Winter
It’s here.
Some of us aren’t ready yet.
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Jessica Jackson
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Jessica Jackson
Great Ideas; No Followthrough
We in the arts are constantly coming up with ideas. For instance, an old acquaintance from my improv days in St. Louis just suggested we form an internet-only Luddite-themed buskar band that does dirge-like, all-acoustic covers of classic rock tunes. Great idea, right? But neither of us have time. So, someone needs to start a website where people can post all the awesome ideas that they don’t have time to enact. That way, people with lots of time and no ideas can see them to fruition.
I honestly think this site has loads of potential. Now someone else needs to create it.
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avery augur
Oh my lord, I could drone on for hours on a site like that.
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Jessica Jackson
Significant Places
Last week on Slate.com, there was an article about an experiment by a couple of authors who pose the question, “can a basically worthless object suddenly have value if someone writes a story about it?” Check out the article: http://www.slate.com/id/2231262/
The experiment seems to be working. Which begs the question, can a little place become more significant (famous, important, regarded, have a greater hold on people’s imaginations) if it’s featured in a great story? Lots of places come to mind: Thoreau’s Walden Pond in Massachusetts; William Carlos William’s Paterson, NJ; L.M. Montgomery’s Green Gables on Prince Edward Island.
Creede has already inspired writers like Ron McLarty, Pam Houston, and Timothy Mason. All the stories I tell my friends back east about Creede are completely true, but somehow always seem a bit fictionalized. I wonder how long it will be before tourists stop knocking on my door and asking me where Bob Ford is buried and instead, ask me if this is the town from the famous book?
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What October Brings to CRT!
Meetings.
We all have that list of tasks that move from one to-do list to the next; those items that seems less important than the “fires” that we’re putting out at the moment. October is the time to catch up on those. It’s almost like a “Fall Cleaning” of the to do lists. And those things often involve meetings. Our days begin to fill with meetings.
And still there is time for long walks in the brisk fall air. Sitting in the Mermaid Cafe and drinking a coffee with friends. Seeing people on the street and having the time to stop for a chat without the preventative barriers of time and other appointments.
Fall is also the time to begin gearing up for the next season, with meeting debriefing last season and looking on how to make the next season even better and reading plays and creating budgets and putting ads for positions on trade websites. It’s a busy time, and yet a relaxing time, but mostly a time for finding those opportunities for sidewalk chats and fall-time walks.
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Jessica Jackson
Zeus on the Loose is…well…on the loose
The 2009 tour show, Zeus on the Loose has hit the road. So far, great responses.
Mike Bouchard and 
Tim S 11:09 pm on November 3, 2009 Permalink |
Hey. I didn’t know Creede Rep had a blog. My good buddy Jonathan works there! He said he’s the number one guy in charge of everything and everyone has to answer to him. He called himself the President Tsar.
Hi Jonathan.
Hope all is well. Can’t wait to come visit sometime! Not sure it’ll be during the winter. Looks like cold. Keep up the good work.
Mike Bouchard 10:08 pm on November 4, 2009 Permalink |
Aww, Duncan! Crazy Uncle Mike will see you soon!