The Chronicles of Charlie: The Assassin Who’s Not Very Good At His Job
Dan | December 30, 2007
I swore I’d stay away from the computer today, other than to use it for music-listening purposes. But, it’s December 30th, I’ve been puttering around, and I had a few things I wanted to note before the end of the year. Warning: This is pure navel-gazing bloggery, and if it’s not the [...]
Dan | December 20, 2007
“Bastard” by the Mekons. Fabulous.
See, when I’m finished with a semester I write more here…isn’t that fun?
Dan | December 19, 2007
1) Done with school for the semester! One week off, then I write. For real.
2) I picked up the new Magnetic Fields…I like it. Much better than the previous disc, especially the song “California Girls,” which is the funniest thing I’ve heard in quite a while.
Dan | December 13, 2007
I’ve been whining and moaning quite a bit on this site about hwo hard it is to write a play. Well, rather than put you through that again, I went ahead and posted it here. Be forewarned: it’s weird. It came out of four unrelated exercises for a class, and I tied them [...]
Dan | December 13, 2007
SCENE ONE
SETTING
We open on Brent, a young man in his 20s. He is sitting at his computer, typing away, in a lonely room. In some way, we see the conversation via Instant messenger appearing so that the audience can read it. Brent types, and Elly types. As they type, their messages, the [...]
Dan | December 10, 2007
I was browsing around on my lunch break today, and I came across the NYT’s 53 Places To Go In 2008. To my delight, I’d been to ten of them already, which takes the pressure off. It’s a weird list, though - including two different places within Miami, the city of Detroit, and some [...]
Dan | December 1, 2007
One of the classes I took this semester was on playwriting. We read plays, went to plays (and the opera, because, well, it’s the opera), and wrote little fragments of play script. I’m sitting at home on this Saturday night (currently playing: an indie band called The Anniversary, who I found on [...]
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