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Improv and Natural Selection
July 26th, 2009 2 Comments
One of my favorite interviews from one of my favorite TV interview shows is Charlie Rose’s December 2005 interview of Drs. E.O. Wilson and Nobel Laureate James Watson, discussing the life and work of Charles Darwin.
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The Poem That Changed My Life
April 20th, 2009 2 Comments
When I was a kid, and felt like I needed to get out of the house, I would jump on my bicycle, pedaling along while contemplating the big important philosophical questions running through my eight year old brain,
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Music and Improv
April 6th, 2009 1 Comment
I’ve been talking a lot lately to my students at Laughter for a Change about improv and music. In part, because it seems that a lot of the improvisers I work with are also musicians.
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TIME AND SPACE AND IMPROV
March 21st, 2009 1 Comment
Spent a lot of time this past week driving around Los Angeles. Listened to two audio books – Walter Isaacson’s biography “Einstein: His Life and Universe,” and Alan Lightman’s “Einstein’s Dreams,” a poetic rumination on the dreams Einstein might have had while experiencing the burst of genius which led to his Theory of Relativity.
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Happy Birthdays!
March 8th, 2009 No Comments
HAPPY BIRTHDAYS
Today is my birthday. Tomorrow Del Close would have been seventy-five years old. For years, until Del’s death, no matter how far away we were from each other or how long it had been since we’d spoken, Del and I would have two phone conversations in the space of two days, one [...]
