by Risa Dickens and Jamie Allen. We met when a little thing I’d written was accepted for publication by him in his Duck and Herring Co.‘s summer Pocket Field Guide. After we managed to get his little book from Atlanta into Giant Books here in Montreal (in the Faubourg on St.Catherines), with help from Serah [...]
Kurt Vonnegut wrote many of my favorite novels. When I was twelve or thirteen I wrote him a letter in which I remember mentionning that he would probably make a great high school teacher, and that I wished he was a teacher at my school. He never responded, but then he was probably very busy [...]
by Michael Albert. Despite how strange it looked to passerbys, I circled L’Institute Nationale de Recherche en Santé Public a dozen times while three Malians give me the thumbs up and said ‘lentement, lentement’ (slowly, slowly) each time I passed them at the front gates. Finally, I made it onto the road on my new [...]
by Michael Albert. This seems to be all I can really take in so far, entering a new and strange land: a mud mosque here, two young men pushing an old peugot there, a small food stand, a large run-down billboard, dirt, rain, mud… the strangely familiar sound of Islamic advertising over passing loudspeakers, children [...]
by Risa Dickens. The Meisner Technique is a kind of behavioral recoding for the actor. It was developed out of the Stanislavsky System to help a performer find truthful underlying emotion in interaction with fellow actors- either in improvisations or a scripted scene. The Alexander technique is another process of behavioral discovery and recoding discovered [...]
Today the Mozilla Foundation, previously all non-profit all the time, has announced a major spin-off called the Mozilla Corporation. Though many watchers with high hopes for open source will view this with trepidation, the actual changes being made will, I think, channel bigger bucks into a little software company with big ideas and a strong [...]
