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An open letter to my Senator (Sinema)
Dear Senator Sinema: Where is this middle, this aisle you are reaching across? Is it still there? When was it last seen? You and Middling...
jeffmcm
Oct 22, 20213 min read
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An image of me from the start of my performance career
A compelling conversation between Eric Bogosian and Tina Satter, and if you scroll down, a picture of me by Paula Court in Eric’s work...
jeffmcm
Aug 28, 20201 min read
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Post Demo convention
After listening to Joe Biden's acceptance speech: “Make no mistake” is a mistaken term. Politics is the practice of constant mistakes,...
jeffmcm
Aug 24, 20202 min read
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Another review of the book!
Short review of my SIX MONOLOGUES 1990-2007 in current TDR 64:1 T245 (Spring 2020)
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Apr 3, 20201 min read
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A book chapter about me!
Jacki Apple's just released book, PERFORMANCE/MEDIA/ART/CULTURE: Selected Essays 1983-2018 (intellect books 2019) has a chapter,...
jeffmcm
Nov 2, 20191 min read
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Another review of my book!!!
A wonderful review in The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, by John Killacky (Nov-Dec 2019) https://glreview.org/article/two-artists-take-...
jeffmcm
Nov 2, 20191 min read
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The passing of a journalist
On the recent death of NPR/ABC reporter/commentator Cokie Roberts: I recall, back when we, my now husband and I, were in our early 30’s...
jeffmcm
Oct 13, 20192 min read
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My roundtable on Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman
The roundtable I curated/edited on Spike Lee's film is out in Response and features several current/former students!
jeffmcm
Jun 24, 20191 min read
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The first review of my book!
Jacki Apple wrote a very thorough review/critique of my Six Monologues 1990-2007 Read online in Fabrik (and read her other essays on...
jeffmcm
Nov 15, 20181 min read
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Too much thinking
Edmund White quips in Sketches From Memory: People and Places in the Heart of our Paris(Edmund White & Hubert Sorin 1994) that French...
jeffmcm
Sep 26, 20181 min read
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Girl from the North Country
Reflections after seeing preview of GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY at Public Theatre. Written and directed by Conor McPherson incorporating...
jeffmcm
Sep 13, 20183 min read
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Tyrants and their toadies
Today's New York Times front page article by Patrick Kingsley chronicles European Parliament conservatives' much delayed responses to...
jeffmcm
Sep 12, 20181 min read
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The death of John McCain
John McCain has died. He’s been senator from AZ for the entire time I have lived there. Although he is responsible for foisting the...
jeffmcm
Aug 27, 20181 min read
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Assets
Today's New York Times article by Dave Philipps regarding the U.S. Army rejecting immigrant recruits who applied to military for fast...
jeffmcm
Aug 22, 20181 min read
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Insight on my new (old) website
Is it the height of self-reflexivity to write about one’s own website and blog, or is this the proper response to contemporary American...
jeffmcm
Aug 17, 20183 min read
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At Rest
I wrote the original in 2002, and it was published in Goldsmith University Centre for Urban and Community Research Newsletter, Street...
jeffmcm
Aug 13, 20185 min read
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My new short film, (Ob)scene, marketed to festivals
A video treatment of the monologue I wrote in 2016 for the After Orlando International Theatre Action is being marketed to film...
jeffmcm
Aug 10, 20181 min read
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Eating the Law
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/06/nyregion/pizza-delivery-ice-deportation.html?emc=edit_th_180607&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=112668000607...
jeffmcm
Jun 7, 20182 min read
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My drawing of Westside Piers NYC 1980's in talk at MOMA
My drawing of NYC Westside piers circa 1981 included in a talk done at MOMA March 22, 2018 by Travis Chamberlain, as part of Club 57...
jeffmcm
Mar 23, 20181 min read
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We Get These Boxes (2010)
The 2018 occupant of the White House has suggested doing away with SNAP, the program that gives cash to poor families to purchase the...
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Feb 25, 20188 min read
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