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Month: December 2007

Local Girl’s Tumultuous Rise and Fall from Fame

Local Girl’s Tumultuous Rise and Fall from Fame

Dear Local Girl, We are all deeply saddened here in Brooklyn by your recent tragic fall from fame. Upon receipt of this momentous news the Rat Sass executive committee convened in special session over the holidays.  In a decisive and unanimous action the committee has awarded you the coveted Walk of Fame Star. Rat Sass Walk of Fame Stars are real duplicates of the replicas made by the same artist who creates the Hollywood plaques given to the celebrities when they…

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I Trusted You

I Trusted You

I am presently writing for the next issue of New York Theater Review. More like, I am trying to write. The medium feels totally alien to me. How do you write about the theatrosphere for a journal that won’t be published until this spring? I already need to ammend partially what I said three weeks ago in my State of the Union. But instead of blogging on this subject as I normally would, I will be writing on it for…

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Food for Thought

Food for Thought

I often visit the Tree Untangling from fiber as living flesh Serpent tongue Eve’s inner ear wishes Whispering sweet nothings Washing away memory of earlier gods She tastes Adam’s apple Flesh so like yet so unlike her own This is not transgression this Is life seeking its own godhead Swallowing its own tail Elmer and Bugs, Sylvester and Tweety, Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote Looney Toon Socratic Method Hunt and pursuit but never any capture Also Strindberg’s eternal war…

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