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Zowietown is a video web portal to news, art scene news, Central Valley happenings, and local music from the Southern Central Valley. California literature never had such a spin as "excited about your town."...
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I wrote this poem last night.... and it will undoubtedly be revised. I just felt like I needed to put it out there, give it voice. When I get that calling, I know I need to share my words.... and more likely than not, the words are meant for a specific someone that I don't even know.
Without...
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So there I am, in an alley in downtown Bakersfield, carrying a toilet.
Am I the vision of feminity or what?
Have you carried a toilet lately? They are not a light piece of machinery – and even though my biceps are rather buff from heaving around my...
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On the surface William Inge's "Picnic" seems quite sedate. A small town in the 50's, average characters, nothing really all that intriguing. Ordinary people, ordinary day. But through Inge's obvious skill as a playwright, it wrestles with some of humanity's...
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What is Fuddy Meers? What does it mean? Is it a concept? A person's name, perhaps a long lost relative of Elmer Fudd? What do those words signify? What is the play about?
I don't want you to know. I think you will be better off if you don't.
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The wings were dark, and at least somewhat quiet.
I was trying to escape from everyone and everything and settle into the deep alone-ness of my character in the moment before… she walked back into her world.
The music was too loud, it was unnerving me. I felt myself...
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Last week you may or may not have heard the news story about the 3 young men who decided it would be fun to drink and drive.
The report says they lost control on HWY 178 going west after attending a party in the foothills and consuming copious amounts of alcohol.
What the report didn't...
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I know what you are thinking, I cry at everything... but really,
this is incredible.
As an Artist, as an Actor, as a human being we all hope
when people experience our work, they receive something
that touches them, at our best - touches them deeply.
To read of it in a...
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This is the first in a sub-series from the grand series: CRYSTAL PALACE STATUES. It will feature artists present in the collection of bronze statues housed at the Crystal Palace. There's no better way to bring Buck back, and keeping the spirit of Buck Owens and the Buckaroos alive than to pitch...
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Welcome to my first blog in the Crystal Palace Statues Series. The first collection of blogs in the series will feature Johnny Cash. I'm kicking it off today for reasons that will be obvious to true Cash fans.
I was moving in to my brand new home in Bakersfield, California. It was...
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A Poem for James Kenneth Samuel
victim of 9/11
by Bruce Thiessen
We lost you
One September morn
I don't know/much about your life
I heard New Jersey cried that morn
Hoboken lost a shining light
now we remember you this day
we're sad you had to go away
James Kenneth...
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On 9/10 as I was sitting out in my backyard with my guitar, I reflected on the events of 9/11 as I experienced them in the city of Sacramento, where I lived on that date. Then I wondered how somebody else with a completely different life, living in a completely different part of the world...
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So I'm sitting around checking my email one night. My six year old is hangin' with mom, talking about stuff. I'm kind of just half listening. He's talking about how bored he is, and how he wishes he was a teenager so he can do all the stuff his brother and sister get to do.
LIKE WHAT?...
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A few weeks after 9/11, I received a letter from John, a student of a Psychology of Music class I was teaching at the time, who had been absent for a couple of classes. He warned me ahead of time, that he could be deployed at anytime. He wrote me from Afghanistan, where US and allied forces...
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On 9/11, a collosal ground swell of patriotism emerged from ground zero. For most of us, our sense of patriotism has diminished to some degree, only because of the passage of time has made the events of that horrific day seem decidedly more distant from our individual and collective psyches. In...
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