Wednesday, January 11, 2012
...that the worst part of a fucking head cold is not the aches, nor the sore throat but the constant itchy nose and snot running out of your melon head the whole time. Ugh....that reli…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:02AMTuesday, January 10, 2012
...Industry is a Different Matter EntirelyAccording to a queasy Tom Laughlin from Buffalo, Theater is really only for White People.Given all the demographics we know about theatre in the US …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:22AMMonday, January 9, 2012
It hurts because it's true...
SOURCE: Don Hall at 02:12PMThis coming Saturday, I get to reprise a character in a play I was in May a couple of years ago in Bob Fisher's Devils Don't Forget. The character is Udo, an unrepentant and irredeemab…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:07AMFriday, January 6, 2012
A Nice Way of Saying "Go Fuck Yourself, Mitch..."I nominated Richard for this job last summer. And yet, for almost half a year, Republicans in the Senate have blocked his confirmation. They�…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:06AMThursday, January 5, 2012
Admit it.You already flaked on your resolutions, didn't you?You were well intentioned in making your resolves -"I will lose ten pounds.""I will quit smoking.""I will spend more time with my …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:08AMWednesday, January 4, 2012
...that the act of making a leap of faith - in yourself, in someone else, in the concepts of luck or divine providence - doesn't in and of itself earn you any sort of congratulatory backslap…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:28AMTuesday, January 3, 2012
Samuel French ePlays are here.Now you can instantly download and read many of the acting editions in our catalogue through your eReader or mobile device. Are you as excited as we are?The iBo…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 08:05AMMonday, January 2, 2012
The three-year old child figures out early on that, if he wants something - a juice, a toy, some attention - that all he needs to do is cry or throw a tantrum and most times, in an effort to…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 08:07AMSaturday, December 31, 2011
Friday, December 30, 2011
2011 in RetrospectIn the Ervin Drake song, made famous by the one and only Frank Sinatra, pretty much anything beyond 35 was considered "...the autumn of the year..." but this is the day and…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 07:48AMThursday, December 29, 2011
One of the strange but true controversies in the theater world that surfaced in 2011 was the issue of smartphones in the dedicated, austere performance halls of the Lady Theater. It is…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 10:02AMWednesday, December 28, 2011
...that, at the end of 2011, it pays to recognize both the truly excellent things (the end of the Iraq War) and the truly ugly things (the execution of an innocent man in Georgia) to find a …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:24AMMonday, December 26, 2011
"You can take the boy out of Kansas but you can't take the Kansas out of the boy."In the ongoing debate about which determines the essential Who, while Nature is powerful - the ethnicity of …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:19AMSaturday, December 24, 2011
Friday, December 23, 2011
It's About Time...A man from Birmingham, Alabama is filing a lawsuit in the Jefferson County Circuit Court to keep Barack Hussein Obama off of the Alabama ballot, citing problems with Obama�…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:13AMThursday, December 22, 2011
We either put out 6 different flavors of jam or 24 different flavors of jam and we looked at 2 things. First, in what case were people more likely to buy a jar of jam? The first thing …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:22AMWednesday, December 21, 2011
...that, whatever you think of the Obama Administration and myriad compromises made with a political party hellbent on its demise, only a complete and utter ideologue with no regard for a se…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:15AMTuesday, December 20, 2011
“I am not a poor black kid. I am a middle aged white guy who comes from a middle class white background. So life was easier for me. But that doesn’t mean that the prosp…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:09AMMonday, December 19, 2011
REASONS # 9, 17, 44, and 65As weary of the non-stop bloviating by those on the Extreme Right who hate our President with a fervor usually reserved for despots and a neighbor who cut a tree d…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 02:22PMHuman beings are a simpleminded lot. In order to make the world a bit more comprehensible, we tend to take HUGE, COMPLEX issues and simplify them in ways that "boil it all down" a…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:11AMSaturday, December 17, 2011
I performed "Transmorphing" at This Much is True this week. It was packed out and the stories were just all very good. Great evening.Someone asked me why I did this piece again (…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 07:05AMFriday, December 16, 2011
A Thought for Those Losing Some Weight...It never stops. It is, as they say, a Change in Lifestyle. It is a reframing of the role of food in your life and the maintenance of your…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:09AMThursday, December 15, 2011
I'm at the YMCA. I have a membership so I can use the gym.On weekends, at the Irving Park Y, there are frequently a lot of older guys (at this point in my life, an older guy is defined…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:09AMWednesday, December 14, 2011
...that the term "redistribution of wealth" was invented by the wealthy and thus is immediately suspect....that anyone in public office that is vehemently against an agency called the "Consu…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:11AMTuesday, December 13, 2011
I just read about a cat on a college campus with a gun robbing people of their iPhones. We know from the story that it is exclusively iPhones because two Blackberry users were held up,…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:12AMMonday, December 12, 2011
REASON #42...because people in power can do things like this...Although North Carolina officially apologized in 2002 and legislators have pressed to compensate victims before, a task force a…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 02:17PMThat Shit Is Horror Movie Scary"I'm getting the belt!"I was spanked as a child. In school, I was paddled.In truth, I almost always deserved it. Also, in truth, it usually didn't hurt that …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:05AMSaturday, December 10, 2011
I'm a Liberal.I'm not a Progressive. I'm not a Left Wing Activist. I'm not a Hippie.There isn't anything wrong with being a Liberal. I am pro-choice across the board, believe tha…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 07:02AMFriday, December 9, 2011
Traffic in Frenetic HCMC, Vietnam from Rob Whitworth on Vimeo.****Obama in KansasI've read some commentary about the President's speech that amounts to "Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is" i…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:13AMThursday, December 8, 2011
...America's police departments have been moving toward more aggressive, force-first, militaristic tactics and their accompanying mindset for 30 years. It's just that, with the exception of …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:02AM 
