My Virgin Post

I'm not sure what I'm doing here but I think that it could be fun anyway.  Turns out that I'm a bit of a theatre queen and I'm pretty sure that my friends are sick of hearing about it on my Facebook page so this is my attempt to offload some of that stuff.

A couple of rules to get out the way: 

• I can't spell or do grammar too good.  Get used to it I guess.

• I don't tend to have a lot of discipline so who knows how much I'll post here. 

• I love theatre and tend to gush about it and here's why:  everyday I go to my job and we have meetings about lots of things.  We talk about how to do things; why we do things; if we should do things; who does things well.  Blah, blah.  What we don't talk about is what a lot preoccupies a lot of people a lot of the time.  Emotions.  The human condition is a minefield of how people feel and the arts contain the most eloquent expression of emotions that our little planetary tribe can devise. 
  
  Theatre does that best for me because I'm lazy and then I don't have to imagine anything.  I can see and hear without having to stir a moribund imagination and nothing-Nothing-NOTHING taps my heart stings and makes my tear ducts ooze up like two people singing -frequently at the same time- as they glide eloquently (how do they DO that he thunks out loud?!!?) and every fiber of their being is pulling me into some emotion that I most likely remember from some other time in my life.  That's pretty awesome stuff for me and it helps me to connect to other hostile humanoids who otherwise look at each other like the stuff on the bottom of a old city shoe.

• I'm a librarian by trade and that may come into my conversations sometimes but this blog does not have anything to do with my job.  Consider this the whole disclaimer thing:  Michael Stevens is responsible for himself.  His job provides a comfortable living but has no place opining on this website.

• That's all the rules for now.  I'm sure that more will come later but my ADD has kicked in and that's all you're getting right now.