I wrote The Steve Mertz Trilogy inspired by Alfred Jarry’s Ubu plays, which I haven’t read. I did read that the first play in the trilogy was based on a play he had cowritten with friends when he was younger. In this case “Steve Mertz, A Tragedy,” the first play of the trilogy incorporated elements [...]
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SCENE ONE - the nineteenth century
A girl in a gingham sleeping gown, with white lace ruffles around the neck, is asleep in a large bed with decoratively carved wooden head- and foot-board. She is clutching an oversized, illuminated light bulb. Steve Mertz is watching her.
STEVE MERTZ
The first time I met her I banged on her [...]
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SCENE ONE - a windowless, fluorescent meeting room in a building in an office park in a nameless suburb
Steve Mertz, Worker I, Worker II and Worker III sit around a table facing The Manager who stands at a white board.
THE MANAGER
Here’s the latest cupcake on what we’re all flimsy. You’ll note this is a couple [...]
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CHARACTERS
Steve Mertz
Bishop
Prostitute
Man in a Lemur Costumer
Little Bonk-a-Bonk
Truck
Miss Boobs
St. God
The Manager
Worker I
Worker II
Worker III
The Banker
Hans the Night Janitor
The Robot with a Degree in Industrial Psychology
The Girl with the Enormous Light Bulb
Fantasia Popcorn, a Woman Who Makes Believe
Unindicted Coconspirator
Minister Without Portfolio
SCENE ONE - Backlot, Emperor Stadler Insurance Offices and Coffeeshop, Greenspan, Ohio, in the ’30s
STEVE [...]
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Posted in Blogging on July 20, 2006 | 1 Comment »
The State Department-sponsored Conference on Blogs and Democracy that I attended last Thursday and Friday left me with mixed feelings. Some of those feelings were very positive, but, in the final analysis, I left with negative feelings about the U.S. government’s ability and will to do its duty in the face of a sometimes difficult-to-understand [...]
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Posted in Africa, Human rights on July 19, 2006 | No Comments »
Update: The Ladies and Gentlement of Sokwanele’s “This is Zimbabwe” are back.
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I just found out from Sokari at Black Looks that Zimbabwe’s Sokwenle group has neither posted on their blog, This is Zimbabwe, nor on the Sokwanele site, for six weeks.
Not only that, they do not answer their email.
This in the midst of a further [...]
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Posted in America, Writers on July 17, 2006 | No Comments »
Jeffersonian Chitter-Chatter
Originally uploaded by Blogswana.
“I tremble for my nation when I reflect that God is just.”
To see the Jefferson memorial is to see the promise. The injustice of slavery compromised the message of the country’s promise. You have to see the Lincoln memorial to see that wrong rectified, though Abe was, [...]
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Posted in America on July 17, 2006 | No Comments »
Washington Monument at Night
Originally uploaded by Blogswana.
Eerie and sublime, the afterglow of delicious and nutritious liberty. Kelvin took me around to the Washington Monument, the Jefferson Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial. Hilarious and nearly inspiring. A very r-o-c-k in the U-S-A x ebony-and-ivory type of experience.
DC, Washington_Monument, Washington
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Posted in Blogging on July 17, 2006 | No Comments »
Ammar & Fred at the Meridian
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Here the melancholy Syrian dissident poet Ammar Abdulhamid and the skeptical and mischievous Armenian superstar Fred Petrossian stand on the back patio of the Meridian Center in Washington, D.C., for all the world like a modern-day Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.
Tags: Meridian, [...]
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Posted in America, Friends on July 17, 2006 | No Comments »
Kelvin in DC
Originally uploaded by Blogswana.
Absolute Zero insisting on the continued rocking in or about the free world.
DC, Jeeviants
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