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Advance Notice: Nov 17—23

lexlei — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:22:16 +0000

I am adding a new category, “Advance Notice,” to document some of my San Francisco exploration. While it’s in no means a guarantee, it is definitely an indicator of places I’ll be in the week ahead. If you see me, say hi;)

Thursday, Nov 20, 8pm
Brava! Theater’s production of Friends, by Kobo Abe

Friday, Nov 21, 7pm
Rebel Reading Series at The Knockout, 3223 Mission (at Valencia)

Saturday, Nov 22, 11am
World’s Smallest Postal Service at The Curiosity Shoppe, 855 Valencia

Sunday, Nov 23, 7pm
Industry Night for Magic Theatre’s production of Evie’s Waltz, by Carter W. Lewis

Web Habits of Highly Effective People

lexlei — Sat, 31 May 2008 14:14:50 +0000

Blog Riley tipped me off to this article about the methods of people addicted (by necessity?) to the interwebs.

Operation Homecoming

lexlei — Tue, 27 May 2008 00:30:42 +0000

My Americans for the Arts colleague, David Dombrosky, brought Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience to my attention in 2006. The result of a major initiative launched by the National Endowment for the Arts, Homecoming brought distinguished writers to military bases to inspire U.S. soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, and their families to record their wartime experiences.

Homecoming is continuing in 2008 with a series of writing workshops, and today the University of Chicago Press released an expanded paperback version of 2006’s Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families (Random House), containing stories by American military personnel and their loved ones who wrote candidly about what they saw, heard, and felt while in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as on the home front.