317 stories by "Don Hall"
Producing AdviceTaking a quick page from Mr. Thurman, here's a bone on the Producing of Live Events:Blame goes up; credit goes down.If an event (or show) is a failure, the producer should st…
For the most part, I don't care much what people think of me personally.I say "for the most part" because I'm human and I'm not a sociopath. But mostly I'm here to do my thing the way I kno…
...are fascinated by the wealthiest of themselves - buying magazines, reading tweets, watching them dance on network TV - but savor the schadenfreude when one of them implodes....think sex i…
Stripping aside all the differences between the Conservative and Liberal sensibilities and viewpoints of things like religion, ethnicity, education and even economic status, and you find one…
Herman Cain was accused of sexual harassment and his supporters have compared the allegations to the "high tech lynching" of Clarence Thomas.I'm not so sure that comparisons to the most corr…
It was a random conversation. I could have easily avoided it. But in my stated desire to mix it up with strangers, to have conversations with people whom I would likely never have conversa…
Seven Billion People.Seven. Billion.Holy Shit, right?As I sit here in the heart of one of the biggest cities in the world and contemplate the very idea of that number of human beings - of al…
OK. I Think We've Gone Too Far On This Women Going Thru Pain to Be Attractive Thing...This is just creepy and wrong...SOURCEDon't mistake me. I like to look at a pretty woman, on…
Not long ago, on NPR, I heard part of an interview with Derrick Bell (a long-standing civil-rights advocate and legal scholar, as well as the first tenured black professor at Harvard Law Sch…
h/t to the Brilliant Coya Paz...are upset that someone set them up with someone unattractive while actually being that unattractive someone. It's like a Mobius Strip of Non-Attraction …
"I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil."~ Robert Kennedy
WantWritten by Zayd DohrnDirected by Kimberly SeniorPresented as one of three new playsby Steppenwolf Theatre's First LookLast Thursday was my first look at Steppenstein's First Look program…
I kind of love this rant."I'm a non-Christian. Just like most Christians." - Bill Maher
Discovery is that "Eureka!" moment that Archimedes writ in stone as he solved a problem. He needed to find out if a king's crown was 100% gold but knew that the oddly shaped object could no…
Ah.Halloween.I wrote about my lack of enthusiasm for this "holiday" years ago.In my burgeoning Old Man phase, I'm slowly realizing that, on the whole, I really find Halloween to be wholly ob…
Apparently I Look Like...I've been blessed/cursed with surprisingly average looks. This is good from an acting standpoint - it's easier to grow some facial hair or change my haircut an…
March, 1999The Matrix blew minds, South Park made a movie, The Sopranos begin their epic journey (remember the duck?), there were still VHS tapes used, and the introduction of the iPod was s…
...openly disparage the business practices of Apple and Google while writing their Blogger Blogs on their MacBook Airs....are strident and apathetic; courageous and complacent....spend more …
"There is only black and white. That's it. There's no grey. Black or white." - Brandon HantzI'm a big fan of Survivor. All of it. The very concept of it fascina…
This is just excellent...
Baudelaire in a BoxEpisode 3Death and Other ExcitementsCantastorias designed, illustrated, and operated by Dave BuchenSongs written by Chris SchoenPresented by Theater OobleckDisclosure: I p…
The truth is that this President has done a good job in what has been one of the most difficult periods of modern history. He saved the economy from ruin (until the Tea Party took over Congr…
****One More Thing About Steve Jobs...The legacy of Steve Jobs is not about the cool toys. Certainly, the cool toys had to exist for there to be a legacy at all but their existence is …
One of the devices to keep things interactive at The Moth is the slips of paper that encourage audience members to submit "tweets" (which I'm pretty sure just means "Write something in a sen…
