Just paid $3.19/gallon at the Costco here in the Chicago suburbs. Hasn't been $2 in any of the blue states I've lived in for decades.

Excellent framing!

Already CAROLing at the Goodman, so won’t make the next LTAM. Check out NICE GUYS, though, it’s terrific.

Did you see Ryan Gosling channel that exact moment in THE NICE GUYS? Brilliant.

So were STAND BY ME, SHAWSHANK, MISERY, even THE OUTSIDER on HBO…

I was speaking generally.

I explored my King passion a year ago for the @folger.edu. www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

Weirdly, I’ve never been (I think) to San Antonio or (embarrassingly) to New Orleans, except the airport to perform at LSU in Baton Rouge.

Love my hometown hellhole.

I can't claim her as a friend, but she was always lovely to me and supportive of my little theater podcast. A giant.

Came out of a new play here in Chicago recently, disappointed after being so excited at intermission. My friend said, “Anybody can write a first act.”

…he marveled that so much of it was so GOOD, because for shows to work, every person and department — including the producers and the network — needs to be on the same page working on the same show. That clarity and unity of vision is hard to achieve.

In ‘87, I ran the intern program at a summer-stock theatre in NH, and the great Hal Linden came to visit his daughter. One of us super-earnest 20-something theatre artists (it might’ve been me, unfortunately) asked him sniffly why so much TV was so bad. He said …

Bukowski approved!