Describe one of your favorite moments. This is one of the seminal moments in my teaching career. I was taking Music Appreciation with Lou Silverblank at Temple University; the class was required for my Theatre major. One of our assignments was to attend two live music performances. I hated this idea. I was in theContinue reading “Firebird? Sweet!”
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Passion!
What is your favorite season of year? Why? Or, how answering a prompt gets a Rod Stewart song stuck in your head. Of course, what I am most passionate about is theatre, directing theatre, and storytelling. Those are of course three aspects of the same thing. They’ve comprised my life’s work, and they are somethingContinue reading “Passion!”
An Uninspiring Scammer
This is another in my series of improvs with scammers. They send me a message, then claim it’s a wrong number and try to elicit conversation. I thwarted this one immediately by being an attractive Asian woman fashion designer and cryptocurrency dabbler. Because that’s what so many of them claim to be. I guess “she”Continue reading “An Uninspiring Scammer”
Another Poor Improviser
Or we might subtitle it “The ChatBot Calling the ChatBot an AI”? This scammer didn’t do too well with my improvised responses and may in fact have been a ChatBot for all I could tell. It began as they often do. So glad she is beautiful and kind. it’s good to have self-worth, I guess.Continue reading “Another Poor Improviser”
Summer Better Than Others
What is your favorite season of year? Why? Of the seasons, I prefer summer for a variety of reasons. We’ll get to those reasons in a moment, but let’s look at the cons of the others. Winter has cold and often snow. Although I did some sledding as a child, this was not as fulfillingContinue reading “Summer Better Than Others”
Luxury!?
What’s the one luxury you can’t live without? An odd prompt. Once again, I am pressed to define something before I can comment on it. To me, a luxury is something that one doesn’t need but possesses to enjoy. Luxuries are those things that one can win on a game show. I don’t need aContinue reading “Luxury!?”
Synchronicity
If humans had taglines, what would yours be? With one breath, with one flowYou will know synchronicityA sleep trance, a dream danceA shared romance, synchronicity These lyrics come from song by The Police, “Synchronicity I.” Synchronicity is, of course, the phenomenon that makes us think things happen for a reason; the shape and give meaningContinue reading “Synchronicity”
And Now, A Third!
Just as I was telling a friend about my texting improv with a scammer, my phone pinged with a third. While the last one was not a good improviser (see previous blog posts for #1 and #2), this one had a little more going for him/her. I decided to get a little more baroque inContinue reading “And Now, A Third!”
A Good Life?
What are the most important things needed to live a good life? I’m confused by today’s prompt. What exactly does it mean, “to live a good life”? Is that a morally good existence? Is it a happy, and therefore good, life? Does it mean a satisfied life, free of want and care? There are someContinue reading “A Good Life?”
Phorkyad Acropolis
If you had to change your name, what would your new name be? This is an amusing little prompt, since I had already thought about this when I created my avatar in Second Life in 2006. Luckily I took it seriously, since I think he is synonymous with me, and I gladly identify with theContinue reading “Phorkyad Acropolis”
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