There’s something amiss at the Starbucks that faces my route to the Coffee Underground. An undercurrent of meanness. But deniable meanness. The kind of meanness that mean people tell you is meant to be funny. Which I suppose it is. To them. I’m thinking about the barista who announces to the customers as they walk […]
You remember the song. It goes, “If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands.” Then stomp your feet, then shout “Hooray!” Then do all three. Let’s stick with the hand clapping part for now, stipulating as we do that all claps were not created equal. Much of the difference, maybe most of it, is […]
Every once in great while, I’ll get an email from someone who’d like to talk with me about producing one of my plays. It’s at those moments that I think, “Oh, yeah. I wrote a bunch of plays, didn’t I? I should do something with them.” And then the phone rings or Acadia jumps on […]
