On March 17, I got a call from my agents telling me they were firing me. I was incredibly sick (with what at the time we thought was bronchitis but maybe is actually RSV…who knows) and could already barely breathe. I had figured this moment was coming. I hadn’t written anything to show them for […]
Is anyone surviving right now? Anybody doing okay? I feel a bit like I’m somehow both drowning and completely outside of my body. I thought about writing about politics, the state of things, or even what’s left of my playwriting career but there’s not much to say there so instead I want to talk about […]
I think I might be having a mid-life crisis. Which in itself is kind of funny because my entire adulthood has been a crisis. I think that’s true for most millennials. We were in college (some of us) when the market crashed and all of a sudden all the safe jobs weren’t safe anymore. Even […]
This one’s going to be a bummer. I want to write about grief. My blog post is late this month (again) because I was in LA for a little over a week, wondering if my dad was going to die. Sorry to jump right into it but that’s just how this post is going to […]
Originally I was going to write a blog post about this: In my newsletter, I mentioned that I no longer feel safe in the US because while I’m not trans, I am trans-adjacent and shit is looking real bad. I thought that was a pretty basic thought but I had two different cis people tell […]
Woof. Did February steamroll over anyone else? This month felt a bit like an avalanche. Between everything happening on the federal level which continues to look more and more like technocracy (I learned the meaning of that word this month. I hate that I learned the meaning of that word this month), my job has […]
I think about this quote every day: “This is what happens when you have an artist temperament but you are not an artist.” It’s from Mad Men. And it’s a moment that’s been burned in my brain since I saw it years ago. What’s it mean to be an artist who isn’t successful? You’re still […]
Woof. The state of the world makes me want to jump off planet. I’ve made the complicated, messy decision to leave Meta. And holy fuck has that been hard to stick to. I’m worried about losing all of the passive connections I have that have meant the world to me. I’m worried that there is […]