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Drew Petriello
Absurdist theatermaker and writer
Archive
May 2023
May 1, 2023
Heart of Golden Tar to Premier at Hollywood Fringe
May 1, 2023
January 2023
Jan 6, 2023
Another Goddamn Introspective Reflection on 2022, but This One is Very Long
Jan 6, 2023
June 2022
Jun 17, 2022
Lore and Continuity Are Overrated
Jun 17, 2022
April 2022
Apr 4, 2022
A Mildewed Majesty to Drown a Sour Sound
Apr 4, 2022
March 2022
Mar 11, 2022
The Mere Presence of Pleasance
Mar 11, 2022
February 2022
Feb 22, 2022
An Inkling in the Eyes of Dying Men
Feb 22, 2022
January 2022
Jan 26, 2022
November/December Metal 2021 Tier List
Jan 26, 2022
Jan 18, 2022
Hijacking a Hijacked Brain
Jan 18, 2022
December 2021
Dec 15, 2021
On the Disposability and Enjoyability of Comic Books
Dec 15, 2021
November 2021
Nov 22, 2021
October Metal 2021 Tier List
Nov 22, 2021
October 2021
Oct 25, 2021
September Metal 2021 Tier List
Oct 25, 2021
Oct 15, 2021
Breaking Up With Coffee
Oct 15, 2021
September 2021
Sep 30, 2021
August Metal 2021 Tier List
Sep 30, 2021
August 2021
Aug 23, 2021
July Metal 2021 Tier List
Aug 23, 2021
Aug 15, 2021
The Great Excuse Water Wheel
Aug 15, 2021
July 2021
Jul 28, 2021
June 2021 Metal Tier List
Jul 28, 2021
June 2021
Jun 29, 2021
May 2021 Metal Tier List
Jun 29, 2021
Jun 15, 2021
Me (Love) Summer of '14 (Ire) & Frank Turner (Song)
Jun 15, 2021
Jun 10, 2021
April 2021 Metal Tier List
Jun 10, 2021
May 2021
May 15, 2021
The Deep Satisfaction of Crushing Your Enemies... With Industry!
May 15, 2021
May 6, 2021
March 2021 Metal Tier List
May 6, 2021
April 2021
Apr 15, 2021
A Scenic Road Trip to Bakersfield
Apr 15, 2021
March 2021
Mar 29, 2021
February 2021 Metal Tier List
Mar 29, 2021
February 2021
Feb 26, 2021
January 2021 Metal Tier List
Feb 26, 2021
Feb 15, 2021
How to Feel Time
Feb 15, 2021
January 2021
Jan 15, 2021
I Was Promised a Better Apocalypse
Jan 15, 2021
December 2020
Dec 4, 2020
Thwacking Snot-Nosed Brats, or How Klexel Met Billy
Dec 4, 2020
November 2020
Nov 30, 2020
Holidays aren't Special, No Days are Special
Nov 30, 2020
July 2020
Jul 18, 2020
Notes from Inside a Dying Empire
Jul 18, 2020
May 2020
May 19, 2020
Drew Petriello and Sleep: Frenemies for Life
May 19, 2020
April 2020
Apr 22, 2020
Dimensional Dumpster Dump
Apr 22, 2020
Apr 17, 2020
Ghostly Rights for Saint Stuffins' Yard
Apr 17, 2020
March 2020
Mar 30, 2020
There’s Something in the Air…
Mar 30, 2020
February 2020
Feb 3, 2020
(simmer, simmer)
Feb 3, 2020
January 2020
Jan 22, 2020
I Big Dum-Dum I Get Computer Virus :(
Jan 22, 2020
November 2019
Nov 11, 2019
The Deadest of Darlings
Nov 11, 2019
September 2019
Sep 13, 2019
Impostor Book Volume 1: Cosmic Fuck-Ups is Now Available!
Sep 13, 2019
August 2019
Aug 19, 2019
Five Years of Being So Cute It's Gross
Aug 19, 2019
June 2019
Jun 13, 2019
I Was a Creep
Jun 13, 2019
Jun 5, 2019
The Meaning of Life
Jun 5, 2019
May 2019
May 22, 2019
Just Gauging Interest...
