Thread by @sheilakathleen

Just a little thread of some of the things I wrote on my own site in 2020. Yes, the site is a monster. I can't help it. I've been writing over there for 18 years. It's an oasis. For me anyway and hopefully for others!

I interviewed Jennifer McCabe, Associate Professor at Lehman College in the Theatre Department (she also teaches at NYU) a/b the fascinating exercises she's developed to help solve common problems she saw w/her acting students. DEEP DIVE into PROCESS. sheilaomalley.com/?p=154648

I didn't start OUT wanting my blog to be a veritable birthday-calendar, but that's what's happened. It's an offshoot of writing over there for 18 years. They're fun to do. Here's one on Anita Loos: sheilaomalley.com/?p=157207

I wrote about one of my favorite painters, Henry Ossawa Turner. sheilaomalley.com/?p=158938

Over the years, I've written a lot about actress Hediyeh Tehrani, after I first got turned onto her work in the mid-2000s. I decided to put it all together, and discuss what it is she brings to the screen. The epic and the real: She can do both. sheilaomalley.com/?p=158973

Writing this monster of a piece on Eminem helped get me through July, a really bad month in a really bad year. It started out as one thing - a discussion of his album REVIVAL - and ballooned into something else and I didn't stop b/c fuck it. sheilaomalley.com/?p=159618

I wrote something on Frances Farmer, her career, her troubles, how much I love her and get her, and took the opportunity to talk about madness, because of course. sheilaomalley.com/?p=161437

I had to let go of my beloved cat Hope in early September. It was a heartwrenching choice and I miss her so much. I wrote about her. She was such a good and sweet girl. sheilaomalley.com/?p=161506

I used to write personally on my site, about my crazy flames, past shenanigans. Social media made me shy. But isolation made me reflect a LOT and I wrote this NOVELLA a/b a flame who said "Tsk tsk tsk" to me disapprovingly and what I made it mean (lol): sheilaomalley.com/?p=159343

I reviewed KILLING ELEANOR, a film currently doing the virtual-film-festival circuit - directed by Rich Newey, starring @Annika_Marks and Jenny O'Hara and I can't say enough good things about it. Keep your eyes peeled: sheilaomalley.com/?p=162615

And I guess I'll end with the piece I wrote when Patricia Bosworth died in April, from Covid. A terrible loss. I knew her slightly thru the Actors Studio. Her books are HUGE to me - her memoirs and (particularly) her bio of Mont. Clift. RIP. sheilaomalley.com/?p=156639

As always, feel free to join in the conversation going on over there. It's still like the Blogosphere 2004 over there. To everyone who ever stops by my site - or talks w/me here - or likes what I do: I truly appreciate it. Talking w/people is part of the fun of it. So thank you.

Oh damn I forgot: every Monday throughout this year, I have been putting up my brother @DaddyBrave 's music writing - most of 2020 has been devoted to his weekly essays on Scott Walker. Deep dives, people! sheilaomalley.com/?tag=scott-wal…