Three fucking cheers for everyone who participates in this! https://www.crimlawpractitioner.org/post/what-s-in-a-name-developing-identity-through-shakespeare-to-reduce-recidivism I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, and again and again and again and again: ART KILLS CRIME! The proof is in the pudding: Among inmates who participate, there is a 6% recidivism rate. The national average rate of recidivism? 68%. It’s incredible.…

Why am I sharing this? Because it’s a charming how to, where you feel for all of the lawn ornaments. And because working with your hands with easily accessible objects is empowering. http://www.papiermache.co.uk/articles/waterproofing-papier-mache/1/

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I’ve been thinking a lot in the past few years about bear baiting: the old practice of tying up a bear and fucking with it and torturing it and making it fight and just generally being inhumane. For entertainment. This kind of shit was very popular in Shakespeare’s day. Right alongside the poetry and immortal…

You ever just feel COMPELLED to play Hamlet, so you throw together a digital cabaret around it? I haven’t done any Shakespeare  in a very, very long time.  But I do have the motive and cue. I’m remembering how when I was in college, I was always cast as men and women too old to…

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I can’t believe it needs to be said, but we don’t own the moon. Interlune, a Seattle startup, wants to go to the moon and take it’s Helium-3, and send it back to earth, to do some robot chomp chomp computing crap. You know, to make life better and have a cleaner environment. There isn’t…

We are taught that God=truth, and that God cannot be questioned. But the truth is, the truth must be questioned relentlessly for truth to be maintained. It must stand against any beating. Is this thing true? Is it eternally true? Does it have integrity? Is it beautiful in its sound integrity? Does it explain? Does…

Hey, just asking questions… America was made possible by pluralism. It’s kind of our defining thing. Terms like “freedom” and “democracy” have different connotations to different people. But pluralism is specific and plain in its meaning: many isms. More than one. Ancient history is always hard to come by and interpret with any certainty. But…