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Drew Petriello Absurdist theatermaker and writer

Dec 17
Dec 17 Thinking About Stuff and Things: Part One Billion and Eight

Drew Petriello
Drew Spew

What? I think too much? No I’ve never… who told you that? Those people must be dirty communists who hate freedom.

Dec 10
Dec 10 Wrenching Yourself Out of Existential Wallowing

Drew Petriello
Drew Spew

Whatever your reason, you’re here because you desire some solace from existential turmoil. It’s keeping you from really giving those spreadsheets at work what for.

Dec 5
Dec 5 Celebrating my Birthday for the First Time in Six Years

Drew Petriello
Drew Spew

This is not a “pity me” story. Depending on your personality, I imagine you will have read the title of this post and either gotten out a handkerchief to weep into or a garrote wire to… well, garrote me with.

Neither will be necessary, thank you very much.

Oct 11
Oct 11 The Importance of Having a Rigid Schedule

Drew Petriello
Drew Spew

5:00 - Wake up, feeling terror for no particular reason

5:00-6:00 - Attempt to wake self up and fall asleep at the same time. Become paralyzed

6:00 - Make bagel

Sep 28
Sep 28 Creativity in the Ten Steps so Easy it's Easy

Drew Petriello
Drew Spew

3. Making this list was harder than I thought it was going to be

And hardness is a sign you’re doing creativity good! Did you think creativity was going to be easy? Where’d you get that idea, the title of this article?

Aug 1
Aug 1 Ghosts on a Ghost World - The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

Drew Petriello
Drew Spew

When we say a work "transcends time," we don't mean that the time period in which it was written has no bearing on the piece. It clearly does - it has to - but it means that something about it taps into a particularly resonant vein.

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