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TL

I am not what I am.

About Me


I take life with a grain of salt even though I never actually add salt to my food.
If you let a smile be your umbrella, you're going to get wet.
If Shakespeare didn't say it, I probably don't believe it. And, yes, he said that, too.
Acting is living. And life is frequently an act.
Something worth doing is worth doing well...but if you can't do it well, pay someone to do it for you.
Meercats make me happy. Seriously. Busch Gardens, I'm all over the meercat habitat. Screw the rides. More meercats!
I'm never as good a teacher as I want to be.
Birthday people go straight to the top of my Top 8!

My Interests

Acting, Shakespeare, tennis, triathlons, bicycling, movies, computers, dogs, any good literature (and some not so good!).

I'd like to meet:

Can't I just meet you again?

Music:

Eva Cassidy. When I listen to her songs, I don't want to listen to anyone else in the world. If I'm not listening to her...Styx, Tears for Fears, U2, Amos Lee, The Decemberists, Queen, Garth Brooks, ELO, The Traveling Wilburys and more. But everything starts and stops with Eva.

Oh, and here's what I used to do when I lived in California and was, apparently, a freak of nature. Yeah, that's me. Sure it is.
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Heroes:

Arthur Ashe, Albert Einstein, Nelson Mandela, Gandhi, Henry Fonda, my dad.

My Blog

William Blogspere .13 - Henry 6, Part 3

4/1/07 HENRY 6, PART 3 You know, if Shakespeare loved the name "Henry" so much, why didn't he just marry it? Seriously, how many blogs is this now which START with "Henry"? And it's not over!...
Posted by TL on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 03:55:00 PST

William Blogspere .12 - Henry 6, Part 2

3/24/07 HENRY 6, PART 2  Okay, how dedicated am I to this blog project?! It's 10:45pm, and I'm on the road from Orlando to St. Augustine typing this on my Palm! Alright, at the end of ...
Posted by TL on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:20:00 PST

William Blogspere .11 - Henry 6, Part 1

3/18/07  HENRY 6, PART 1 So, these plays (the three parts of Henry 6) rarely, rarely see the lights of the stage in their original form. With some regularity, intrepid modern playwrights co...
Posted by TL on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:21:00 PST

William Blogspere .10 - Henry 5

3/11/07 HENRY 5  Thanks to Kenneth Branagh, more contemporary folks know this history play than almost any other in the Shakespeare canon. His incredible 1989 film version of the play intro...
Posted by TL on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 01:29:00 PST

Sunshine on my shoulders

Okay, I love LOVE LOVE biking to work.Granted, it's only a couple of miles each way, but there's just nothing like stepping on those pedals and pushing off, knowing that the only way I'm getting from ...
Posted by TL on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 06:06:00 PST

William Blospere .9 - Henry 4, Part 2

3/4/07 HENRY 4, PART 2 Okay, Shakespeare's a great playwright. I'd go so far as to say "the greatest." But here's one thing he really could use some work on: cliffhangers. I mean, c'mon; Grey's ...
Posted by TL on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:43:00 PST

Song memory

So, I'm at my desk, working.And I've got a crapload of songs on my music player in the background...seriously, like 36 hours worth. Random play. All sorts. Eva Cassidy. Josh Groban. The Decemberists. ...
Posted by TL on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 02:06:00 PST

William Blogspere .8 - Henry 4, Part 1

2/25/07 HENRY 4, PART 1 So, a history play? Does it get any more boring than that?! Not hardly. This play is the one where Shakespeare unveils (unleashes?) his most comic masterpiece: Sir John F...
Posted by TL on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 02:48:00 PST

Time marches on

So, I get a letter in the mail today.A friend of mine is retiring from a job he's done for 17 years now, and, after a lifetime working in theatre, he's moving to the next phase of his life. Scott's a ...
Posted by TL on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:49:00 PST

William Blogspere .7 - Hamlet

2/18/07 HAMLET Unabashedly, I state that I love this play. I love it for all the clichéd reasons: the somber prince, the "is he crazy?" debate, the spectacle, the language, everything. But I love ...
Posted by TL on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 07:10:00 PST