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What I’m doing down here, anyway.

On 31 March 2011, in Blog, by Jax
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If you follow me on Twitter, you know that my tweets this week have shifted from theatre-oriented to military-oriented. (If you don’t know that I serve in the Air National Guard, well—yes, yes I do.) It’s true that reservists ordinarily serve a few days per month plus a few weeks during the year when we’re [...]

Cheesemongering

On 31 December 2010, in Blog, by Jax
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Now and then, theatre folk ask one another, “What would you do if you couldn’t do theatre?”  Sometimes it seems there’s an expectation that we have the same desperate, theatre-as-therapy attitude towards it that many of us did in high school.  ”I’ll just die if I can’t do the show!”  Well…no, you won’t.  Isn’t it [...]

Integrity first

On 19 December 2010, in Blog, by Jax
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A surprising thing happened yesterday: Congress repealed Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. As much as liberals and reasonable people everywhere are celebrating, it’s not over yet.  There’s a “certification” necessary, and nobody is talking about what the quantification of the certification is.  It will be a minimum, bare minimum, of two months before it’s safe for [...]

HTMLwtfbbq

On 24 February 2010, in Blog, by Jax
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In the past few days, I’ve given a complete redesign to my professional web presence.  The old Batfish Lighting was simple in the extreme–black background, white text, photo slideshows.  The new version has the same contents, though I’ve added a few more shows to the portfolio, but it sports a totally different look.  Between that [...]