http://www.tipyourwaiter.org cause we've got all the answers. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:06:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today, the applicants for early admission at the Institute for Arts Entrepreneurship had our auditions and interviews. In case you haven't heard me preach about the IAE, it's simultaneously the missing ingredient that artists of all disciplines have been searching for, a part of a larger discussion of the future ... http://www.tipyourwaiter.org/archives/1452 [caption id="attachment_23" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="The cast of Wild Flowers during the reading"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_24" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="The cast and author of Wild Flowers discussing it with the audience"][/caption] On Tuesday, the 15th, I had the good fortune to direct a reading of a new play, Wild Flowers, by John Enright. It ... http://www.tipyourwaiter.org/archives/1448 My roommate Rob and I ditched the Grammys to go see The Kings Speech. I loved it. For hundreds of years, people have been debating stories about those in power versus stories about the working classes. Oedipus, Hamlet, and King George VI versus Everyman, Willie Loman, and Lionel Logue. ... http://www.tipyourwaiter.org/archives/1445 It's amazing, what happens to you doing nothing. 2011 will forever be the year without a January: I fell ill... really ill... on January 4, and returned to life on January 31. I feel great now, and am back on the job. Last night, I had a really wonderful evening ... http://www.tipyourwaiter.org/archives/1443 Over time, I've learned to be pragmatic when talking to others about politics. I myself have some incredibly strong opinions, but I know plenty of my good friends & favorite family members have very different opinions, and rather than ruin relationships with petty arguments, I tend to just avoid ... http://www.tipyourwaiter.org/archives/1439 Quick point of interest: while reading a post from socialmediaexaminer.com (don't judge) about social media trends in business (I beg you don't judge), I somehow found my way to a different article about what's new this week in social media (for the love of Pete don't judge). I took ... http://www.tipyourwaiter.org/archives/1423 Just posting a bunch of videos is really lazy blogging. I am aware of this. And I sincerely apologize, but that's exactly what you're getting right now. Somehow, I didn't know about Xtranormal until just this weekend. I mean, I'd seen a few clever videos that made their ... http://www.tipyourwaiter.org/archives/1420 Print is not dead. Don't say print is dead. Not even cassette tapes are dead, so print certainly still has a place in the world. Print is, however, more specialized than it used to be. There aren't quite as many books or magazines as there were ten or fifteen years ago, ... http://www.tipyourwaiter.org/archives/1414 "Robert Frost disliked having poems set to music. Not because he objected to the music - he objected to what it did to the poems. Frost, himself, would have objected. He would have strenuously objected.'' -- Lesley Francis, Robert Frost's granddaughter Two versions of the same piece, one of them illegal. ... http://www.tipyourwaiter.org/archives/1412 Thanks to Laughing Squid for bearing the hard news that famed mathematician and all-around smart guy Benoit Mandelbrot has passed away, and double thanks for the pair of videos posted on that page, which I have re-embedded here, along with a bunch of other fractal videos (for the benefit of ... http://www.tipyourwaiter.org/archives/1405