Molière Would Totally Have Drunk These

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October 23rd, 2010

Time for another round of Show Drinks: cocktails we (me) at Intiman Theatre create to coincide with the current production. For Christopher Bayes’ outstanding production of Moliere’s ‘A Doctor In Spite of Himself,’ we created two fun drinks, the first of which is the best cocktail I’ve ever created (at least up until that show). [...]

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Received The Greatest Birthday Card Of My Life…

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October 22nd, 2010

one of many favorite quotes from said card: “I love that you have the classical music knowledge of Frasier, the bar-tending skills of Sam Malone (actually, probably better), and most features of the life of Liz Lemon (I wanted to come up with another character from Cheers, but no dice. It’s still NBC though!).” oh [...]

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My Other Other Other Job

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October 14th, 2010

As of the start of this Fall trimester, I’m one of the editors for MHGS‘s blog Experience MHGS. As an editor, I’m mostly focusing on generating content by inviting folks to write about what’s going on: collecting stories and storytellers. It reminds me of my favorite part of directing theater: Casting. I love finding the [...]

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Jet Bike Steve, Jimmy Fallon and Other Signs of our Changing Textual Identites

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October 7th, 2010

In “Introduction to the Hermeneutical Task” today at MHGS, I got to lecture on some questions that have been buzzing in my brain for quite some time now. I am obsessively curious about and amazed by the changing role of text and author in a culture where, due to blogs and social media, we are [...]

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Really Kj? Another Picassa Collage?

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September 8th, 2010

Last week I had my first day as Teaching Assistant for “Introduction to the Hermeneutical Task” at MHGS. Professor Dwight Friesen invited me to introduce myself using any images I might like. I hemmed and hawed, and eventually since it was a class about how we approach and interpret text, I decided to show a [...]

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Synesthesia and the Playlists it Produces -or- Welcome to Fall!

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August 26th, 2010

I know autumn is near, not from a change in the weather but from the amount of times I’ve been pressing skip on my Summer ITunes Playlist. Around the 3rd week of August, the hot magentas, highly saturated turquoises and scorching blacks of my summer music start to grate on me and I begin to [...]

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Oh How I’ll Miss His Elegant Handwriting

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August 15th, 2010

Reunited for one magical summer (which is about to come to an end), Ian & I have been bar-brainstorming- both for cocktails, inventory, menus, everything. Basically, we need to open a bar together. We could call it popCULTURE and it could be a cocktail bar/dvd&comic book retail store. What do you think Ian? But for [...]

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Narrative Cocktails

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July 26th, 2010

Time for another round up of Intiman Theatre’s specialty cocktails, some from last season and some we’re serving right now. I created a lot of these. I did not create the cute little quotes. Try these at home. The Year of Magical Thinking By Joan Didion The Gin Didion – A mature, refreshing drink with [...]

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Kj’s Corner: Mythopoeia, Monsters and Jesus Oh My!

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July 23rd, 2010

For my second Kj’s Corner in “Theology & the Artistic Impulse” I explored the concept of Mythopoeia as described primarily by George MacDonald, JRR Tolkein and CS Lewis. For part of the lecture, (screenshots below) I also used a scene from the documentary Monster Camp (see the trailer below) and the preview for the documentary [...]

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William Emmert On My Wall

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July 22nd, 2010

While at MHGS, I spent three years on Student Leadership. Part of what my particular team (Sacred Space) did was to curate the two art galleries in our building. The main floor gallery is for local artists and the upstairs gallery is for artists from the MHGS student body. For my final summer as a [...]

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