May 22, 2019
May 15, 2019
The Drew Petriello Super Secret Method for Getting Shit Done that Totally Works
May 15, 2019
May 8, 2019
Making Bad Art on Purpose: The Play
May 8, 2019
May 1, 2019
Dream Tourists and Anesthetics
May 1, 2019
April 2019
Apr 10, 2019
My Friends do Cool Stuff: Merry Go Round Magazine
Apr 10, 2019
Apr 3, 2019
The Focused Insanity of Philip K Dick
Apr 3, 2019
March 2019
Mar 27, 2019
I'm Over Tommy Wiseau
Mar 27, 2019
Mar 13, 2019
A Hostage to My Nose
Mar 13, 2019
Mar 6, 2019
There's a Play in My Car
Mar 6, 2019
February 2019
Feb 27, 2019
The Nintendo Switch Has Killed Me
Feb 27, 2019
Feb 20, 2019
Gillette Wants Your Money
Feb 20, 2019
January 2019
Jan 21, 2019
The Self-Reflection Pond
Jan 21, 2019
Jan 14, 2019
I Normally Eat this Bruschetta Alone, but Will You Share it With Me This Time?
Jan 14, 2019
Jan 7, 2019
The Ten Step Method to Being Better
Jan 7, 2019
December 2018
Dec 17, 2018
Thinking About Stuff and Things: Part One Billion and Eight
Dec 17, 2018
Dec 10, 2018
Wrenching Yourself Out of Existential Wallowing
Dec 10, 2018
Dec 5, 2018
Celebrating my Birthday for the First Time in Six Years
Dec 5, 2018
October 2018
Oct 11, 2018
The Importance of Having a Rigid Schedule
Oct 11, 2018
September 2018
Sep 28, 2018
Creativity in the Ten Steps so Easy it's Easy
Sep 28, 2018
August 2018
Aug 1, 2018
Ghosts on a Ghost World - The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Aug 1, 2018
July 2018
Jul 5, 2018
Idiot Gringos at the Korean Barbecue
Jul 5, 2018
June 2018
Jun 27, 2018
Signing Off From Hollywood Fringe 2018
Jun 27, 2018
Jun 12, 2018
A Quick Recap of the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2018: Preview-6/11
Jun 12, 2018
May 2018
May 1, 2018
How to Be Lazy and Not Feel Guilty - Coming to a Hollywood Fringe near you!
May 1, 2018
April 2018
Apr 25, 2018
The Essential Project 3 - Compromised
Apr 25, 2018
Apr 18, 2018
The Essential Project 2 - The Maw
Apr 18, 2018
Apr 11, 2018
The Essential Project 1 - Clytemnestra
Apr 11, 2018
Apr 4, 2018
Option Paralysis - Writer Edition
Apr 4, 2018
March 2018
Mar 28, 2018
I Steal from These Writers Because I Love Them So Much
Mar 28, 2018
Mar 21, 2018
What Makes Me Like Your Story
Mar 21, 2018
Mar 15, 2018
Pick Better Idols, Drew!
Mar 15, 2018
Mar 8, 2018
A Minor Epiphany I had About Research
Mar 8, 2018
Mar 1, 2018
Rituals Big and Small
Mar 1, 2018
February 2018
Feb 22, 2018
M-O-O-N, that Spells 1,500 Page Novel
Feb 22, 2018
Feb 15, 2018
The Honesty of Wailing Guitars
Feb 15, 2018
December 2017
Dec 4, 2017
Wanderlust and the Creative Mind
Dec 4, 2017
Dec 1, 2017
Five More Lewd Drew Haiku
Dec 1, 2017
November 2017
Nov 27, 2017
NEW SHINEY GIMME
Nov 27, 2017
Nov 24, 2017
Capitalism = Waste
Nov 24, 2017
Nov 20, 2017
A Watershed Moment for Exposing Scumbags
Nov 20, 2017
Nov 17, 2017
i'm in revision hell and i'm procrastinating
Nov 17, 2017
Nov 15, 2017
BACK in the Washing - BACK in the Washing - BACK in the Washington Sta-ate!
