I’m virtually your average millenial 20-something. I did the thing where I graduated from college and had to start dealing with reality. I keep telling people I am a recent graduate because I’m in denial, but I have been living life as a pseudo real adult for a year. Regardless I like to say “I graduated very recently” to excuse my lack of real world savvy.
actually I am not even doing that badly. I got my degree in theatre. Eye roll, that was dumb. Ok ok I get it but don’t worry I got my minor in ceramics! Oh that’s even less lucrative than theatre? Well shit… Surprise you’re wrong. My pottery minor got me a job before my theatre major. And the more I interact with the adult world the more I realize nobody knows what they are doing. Everyone is just pretending. I am good at pretending, I literally majored in it.
I’m doing the 9-5 thing but I want to write and direct, hence the theatre degree. I’ve made progress! The summer after graduation I was an intern for a theatre company here in Chicago and that got me my first assistant directing gig. Since then I’ve Assistant directed another production for another theatre. There, I met a playwright who got me involved in a playwriting group for people with disabilities, which is cool because I have one of those and I write about it. So the theatre carreer isn’t a complete disaster. It’s just made me zero dollars, some free beer, theatre tickets, and some friendships.
Doing theatre and writing led to my involvement in storytelling. I love to tell stories. In fact I often do things just for the story. I am from an irish family and the irish are all about storytelling. its an essential part of the culture and a big part of what gives the irish their charm. my family has a motto; “Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.”I also have a twisted sense of humor and a bizarre bucket list that I take pretty seriously. It includes everything from “Ride every train on the CTA to the end and back” to “Join a coven of witches” to “Go to lunch pretending there is a person at the table where there’s not.” I like to get creative. Do I actually accomplish these things? YES. that’s why I have stories. That’s how I ended up with a live chicken in my apartment. That’s how I ended up performing a story about how I ended up with a live chicken in my apartment. It is always difficult to recall brilliant stories on the spot though! which is why I have decided to compile the stories of my life as they come up and as I remember them. So I hope you enjoy!
August 28, 2015 at 3:26 pm
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August 28, 2015 at 5:09 pm
UPON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS
Sweet juicy jazzy jackanapes
Crusading king of Fairy Hill
Immortal motley troubadour
Breezed into town with time to kill
To put the free back in free fall
Peal forth the vow in disavow
Ah, but I was so much Adler then
I’m Junger than that now
TV sophists spewed skewered truth
Cut Ethos, Pathos, Logos dead
No musketeering buccaneers
But lame tame talking heads instead
With propaganda for proper geese
He cackled at their sacred cow
Ah, but I was so much Adler then
I’m Junger than that now
Provincial ham let figments strut
While stuttering beneath his breath
“Wh-wherefore art thou Juliet?”
His sad performance died the death
Outrageous fortune took the blame
While it was she who took the bow
Ah, but I was so much Adler then
I’m Junger than that now
Soon leary learned the golden rule
In prison’s schoolyard hide and seek
Found respite from the siren call
Played truantly eight days a week
With John and Paul, and Pete, and Bob
Unlatched the lightning bolt of Tao
Ah, but I was so much Adler then
I’m Junger than that now
Embraced the peaceful warrior’s way
Through battlefields of poison dust
Explaining to the deaf and blind
“In heinous blasphemy you trust
Cool off your mumbo jumbo jets
‘Thou shalt not kill’ and that means thou”
Ah, but I was so much Adler then
I’m Junger than that now
With righteous anger, sanctioned style
Refusal to be compromised
By inchworms who would take a mile
Their dress sense, world view, he despised
“Stomp out the unacceptable!”
His motto and so solemn vow
Ah, but I was so much Adler then
I’m Junger than that now
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In my 30s I lived for a while with a woman with a theatre degree. She ended up becoming a university librarian and has been so for the rest of her 9 to 5 existence. Me, I wonder whether you are familiar with Dylan’s “My Back Pages”. If not you can catch up at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx_hm7brW8M. And after all very few folk get recognised by their even (adopted) surname alone
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September 1, 2015 at 2:04 pm
Hi there! Thank you for visiting and following HoB. Much appreciated!
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September 3, 2015 at 1:45 pm
This is a great “About” page full of that zest for life and humour which assures me you will enjoy a rich and fulfilling one. I wish you every success with your admiral ambitions 🙂
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September 3, 2015 at 2:42 pm
Thank You! I appreciate it 🙂
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November 24, 2015 at 2:52 pm
Hey, I’ve nominated you for a Starlight Award. Check it out here. http://bensbitterblog.com/2015/11/24/starlight-blogger-award-bitter-award-acceptance-speech/
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November 25, 2015 at 2:27 am
Thank you!! That’s so nice 😀
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December 7, 2015 at 9:56 pm
I actually laughed out loud about the chicken … not to mention the part about not realizing the expression “We’re Expecting” is known UNIVERSALLY as code for pregnancy 😀
Very, very funny!
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December 7, 2015 at 10:59 pm
I’m glad you were entertained! Thanks for reading 😀
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