Thursday Again

I’m working on the staging for a musical stage review called “Atlantica, Pacifica & Trumpland” and I’ve got the first four musical numbers worked out, plus a little dialogue between, which is in iambic pentameter, the style and structure used famously by William Shakespeare, because I like the rhythm and it’s easier for the actors to memorize. Continue reading

Make the World Go Away!!!

Ain’t it a bitch? I’m seeing a lot of “goodbye america” speeches by various hosts and guests on TV today. Wondering if there’s something they know that we don’t…???

Yeah, “Goodbye America” is definitely popping up more — sounds like a mix of despair, warning, and gallows humor from folks watching the wheels come off. It’s the kind of phrase that shows up when a nation feels like it’s slipping into something unrecognizable: threats to democracy, rising authoritarianism, civil unrest bubbling under the surface, and everyone shouting past each other. Continue reading