January 2012
4 posts
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Would: A House Out of Town
New York City is havoc. It’s brain is full of noise, and it’s disgusted me for several years now. Its subways, with their turgid, stinking platforms and black-mucus encrusted steps leading up to pot-holed, smog stained streets. It’s sidewalks, dotted with millions of grey, decades-old, chewing-gum stars. The entryways to it’s decaying walk-ups occasionally marked with red smears of...
Papa Was A Rodeo
When I was 11 years old, my father and I couldn’t have been more different. It was 1987 and my dad was a good old boy from Texas who wore trucker hats and tight Wrangler jeans. He was a fiber-optic technician who drove around the deep South in a huge tan RV, a loner following the beat of his own drum.
I was wearing Vision Streetwear zebra-print high-tops, sporting a Nazi-youth/skater...
Not Leaving
The weekend after 9-11 I worked at a French Bistro in lower Manhattan. On the 12th, I had called to check in on my friends and coworkers. I expected to find out that the restaurant, like almost every other business below 14th Street, would be indefinitely closed. Instead I was asked to work several 18-hour double shifts. The café was owned by a group of Israeli business partners who all took the...
Not Leaving
The weekend after 9-11 I worked at a French Bistro in lower Manhattan. On the 12th, I had called to check in on my friends and coworkers. I expected to find out that the restaurant, like almost every other business below 14th Street, would be indefinitely closed. Instead I was asked to work several 18-hour double shifts. The café was owned by a group of Israeli business partners who all took the...
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
1 post
Bad Kid Fundraising
Hey ghouls,
If you can find it somewhere in your cold, black heart… I still need more dough for Bad Kid.
Mascara and ankh’s aren’t cheap. Seriously.
http://www.rockethub.com/projects/3051-bad-kid-the-show
September 2011
2 posts
Bad Kid fundraising site launch
Today we launched the fund-raising site for my show BAD KID, which opens October 28th. Axis Theatre is generously paying for the majority of the production, but there’s still stuff to pay for:
additional production costs, travel costs for my director, fees for press materials, a stage manager, etc. NO donation is too small. Even 5 bucks will mean the world to Bad Kid. No kidding.
(I was a...
August 2011
6 posts
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Dark Thing #9
thedarkthings:
Our dark souls need no more nourishment than they need light.
Blackened hearts that pump no blood and flesh that withers in the sun.
Our food is the fruit of longing and despair, hanging low on the…
Wait… What?
WHAT?!
THEY HAVE MINI-BURGERS TODAY?!
Look. Do I need a hardhat or not? Jesus Christ!
I’ve never been one of those crazy, conservative, Tea Partying, immigration fanatics. That being said, I do think that English should be a language well-grasped by anyone writing warning signs on construction sites.
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The Dark Things
GO HERE OR HAVE YOUR BLACK SOUL EATEN BY HIM.
http://thedarkthings.tumblr.com/
July 2011
14 posts
Phew! I've been looking everywhere.
BAD KID teaser website
The basic website for my upcoming one-person show launched today.
Behold! BAD KID
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Crabby Til I Get My Coffee...
But it MUST be ICED because…
It’s a million degrees in NYC and wearing shorts ain’t helping.
I just lost a layer of leg skin getting up from a sticky subway seat.
I’ve seen enough weird “bra-area sweat” seeping through ladies shirts to blind a man.
It’s too darn hot.
Let’s cut to the chase.
Because we both know what’s going on here....
My one-person show "Bad Kid" is opening in New...
Okay. I like a trance music sometimes. There, I...
If I had to pick a song of all songs that...
Watching a Mike Leigh movie always makes me wish I...
I missed a good riot.
kellyoxford:
Best photo from last night’s riot in Vancouver.
Photo by Rich Lam/Getty Images
Be careful when your distaste for Totalitarians...
David Bowie, Artist. YES...
This exhibition looks amazing. I would’ve kicked myself if I’d discovered it too late to go. You should too.
http://www.madmuseum.org/series/david-bowie-artist
In the 90's Paula Abdul released a Billboard Chart...
Have you ever listened to live Depeche Mode...
WatchBut this is the best thing Patti’s ever done.
June 2011
17 posts
Dear AARP (American Association of Retired...
ASK ME: Mixed Messages is TONIGHT!
We really hope to see you there!
More info at: https://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=223349987690313 http://askmestories.com/
That disturbing ad on Pandora that informs you a...
Remember when we were all gonna die of bird flu?...
Tumblr Help
Can someone explain to me how to re-blog and like posts on certain types of pages? On many pages I follow, I cannot find a “like” or re-blog functionality. On this page for example:
http://mydaguerreotypeboyfriend.tumblr.com/
Or this one:
http://buschkamps.tumblr.com/
Or here:
http://sv.tumblr.com/
What am I missing? I don’t see that functionality anywhere. Any help would...
ASK ME: Mixed Messages
This is happening Wednesday night! You should come.
More info:
http://askmestories.com/
WatchThis is my nephew Carl. This video of Carl taken by his father highlights a very specific conundrum. See, Carl is hungry AND tired at the same time. What can he do but stumble wearily and messily through both desires?
It’s sad really. He’s too sleepy to eat in a way that properly satiates his hunger. And he’s too hungry to rest in a way that qualifies as “sleep.” So...
Our Ordinariness
“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. In the teeth of these...
My whole body hangs off these cheekbones.
I have decided to start looking for more silver linings in life. I keep saying that I’m going to do this, but today I’m officially beginning. Crohn’s Disease has been a persistent gray cloud over my life for about a year now. So I thought it would be a great starter for this whole “glass is half full” approach to life.
The “silver lining” and only decent...
May 2011
13 posts
Crabbpocolypse is May 21!!!
…okay. NOT REALLY! It was just a trick to get you to order some “pamphlets.” And since we’re all not getting zapped into the sky as planned, why not come see some shows?
Here’s the deets for whatever various performances, parties, and taffy-pulls I got coming up over the next few weeks. Hope to see you at some of them.
TONIGHT!!!
Story Collider: Body Plans
8pm...
