Inspiring Minds Want to Know
Sometimes, when I assist my amazing designer friend Ming Wong, part of my job is to shop for costumes. Right now we're working on West Side Story for the Randolph Young Company, which is a group of incredibly talented teenagers. I LOVE West Side Story. I can't explain it, but [...]
Catalysts, Catechists, & the Chasm Before Us
cat·a·lyst (ktl-st)n.play_w2("C0153900") 1. Chemistry A substance, usually used in small amounts relative to the reactants, that modifies and increases the rate of a reaction without being consumed in the process. 2. One that precipitates a process or event, especially without being involved in or changed by the consequences: This word [...]
Brown Rice Takes The Longest, But It’s the Best For You.
As I'm waiting for the timer to ding, I'm perched on the edge of my seat, Toulouse snoring loudly and tucked in beside the laptop.Perched on the edge of my seat. Are you listening?I ran this by my brother, because he knows things about your chromosome. He says you are [...]
Carriage Return
My heart feels like an 8 x 11 sheet with one too many typos, snatched from the machine, crumpled into a hard, angry ball and tossed in the general direction of the waste paper basket, which it has narrowly missed and has instead landed with a faint thud on the [...]
Take This LongingLeonard Cohen(A Weekend Synopsis by Schnoo)Many men have loved the bellsyou fastened to the rein,and everyone who wanted youthey found what they will always want again.Your beauty lost to you yourselfjust as it was lost to them.Oh take this longing from my tongue,whatever useless things these hands have [...]
A Fortress to Call My Home
Tonight was dancing to our favourite live band at the Orbit Room. It was too many drinks, and all of my girlfriends wanting to be so close. It was dancing so much to such great music, and not caring who was watching. It was tall, sexy, bald Patrick - a [...]