In the year 2024, March 31 is Easter Day. You will find many religious posts today on various blogs but I will take the silly secular path instead. The Easter Bunny bounces around the calendar each year which puts it in partnership with different National Days. You know what that means on this blog. Yep. … Continue reading Happy Easter/Silly A.I. Mashup
Month: March 2024
Throwback Thursday – as my Reds open the 2024 season, a visit to my baseball “glory” Days
Today is the opening day of the 2024 Campaign of the Cincinnati Reds Baseball Club. With our young talented club, I am thrilled by the prospects of this exciting new season. Due to the recognition of the very first professional baseball team, the Cincinnati team gets to open every season at our home Great American … Continue reading Throwback Thursday – as my Reds open the 2024 season, a visit to my baseball “glory” Days
Upcoming World Theatre Day Highlights
March 27 is World Theatre Day and as a playwright I have two events in 2024 I am looking forward to. I've featured them on this blog and my playwright website, so a quick reminder. I have written a new short play under the guidance of The Pulp Stage in Portland, Oregon. Written in the … Continue reading Upcoming World Theatre Day Highlights
A.I. Mashup of three cute National Days
I just can't quit. So, today is National Puppy Day, National Chips and Dip Day, and National Quilting Day. What would happen if I asked Gemini (nee Bard, from Google) to create an image of these three days? Voila... Yeah, I know, cute. But I have news for Google. I'm not sure one of those … Continue reading A.I. Mashup of three cute National Days
An Interesting Playwriting Exercise
Recently I was contacted by The Pulp Stage, (www.pulpstage.org) a theatre company based in Portland, Oregon. They had read one of my short plays on The New Play Exchange and wanted to offer me an agreement to write a new short play with them. The pay was only a small royalty, but they would work … Continue reading An Interesting Playwriting Exercise
…The end of your rainbow
Happy St. Patrick's Day. May you find all you wish at the end of your rainbow.
AI Mashup on the start of March Madness
Here I go again. I just can't seem to stop myself. So, Today is the first Saturday of the hoops mania that is March Madness. That means it also National Corndog Day. And this year they both fall on National Panda Day. So here goes the Gemini Mash Up free image of the whole shebang. … Continue reading AI Mashup on the start of March Madness
the Ides of March are back again
A slightly reworded post of several years ago... The story of the assassination of Julius Caesar is familiar worldwide as it has been featured in art and plays and popular culture in the ensuing two millennia since it happened. It is part of the collective history most of us know. But I have a question … Continue reading the Ides of March are back again
Spring Breakout – Another Gimmick from MLB
Sports leagues have to keep finding hooks and gimmicks to get our attention as if the games itself were not enough. This year MLB is staging a number of "Spring Breakout" events that pit one team's rookie prospects against another. Luckily my Cincinnati Reds have plenty 'o prospects and are featured in two such events. … Continue reading Spring Breakout – Another Gimmick from MLB
Quick Ramble on Joey and Noelvi
Cincinnati Reds Spring Training rumbles on with two notable exceptions. Lifelong Reds Joey Votto's option was not picked up for the season and he has been forlornly missing Spring Training in a classic series of posts on social media. When it became clear he would not be invited by our management as a player this … Continue reading Quick Ramble on Joey and Noelvi
My script will get a reading in North Carolina in September!
The Parkway Playhouse of Burnsville, North Carolina has selected my script BLOODLETTING IN THESE HILLS to be part of their 2024 Appalachian Playwriting Festival in September. Three scripts will get a staged reading open to the public and one of those will be given a fully staged production in a following season. The Parkway Playhouse … Continue reading My script will get a reading in North Carolina in September!
An Artificial Intelligence Still Life
I know that I've gone a little overboard by assembling AI mash ups of National Days where I start with an animal and team it up with a couple of food National Days for a silly visual. It has been fun and a diversion but I tried something different lately. I realized that today was … Continue reading An Artificial Intelligence Still Life
National Dress in Blue Day and a minor mash up
The first Friday in March is National Dress in Blue Day which raises awareness about the causes and treatments for colon cancer. An important and serious day but not one I can't corrupt with an artificial intelligence mash up of other concurrent National Days. As it happens March first is also National Pig Day and … Continue reading National Dress in Blue Day and a minor mash up
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