Archive: Hear Yee, Hear Yee
A month and a half ago I got a phone call."Hi, this is Carrie from Schmirch Fabrics*, Lynne Brown Schmepper** gave me your name as someone who might be interested in an acting job," the voice on the...
View ArticleArchive: Bitch!
The show started fifteen minutes ago. I'm sitting in the box office, but we are no longer open for ticket sales because, again, the show started fifteen minutes ago.A woman walks in. She comes up to...
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I have sorely neglected this blog. But then again, so have you. I think we both have to share the responsibility for my failure. In an attempt to rectify that, I am posting most* of my old MySpace...
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I remember the exact moment I became an Atheist. Most people don't have that-- that single moment of conversion. A lot of Christians do, the "born agains" all do. Most of them will happily recount for...
View ArticleBig Apple Beware!
Because the Center for Inquiry is completely awesome, they're sending me to New York City for the weekend of November 8th through the 11th to attend a big, huge, ridiculously amazing conference.I've...
View ArticleMistaken Identity
"I saw someone who looks just like you!"Apparently, I'm the least original looking person on the planet. About once a week, someone will tell me that they saw someone who looks just like me somewhere...
View ArticleHeathens Take Manhattan: Part II: New York, New York
While I enjoyed spending time in New York City, I didn't fall in love with it the way I did with Paris. Part of that might be that I didn't get to see a whole lot of the city. Didn't make it to...
View ArticleHeathens Take Manhattan: Part III: The Conference
Mark Twain said: "go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."For three days, I was in Hell. And I loved every minute of it.On November 9th through the 11th, 2007, the Center For Inquiry/ New...
View ArticleHeathens Take Manhattan: Part IV: My Generation
One of the best parts of my weekend in New York, and something I've just barely touched on so far, was getting to meet, and hang out with some of my fellow student activists from around the globe*. CFI...
View ArticleHeathens Take Manhattan: Part V: Prologue
I was up most of Monday night. Lots of yelling, mostly crying. A love triangle I had found myself in had reached its inevitable conclusion with me on the outside and the other two points forming a love...
View ArticleWhy I should never answer the phone
Just moments ago, an older gentleman called the box office. This is an almost exact transcript of our conversation:Me: Circle Theatre Box Office, this is Dave.Caller: Hi, is this the Circle theatre?Me:...
View Article2007's Christmastime Rant
The new issue of Wired magazine has an article explaining, using real science, how Santa Claus operates in our modern world. Part of it involves elves working for the NSA to find out who is naughty and...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to the Asshat Who Stole the Tape
Asshat Who Stole the Tape:What's the deal, man? That tape may not have looked like much to you, but it was an important part of the workings of this box office and you just freakin' took it! WTF? Do...
View ArticleOff Season Rant
It’s been a long time since I blogged. Sorry.I recently found something I had written down in a notebook a while ago . . . and by a while, I mean either last December or a year before that. I’m not...
View ArticleFletch's Rules to Live By
I am no role model nor would I like to be considered one. But, there are a few habits and practices of mine that should, nonetheless, be adopted universally. I've compiled a list of a few of these...
View ArticleDaniel Waving Good-bye
I’ve been estranged from my father’s side of the family for almost exactly as long as I’ve been estranged from my father. That’s because in the midst of the turmoil caused by him running off with a...
View ArticleMommy Issues
I called my mom the other day. I’m a good son (not a great son, but a good one) so I do that from time to time. I called this particular time with a great sense of purpose. You see, I was driving home...
View ArticleSoufflé: A dream deferred
Panera Bread sells these awesome little soufflés. Four Cheese, Spinach and Artichoke . . . even a couple featuring various meats if that’s how you roll. I freakin’ love these little soufflés: Warm,...
View ArticleMind Dump: Beware the Fire Burst
This has been one of the most significant, stressful and painful weeks of my life. And really, that’s all my fault. But, at this point, none of it is any of your business so instead of dealing with all...
View ArticleThe Horror . . . The Horror
NOTE: This blog was originally posted a while ago and then removed. It was removed because a number of people thought that it was insensitive of me to be writing about my life in such a frank way...
View ArticleFacebook Wars
A friend of mine posted the following as his status on Facebook:Travis needs to keep remembering that God is in control of who will be appointed our leader, Go ahead Obama, run this country into the...
View ArticlePerhaps they were Mormons . . .
I was house managing at Civic last night when, during intermission, a couple of women came up to me.“Who do we talk to if we have a problem with the show?”Frequently while house managing people will...
View ArticleSix Months: A Valentine
In the last six months I haven’t done much blogging. Life somehow got in the way of writing about life. But, I feel like it’s about time I recorded some of it. After moving out of my house in August, I...
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Another Six Months
When I started college, my world shifted.The beliefs (spiritual, moral and political) that I had been raised with – that I had been taught or at least had always assumed were the only way to live...
View ArticleWhy We Need a "Slut Walk"
“Women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized.”This statement was issued by a representative of the Toronto Police Department earlier this year.As a result, a group of people in...
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