Riding the packed 6 train in New York at rush hour, chest to chest with total strangers, separated only by the thin white cord of earbuds and hidden iPods, I feel the anxiety rubbing off on me. New York City is emotionally charged at the moment. Read more »

If not, what are you doing about it? With all due respect to former (and currently dead) president Ronald Reagan, are you doing any better than you were earlier this year?  If not, what are you planning to do about it? Read more »

So I’m walking Big Dog to the park and I see fresh plywood emblazoned with the words “Post No Bills”. And I think to myself “Oh yeah… really? How about “no more financial meltdown”, “no BS”, and as long as we’re at it, “no more Nigerian spam emails”? Read more »

Twitter is a micro blogging service that consists of 140 character posts. You can think of it as SMS for the web. It has grown into a near real-time messaging service ranging from the banal “just ate an egg McMuffin” to the useful, “Arrested” which freed James Karl Buck from an Egyptian jail cell. Read more »

When allocating budget for any creative endeavor there is always a tension between what the creative team wants and want the audience needs.  Do you really need to blow the majority of your budget on just one effect, one feature or one gimmick? Last night I saw  Michael Weller’s BEAST, produced by New York Theater Workshop - the folks who brought you “RENT.” It’s told as a “fever in six acts” and arcs from Iraq to Germany to Crawford, Texas.  From a creative perspective it leaves you warm; Read more »