Never Enough Time, the Time is Now
There’s never enough for anything in the theatre. Everything is a rush. Nothing is sacred. Covenants are daily broken.

There’s never enough for anything in the theatre. Everything is a rush. Nothing is sacred. Covenants are daily broken.

Here is one of the greatest pieces of advice I can offer you when you get stuck with your dramatic writing. I stumbled upon this solution and it has saved me many times over the years.

Continue reading → If Your Writing Gets Stuck, Go Somewhere Else
I am one of those who refuse to “go with the flow” because — I have discovered over the arc of a long life — that “going with the flow” is actually a code phrase for having no schedule, and a cudgel of indecision against ambition, and a smothering blanket of malaise that excuses anyone “in the flow” from having any responsibility for getting anything done at all.

Artist Li Wei defies gravity in sculpted set ups of inhuman positions in space that redefine the memeing of the craft of the body in situ:

As we are unendingly bent by time and oppressively compressed by spaces, we are bound to remember the comprehensive value of what Socrates found in Heracleitus’ claim that “All Things Flow.” We are always in a state of change. There is no past or future — there is only the “liquid now” that never remains the same from moment to moment.

Baylor University is playing with a time machine. The
university doesn’t like the lower SAT scores of their students so,
after they are admitted, Baylor pays students to retake the SAT so the
school won’t look so “stupid” in its SAT student rankings:
Continue reading → Baylor University Time Machine: SAT Mulligans
Information has become commoditized. To create information is fine, but to control access to that information is key. Google has staked its fortune to providing sifters for controlling access to the memory of the world.

In a recent blog entry, I argued in the comments how time can be bent by the mind into slow motion in order to protect the body:
In the past, we have discussed here the phenomenon of time bending during accidents and emergencies as real time re-shapes to a crawl — I argue that slowing down of time is another brain protector that gives the body a chance to try to respond to, and then avoid, death or permanent damage. One inch here, a bend there, a twitch right there — can mean the difference between living and the forever darkness.

Running on CPT is a Racist phrase originally used against Black people to generically describe their lack of time management — but it can now also be effectively used on anyone who is perpetually late. “CPT” translates to “Colored People’s Time.”

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