Filmmaker, performer, writer. Can drive stick.
Get ready for a roundup of items that are too short to be a main essay, but meatier than your typical Fun Fact. It’s a jambalaya of thoughts, quotes, news, and yes, even poems – it’s the Lightning Round! I have to warn you, there’s going to be
About the link appropriately titled “Doom" Folks, I noticed that for some reason the Fun Facts link to a New York Times article on the history and ubiquity of the video game “Doom” showed up blank on the email. So here’s a link that should work: Management regrets
Many thanks to everyone who responded to the poll at the end of Better living through compliments. I truly appreciate you taking time from your day to help me with this crazy little newsletter. And the results of that poll were hilariously inconclusive. The votes were evenly split between 4
When Mari had her knee replaced, it came with a lot of benefits: * She was able to walk pain-free. * We became closer as a couple. * Our sleep habits improved. * We started reading a lot more books. All this from a new knee? Well not directly. What happened was, as part
First, look at this. This is Troy Hawke, the alter ego of a standup comedian from England who created the fictional “Greeter’s Guild.” He’s one of my heroes. He stands in public places and greets people, like this: If you are an introvert like myself, you may be
(The shocking facts about this newsletter and its “value statement”?) When I started reading about running a newsletter, I kept encountering the term “value statement.” Simply put, it’s “why?” Why should someone read this newsletter? What’s in it for them? Here’s some sample value statements from newsletters
💡Ahoy! I’m still somewhere on the Atlantic, so here’s a repeat view of one of my fav issues of the newsletter. A friend of mine once asked me what it was like to be a writer, and I said, “A constant state of grief and disappointment.” That was
💡Part V (and the finale) of The Edinburgh Cycle: five unlikely and useful things about creativity I learned from performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe It was well after midnight. The lounge-singing puppet Danny O’Hare and I stood alone on a makeshift stage in a vaulted stone cellar in
💡Part IV of The Edinburgh Cycle: five unlikely and useful things about creativity I learned from performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe The Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The world’s largest arts festival. Where such talents as Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson, Craig Ferguson, and Robin Williams (?!) started their careers. A quarter
💡Part III of The Edinburgh Cycle: five unlikely and useful things about creativity I learned from performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Making anything is frightening. If you make something, it’s going to be looked at. And people might say mean things about the thing you made. And about
💡Part II of The Edinburgh Cycle: five unlikely and useful things about creativity and project management I learned from performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe So last week I talked about how I use (manipulate?) the Dunning-Kruger effect to motivate myself at the beginning of a project, and to then
Part I of The Edinburgh Cycle: five unlikely and useful things about creativity and project management I learned from performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe So I decided to produce a cabaret show. Which I had never done before. And I decided to sing lounge music in it. Which I