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The first review of my book!
Jacki Apple wrote a very thorough review/critique of my Six Monologues 1990-2007 Read online in Fabrik (and read her other essays on...
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jeffmcm
- Sep 26, 2018
- 1 min
Too much thinking
Edmund White quips in Sketches From Memory: People and Places in the Heart of our Paris(Edmund White & Hubert Sorin 1994) that French...
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jeffmcm
- Sep 13, 2018
- 3 min
Girl from the North Country
Reflections after seeing preview of GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY at Public Theatre. Written and directed by Conor McPherson incorporating...
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jeffmcm
- Sep 12, 2018
- 1 min
Tyrants and their toadies
Today's New York Times front page article by Patrick Kingsley chronicles European Parliament conservatives' much delayed responses to...
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jeffmcm
- Aug 27, 2018
- 1 min
The death of John McCain
John McCain has died. He’s been senator from AZ for the entire time I have lived there. Although he is responsible for foisting the...
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jeffmcm
- Aug 22, 2018
- 1 min
Assets
Today's New York Times article by Dave Philipps regarding the U.S. Army rejecting immigrant recruits who applied to military for fast...
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jeffmcm
- Aug 17, 2018
- 3 min
Insight on my new (old) website
Is it the height of self-reflexivity to write about one’s own website and blog, or is this the proper response to contemporary American...
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jeffmcm
- Aug 13, 2018
- 5 min
At Rest
I wrote the original in 2002, and it was published in Goldsmith University Centre for Urban and Community Research Newsletter, Street...
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jeffmcm
- Aug 10, 2018
- 1 min
My new short film, (Ob)scene, marketed to festivals
A video treatment of the monologue I wrote in 2016 for the After Orlando International Theatre Action is being marketed to film...
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jeffmcm
- Jun 7, 2018
- 2 min
Eating the Law
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/06/nyregion/pizza-delivery-ice-deportation.html?emc=edit_th_180607&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=112668000607...
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jeffmcm
- Mar 23, 2018
- 1 min
My drawing of Westside Piers NYC 1980's in talk at MOMA
My drawing of NYC Westside piers circa 1981 included in a talk done at MOMA March 22, 2018 by Travis Chamberlain, as part of Club 57...
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jeffmcm
- Feb 25, 2018
- 8 min
We Get These Boxes (2010)
The 2018 occupant of the White House has suggested doing away with SNAP, the program that gives cash to poor families to purchase the...
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jeffmcm
- Oct 30, 2017
- 1 min
An explanation of the Trump effect
"Men believe in the truth of all that is seen to be strongly believed. In all great deceivers, a remarkable process is at work to which...
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jeffmcm
- Aug 1, 2017
- 1 min
My obituary for my friend and colleague, director Steven Kent
https://www.americantheatre.org/2017/07/21/director-educator-activist-steven-kent-1943-2017/
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jeffmcm
- Jul 20, 2017
- 8 min
Not Afraid: Upon hearing of Edward Albee’s death at 88
September 2016 (published in Contemporary Theatre Review Backpages 27.2 July 2017) In my high school theatre classes, we enjoyed riffing...
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jeffmcm
- Jan 15, 2017
- 2 min
Illusory Intersections
How do we stop the rolling disaster of the Republican takeover? If we want to indulge in Marxist fantasies about letting the entire...
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jeffmcm
- Jan 11, 2017
- 1 min
Inaugural Protests
Friends and colleagues are considering converging on Washington, D.C. to protest the Trumping of America, with corollary protests across...
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jeffmcm
- Dec 28, 2016
- 9 min
The End of the Year End is Near
What others see as a “revolution” I see as a wrecking ball (both meanings) swinging in and around my home where I huddle with friends and...
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jeffmcm
- Feb 27, 2016
- 5 min
The Candidates Go Car Shopping
The presidential candidates go car shopping: Ted Cruz: The failed policies of the past have led us to this lot. Look at all these...
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jeffmcm
- Jan 19, 2016
- 1 min
Cartels and Us
Read Joan Grillo’s “Mexico’s New Blood Politics” (New York Times Sunday Review 1/17/16) and substitute the drug cartels of Mexico with...
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