— my play<\/p>\n
— his play<\/p>\n
— CIA field operatives<\/p>\n
— the environment<\/p>\n
— the 9\/11 commission<\/p>\n
— Edmund Burke<\/p>\n
— Josh Beckett, Millar, Mueller, Clemens, Renteria …<\/p>\n
— the bullshit of the “I’m okay, you’re okay” psychological philosophy – especially when it comes to making art.<\/p>\n
— cognitive therapy, the books of Martin Seligman<\/p>\n
— separation of church and state (at one point, I pretty much started shouting about Thomas Jefferson – but the music was so loud – nobody seemed to care)<\/p>\n
— Eugene O’Neill – would those plays be accepted and embraced if they were written today? Realizing, of course, that many of them were not accepted and embraced until after his death<\/p>\n
— Robert Kaplan<\/p>\n
— revolutions – American, French, Russian, Central American countries, China, Africa – the qualities of revolutions that work, revolutions that don’t work – what IS a revolution … how do they operate historically?<\/p>\n
— John Irving<\/p>\n
— big government vs. small<\/p>\n
— Nirvana – Kurt Cobain killing himself – along with that, we discussed: The Replacements. The Dead Kennedys, Husker Du …<\/p>\n
— intelligent design<\/p>\n
— the people all around us – we people-watched, discussed behavior, wondered why certain people were doing certain things<\/p>\n
— how much we despise the TONE of political debate in this country. Especially from the politicians themselves.<\/p>\n
— Peter Bogdonavich<\/p>\n
— Roe v. Wade<\/p>\n
— Bob Dylan<\/p>\n
— the difference between actors who seem like they are acting, and actors who just seem like they are alive – as real people – on stage<\/p>\n
— welfare – which led into:<\/p>\n
— Actors Equity bullshit<\/p>\n
— God. What is God to me? What is God to him? Where are we both at with the whole God thing?<\/p>\n
— fundamentalism<\/p>\n
— blogs<\/p>\n
— the EU – laughing about the Eddie Izzard quote: “We’ve got the EU now, which is the cutting edge of politics in an extraordinarily boring way.”<\/p>\n
— my play<\/p>\n
— his play<\/p>\n
I’m tellin’ ya. We were our very own think tank, drinking many many beers, shouting above the music and mayhem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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