Posted by: donfried on: March 31, 2011
It wasn’t one of the reasons I subscribed to TIVO, but I always thought it was an interesting feature that it would monitor my TV-watching habits and automatically record shows similar to those I watch. At first, of course, I would program the box to record things I thought would impress it – the grand [...]
Posted by: donfried on: February 10, 2010
A couple of weeks ago I crossed an important barrier. Some time during my working career – I think it was about 1980 — I realized that I was getting a sick feeling in my stomach every time the phone would ring or my boss would call me into his office. It was almost always [...]
Posted by: donfried on: January 26, 2010
According to Hollywood folklore, the words in the title of this post are what a studio functionary is supposed to have written about Fred Astaire’s screen test for RKO Pictures in the early 1930s. That quotation comes more and more to mind as Shakespeare Incorporated and several of my other plays begin having some success. [...]
Posted by: donfried on: April 23, 2009
Well, this past Monday was April 20th. That may not be significant to those of you who don’t live in the Boulder area, but 4/20 at 4:20 p.m. is the traditional Smoke Out on the University of Colorado campus. And what that means is that somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000 people show up to smoke [...]
Posted by: donfried on: April 16, 2009
When I was still working for a living, I was on the road pretty much Monday through Friday, 40 or more weeks a year. My job was selling large, multi-national Information Technology Services outsourcing deals, usually in the $500 million and up value range, and sometimes in the multiple billions of dollars. Deals like those [...]
Posted by: donfried on: April 5, 2009
It’s been a mighty busy week in the great scheme of play marketing. Last Monday I flew to Omaha and then rented a car and drove to Des Moines for a public reading of “Postville” at StageWest. (“Postville” is my play about the group of Hasidic Jews who bought a defunct meatpacking plant in a [...]
Posted by: donfried on: March 1, 2009
This morning there was quite a nice little piece in the Boulder Camera about all my theater activities and the book launch and reading coming up next Sunday for “Ups & Downs: The (Mis)Adventures of a Crusty Old Fart and His Bouncy Son as they Trek Through the Alps.” Good news, right? But half-way into [...]
Posted by: donfried on: February 23, 2009
When I was a kid, I was so focused on what I was doing and what I wanted, that I tended to ignore everyone who I didn’t think would be of immediate use to me. All too frequently, that resulted in my footprints being on people’s foreheads. Yeah, I was a self-centered jerk! Now I [...]
Posted by: donfried on: February 11, 2009
For a couple of months I helped start up a Boulder chapter of a Denver-based playwright’s club that I’m a member of. I’ve now parted company with that group. It was either that, or we were going to come to blows. Part of the reason is that I’m not enlightened enough to breathe the same [...]
Posted by: donfried on: January 26, 2009
I’ve written before in my blog about how Boulder is one of the world centers of new-age sensitivity and touchy-feelihood and the fact that I frequently get into hot water here. Well, I think I may have really put my foot in it this time. Last Wednesday I had a reading of the first draft [...]
