Month: November 2008

  • Provocative Posts du Jour

    These two posts gave me pause in a good way, for entirely different reasons. First: Steven Horwitz An explanation by an economist as to why certain kinds of regulation were part of what caused the housing market meltdown. Might be helpful to bypass some of the rhetoric, because it’s actually an interesting critique. I’ve had…

  • How To Kill Yourself And Why, Reading at University Settlement

    How To Kill Yourself And Why, Reading at University Settlement

    That’s (l to r) Paul Willis, Emily McDonnell, Jim Himelsbach and Tricia Rodley. We did a reading of a theater piece of mine at University Settlement on Eldridge Street last night. It’s called How To Kill Yourself And Why: An Act in Three Plays. I started it five years ago by interviewing a monk named…

  • My subway stop

    My subway stop