This scene comes with a bit of back-story. Two years ago, a thoroughly decent chap named John O’Brien came to me with an idea. His theater company, Mill 6 Collaborative in Boston, was putting together a show to celebrate their tenth anniversary. He wanted to include live readings of material from Analog Nation, including a [...]
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Stones on the Water
March 31st, 2010
Tags: la romance
Op-Ed: Security Tips from a Former Burglar
March 25th, 2010
Folks like you helped me earn a living for years. Many of you made valiant attempts to stop me. A few of you managed even to slow me down a little. Only a handful were able to actually thwart me outright, and that select few lived in paranoid lockdown, afraid of the outside world. Their [...]
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The 2010 United States Census: Nothing but DNA and Freemasons
March 16th, 2010
Honestly, I was just sitting here minding my own business. I’d just finished dinner, had a bit of time before “Lost,” and was cleaning up some of the mess that accumulated over the last two weeks while I was locked in a theater. Out of nowhere, a friend of mine broadcast a challenge all throughout [...]
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ABC, Cablevision, and the Price of Arrows
March 9th, 2010
Don’t go into the living room, Mom and Dad are fighting again. Those of you outside the New York area probably missed the excitement, but ABC went off the air for several hours on Sunday, vanishing from LCD screens while the clock ticked down to the Oscars. The disappearance was a negotiating tactic in the [...]
Tags: television
Announcement of a Theatrical Nature
March 1st, 2010
It’s me! Playing Hamlet! But with 97% less Shakespeare! Exciting news for those who live in New York and have sworn a blood oath against me! I will be descending from my mountaintop fortress an unprecedented eight times over the next couple of weeks. In fact, I will be out in the open, without bodyguards, [...]
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Things I Learned While Filming A Horror Movie Outside On A Mountain In The Catskills In The Dead Of Night Through Sub-Zero Temperatures With No Sleep, Little Food, And Some Decent Scotch
January 17th, 2010
A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that I would be appearing in a horror movie. I suppose it might sound made up, considering this site has also claimed that squirrels live for 800 years, and that redheads are allergic to cardboard. But it’s true — I am playing a character named Doug in “The [...]
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