6-24 Bodily Autonomy and Corpses

Grab your glass of milk and Oreos kids because it is motherfucking story time. And because I am a one-trick pony, you can expect that this will include talk about death.  But this story is about bodily autonomy.  Bodily autonomy and corpses. Warning for swearing, descriptions of dead bodies, and a generally grisly topic.  …

5-1 I Can’t Write Another Euology

Sometime last week, I scrawled: And if we were given the choice to love Or live forever We would dig our own graves. These were the words that were echoing in my head the way people get songs stuck on repeat. They are written diagonally across the page, under the grocery list I sent my…

10-28 Rent Control and Stabilization aka VOTE!

Friends who live in Minneapolis and St. Paul, let’s talk about the upcoming ballot. Specifically, let’s talk about the rent control/stabilization measures being considered. I spent a while reading about this last night. Here is where I’m at with it: Minneapolis desperately needs rent stabilization. Right now, there is not a legislative way to do…

9-9 Tiny Flames to Light the Darkness

Here is a metaphor (because words and metaphors are how I think). Relationships are like flames.  Friends, family relationships, romantic connections, all of them are like fire, but I’ve been thinking a lot about friendships. When you strike a match, it doesn’t catch every time.  We come across people in our lives who might be…

12-18 Thoughts on Theater (and my own future)

In December of 2019, IATSE 13 had 3,366 calls.  This year, there have been 12. Let me try to break that statement out of the jargon a bit.  IATSE is the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.  It is the union that covers folks like stage hands, theatrical carpenters, stitchers, dressers, lighting techs, sound techs,…

11-27 Traditions and Thanksgiving

Yesterday was Thanksgiving.  As I’ve grown older, and the world around us has started to hear the voices of people who have been kept voiceless for generations, it is a holiday that is getting increasingly complex. On one hand, it is the least “commercialized” mainstream holiday I can think of.  We don’t really send Thanksgiving…