December 2011
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Why don't more artists use noisetrade to promote... →
November 2011
3 posts
Thriving Mama: A teacher in New York was teaching... →
rantingsofathrivingmama:
A teacher in New York was teaching her class about bullying and gave them the following exercise to perform. She had the children take a piece of paper and told them to crumple it up, stomp on it and really mess it up but do not rip it. Then she had them unfold the paper, smooth it out and look…
compromise - theatre style
Listening to a guy on my office phone right now who is pitching me on “Broadway shows” that very obviously not Broadway shows. It’s C level performers (from what I can tell) in tribute shows.
And, yes, I’m going to rent the theater to them. And do a deal, I’m sure.
Sigh.
October 2011
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Our Sweet PJ 1999-2011
If you don’t love dogs, you won’t understand this. If you’ve never had your face licked by a long, rough dog tongue, you won’t understand our joy and our pain. If you’ve never been smacked in the leg by a wagging tail, never been gazed at like you are a perfect genius by big brown dog eys, never had fluffy dog hair permanently attached to all your clothes, never been...
April 2011
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Theater manager or party planner?
Some days I think I’d be better off if I just planned parties. Weddings. Reunions. Anniversaries. The celebrations of our lives. I’m really great at it and people appreciate my skill and customer service and outcomes.
People don’t appreciate outcomes at the theater. Because, mostly, these outcomes are difficult to measure. Certainly, I can create a budget, adhere to it the best...
March 2011
6 posts
biggest turn off ever: "I don't read"
navishutup:
Excuse me, what?
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Here's the thing about a ticket
Once I purchase one it is mine. I own that seat for the duration of the performance if I choose to use it. I can give it to a colleague, neighbor or friend. Because, you see, I bought it and it is mine. If I choose to take the ticket and use it as starter for my fireplace that is my choice. It is mine because I bought it. I own it.
This is basic commerce.
Not everyone I know understands...
“Throwing Ronald Reagan out of office at the height of his popularity, with...”
– Democratic vice-presidential candidate GERALDINE FERRARO, in her post-1984 election analysis.
Rest in peace.
(via the New York Times)
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Fat Tuesday
at the theater. We gorged on famous burgers at the local barbeque joint. Now the day is over. It is 5:02 and the champagne bar is open.
We deserve it.
Because today our big client pitched a fit over stuff that is crazy, a bride cancelled her prime wedding date that had been on the books forever because she got ‘caught’ and our other big client made so many ticketing changes for this...
“Who will be the first Republican to enter the presidential race? Spoiler alert:...”
– STEPHEN COLBERT, The Colbert Report (via inothernews)
December 2010
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“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only...”
– Journalist Rebecca West, 1913 (via Slaughterhouse 90210)
November 2010
2 posts
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Is the ticket software broken?
It’s really what I’m wondering. Is the box office software broken? Literally no one is buying tickets to the show that opens at my place tonight. It is a show that played off-Broadway to nice reviews “one of the most important plays of the decade” according to the venerable NYTimes.
I have two billboards on the two major interstates that run through town. I have banners...
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Name calling & bullying
In first grade 7 was called “gaylord,” which is slightly amusing since the corporation has a major resort property here. When I asked him what it meant he said “lord of the gays.” When I asked what that meant he shrugged and said “I dunno.” What a difference a year makes.
7 and I were driving home tonight and he said the following:
“Gay. When a boy...
October 2010
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Awkward
After an epic festival weekend I went to X’s parent’s house to pick up J. My former mother-in-law produced the petticoat that I wore under my wedding dress when I married her son exactly eleven years and two days ago. Awkward.
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Wish
I had a ma-jillion dollars so I could buy lots of acreage in the Texas Hill Country and have my brilliant, though ancient (according to him), architect dad design a big ol’ ranch house.
For now I’ll just sit in my suburban paradise and be thankful that my house is old enough that there isn’t one that looks just like it anywhere around here. Sometimes it’s the little...
September 2010
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Watch
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“(the top ten full-time jobs for women in the United States — secretary,...”
– parenthetical from Susan Faludi’s essay in Harper’s (via annlf)
So, anti-feminists, keep your “we don’t need feminism ‘cause everything is good and equal now” statements to yourselves and do some fucking reading.
(via katharticrantings)
This is sad. More women then men are getting college...
