This is a pretty neat project. Let's make it happen.

Los Angeles, May, 2012.

Don't even think it.

‎"I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless, it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored." 

~Louis C.K.

You've Been Reviewed: Dreams of Joy!

Dreams of Joy by Lisa See
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I'm a big fan of Lisa See's books.

Dreams of Joy, the sequel to Shanghai Girls, is a more adventurous and muscular story than Shanghai Girls, mostly due to all that Joy and Pearl must experience in China after leaving Los Angeles. Though some will find this book weighed down by minutiae and fact-driven details and descriptions, I enjoyed sinking into a world very different from my own. One of the things I like most about Lisa See's books, even though they are fiction, is that I learn a lot. Lisa See extensively researches and dramaturges her books, and that's why no detail is left to chance. The thoroughness of the worlds she creates is all-absorbing and involving, just like her character's complicated emotional, physical, and geographical relationships.

I liked Shanghai Girls a bit more but Dreams of Joy answered all of the questions set up in Shanghai Girls perfectly. Dreams of Joy completed the story of this small, strange family in just the right way.


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Musical Theatre Monday!

Hello Friends!

I wrote a piece for Musical Theater Mondays on Amy Spalding's website. You can read it right here:
Musical Theater Mondays!

Write Your Own New Yorker Joke.

Write Your Own New Yorker Joke., originally uploaded by krs9d.

Stewie is visiting and when Stewie visits, he gets the couch.

Undergrads Panels and Signings, Calgary Expo, 2012

Undergrads Panels and Signings, Calgary Expo, 2012, a group on Flickr.

We were in Calgary, Alberta Canada for the Undergrads Panel at the Calgary Expo.

Here are some photos I snapped of the guys talking, signing, and even drawing for the fans!