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3 ten-minute plays: "Reality Book Group", "Room with Maintenance", & "Bluefish"
Dr. Richard Grossman:
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--- Quote from: Dr. Richard Grossman on September 25, 2012, 05:47:37 PM ---Hi Lollie,
(Shhhhh! None other!)
Richard
P.S. A leg figures in "Room with Maintenance"!
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LOL!!!! :lol:
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:wink: Thanks again for the read, Bones!
Richard
BonesMS:
--- Quote from: Dr. Richard Grossman on September 29, 2012, 01:47:44 PM ---
--- Quote from: BonesMS on September 26, 2012, 06:22:32 AM ---
--- Quote from: Dr. Richard Grossman on September 25, 2012, 05:47:37 PM ---Hi Lollie,
(Shhhhh! None other!)
Richard
P.S. A leg figures in "Room with Maintenance"!
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LOL!!!! :lol:
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:wink: Thanks again for the read, Bones!
Richard
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You're welcome, Richard!
Dr. Richard Grossman:
Hi everybody,
OK, this being the Voicelessness Board, a place where important questions are answered:
This guy works/teaches at Harvard Medical School, and he thinks about the afterlife in terms of heavenly bliss, floating among the clouds, etc: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/heaven-real-says-neurosurgeon-claims-visited-afterlife-213527063.html .
And I worked/taught at Harvard Medical School, and I think about the afterlife and imagine Angelo the Maintenance Man, a guy who fixes toilets (ok, and everything else that needs fixing).
Even worse, the guy writes about his thoughts and has a best selling book on his hands (http://www.amazon.com/Proof-of-Heaven-ebook/dp/B008AK8FHM), and I write about my thoughts (https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/217274), and what do I have? Pffft!
Would someone please tell me: "What did I do wrong? What did I do wrong?!!!”
Richard :wink:
Hopalong:
Dear ((((Doc G)))):
You didn't drink the KoolAid.
But nearly everybody else did.
:(
I feel ya,
Hops
Dr. Richard Grossman:
Thanks, Hops. No Kool-Aid for me! In fact my mother who was extremely independent and tough/critical minded (hmmm, I wonder where I got that from), and very smart, didn’t allow us any processed sugar growing up. She was a health food advocate for her children in the late 50’s and early 60’s—long before it was popular to be one. We ate granola (no corn flakes, or god-forbid, frosted flakes), oatmeal with wheat germ, honey (no jelly or jam), orange juice with brewer’s yeast in it (I kid you not—and it almost ruined my taste for beer [I say almost!]), organic peanut butter, carob (no chocolate), organic apples, whole wheat bread, etc. etc. My father had a shelf all his own where there was Skippy peanut butter, strawberry jelly, white bread, and Hershey Bars etc. which we would stare up at, longingly. One of the consequences is that when my brother, Jeff, comes to visit me from Israel, I always buy three gallons of ice cream, which we (well, mostly he) consume in very short order. (Jeff is extremely independent, tough/critical minded, and smart (e.g. he got his high school degree from University of Chicago) in ways very different than me: http://jgcaesarea.blogspot.com/. Luckily, he appreciates my writing: http://jgcaesarea.blogspot.com/2012/08/two-short-plays-must-reading.html or else he would tear it word from word.)
But getting back to the subject at hand (and now, manually removing my tongue from cheek), I have no regrets about my life choices, path, successes, and failures. And it sure would be nice if I ran into Angelo the Maintenance Man in the afterlife (esp. after maintaining for all these years an 1895 2-family Victorian which Hildy and I bought in 1979.)
Besides, the guy (above) who will be floating in the clouds didn’t have the pleasure and excitement (as I did) of nearly being arrested by the Boston Police swat team at the end of the final rehearsal of “Reality Book Group”. (Yes, there was/is a gun involved.) My next play will likely be “Reality Play Rehearsal.”
Most importantly, thanks to all who read the plays, and especially to those who commented/reviewed! It meant a lot to me.
Best,
Richard
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