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Keeping Stuff
Why do we keep stuff? I’m uncluttering my life - still post Big D, still finding X’s jackets, still returning his family’s photos to him - and so today I tackled the red room. That room in our house that was red when we bought it and I immediately turned it into the baseball room since I was an employee at a Major League Baseball Team. You know, red and white and blue, so...
August 2010
5 posts
A Photographer's Apartment in Brooklyn
fromme-toyou:
Vintage film cameras, books organized by color, cherished & collected pieces brought together one at a time to make this photographer’s 1 bedroom Brooklyn apartment a truly unique space with treasures in every nook. Welcome to the very world traveled, vintage-inspired home of Mike Mabes
… and the guns aren’t real.
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Cooking
I love cooking dinner for my boys. After the Big D I started cooking. X used to ‘cook’ ie. boil chicken, boil the vitamins out of veggies, and boil rice. Technically the food was edible. Technically.
But since he left I’ve been in charge of the food in the house. It’s been an interesting budgetary challenge, a great challenge to change my behavior (I have to actually eat...
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Old Theatre, New Drama
I live in an amazing community. There are 55,000 people here but it really feels like a small town. It’s in the middle of a major metropolitan area - maybe 6 million people all around us. But it is friendly and it feels small - we still honk and wave.
My first theatre gig ever was at the city’s historic downtown theatre. It had recently been restored and rehabilitated into a...
July 2010
12 posts
“Many of us were mothered in ways we cannot yet even perceive; we only know that...”
– Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution (New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 1976), 184. (via wassupgrandpa)
The Ministry of Humane Human Resources: A... →
I hate competition. Parents are the worst and love to compete about their lifestyle, working arrangements, and kids. Here’s my opinion from living in a rural community. You’ve heard this all before.
Dear…
Thank you for your call and note the other day. It was the fifth time that you told…
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Pottery Barn Perfect
Just wondering why it’s so hard for me to actually complete everything. I must have adult onset ADD. Or maybe I’ve always had it and my parents just managed it. I’ve cleaned two rooms - the real kind of cleaning that includes dusting and vacuuming and moving furniture - hung a few pictures in the hallway, went through the home office and started to clear it up.
And all I can...
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Babies
I had two hours to myself today. Hours which should have been spent ironing. But that’s neither here nor there. I watched “Juno” which my bfriend referred to as ‘the abortion movie.’ When I commented that I’m pretty sure that she is pregnant in the movie he changed it to ‘the teen pregnanacy movie.’ So, I knew I was watching it myself.
It was good....
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Equality Myth: The Beauty Advantage: How Beauty... →
God we love this photo, despite the weird overly buff dude. Wanted to send out a link to Newsweek’s massive package on the role of looks at work, which includes pieces on: the double bind that women face, what would happen if women ruled the world, why women should shun that …
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Big Game Hunter
Typically I’m a pretty high strung person. I’m that girl who thinks that she’s relaxed and kicked back and rolls with it. But in reality I’m a control freak who’d prefer to run the theatre by myself, for example.
I’ve unfortunately passed on my stress/tension/freakishness to my 7 year old. He has a short attention span, has difficulty focusing, is very active...
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“Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with...”
– Lemony Snicket (via loripaulson) (via thenickedwards)
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Pain is pain is pain
There is a blogger I follow because my far away from me father does. I googled my 73-year old father and found that he comments on NYTimes.com and on this other blog. http://www.godofbiscuits.com/blog/ which is just beautifully written. When it is written.
Whomever this gentle man is, he has a way with words that I truly envy. I ache for my long lost ability to really truly express myself...
June 2010
1 post
Sarah Palin is Not a Feminist : Ms Magazine Blog →
I hate to give this woman power by giving her attention. But for some reason people do not understand that just because you say something doesn’t make it true.
May 2010
10 posts
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WatchCool video announcing a theater season. Strangely diverse.
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Being a Good Neighbor
When I was married I told my husband, “I don’t need the nicest yard on the street, just not the worst yard on the street.” Well, X hasn’t lived here in over a year and now I alone have to take responsibility for having The Worst Yard.
I’m not sure how things like this happen. Maintaining a house is a big deal, even if your house is smallish like mine is. My focus has...
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Is Tony Bennett right for me?
I’m working on finding exactly the right song or music for a promotional video announcing a new arts series at the theater. I need something that my 55+ year old core group of season ticket holders will identify with and love.
The brilliant artist who put the video together selected a really great indie song that had me dancing in my rigid office chair. I loved it. But the grey hairs...