The boy plays chess with his uncle before seeing The Fantasticks.
Rehearsing for Little Women Tuesday (Carolyn plays Amy)
Yeet with Emily Dickinson (according to my auto-correct}
She was a musical ingenue Sunday, filmed a slasher movie past midnight Monday, and was prepared for dance kinesiology class Tuesday morning. #youshallprevail
Faces the girl makes during her Luisa monologue. (Four more chances to see The Fantasticks.)
Their faces when another dad joke drops. See The Fantasticks today at 2 or next week Thu-Sun.
And again I ush.
My big brother and my son facing off in chess. I am totally outclassed here.
Support the arts in your community!
The Fantasticks (Oct 18-27)
Come see Carolyn and her talented castmates in The Fantasticks (Theatre Factory, Trafford Pa.)
Finally — the pace at work subsides a bit.
Hearing "Godzilla on My Mind" author Wiliam Tsutsui
Earth doesn’t need more ‘successful people’.
The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage wiling to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane.…
The Measure of a Man (ST:TNG Rewatch, Season 2, Episode 9)
Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break. Data’s autonomy is at stake in a taut, character-driven courtroom drama that resists pandering — no distracting fist-fights or space battles. This episode not only succeeds as a stand-alone meditation on the human condition, it meshes narratively with events from past shows and offers affordances for future story arcs…
A tale of two headlines: CNN and Fox shade their reports of UFC crowd’s reaction to Trump
Headlines from CNN and Fox shade in different directions, but both articles agree in substance that Trump got a mixed reaction from the “Ultimate Fighting Championship” in New York yesterday. The Fox reporter carefully cites the phrasing of other journalists who saw the reaction as mixed, as opposed the CNN reporter who confidently describes the boos overpowering the cheers.
Fact check: Trump lies about CNN at Mississippi rally
I tell my journalism students they won’t hear me talk about Trump’s policies at all. But I do talk about his interactions with journalists, which I frequently find appalling. Here’s the latest example.
Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.
First runner-up for the girl’s Halloween 2019 costume.
Facebook just dealt another potentially lethal blow to local journalism
Facebook will pay some publishers millions of dollars a year for access to their journalism. It will include an all-star lineup of what Facebook referred to as trusted sources, including CNN, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, BuzzFeed News, Bloomberg, Fox Business, Business Insider, NPR, the Boston Globe and the LA Times, to name a…