For the last thirty years, Jeff Raz has performed internationally with circuses and theaters including The Pickle Circus, Lincoln Center Theater, Dell’Arte Players, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and the Marin and S.F. Shakespeare Festivals. Since 1990 he has written ten plays … Read on Macduff...
Conversations about Creativity
Regular visitors to this site know that I’m quite literally 175 years old. What you may not know is that just five short years ago — at the ripe old age of 170 — I had a series of micro-epiphanies … Read on Macduff...
The Against the Day Deathmarch, Week 2
If I knew Tesla was coming, I might very well have baked a cake. Because, well, you know how much Tesla loves to eat cake.
Lots of fun this week — excellent comments from an international crew of ‘marchers, plus … Read on Macduff...
Legends from My Childhood, #2
She took too many pills or something
and nearly died
but the main thing I remember
is sitting down at their
kitchen table and her
telling us how at that critical moment
she saw the light and turned back.
I … Read on Macduff...
Underground
They date underground
they do.
And they skip by the mushrooms
they dance with the dwarves
They sleep under waterfalls
lightless with dark sparkle and foam.
They leave the sun and the wind and banana peels
to the squirrels.
The Against the Day Deathmarch, Week 1
Welcome to The Against the Day Deathmarch — a mass-tackle of Pynchon’s latest tome. This is our fifth deathmarch, and I haven’t been this excited about an onine mass read of a challenging book since, well, since we tackled Gravity’s … Read on Macduff...
Legends from My Childhood, #1
Don’t forget what’shisname — Steven?
Really smart.
Played guitar.
Got into heavy metal.
Sort of wavy black hair?
He was a tough little dude.
I think they came in second in that Battle of the Bands.
All covers. Maybe Free … Read on Macduff...
Dialogue, motivation, bumpers
Thought for the day: Trying to write dialogue without first getting a bead on your characters’ motivation is a little like trying to move a car by pulling on its bumper. Oh sure, you can do it. If you’re really … Read on Macduff...
The Against the Day Deathmarch Chit-Chat About Prizes
Got my book this week. I’m all excited, and who can blame me? I’m fighting the urge to dive in. I have read the quote that opens the book, and I have read the first line, and I can report … Read on Macduff...
Were they bats?
Were they birds or were they bats?
Does it matter?
When they drop down in darkness.
When they brush up against the back of your head and nudge you along.
When they flap in your hair.
You want to know.… Read on Macduff...