My travel plans for the summer are coming into focus. Minneapolis and New York City next month, and in July I’m heading back to Chicago.
What I like about Chicago: Improv. The extremely large McDonald’s. Barack Obama. Millennium Park. How a single slice of pizza there is enough [...]

I ate a large steak and it put me into a coma. I don’t eat a lot of red meat anymore and so my body wasn’t used to it. It’s like eating a giant, tasty sleeping pill.

Across the street someone glued an Obama “Hope” poster to some kind of powerbox/traffic light controller; [...]

Sydney Pollack’s death yesterday is troubling; I’ll miss him.
This is how diverse the guy was: He did a very enjoyable documentary on Frank Gehry in which he explored his own creativity and career; I remember one segment where he mentioned that he felt like a fraud at times, “pretending” [...]

I finished the first draft of my project yesterday. I was in the library all day, then moved back home to work some more until it was done. I’m starting rewrites tomorrow, so today I have the day off.
My favorite thing to do on a day off is to do everything I [...]

TC 2008: We had a really great opening last night. I couldn’t enjoy it as much because I’ve got a hard deadline coming up. I was actually putting in pages at the theater on my laptop — until it got too hot for my lap.
I can usually write anywhere due to [...]