More Blurg Than BlogThe New Season
The new TV season:  this is the first time in many decades I didn't manage to get my paws on the Season Preview edition of TV Guide so I was pretty clueless, for once.  Had no idea Sorkin et... Room to Be Moved
"What do you say about a girl who died?" As little about your own feelings (and as much about her) as possible. You know that old adage (okay, so if it wasn't old it wouldn't be an... A True Story and a Heroic Fantasy
In 1976 and 1977 I was employed by the United States Department of Justice, which is housed in the building you see in the title shots of the old TV series The FBI Yes, that big building.... The Secret Singer
Of COURSE I wanted to be asked to dance -- are you crazy? Why did I go to the few dances I attended to begin with? Well, no one asked. I knew they wouldn't, and I knew I'd probably step on their... Objecting to Objectification Part One
PART ONE "All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love." -- Baruch Spinoza Define love. I'd be willing to bet each... Objecting to Objectification Parts Two and Three
PART TWO In Bernard Pomerance's play, The Elephant Man , Merrick complains that Romeo did not love Juliet because he didn't call a doctor and try to save her; he declares, "If I had been... Objecting to Objectification Parts Four and; Five
PART FOUR "He had recognized a quality in her of which no one else among her companions... was in the least aware. The recognition laid special responsibilities on him for were we... Ramblings About Actors and Acting Part One
SHYNESS I was painfully shy as a child and young adult, but I never had stage fright, since the person on the stage was not me. You don't have to be shy in every situation to have shyness. I... Ramblings About Actors and Acting Part Two
SENDING LOVE Most actors study something called sense memory. This means reproducing in ourselves an emotion we once felt by remembering whatever produced that emotion in us. This sounds... Give 'Til It Hurts
Gentle reader/writer, I wish to cause you no pain, but charity begins at on your home computer, and there is certainly nothing wrong with donating your time/effort/hard-earned-or-stolen dough to... Is It All Too Much?
So how much is too much?   That depends on what else you have to do, what else you have the energy to do, and what you're not doing that you should/could/would be doing.  It also depends on...