Uranium Madhouse Blog

Just in time for Brecht’s birthday, which is today! On Brecht from Andrew Utter on Vimeo.

On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it to be a place Much like the city of London. I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles. —from “On Thinking about Hell,” Bertolt Brecht

I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!” I opened the man’s skull and messed […]

This wonderful piece on Patti Smith (one of the UM 9 Muses ), by Luc Sante, doyenne of the East Village bohemia of yore, is called “The Mother Courage of Rock.” Just sayin.

As the dramaturg. I have been doing this regularly for several years for many of the larger theaters in Southern California. This means I have read literally hundreds and hundreds (if not thousands) of terrible scripts and a smattering of good ones too. And while this is frequently painful, it has also given me a […]

Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.