So I’ve been hinting at the start-up of a new theatre/performance group. Google has revealed our location. The group is called StoryZ, with the R a prescription Rx, to show the healing power of stories. Unfortunately, the domain StoryZ.org was taken, so I expanded it to StoryzStudios.org to widen the scope, and to add otherContinue reading “Getting Started”
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Pick ONE!
Another birthday passed. Last year I used a reference to “I Can’t Drive 65!” by Sammy Hagar. This year I am saying that I’m starting out getting my kicks on Route 66. I believe this will exhaust the birthday highway messages (unless I usher in next year’s day with “Life is a Highway”). On aContinue reading “Pick ONE!”
Career Plans?
What is your career plan? This is an amusing little prompt for a retired person. But judging from how people reacted when I attended commencement, they must equate retired with dead. In fact, when people asked me what I was doing there, I would say, “I’m retired, not dead!” (And then I’d say I wasContinue reading “Career Plans?”
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?”
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”
Let’s Get Social
How do you use social media? My first response to today’s prompt is: I guess, not that well? I have some followers on a couple of social media accounts, but to be honest they are following me either because I know them personally (Instagram: audiochimera) or because they are following my cats (TikTok: @audiochimera). OrContinue reading “Let’s Get Social”
10 Years On…
Where do you see yourself in 10 years? Today’s prompt provides an interesting question. When someone asks a young (or younger) person, “Where do you see yourself in 10 years,?”the answer is usually linked to ambition. Better job, higher wages, fulfilling career. But when you reach my age, newly retired, the focus is, well, slightlyContinue reading “10 Years On…”
“Very Unique”
Which aspects do you think makes a person unique? As an undergradI had a writing professor who criticized a friend of mine’s use of the phrase “very unique.” This was incorrect, he said, because “Unique has no degree.” Something or someone is either unique or it’’s not. I guess it’s the same as being “aContinue reading ““Very Unique””
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