February 2012
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Watchcooler than freddie jackson sipping a milkshake in a snowstorm
Scene
James and Mandy kneel upstage. They are holding up handfuls of sand and letting it trickle back down.
MANDY: Mom’s ashes are somewhere in this sand.
JAMES: Yeah, it’s pretty cool that she’s back in the ocean.
MANDY: Where she came from.
JAMES: Our, mom the mermaid!
About a Boy and the (Temporarily) Secret Chord →
jasonfry:
My kid announced he wanted an iPod for Christmas. It was my job to fill it. That apparently simple task became an obsession, and then a meditation on what music means to us, and how that changes as we grow older. Plus there’s a fair amount about loss in here, too — I didn’t realize just how much until long after I’d finished writing.
Some pieces have a tougher gestation than others,...
