For those that have been following the creation of the new show supported by the grant from the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, you’ll be pleased to know that the date for the work-in-progress viewing of new material is set for Thursday, June 23 at 7:30 pm.

This presentation is designed to share with you, the audience, the ideas that I am developing in a live, interactive format with minimal stage tech. Come and help test the new material, see me experiment on stage and experience some unique, fresh theater as it’s born. A question-and-answer session will follow the performance, which I am eagerly looking forward too.

For more information, directions and to view the rest of the Flynn schedule, please visit
http://www.flynncenter.org/show_pages/FSN5NS.html

Back in October I wrote an article, entirely fictitious and under a pen name, that pushed the envelope on ethics in right to life cases. It encouraged the reader to step outside of the particularlites of today’s debates and to leave behind the details that cloud our thoughts when trying to advocate one position over another, by creating such an extraordinary situation that one was inclined to consider the universal principles and concepts involved in any such decision.

The article caused quite a stir, and many took it to be an accurate account of an actual event. There was at least one case of an individual attempting to hand it in as evidence in a college course.

When I first distributed it I did not mention its fallacious nature. When it was originally published over at maisonbisson.com it did appear with the disclaimer that it was a fictitious story. I reprint it here for your enjoyment.

It is now the end of April, 2005 and despite my best intentions I have not posted anything since December of ‘04. The reason, for those of you who don’t follow the news that I post over at www.roderickrussell.com, is because I was awarded a grant by the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts which is enabling me to develop a new theater work of unusual dimensions.

The process has, naturally, been consuming virtually all of my time. Be it frantic and inspired creation of new material or frustrated pacing to and fro and long, irritated walks during those time when the creativity is not flowing, I have not been indulging in the act of essay writing for blogging purposes.