Daniel B. Thompson
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Daniel B. Thompson
@dbttheater.com
dead inside, queer, pedantic, Utahn
yes, I'm great at parties
US-based performing arts production director & consultant; expert in nonprofit venue & repertory stage operations (cool story bro)
[email protected]
www.dbttheater.com
"AI" can't serve charisma, uniqueness, nerve or talent, ergo, i am uninterested thanks
December 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Especially when there is a salary cap of $100k in this example.
December 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in [America], at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.
December 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
That's how living in Austin and Sixth Street is. "Uh, yeah, I mean, I guess you could go there if you like drunk college kids and tourists or waiting in line to pay too much for a well drink in a plastic cup."
December 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
An eye doctor put me onto antihistamine eyes drops a number of years ago, and I will be eternally grateful to her. Life-changing for my dry/weepy eyes.
December 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
My winter allergies are worse than the rest of the year, largely due to the doors/windows being closed: the hot, dry recirculated air from the heater dries me out and blows trapped dust into the air. I use a HEPA filter and change it often and run the robot vacuum daily and it helps.
December 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Actors are experts on acting and they often have qualified, nuanced opinions on acting! (Although, after 30 years in the theater, I am 0% interested in hearing about an actor's "process" ever again.)
December 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Actors are like AI: their training enables them to speak confidently and believably on topics on which they have neither experience nor expertise and are prone to hallucination.
December 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Dead grandma chatbot doesn't even overpay me for doing chores for her, wth
December 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Dead Grandma Chatbot, you can't vote for Trump again, you're dead and a chatbot, what are you even talking about
December 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
dead grandma chatbot keeps asking if I'm going to church and when I'm going to give her grandchildren
December 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
"My dead grandma chatbot is mad and won't talk to me because I'm in a queer polyamorous relationship with a Black man and a femme nonbinary person."
December 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
One benefit of working in an ancient art form is that all the foundational theories have already been disproven and no one cares.
Conversely, you can then be very knowledgeable about those theories and still not be very good at it, so c'est la vie or whatever.
December 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
As it was Told by the seers, the Men Without Hats, in the Prophecy of The Safety Dance found in the Second Tract of Revelations foretold in the Rhythm of Youth as faithfully transcribed by the Holy Order of Statik Records in the Year 1982:

we can dance if we want to
December 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I already do way more than I ever cared to, what more do you want from me Bill
December 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
What's stopping you besides deciding which office you don't hold from which to resign? A goal without a plan is just a wish, you know.
December 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
They probably figure since they can/will appeal in CA, NV, VA, etc., they might as well throw all of it at the wall in hopes that something will stick enough to get cert at the SC, where they have better odds.
December 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
is it unconstitutional if we ban dancing for Safety Reasons
December 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Yeah, the idea is like "I'm going to make homemade stuffing with offal baked in the bird or in some complex multi-step process, hell yeah," and you do it and then realize what you really wanted was for it to somehow taste exactly like Stove Top but Not Store-Bought, and it, uh, ain't that.
December 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM