Director: Aaron Sorkin; Cast: Ted LeFrank as himself, Meg Whitman as herself, Aaron Sorkin as himself, and Seth Green as Computer Ted LeFrank had never been ambitious. He’d worked at a pizza restaurant in his hometown…
Gemini (May 22 – June 21) Home Depot Orange. Undershirt Ecru. Plum Forgot. Grew This Tomato Myself. Kid, your array of “dad hues” blew me the fuck away. Before I invest eight million dollars in this…
Europe Right Near Russia and Africa, The World 5 Stars Finally, I got to go to Europe. I saved my pennies for all thirty-two years of my life. I added them up. I bought the plane…
Extremely Expensive Grapes Fruit Stands in Prime Locations, The World 5 Stars The other day, my girlfriend and I went to a popular beach. We were hungry and tired and thirsty from all the leisure we…
No Farts Yoga Glendale, CA 5 Stars I’d been a little unhappy with my usual yoga studio, so I decided to try somewhere new. The old place just had a few too many, ooooh, how do…
Aries (21 March – 20 April) Quiche is a wonderful, filling food that’s really pretty easy to make. It packs caloric punch, it lasts in the fridge, and nobody will think you’re being rude when you…
Sweatpants Wedding is an unfinished musical about comfort and commitment. Stephan McCormick is its author. Tom Dibblee is “a friend of the project who happened to have the original idea and won’t go away.” Tom also…
Director: Neil Labute; Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Kate Hudson, and Bud Cort; Cinematography by John Seale A.S.C; Music by Michael Penn; Produced by Scott Rudin. There are two things in the world that don’t get associated enough—ovens…
AWP 2014 Seattle, WA 2 Stars Every year, AWP, the big writing conference for writers, happens. All the writers go, then all the writers write about it. Everyone tries to make sense of it because AWP…
Aquarius (21 January – 19 February) The ice storms are over, but that doesn’t mean you’re out of the woods, Aquarius. Put on pants when you’re out in the snow this week. Just because the weather’s…
Aquarius (21 January – 19 February) You’ve walked by something like a million dogs in your life, and never once has one had the decency to say hello. This is all about to change. Soon, dogs…
Director: Neil Labute; Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Kate Hudson, and Bud Cort; Cinematography: John Seale A.S.C.; Music: Michael Penn; Producer: Scott Rudin Baby on Fire is a movie about a number of things: birth, flames, life, death,…
Over the past two weeks we’ve been reading here in The Weather about the history of Sweatpants Wedding Itself in a larger document called Sweatpants Wedding Without Any Qualifiers, or, The Sweatpants Without Qualities. The idea…
When we left off after our last installment, the introduction to this, Sweatpants Wedding Without Any Qualifiers, or, The Sweatpants Without Qualities, which comprises both Sweatpants Wedding Itself by Stephan McCormick and The Making of Sweatpants…
Introduction Part One Sweatpants Wedding is the most storied piece of unfinished writing in Trop history. It’s been in the works for nearly a decade now, since well before Trop even existed, and as of my…
Cast STEPH CHA, Los Feliz, Los Angeles. Formerly of Drinks No Caffeine. Refuses to walk down street without a) the company of her basset hound Duke or b) reading a book. Hence is not only one…
1. The novel opens and closes with Alice wondering if she’s made terrible mistakes. Do you think she has? If so, what are they? Nicely worded question there. It took me a full thirty seconds before…