03
Jan

Wow. Been too long between posts again.  The fall semester is long past (a whole month!), the show is in previews, and holidays with the family is now completed.  I needed the past two weeks to mostly unplug and regroup my energies for the next month and a half until the show officially opens *and* [...]

It’s a rather momentous week. Israel and Gaza are still fighting.  Russia shut off gas running through the Ukraine leaving many Europeans without heating fuel.  CES 2009 wrapped up with a decreased attendance compared to 2008. President Bush gave his last press conference. Motown turned 50 years old. And the first WordCamp Las Vegas came [...]

10
Jan
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I skim through music sites almost every day. Tonight I found Tom Petty’s Greatest Hits. Remastered. This started me thinking: Hmm… Why is it already remastered? I reviewed this album when it was released, and I was in high school.  I bought the cassette tape at K-Mart. Wait… that’s… fifteen years ago.  Fifteen?!?  $!&# I’m [...]

07
Jan
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A lot of press is given to earning money through blogging. The reason why I do not feel so inclined to advertise on my site is two-fold: This is a personal blog. My content is not great. In the future — once I’m finished with grad school and the show opens — I may start [...]

Yesterday on Twitter I responded to Forian: There is a fine line between involvement and adding to the collective noise. Looking back at my tweets from the past two weeks, I realized that I’m the kettle calling the pot black. The content that I placed out there simply adds to the noise and doesn’t have [...]