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“They say that he was buried in the Caucasus, among the crocuses, but no one knows for sure” – Jack Handey, Alexander the Great This line is intended to be silly, coming as it does at the end of a mock-heroic tribute to Alexander the Great published in the humor section of the New Yorker.Continue reading “Journal 3/13: The Silly Beautiful”

Every good play has a mystery at its heart. I don’t mean a whodunit; but rather something beyond words that can only be expressed by the whole of the play’s action. As every galaxy has a black hole at its center, all the characters, themes and language of a play are bound to and revolveContinue reading “Journal, 1/25: Black Hole Plays”

LEESON: And what I think is, and this is the great secret: I think that happens all the time. Every day, the glowing girl against the mirror-man, every night, beauty and death, every hour the world almost ending, then going on instead. But you can’t live like that, right? Well, maybe you can in highContinue reading “Journal, 1/2: Jane the Plain complete”

BETTY: And I take that thing inside me, that 4am thing, that jagged rusty insect-eyed thing that says, Betty, you really never will ever be quite happy, I take that thing and turn it into a laugh, a perfect laugh, a perfectly cruel skittering little laugh that comes from nowhere and spreads like a stain throughContinue reading “Journal, 12/30: Homecoming Dance”