Category: Youngstown

  • The Stage is back, see you there…

    The STAGE. Come to it

  • I Will Shout Youngstown

    I have been officially interviewed at the “I Will Shout Youngstown” blog.  If you haven’t checked out that weblog before, do take a look.  Tons of really interesting entries there about Youngstown and issues related to community revitalization, a subject many American cities are faced with at the moment.  I talk mostly about Youngstown in…

  • Today

    It’s still so beautiful outside, even if it’s late in the night.  My windows are up, the rooms are breathing with fresh air.  I love the sound of the traffic crossing my apartment building, both the vehicles and the human traffic, the cars speeding by, the human voices.  Today I heard the most lovely voice…

  • Bruce Sterling in Belgrade

    I came across this video of Bruce Sterling talking about civil engineering and economic development in his new home city of Belgrade.  Sterling, for those readers of this journal that are not somehow interested in reading or in the reading of science fiction especially, should note that Bruce Sterling is a science fiction writer who…

  • Next Friday, pay a visit…

    …to Sister Elizabeth Donderstock!  (Yay Brooke and Rob!  Can’t wait to see it!)

  • Ytown on Stage

    Last night at the Stage was just the most wonderful experience.  There were so many people there, so much talent and creativity and expression, and so much of it just really really good.  My friend Brooke does the most amazing things for this city and I sometimes wonder if enough people actually understand it.  I…

  • I’ll be there.

    Stop by and have some fun this Friday at The Stage at the Oakland Center for the Arts. I’ll be reading a short short story called “The Flood” (which is being published in Foundation’s 100th issue this August), and there’ll be comedians, dramatic monologues, crazy improvised hallucinogenic music-video imitations, tap dancing, independent film trailer releases, poetry,…

  • Infamous people from Youngstown

    The title of this entry is also the terms someone typed into a search engine today, which led them to stumble into my journal here.  I almost choked laughing, then typed the terms into Google myself and not only was my website here a results entry, it was the first one. I suppose this is one…

  • Finding myself in Japan

    Something that happened while I lived in Japan was the event most people refer to as “finding” yourself. A lot of theories that discuss what the idea or essence of a “self” is exist. Some proclaim the self is something you are born with, that it is an innate part of the human species, which…

  • An Open Letter to Hillary Clinton

    I wrote this entry at my old blog last weekend, when Hillary Clinton announced she’d be running for the Democratic nomination.  Since then, I moved to this new website, but today a comment from my friend Jeff Ford over at the original post has spurred me to repost it here, too, and I think I’ll do as…