There's life in the old guy yet

Finished draft of new play. Amazing. I rather like it. Getting feedback. It's timely, urgent, but also sad. Couldn't be otherwise. I call it TITANIC BLUES.

Our embarrassing "leader"

Here's what passes for coherence in Prez Bone Spur's deteriorating mind. From a speech he gave over the weekend.

“I never understood wind. I know windmills very much. I’ve studied it better than anybody. I know it’s very expensive. Tremendous fumes. Gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right? So, the world is tiny compared to the universe.”

Not quite "Four score and ..."

The American way of death

This story outrages me. "Death with dignity" is a sham in this country, even in the few states that allow physician assistance. An outrage!

My novel LAST RIGHTS deals with this issue.

Hyperdrama as a New Kind of Dramatic Texts

An academic study of three of my hyperdramas by Nahla Sadek Elgawahergy.

Check it out.

Tick tock

My models for the 21st century, or How to Behave on a Sinking Ship

As large as the youth rallies have been, they are not yet large enough to push power to meaningful change.. Youth need to shut down the country and keep it shut down. Alas, it won't happen, the climate will worsen unabated. Oh, and happy holidays!

This town is giving families $500 a month. The results are remarkable

Since February, Tomas and more than 100 other families in Stockton, California, have been receiving $500 a month with no strings attached. The policy experiment is part of the historic Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (Seed) project, led by one of the youngest mayors in America, Michael Tubbs. As the name suggests, this guaranteed income program works to demonstrate what is possible when people who are struggling to make ends meet have the cash on hand they need to feel and be in charge of their own lives – and the Economic Security Project, the organization I co-founded in 2016, is pleased to be Seed’s first backer. All told, the project will run for 18 months, but we have already gleaned useful insights.

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Music

Making an effort to get music back into my life .... going to learn some classic songs on the chromatic, starting with Stardust. Something I can do with arthritic hands.

At the Ash Grove

I saw him many times there during the 1960s. A hero of mine.

Oregon is expensive

American exceptionalism

Humanity Is Riding Delusion to Extinction

All the knowledge needed to save the world from climate catastrophe (and even nuclear war) is on our iPhones. Unfortunately, most Americans are too busy watching porn and trolling their exes on Facebook to unite, organize and save themselves. It’s an irrational, and classically human, defense mechanism of sorts. Such is life, in all its bizarre glory, all its absurdity.

Read the article.