Simple Answers to Simple Questions

HELL NO.

This has been another edition of Simple Answers to Simple Questions.

The Single Most Useful Diagram on the Internet...Ever

...can be found here.

You're very welcome.

There Simply Are Not Words

And so I submit this without comment.

Words, Words, Words...

This is a bit of a writing week for me: I'm working on the next installment of my New Play Project 2010, doing a rewrite for an upcoming reading (more on that soon), cooking up a big spring project and maybe helping out with someone else's project. There are times when blogging takes a bit of a backseat and this is one of those times.

Feel free to talk amongst yourselves, though. What's on your mind this fine Tuesday before Snowmageddon Part II: Electric Boogaloo?

RIP

Jack Murtha. Sad news.

Yeah, Pretty Much

This pretty well sums it up. Watching it with two of my guy friends, the whole spectacle was just..icky. Unpleasant. And, what's even worse, kind of boring. A three-hour parade of "Women are castrating bitches! Now buy our stuff" just ain't fun. Even with Betty White getting tackled.

What's funny is that this (h/t Don Hall) covers some of the same turf, but is actually funny. I could explain why...but when you explain a joke, you ruin it.

Note to ad companies: just because I'm a guy, that doesn't mean, deep down inside, I hate and fear women and their icky, icky bits. Really. You know, how you can tell? I'm not a Republican. Ba-zing! Seriously, kids. Nut shots, funny. Mean to women, not funny. Even Alan Alda gets it:



UPDATE: What I said...but funnier.

Things I'm Currently Kind of Obsessed With

The Seasons (Spring) by Jasper Johns

I can't quite explain why I'm so into this painting right now. When I was in D.C. for the Black Playwrights Convening, I caught this exhibit at the National Gallery. I hadn't seen a lot of Johns' work in the past, but I was really struck by his work. In particular, this one has been sticking with me. I look at it and there's so much going on, so many facets and parts and stories in it. I've been trying to think of a way to write a play that matches this piece. That's one of my goals this year.

My Theme Song For The Day

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Guy Is Right

Guy at CultureFuture is right on several points. This post by Ta-Nehisi Coates has a lot to say about the conversation we've been having, but also about Outrageous Fortune and the ways to make effective change and...well, just about everything. Check it out.

Quote of the Day

Jay McAdams, here:

Well, we have to look even deeper and not just ask, “What kind of shows the public really needs?”. Theatres need to ask the much more profound question, “WHAT DO PEOPLE NEED IN THEIR LIVES TODAY?” Many artists will have no interest in this question, as it is has nothing to do with how they have always created their works. Yet by definition, non-profits are Public Benefit corporations. We are there to serve the public, not just to do the art that we like and think the public should like too. If they liked it as much as we do, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

H/T The Prof (who, it should also be said is making sense here).