Women Directors

Posted in memoir on December 17th, 2009 by dbreen – Be the first to comment

(Time magazine early seventies)
Screenwriter Carol Eastman was talking with friends recently about her upcoming debut as a film director. “What,” asked one, “are you going to wear—a muumuu, a Gestapo uniform or a terry-cloth robe, mules and pin curls?” Miss Eastman, who wrote Five Easy Pieces, was understandably annoyed. “I turned to a man who [...]

modifesto

Posted in memoir on December 20th, 2006 by dbreen – Be the first to comment

There has never been a better time for digital collaboration. Enter mod, a new kind of cyber-cafe that aims to capture the social and creative and collaborative potential.

Declaration of Interdependence

Posted in memoir on December 18th, 2006 by dbreen – Be the first to comment

I hold these truths to be self-evident, that none of us was created equal, but rather that our eccentricities and myriad of passions are what may bring us together, into a physical manifestation of the collective unconsciousness.

Applauding Secretive Music Department Closure

Posted in memoir on May 7th, 1997 by dbreen – Be the first to comment

Good riddance to the Bachelor of Music Major at UMass Dartmouth! I would like to congratulate the administration. . . for finally taking a stand and canning a useless program. In this day and age, who really needs quality music?

O’er the Land of the Free, and the Home of the Brave?

Posted in memoir on April 23rd, 1997 by dbreen – Be the first to comment

Any deck seaman can identify a shade of gray on sight: haze gray, bulkhead gray, deck gray; but our leaders, right up to the President of the United States, strive to make everything black and white, like the pieces on a chess board. I can tell you from experience, the closet they have helped to reinforce is a tight fit and masturbation hasn’t made me any better at chess. . .