Am I the only one...

...who's noticed the weirdly violent headlines The Onion has been running about G.W. Bush for the past few months? Some of them aren't even clever or funny. It's like someone punked the Onion.

Bush's Eyelid Accidentally Nailed to Wall

Bush Passes Three Pound Kidney Stone

Weird, right?

Woyzeck

Here are some reviews from the last show I worked on, good and bad and so-so included:

Theatre is Easy
nytheatre.com
Tynan's Anger
Blog Critics
New Theater Corps
New Theater Corps (another one)

It's been a while-

-but I'm still kickin'. Been a busy few months in Karenland.

Here's a NYTimes article for you playwrights.

Stolen from David

Damn it feels good to be a word nerd.

Whip out your music program, click the random button, and pick out 10 songs. Alter the name by turning it into a convoluted, wordy synonym. For example: Silent Night = Nocturnal Time Completely Lacking Noise. When someone guesses the title correctly, italicize the convoluted one and put the real title and the person who figured it out.

1. You once witnessed precipitation, no? (Have You Ever Seen the Rain?) -DH
2. The act of human existence is equivalent to a swine stall.
3. Fornicating with me is not recommended for you specifically.
4. Extreme undulating change
5. Marine-borne am I.
6. The most challenging fastener to operate successfully (The Hardest Button to Button) - DH
7. My saccharine offspring (Sweet Child O' Mine) -DH
8. There is one more item for you to expect
9. Aquatic athlete at church
10. Descending with a lack of protective gear (Free-Falling) -DH

From copyranter

Someone got canned for this.

Costumes

Haven't had much time to post anything new lately, but here are my latest costume designs (pix of how they actually materialized coming soon).

These were my original ideas, based on the my first meeting with the director:






However, those weren't quite the right vibe for the play. So the three we actually went with came out more similar to these (except with hands and feet):

Stats

Stats for New York this season are absurd:

Plays by Living American Playwrights for 2008-09 Season:

Roundabout: 3 white men, 1 white woman

Lincoln Center Theater: 4 white men

MTC: 5 White men, 1 black woman

Public Theater: 6 white men, 1 black woman

Second Stage: 3 white men, 1 white woman

Playwrights Horizons 4 white men, 2 women (1 black, 1 white)

Vineyard: 1 white man, 1 black man

NYTW: 1 white man, 1 white woman

Primary Stages: 3 white men, 1 white woman

Soho: 1 white man

Rattlestick: 2 white men, 1 white woman

New Group: 2 white men

Atlantic 5 white men

Total: 40 white men, 10 the rest of the world

Zero plays by Asian, Latino, Middle-Eastern playwrights. No plays with lesbian content.

Population of New York City:

Non-Latino Whites: 35%

Latinos: 27%

Blacks: 26.6 %

Asians 9.8 %

Other 1 %

White Males: 14% of New York City, 80% of 2008/09 Theater Season

Your Mission

If you are the first person to leave a crowded subway train, your mission (even if you choose NOT to accept it) is to move your legs as quickly as possible to the nearest exit.

Similarly, when you are the first to approach the stairs that will get you out into the real world again, you must be ready to haul ass. When you do not adhere to this fundamental rule, you don't see it, but a few hundred people behind you die a little. You may have shaved off a few minutes of each of their lives, due to the extra strain you put on their near-exploding brains.

If you are not prepared for this task, then step down and let someone else lead the crowd. You are obviously not in a hurry anyway.

However, if you ARE prepared for this task, do it with pride. Take those stairs two at a time. Roller-skate through the subway tunnels if you feel like it. A warning, though- even if you are the fastest stair-skipper in all the land, it is NOT OKAY to block the entire stairwell. Keep to the right, idiot.

Thanks.

Yum!

Went to the world-famous Sylvia's last night, and was by no means disappointed. I had the California-style smothered chicken and waffle, with a side of baked mac n cheese. If you live in this city, and you have not yet gone to Sylvia's- go. It's on 125th street, east side. Reasonably priced for the wallets of artists. Huge portions. Gym across the street.

Note to Anarchists

Do us all a favor. Don't go and protest at the RNC. It just makes all liberals look like fucking wack-jobs.

Also, no government? That'll definitely happen.

Thanks.