What is your favorite holiday? Why is it your favorite? I’m not a big holiday person. If you check out my YouTube channel (stephenschrum) you’ll see several videos of anti-Christmas songs. While buying flowers I (secretly and silently) agree that Valentine’s Day is a holiday created by retailers for profit. And most other holidays, whichContinue reading “Favorite Holiday?”
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Camping?!
Have you ever been camping? The word “camping” elicits two responses from me: 1) Drag queens frolicking on a stage. Or is that campy? 2) Being outside in an uncontrolled temperature environment, sleeping on hard ground in a tent while being eaten alive by insects. Since I assume #2 is what the prompt is referringContinue reading “Camping?!”
Most Productive Time
When do you feel most productive? Alone, in late morning, when I’ve gotten up, had a a shower and coffee, and have some alone time to bang out some things from my to-do list. I can grab a few minutes here and there sometimes later, but that initial time is the best time. And IContinue reading “Most Productive Time”
Favorite Emojis?
What are your favorite emojis? What a nice prompt! 😘 I actually don’t use that many emojis. 😔 When they first appeared as emoticons, I did the typical smiley face 🙂 or frowny face 😦 in emails. And of course there’s the flirty one. 😉 For loving messages there’s always the ❤️, especially with catsContinue reading “Favorite Emojis?”
Let’s Talk About…?
What topics do you like to discuss? A few things I like to talk about, given the opportunity… Theatre. What makes good theatre, the show I just saw, what works and what doesn’t. Theatre has been my career and I’m not finished with it yet. Movies. The best are the older movies, and especially badContinue reading “Let’s Talk About…?”
Risk? Tsk Tsk
When is the last time you took a risk? How did it work out? I decided about a month ago to respond to these daily prompts so that I would be writing at least a little each day. Some of the prompts have been great, but another one about risks? As a non-gambler and aContinue reading “Risk? Tsk Tsk”
Risk Averse, But…
Describe a risk you took that you do not regret. I saw a statistic about how many people in the US never leave where they are born or grow up, or are close by. I think it’s funny when people ask me where I’m from, and I say Pennsylvania, because here I am in Pennsylvania.Continue reading “Risk Averse, But…”
Deep Fake Boob-AI-ies [Maybe NSFW]
A few years ago, I wrote Virtual Obsession. In this work, that follows the structure of Goethe’s Faust, a college professor discovers that one of the students in his Faust seminar works as a cam girl and that, as he becomes more involved with her, realizes that she is not his Gretchen or Helen (aspectsContinue reading “Deep Fake Boob-AI-ies [Maybe NSFW]”
ChatGPT Writes Like My Playwrighting Students Did
I decided to try using ChatGPT to write a short script to see how it might do. I began with the idea of the Old King/Young King ritual that Sir James Fraser wrote about in The Golden Bough (1890), an examination of comparative religion that pre-dates Joseph Campbell. Frazer writes that the new king killsContinue reading “ChatGPT Writes Like My Playwrighting Students Did”
Hell’s Bells!
What makes you nervous? My post title comes from something my Great-Aunt Catherine used to say. She was likely in her 60s, and we would occasionally visit her. She was the “rich aunt,” in the big house outside of town. Her husband made his money in trucking, and so they had the large manse, theContinue reading “Hell’s Bells!”
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