Confidence
Today I was talking to my son about confidence. I was telling him how important it is to not allow your decisions to be overly influenced...
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Feb 10, 20232 min read
Kings and Queens are assholes.
I was in a meeting recently and someone asked us all, as part of our check in, “What plant best represents you?” (I guess it was a...
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Feb 9, 20234 min read
We Are The Space Monsters
For thousands of years a great many humans believed that everything revolved, both physically and spiritually, around humans. It was all...
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Feb 8, 20232 min read
Leave your house to an artist
Dear Everyone Who Knows Some Cool, Older, Artist-loving Person Who Owns A Home in San Francisco and Can Forward This to Them: Let's face...
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Feb 7, 20233 min read
Fundraising vs. Theatre
I was listening to an interview with Steve Jobs from the mid-1990’s in which he was talking about how successful companies can...
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Feb 5, 20231 min read
Well, yeah.
Somebody recently asked me why I don't smoke, and I told them that smoking didn't make any sense. They then asked to me if I try to only...
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Feb 3, 20232 min read
Resisting Arrest
So here's what happens: The police, in their efforts to protect privilege and property, designate some disempowered "perpetrator" guilty...
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Feb 2, 20233 min read
Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
Why have the British, in their last few elections, voted increasingly for a political Party and political philosophy that is so clearly...
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Jan 31, 20233 min read
Debt
What does the United States produce? Well, we make a lot of weapons, we produce a lot of greenhouse gasses, we churn out propaganda. But...
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Jan 28, 20233 min read
Racialized Cartoon Voice Casting
Yet Another thing on the long list of Shit That Pisses Michael Off As An Actor: Racialized Cartoon Voice Casting. Here's what I mean: Far...
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Jan 25, 20231 min read
Never trust a resume
One of the things most interesting about taking the train a long distance is the people. They are normally nice, thoughtful, and...
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Jan 25, 20236 min read
Chapter 1: Michael Dies
Chapter 1: Michael Dies. Chapter 2. Michael’s consciousness survives the death of his body, and he finds himself in a vast, beautiful...
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Jan 24, 20235 min read
Hot Chocolate
I was so prepared for a freezing Chicago visit. It’s cold - technically below freezing - but I have yet to really miss the gloves I...
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Nov 1, 20221 min read
It was a dark and stormy...
The knife was on the table. The gun was in the drawer. Poison in the decanter. And the beef. And the soup. Glass was in the ice cream....
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Mar 24, 20222 min read
The Great Khan (pt. 1)
Man, this has been an interesting couple of years. When the pandemic hit back in 2020 I had a play, 1984, playing in four theaters in two...
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Feb 23, 20205 min read
The False Choice Between Two Evils, or the Fall of the Lord of the Bling
So, Sam and Frodo are on their way to Mordor... (For the non-Lord of the Rings fans out there DON’T CLICK OFF THIS YET! I have a non-nerd...
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Dec 13, 20193 min read
Rear view mirror suicide
So... the English just voted for a political Party that has inflicted years of austerity upon them, led by a man who is openly racist,...
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Nov 13, 20193 min read
Machine Men
In the final scene of the film “The Great Dictator” Charlie Chaplin makes a passionate argument for humanity, and against “machine men,...
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Nov 12, 20191 min read
Nothing but a number
Anyone who dismisses a person’s comments based on that person’s age is a counter revolutionary. Whether that person is younger or older...
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Michael Gene Sullivan
Nov 1, 20192 min read
The Foreigner
So I’m in rehearsal for another show. I have been extremely fortunate that the gods have inspired me to see and grok so many...
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