Vichy Democrats and N*zi Republicans. What a time to be alive.

Heading into a double rehearsal weekend and I'm glad to be back to the work:

Cowgirl Katarungan's Recipe for Adobo by AJ Layague
development reading for industry professionals and culturally conversant audience.

If you'd like to check out this work in progress let me know.
#dramaturgy #theatre

Currently reading Mu by Sora Y Han

Reading the news each day.

Small book review:

Rakesfall by @vajra.me 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Love it even more than Saint of Bright Doors, but I think it's a harder recommendation.

This one's for the experimental, poetic, and literary girlies.

It is a story about a boy and a girl or a rabbit and a worm or a ghost and child.

What lol?!
I'm gonna select four from my top 20 because this is either the universe telling me to brush my hair or that I'm some kinda megalomaniac.

Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter): 87%
Elizabeth Bennet (Pride and Prejudice): 86%
Gandalf (Lord of the Rings): 86%
Moiraine Damodred (WOT) 86%

Long Live Degenerate Art (1938) Art and Liberty Group in Egypt.

In this statement they call out the strangling of free expression in the arts across Europe.

History repeats itself in the widespread cancellation of NEA grants due to DEI and ideological adherence.

1pg, worth a read #neagrants

Kiro has decided that sitting on my laptop is a helpful part of research and writing. #phdsky #frommyarchive

Original composition from a few years ago, "When She was King", without the annotations. A little bit of word play and short priamel.

Presented yesterday on reading al-Tahtawi through Niranjana's autocolonization (Siting Translation).

Here is one passage from him on Theatre and Spectacle, which continues to inform my understanding of Egyptian and Arab performance history. And it's funny. 🤓

People—and I’m no exception—seem capable of forgetting almost anything, much as if our island were unable to float in anything but an expanse of totally empty sea.

Here's my dog Kiro in his snow boots this winter. He loves naps, fighting with my laptop, and his stuffed hotdog, Hotdog.

Poetry is for the desperate.

Spent a lot of time in this book this week, and I agree 100.

"Τhe risk in framing antiblack racism as mental illness is that it potentially locates the problem of racism in individual psychopathology rather than
deeply entrenched systems and structures."

Bruce's "How To Go Mad"