May 2012
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An Ode to Poe
Mac had us write ridiculous Edgar Allen Poe stories for Dictionaries class. Here’s mine… —- The Angel of Chantix It is not to abase myself that I encumber you with the remembrance of the terrible travails that plagued the winter of my 33rd year. But inexplicably, I find in myself an urgent desire to exhume the story of my gloomy experiences, if for no other reason than to be...
May 8th
April 2012
2 posts
I read things...
Tonight, I will be reading all the voices in my plays… And there will be wine.  —— Please join us on Friday, April 27 for the Brooklyn Writers Space Reading Series with readings by ALEXANDRA COLLIER, IDRA NOVEY, SHIVANI MANGHNANI and CONOR DOUGHERTY. The events begins at 7pm and wine will be served. BROOKLYN WRITERS SPACE READING SERIES Friday, April 27, 2012 BookCourt 163...
Apr 27th
ListenDon’t Come Over
Apr 15th
February 2012
1 post
The Lag
In the middle of the night, I woke and shuffled half-awake to the bathroom, with no idea of where I was. I knew I lived somewhere in Brooklyn but surely this wasn’t the place. I tried to recall the faces of my roommates, stared at the dark still shapes of the living room, illuminated by the leaky grey light from the window, but nothing concrete came to mind by the time I had returned to my...
Feb 1st
January 2012
4 posts
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Brooklyn to Bondi
Bondi Beach seems to be the locus of all the world’s most proportionate people: long tanned legs, perfect triangular torsos and the bland and blameless faces of the square jawed, small nosed and high cheek boned. I wonder what ions in the water drew them all to this part of the coastal jag of Australia. Or what series of pinpointable events lead each sculpted-stomached being here (surely...
Jan 22nd
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“The future is called ‘perhaps’, which is the only possible thing to...”
– Tennessee Williams
Jan 15th
Middlefish
Chaz and I had hipster Thai in Carlton. It was spicy.
Jan 13th
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Willow’s One Night Stand
Ok – so I am back and blogging. Here are some photos from my recent musical written with composer/singer-songwriter Greta Gertler of The Universal Thump: Willow’s One Night Stand. Featuring the inimitable Matt Steiner and Pearl Rhein, directed by Ben Vershbow and performed inthe Farrington Loft in Brooklyn for our newly launched Come Home with Me series. So what’s the story? Willow meets...
Jan 11th