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Updating my links to vids featuring my plays, recorded as part of Alchemy Theatre’s excellent New Works Festival from 2022, 2023, 2024, and now 2025.

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Just added two videos to the MEDIA page. These are from Alchemy Theatre’s excellent New Works Festival from 2022 and 2023. Both nights feature plays by yours truly as done in staged readings by the Alchemy troupe.

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(Setting, my church’s AWANA night, during snack time. Kids have been given Rice Crispy Treats. One kid I find sitting at the table, holding his leg up with his knee practically in his face, seemingly on the verge of tears, his Crispy Treat clutched in his hand.)

ME– What’s the matter?

KID– My legghuuurscauuuusAyeescraaaaapeitonnaflorinnajiiiiiim.

ME– You what?

KID– Myyy leg hurrrts where I scraaaped it on the floor in the gyyym.

ME– (Not wanting to give the injury any energy, hoping to head off a crying jag…) Oh, I’m sorry that happened. (BEAT) You should rub your Rice Crispy Treat on it to make it feel better.

(The momentum of the impending crying jag comes to a screeching halt and the kid looks hard at his Rice Crispy Treat. Then, as instructed, he rubs it on his knee, gives it a second, then seems satisfied by the healing properties of the puffed rice, butter, marshmallow and preservatives. All crying forgotten, he begins eating his knee-and-gym-floor-contaminated treat. I too am satisfied, but cast a nervous glance around the room to see if my act of unhygienic rice-based medicinal suggestion was witnessed by any of my germ-warry superiors. Sure enough, Martha and Joe, veteran class leaders, saw the whole thing. Martha is shaking her head, but smiling behind her hands while Joe is openly suppressing laughter. I count this as a triple win.)

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(SETTING: the Wife and I are sitting on the patio, drinking coffee and laughing about a nephew in his 30s who had just replied to a Facebook Messenger message from me three months after I sent it.)

THE WIFE— It’s because we’re still on Facebook. That’s where the old people hang out.

ME—We’re not on the Insta. We’re not down with the `Gram.

THE WIFE—I thought you were down with the `Gram?

ME— No, not me. I don’t have the `Gram.

THE WIFE—Ohhh, it’s Twitter that you’re always on.

ME— Mmm, not so much. I have a Twitter account, but I rarely use it for anything. Oops, sorry. I should say, “X (formerly known as Twitter).”

(Wife gives me a blank look.)

ME—You know… how they always have to say, “X (formerly known as Twitter)”?

(Wife gives me a blank look.)

ME—You are aware that they changed Twitter’s name, right? (Wife gives me a blank look.)

ME—Okay. Well, like, a year ago, Elon Musk changed Twitter’s name to the letter X. And he pulled the big blue Twitter bird off his building in San Francisco and put up a huge glowing X on the roof. And then all the neighbors sued him, because apparently no one sells blackout curtains thick enough to stop that many lumens. And now, whenever anyone in the media writes about someone posting something on Twitter, they have to say, “So and so posted this on X (formerly known as Twitter).”

THE WIFE—Uh huh.

ME—Last night, in a semi-dreaming state, I thought of something funny about it. I thought, “What if we just cut out the middle man and rename it TWIX?” But then I guess everyone would just have to write, “So and so posted on TWIX (formerly known as X, formerly known as Twitter).”

(Wife gives me a blank look.)

ME—There’s a joke in there somewhere, but I’m gonna have to workshop it a bit before I post it to Facebook. (Pause)

THE WIFE—You know you’re on Facebook too much when you dream of jokes to write on Facebook, right?

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Starting tonight at 7:30p (Eastern), I will be appearing as a talking head in another episode of Horror 101 with Dr. AC. This time we will be celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Blair Witch Project, and also discussing the arguably lesser Blair Witch sequels and sundry media.

This premieres tonight at 7:30 on the Horror 101 with Dr. AC YouTube channel. And check out my previous appearances on Horror 101 with Dr. AC HERE.

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Eric will be singing as part of the Greenbrier Valley Chorale in the upcoming staged concert of Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame–a co-production with Greenbrier Valley Theatre and Carnegie Hall WV.

Eric will also be appearing as part of the Lewisburg Literary Festival (Aug 2-3, 2024) where he will be interviewing author David Baldacci on Saturday night.

Tickets for all events are free, but you do have to sign up in advance. Find out details at https://www.lewisburgliteraryfestival.com.

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(I have no memory of this, but evidently, in the wee hours, I reached over and hit my wife lightly in the arm. Twice.)

THE WIFE– (wakes up) Hey… why did you hit me?

ME– (Sort of waking up) Huh? I hit you??

THE WIFE– Yes. You just hit me. Twice.

ME– Oh, I’m sorry. I was trying to hit Alison.

(I went right back to sleep, and remember nothing at all about dreaming of hitting my sister. Seems on brand, though.)

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