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This is embarrassing.
But hey, I'm a blogger, a twitterer (twice over, ba-dum!), a Facebook gal, and I've got a professional website. That is: my life is all over the internet. So surely I can tell the internet an(other)...
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Where to start, where to start?
In front of me I've got a fresh, clean 11"x14" sketchpad, sharp 2H pencils, and a script.I'm a deer in the proverbial headlights.Theatre is, we're told over and over, a collaborative art. The design...
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Aaaaaarrrrgh!
Avast, ye scurvy dogs--'tis International Talk Like A Pirate Day!Here ye arrrrrre now: a fine drinkin' tune for yer entaaarrrrrtainment.
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Change your perspective
...never a bad idea, really.About a month ago I met somebody wonderful.Not like that. Just somebody who is, really, wonderful.In Edinburgh this year I was a bit more free than last time around, as I...
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Made in Scotland--from girders!
I needed to explain the unparalleled awesomeness of the Scottish soft drink Irn-Bru to someone today, so I hunted for some of their adverts...there are plenty on YouTube, and if you've got some time to...
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Secret #8: I'm a grown-up...?
This is baffling.Mr. Red Shoes and I had plans to go down to Santa Cruz today. We were going to pick up wine from Bargetto, the winery I worked for when we lived there, and go for a hike (me) and...
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Exposure
I'm sitting in the house during a dress rehearsal of Large Animal Games. And I'm struck, once again, by just how much I love actors. It's a joke among techs, a joke so old and fundamental that we don't...
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Intimacy II
I've just been tattooed...again...the mountain-and-river scene on my right arm now extends onto my shoulderblade. It's not done yet--the outline is there, and the sky is blue. I'll go back in January...
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Tick tick tick
Sheet 2, front elevation, back wall.Three weeks from today I will be putting the finishing touches on my master's thesis presentation. Don't know if I'll post anything coherent between now and...
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A message
To theatre and production companies:Conventional wisdom in our field says, take every job. You never know who you'll meet, who might lead to the next great job. This field is all about who you...
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Light Plot Deconstructed by Gregg Hillmar
This is not supposed to be a theatre blog. It's a tango blog, at least in theory. That's how I started it. I'm a theatre designer and technician, though, and while you might be able to take the tech...
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Paper. Weight.
Here I am again, another late night. One week away from presenting this project. Early mornings, late nights, stiff shoulders. Hands covered in paint, aching from drawing and painting and typing.I'm...
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Friday Flickr Lighting Porn
Well well: I'm on iSquint!Reposting:The past couple of weeks, I have not been able to get a Friday Flickr Lighting Porn photo up due to LDI and then Thanksgiving following the next week. This week, The...
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Bound & submitted
Several all-nighters and an astonishing amount of paper later, I've passed inspection by my professors, bound and turned in the books (those drawings and paintings sure look weird reduced to 8.5"x11"),...
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Here's to putting Odin back in Yule...
No log for me--my fireplace is too modern and gas-fed for that. A beeswax candle, which I lit at nightfall, sits burning on the hearth. There's a pot of something hot, fruit-laden and alcoholic on the...
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Multiculturalism
Sunset at Stonehenge. 3:40 pm. The photo is from a lovely website,geograph.org.uk, which has been keeping my rss feed colorful with beautiful photos from the UK and Ireland.I went to Muir Woods...
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That's gonna sting
Oh, dear.So I ran across those the other day in the Whisky Shop. Yikes.But guess what's a lot more Scottish than that?Brrrrr. (Thanks, snappybex.)Uh-huh. Edinburgh in January, that's what.I can't...
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Surprise! I'm in Scotland!
I did mention it a few posts ago, but frankly at the moment I'm a little surprised!I'm here working on a project for this year's Fringe, and this is do-or-die time: we need a whole lot of stuff done...
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Our species is a fucking waste of time
Southern California school is banning the dictionary.For being too graphic.Honestly.Edited to add this, just in case you were in doubt about the truth of the title of this...
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Old/New
I feel like I used to be a tango dancer.Not that I've quit or anything. I just don't seem to be able to raise the interest anymore. It's gotten exhausting, and actually I think the tango blog-world...
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Moving on.
I've been blogging (on and off, I suppose) here at Heartbreak Tango for about two and a half years. It's time for me to move on. Please come and visit me at my professional site, Batfish Lighting....
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