- An Assortment of Writings and Rants for your Amusement and Edification -

Performance pieces delivered at Theatre of Ted (Theatre of Ted is an underground performance venue at Illinois State University which occurs every Saturday night at midnight).

• The Trial of the Impeachment Trial - performed at Ted in January/February of 1999, this is a condensed and opinionated version of the entire impeachment process.

• The 1996 Political Conventions - performed at Theatre of Ted in September, 1996. A blistering yet comic diatribe about the political parties in a Dennis Miller-style rant complete with extensive subreferencing.

• Just Say Don't Do It - performed at Theatre of Ted in October, 1996. An attack on the "War on Drugs"

• About Theatre of Ted - performed at Theatre of Ted in September, 1996. A personal view of what you can expect from Ted.

• The New Star Trek - A skit combining Star Trek with a subject very familiar to students. Performed sometime in 1994.

Writings on Freedom of Expression

• Democracy - Freedom - Arts - A piece written on the web as part of the "24 Hours of Democracy" web project which protested the Communications Decency Act and demonstrated the community of the web. My piece focused on the arts and freedom of expression.

• 7 Days of Democracy - A web piece describing the "24 Hours of Democracy" project. This piece was featured on the main site of the project. (note: external links given inside the piece are likely to be out of date -- many will not work).

• The Arts: Blasphemous, Traitorous, Homoerotic, and Pornographic - An article from 1990 about perceptions of the arts and our failure to teach people how to "view" art.

Miscellaneous Writings

• The Boat-ist (A Fable) - This fable about a man and his boat may help some people to understand naturism just a little bit better.

Academic Writings

• The Computer and the Arts - A proposal for a general education course in arts and the internet, focusing on teaching students to use critical skills to be their own "curators" on the net.

As always, I'd love to hear what you think.