Twice now in Vancouver over the past week, I’ve slowed to a stop at an intersection where pedestrians were crossing.  Somehow these nice Canadians could sense my agitation at waiting—last night I was starving and last week we were mid-errands—and felt obliged to make comments to me, all the more disturbing because I’m still driving [...]

This has been an amazing week.
Last Saturday night, Leslie arrived in town for a workshop, and then we had a reading of a new script — an All-Black DANGEROUS LIAISONS set in the Harlem Renaissance in 1945 — in my backyard.  Isaiah Washington read the lead.  (By the way, Isaiah was GENIUS and charming).
Anyway, since [...]

The August 31st issue of the New Yorker has an article by Elizabeth Kilbert about NO IMPACT MAN by Colin Beavan and his project to “live as environmentally as possible for a year.”  Check it out:
What’s wrong with eco-stunts : The New Yorker
It’s obviously a pure stunt of a project, beginning over lunch with his [...]