She’s a Brick

June 26, 2008 -- Tags: Facebook, Jihad, LEGO

It’s the 50th Anniversary Year of LEGO and there’s been a lot of great coverage on Gizmodo.
I used to play with Legos almost exclusively when I was a kid. I had the Space sets and various second-hand assortments of generic bricks. My favorite pieces were the little four-way maneuvering thruster [...]

Study

June 25, 2008 -- Tags: Commodore 64, Resistance is Futile, Studying, Writing

I spend as much time dissecting and analyzing other peoples’ work as I do writing. I’ve always been into taking things apart and figuring out how they tick. This started with the Commodore 64 I had when I was a kid. It wasn’t enough to play the games — I loved [...]

Hot Hot Heat

June 24, 2008 -- Tags: Heat, Los Angeles, Writing

Knicknacks: It has been hot here in LA, hotter than it was in NYC. You know what helps the heat? A Snickers Ice Cream Cake. These are meatloaf-sized Snickers ice cream bars with a cake-like granular matter embedded inside. Perfectly sized for a family of four or for one sumo [...]

A New York Groove (Part Two)

June 23, 2008 --

I was in NYC doing a workshop so I spent most of the time in the studio. We used a room at Tisch, which was conveniently located across the street from a McDonalds. You know that I’m a junk food junkie. McDonalds breakfast food is some of my favorite breakfast food [...]

A New York Groove (Part One)

June 22, 2008 -- Tags: New-York-City, Sandwich Theft, Virgin America

I just got back from New York City. I have a few tales to tell — this is part one.

I took Virgin America this time. A couple of neat differences are the entertainment system (with some pretty great touchscreen games), fairly comfy seats, and the fact that you can use your touchscreen [...]

Year Zero in Chicago

June 21, 2008 -- Tags: Asian-Americans-in-the-arts, Chicago, Chicago Dramatists, Theater-/-Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, Writing, Year Zero

This summer Year Zero has been selected for workshop development at Chicago Dramatists as part of their Many Voices Project (funded by the National Endowment for the Arts) and by Chicago’s Tony Award-winning Victory Gardens Theater for their IGNITION: Emerging Playwrights of Color Initiative (supported by the Ford Foundation).
Please join me for [...]