http://www.susannaspeier.com Scriptwriter Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:39:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Saw Dr. Atomic screened in a movie theater in Woodland Hills this morning as the matinee was being performed live at the Met.  The ending, so softly humanizing.  Rather than startle you with the impact of the inevitable explosion this entire opera is leading up to, it brings you inside ... http://www.susannaspeier.com/music/dr-atomic/ Relevant Posts Haiku 101 Sarah Palin Haikus DNC Haikus Election Day Election Day Haiku Palintology Not really sure how to organize this now but enough people have either: (a.) continued to haiku (b.) suggested that I repost the haikus (c.) made haiku pilgrimages to my site from some remote, far off regions of the world, like France, only to discover ... http://www.susannaspeier.com/politics/popular-demand/ So you put twist tightly wrapped kevlar around a pair of chains, weave the band around your fingers and practice figure eights. A lot of them. Keep practicing. Practice till you're bored. Post bored.  Totally sick of it.  Just keep practicing.  Muscle memory kicks in.  Just keep practicing.  Eventually, you ... http://www.susannaspeier.com/firedancing/spinning-poi-aka-firedancing/ Relevant Posts: Haiku 101 Sarah Palin Haikus DNC Haikus Phil Fox Rose's Election Day Haiku Long lines Sluggish and resistant bureaucracy The people choose change The Lindzzz's Election Day Haiku bated breath waiting history's dawn is breaking as newborns waking Jeff Hare's Election Day Haiku Thailand in the rain. Could it be more important? Barack Obama. Susanna Speier's Election Day Haiku Almost midnight now. Almost part of history. At ... http://www.susannaspeier.com/politics/election-day-haiku/ Just finished reading it. This book; it's so unbelievably sad and beautiful and, whoa.  I mean, literally just finished with it.  Trying to drive West on Wilshire with my eyes watering, nose getting all sniffley.  In the midst of all this election, hype, who in the world is there to ... http://www.susannaspeier.com/literary/a-thousand-splendid-suns/ I've decided to dedicate an entire blog post to my prolific Palin haiku post contributor; my uncle, Donald Bassman.  My Grandma, Lillian Bassman Dank, a Lithuanian immigrant, embraced the English language subsequent to her arrival in the United States, through her love of poetry.  As my mom and Don were ... http://www.susannaspeier.com/family/uncle-don/ Okay, so here's what's been going on.  Haven't been blogging much cause ---yikes--- this WordPress server is such a mess, I just lost everything I wrote in its entirety.  Plus, I'm not able to upload photos for some reason.  Okay, basic premise is that I don't really have time to ... http://www.susannaspeier.com/science/conglomerating-all-the-disparate-elements/ Relevant Posts: Palintology Sarah Palin Haikus Haiku Originations Censorship? She says Dino's and humans existed together, that intelligent design could be taught as an alternative to the Theory of Evolution, her father was a public school science teacher and no journalists are confronting her about it, straight on?  That's, it!  I'm doing my own interview ... http://www.susannaspeier.com/politics/how-given-the-opportunity-i-would-choose-to-spend-my-afternoon-with-sarah-palin/ Relevant Posts: Short story about my afternoon w/ SP Haiku Originations Sarah Palin Haikus Censorship? As the Sarah Palin Haiku Collection continues to proliferate, I've noticed a serendipitous chronology forming.  The shock stage: exploitive sound-bytish slams of WTF.  Then action --my friend Sarah Sims calling for donations to Planned Parenthood in Palin's name and ... http://www.susannaspeier.com/politics/palintology/ That is what Woody Allen said about directing his first opera, Gianni Schicchi.  The third of Puccini's Il Trittico trilogy produced by LA Opera.  Just came back from seeing it and it was HILARIOUS!!!   My cousin, Jennifer --who came to see it with me-- is not a huge opera ... http://www.susannaspeier.com/music/%e2%80%9ci-have-no-idea-what-i-am-doing-but-incompetence-has-never-prevented-me-from-plunging-in-with-enthusiasm%e2%80%9d/