in this episode I begin with a chat about the new year 2025, some thoughts on burnout culture in theatre, and then read Nate Holdren's new blog piece "It's the stupidity, stupid! (The economy does in fact suck).

in this episode the rest of the play with songs THRUSH is read by its author Caridad Svich.

the play originally premiered in 2006 at Salvage Vanguard Theatre in Austin, Texas.

it is part of the trilogy of Land and Country Plays by Svich which include FUGITIVE PIECES (retitled on film as FUGITVE DREAMS) and RIFT.

In this episode I read from scenes 1-12 of my play with songs THRUSH, which was originally produced at Salvage Vanguard Theater in Austin, Texas in 2006.

THRUSH: Scenes from war and after. Slaughter songs for broken times. A love story and vaudeville of the far and near country. A young woman walks the fields. A young man trails her. The ghost songs of the fallen rise in ballads, hymns, blues and swing as if torn from the roots of mad sorrow.

Content warning: the play deals with themes and images of war crimes against humanity in poetic and abstract terms.

in this episode I read author Gary Indiana's essay on artist Barbara Kruger "The War at Home" from his collection of essays UTOPIA'S DEBRIS (2008) published by Basic Books.

in this episode I read Gabriel Winant's "The Baby and the Bathwater: Class Analysis and Class Formation after Deindustrialization" published online on October 1, 2024 in Historical Materialism. brill.com/hima

in this episode I read prose piece Watches by Jeff McMahon, originally published in the Table Talk from The The Threepenny Review in 2015.

in this episode I read So Mayer's piece "gunge," which was originally posted July 25, 2024.

"The Orange and the Brick" an essay by Caridad Svich.

featured in The Routledge Companion to Latine Theatre and Performance edited by Noe Montez and Olga Sanchez Saltveit. Published 2024.

reading CJ THE X's WHAT IS TO BE DONE? A Manifesto to Return to Web 1.5, first posted on their website on March 1, 2024. https://www.cjthex.com/what-is-to-be-done/

continuing my recording of work of artists I admire.

in memory of scholar, poet, playwright, theatre-maker, director Kit Danowski, who passed away the week of July 29, 2024 (announced on July 31, 2024 on social media), a reading of their MANIFESTO: THEATRE FOR THE DEAD, published in Global Performance Studies, vol.3, no. 2, 2020. https://doi.org/10.33303/gpsv3n2a9