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Missing My Nana

Or, The Pound Cake Madeleine — In Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, he talks about how the combination of a madeleine and a cup of tea unexpectedly brought memories from his childhood rushing back. …

Self

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Missing My Nana
Missing My Nana
Self

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22 of My New Favorite Things

Brad’s Best of 2020 — A friend of my father’s once said to me, “There is no ice water in hell.” I was 10 and had no clue what he was talking about. That phrase came back to me recently, as I realized that even in this annus horribilis, there are some things worth celebrating. …

Best Of

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A Few of My Favorite Things
A Few of My Favorite Things
Best Of

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Musings Upon a Close Reading of The Little Drummer Boy

The Little Drummer Boy (TLDB in future references) is homeless. Alternatively, he is the champion of a tribe of desert-dwelling LDB’s (which is why he is TLDB as opposed to ALDB), but this analysis is highly problematic for reasons I will elucidate later in this work. TLDB is not only…

Christmas

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Musings Upon a Close Reading of The Little Drummer Boy
Musings Upon a Close Reading of The Little Drummer Boy
Christmas

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Feb 20, 2021

Best Thing I Saw Today (Feb 19, 2021)

On one of my old reliable local radio stations, they would call this a triple shot! Three versions of the same song. Ready?

Music

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Music

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Feb 16, 2021

The Best Thing I Saw Today (15 Feb 2021)

Years ago, when Facebook was still a toddler, I used to post the best thing I saw that day. Now that I have divested myself of all social media, I’m…

Music

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Music

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Dec 7, 2020

The Wilma presents Will Arbery’s ‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning’

Having seen my first dramatic performance, Eugene Ionesco’s Macbett, at the Wilma Project on Sansom Street in 1987, and having kept up with the theater ever since, I contend that the last 18 months have been the most powerful, fecund, daring, and fully realized stretch of productions in the Wilma’s…

Theatre Review

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The Wilma presents Will Arbery’s ‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning’
The Wilma presents Will Arbery’s ‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning’
Theatre Review

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Nov 10, 2020

The Biden Fantasy Cabinet Game

If sports fans can have fantasy teams, politics wonks can have fantasy cabinets. This is a community activity, and the point is to get someone on the Biden Transition team to notice and take the will of the people into account when making their choices. Rules: DO NOT RESPOND IN THE…

Biden

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The Biden Fantasy Cabinet Game
The Biden Fantasy Cabinet Game
Biden

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Aug 14, 2020

That Championship Process

The Philadelphia 76'ers will win the 2020 NBA Championship. That’s a guarantee. You seem confused by my statement. Oh, I’m sorry. I was unclear. There is a chance that this current 76'ers team might be champions — A Horford, Tobias Harris, and Josh Richardson isn’t a bad big three. …

Sports

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That Championship Process
That Championship Process
Sports

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Jul 22, 2020

Action Steps to Decriminalize the USA

Let’s Decriminalize The USA As a white male, I cannot possibly understand what black folks have gone through and are currently going through in this racist country of ours. Because I cannot understand, I can neither sympathize nor empathize, as both of those require understanding. Some writers have a problem with the concept of…

Police

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Action Steps to Decriminalize the USA
Action Steps to Decriminalize the USA
Police

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Jul 21, 2020

Your Dream Playwrighting Conference: Tips for Applying

A long-time reader demystifies the selection process. — Recently, I read one article about sending your book manuscript to an agent, and another about getting your short stories published in magazines. As I looked around, I didn’t see anything similar for playwrights, and since I am a theatre worker through and through, I decided I’d write one. In…

Playwrighting

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Your Dream Playwrighting Conference: Tips for Applying
Your Dream Playwrighting Conference: Tips for Applying
Playwrighting

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Brad Rothbart

Brad Rothbart

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Writer, thinker, diaresis fanboy. Topics: Politics, sports, and disability rights. Email: scrdchao@gmail.com, or caffeinate them @ https://ko-fi.com/sacredchaos

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