What the Dramatist Knows About Monsters

I sold my first paid byline to a Lincoln, Nebraska, newspaper at the age of ten. That was 1975. In the fifty-one years since, I have continued to be paid to construct figures that audiences will find frightening, or sympathetic, or contemptible, or laughable, on schedule, in plays and musicals and screenplays and novels and podcast scripts and editorial work. My Dramatists Guild membership dates from 1984. My MFA is from the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Graduate Theatre Studies at Columbia University. A publishing house I founded in the same year I sold the first byline has operated without interruption since. The inventory exists for a single reason: the labor of figure-construction is something I know from inside the work, and the working-dramatist's perspective on that labor is the perspective from which my new book is written. […]

https://bolesblogs.com/2026/05/28/what-the-dramatist-knows-about-monsters/

A quotation from Shakespeare

MARCUS: Sorrow concealèd, like an oven stopped,
   Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Titus Andronicus, Act 2, sc. 4, l. 36ff (2.4.26-37) (c. 1590)

More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #titusandronicus #concealing #emotion #grief #hiding #repressing #sadness #sorrow

The Corner Store at the End of the World

Every local prepper carries the same private film in his head. He is the survivor. The neighbors who laughed at the Costco pallets and the propane tanks and the blue tarp over the generator are huddled in their cold houses while his basement lights still burn through week three of the outage. He sits on the front porch with a rifle across his knees, finally vindicated, the man on the block who saw it coming. The film has a hero, a moral, and a clean ending. What it leaves out, what eight years of YouTube channels and bug-out videos have trained him to leave out, is the crowd. […]

https://bolesblogs.com/2026/05/23/the-corner-store-at-the-end-of-the-world/

Is Alien Life Hiding in Plain Sight, Right Here in Our Solar System?
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=is-alien-life-hiding-in-plain-sight-right-here-in-our-solar-system
<p>The grandeur of Saturn is stunning to behold when viewed through a telescope
#system #hiding #solar #alien

1 man arrested in Ontario murder investigation, 2 charged may still be hiding in B.C.
The two men wanted for second-degree murder in the case have not been located, with OPP having said this weekend they may be hiding in B.C.
#Crime #Murder #Ontariocrime #OntarioProvincialPolice
https://globalnews.ca/news/11846082/ontario-murder-suspect-arrested-2-remain-hiding-bc/

Hiding in plain sight. #streetphotography #photography #dresden #tree #hiding