For a while, I was through with acting, and then Alexander Payne called me up and said “hey, Thomas! I have a script I want you to read! It’ll be great, you get to sleep with my wife!”

Teaching at Harvard, which should have gratified my highest ambition, didn’t fully satisfy because I didn’t much like the place where Harvard was situated. I took the first opportunity that offered a chance to get back west.

k

words FOR the sandbox

“giggleups”

a fit of giggles + a fit of hiccups

i get those a lot :-/