism That I Didn't Post
“Along with Joseph Addison, Shaftesbury pave...
I like Austin Kleon’s idea of keeping track ...
Wow. I just spent 3 hours writing something that c...
A Different Vision of Education
A fine line, but the best playwrights and artists ...
Where Are Our Prophets?
Definition: Anti-Intellectualism
“The theater’s rich intellectual inheritance...
Alan Jacobs on The Work Itself
Adam Smith on Vanity
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 hit...
There are few things better than a good rant, espe...
He Who Is Without
Saul Bellow on the News
So here’s a question I’d be interested...
If Rushton is really calling that “ingratitu...
One Size Doesn't Fit All
“Adaptive problems are embedded in social c...
“we have lost sight of any collective belief...
Comps
”The characteristic of the hour is that the commo...
Diane Ragsdale Provides a Thanksgiving Pi
“Murdoch believed we should cultivate a kin...
“Happiness is often presented as being very dull ...
The winter begins!
A Time of Leisure and Freedom
“The arts can turn a piece of banal knowled...
“Although Goethe was intimately connected t...
“Resistance is first of all a matter of prin...