Sunday, December 2, 2012
Monday, November 19, 2012
Didn't It Rain
Friday, November 2, 2012
The 10 Year Old Vote
The election season is all encompassing, and I've seen more than one online call for it to all just be over already. The kid's school did a Mock Election, and he got to help out by making the ballot boxes. They must have talked about some of the issues, because here's what he told me, completely unprompted.
"I'm voting for Barack Obama, because he thinks that government should help with healthcare. Mitt Romney thinks that people should pay for healthcare by themselves. But what about poor people? They wouldn't get any health care. And that would be very sad."
I thought that was a pretty sophisticated argument. However, when it came to the gubernatorial race, his thought process was more basic. Rob McKenna runs a lot of ads on YouTube that he thought were annoying, so he voted for Jay Inslee. I wonder if it was the ad interrupting what he was looking at on YouTube, or if it was because of the nature of the ad itself, a "Grumpy Old Men" motif. I'd suggest that 5 seniors arguing in a diner about the taxation of small businesses would not be the most effective online ad format. Certainly didn't work for Mock Election.
"I'm voting for Barack Obama, because he thinks that government should help with healthcare. Mitt Romney thinks that people should pay for healthcare by themselves. But what about poor people? They wouldn't get any health care. And that would be very sad."
I thought that was a pretty sophisticated argument. However, when it came to the gubernatorial race, his thought process was more basic. Rob McKenna runs a lot of ads on YouTube that he thought were annoying, so he voted for Jay Inslee. I wonder if it was the ad interrupting what he was looking at on YouTube, or if it was because of the nature of the ad itself, a "Grumpy Old Men" motif. I'd suggest that 5 seniors arguing in a diner about the taxation of small businesses would not be the most effective online ad format. Certainly didn't work for Mock Election.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Don't Call it A Comeback
Quoth the lyricist LL Cool J.
I still haven't quite figured out what the best format is for this blog, so I'll just keep on with the little bit of everything motif.
Just finished a reading for Arts Crush, "Shark" by Tracy Vicory-Rosenquest. Tough role that I enjoyed (nervously) performing.
Starting Naplwrimo in two days. Kiddo inadvertently played the dramaturg last night in quizzing me about the play I plan to write. "Where is it?" "Who's in it?" "What is the genre?" "Why did you decide to write about this?" It's good prep work to have to work these things out and explain them.
As part of the Wrimo month, two friends and I will be doing a writer's retreat Nov. 10-11th at this place. They'll be working on novels, while I work on plays/screenplays. Should be a lot of words.
In related news, just joined this playwriting group. I like seeing people's new ideas, plus I need some good beta readers for my new work. Win win.
Just joined this site, because I had been doing the Max 10 program at my gym, working out for an hour every weekday. Lost 6 pounds and felt totally ripped. But as soon as the program ended, well, back to the beginning. Now I try to go to two classes a week. Tonight is Muay Thai class. oof.
I'm also getting back into playing this:
I was taking lessons in the summer until I got the hang of it, but then quit playing for a while. I'm trying to play a little bit every other day or so. I really enjoy playing, I don't know why it's so hard to pull it out of the case.
I still haven't quite figured out what the best format is for this blog, so I'll just keep on with the little bit of everything motif.
Just finished a reading for Arts Crush, "Shark" by Tracy Vicory-Rosenquest. Tough role that I enjoyed (nervously) performing.
Starting Naplwrimo in two days. Kiddo inadvertently played the dramaturg last night in quizzing me about the play I plan to write. "Where is it?" "Who's in it?" "What is the genre?" "Why did you decide to write about this?" It's good prep work to have to work these things out and explain them.
As part of the Wrimo month, two friends and I will be doing a writer's retreat Nov. 10-11th at this place. They'll be working on novels, while I work on plays/screenplays. Should be a lot of words.
In related news, just joined this playwriting group. I like seeing people's new ideas, plus I need some good beta readers for my new work. Win win.
Just joined this site, because I had been doing the Max 10 program at my gym, working out for an hour every weekday. Lost 6 pounds and felt totally ripped. But as soon as the program ended, well, back to the beginning. Now I try to go to two classes a week. Tonight is Muay Thai class. oof.
I'm also getting back into playing this:
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
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