Nov 15, 2017
Nov 13, 2017
The Evils and Delights of Split-Focus
Nov 13, 2017
Nov 10, 2017
Ten Writing Prompts for the Homies Stuck on the Blank Screen (pour one out)
Nov 10, 2017
Nov 9, 2017
Drew is the Male Lead in an Indie Feature - Twelve Days of Christmas!
Nov 9, 2017
Nov 8, 2017
A Statement About the Drew Petriello Brand(tm)
Nov 8, 2017
Nov 6, 2017
Nostalgia is Bullshit
Nov 6, 2017
Nov 3, 2017
Check out my new headshots!
Nov 3, 2017
Nov 1, 2017
Five Lewd Drew Haiku
Nov 1, 2017
October 2017
Oct 30, 2017
Homelessness - What a Bum-er!
Oct 30, 2017
Oct 27, 2017
The Final Girl - Badass Horror Theatre in Los Angeles
Oct 27, 2017
Oct 25, 2017
Trying Something New With the Blog
Oct 25, 2017
Oct 18, 2017
The Great Drew Petriello Social Media Experiment!
Oct 18, 2017
Oct 11, 2017
Waging War with Resistance
Oct 11, 2017
September 2017
Sep 27, 2017
Cultivate Other Interests
Sep 27, 2017
Sep 20, 2017
A Spot of the Ol' Ultraviolence
Sep 20, 2017
Sep 17, 2017
SYMMETRICAL TEETH
Sep 17, 2017
Sep 13, 2017
Organizing Your Life; the Drew Petriello Way
Sep 13, 2017
Sep 10, 2017
The Limerick About Betty's Cake
Sep 10, 2017
Sep 6, 2017
Podcast Talk Version 2 - Podlectric Boogalcast
Sep 6, 2017
August 2017
Aug 30, 2017
An Existential Crisis that Won't Go Away Part 2: a City Under my Feet, a Community Surrounding Me
Aug 30, 2017
Aug 27, 2017
He's a Dumb
Aug 27, 2017
Aug 23, 2017
An Existential Crisis that Won't Go Away Part 1: Creative Anesthetic
Aug 23, 2017
Aug 20, 2017
Scruffy Dog on a Log
Aug 20, 2017
Aug 16, 2017
The Sliding Scale Between Willpower and Procrastination
Aug 16, 2017
Aug 13, 2017
Finelan G's Friday Morning
Aug 13, 2017
Aug 9, 2017
My Current Life as an Amateur Nerd
Aug 9, 2017
Aug 2, 2017
The Gratingly Pervasive Use of Marketing Lingo
Aug 2, 2017
July 2017
Jul 26, 2017
Letting Your Baby Go
Jul 26, 2017
Jul 19, 2017
Acting Style in A Series of Unfortunate Events
Jul 19, 2017
Jul 12, 2017
Living on the Fringe
Jul 12, 2017
Jul 5, 2017
Outside In
Jul 5, 2017
Jul 2, 2017
Staying Safe Inside
Jul 2, 2017
June 2017
Jun 28, 2017
Someone Else's Dream
Jun 28, 2017
Jun 21, 2017
Rediscovering Mythology
Jun 21, 2017
Jun 14, 2017
When an Idea Just Won't Come
Jun 14, 2017
Jun 7, 2017
The Virtues of Coffee
Jun 7, 2017
May 2017
May 31, 2017
Looking Out
May 31, 2017
May 28, 2017
Dayjob
May 28, 2017
May 24, 2017
The Importance of Doing Something Else
May 24, 2017
May 21, 2017
Sure of Something
May 21, 2017
May 17, 2017
One Year Alum
May 17, 2017
May 10, 2017
Meddling Around in "Kind Of"
May 10, 2017
May 7, 2017
Double Booked and Double Broke
May 7, 2017
May 3, 2017
Eloquence - or Rather, the Lack of it
May 3, 2017
April 2017
Apr 26, 2017
Inge Festival Debrief
Apr 26, 2017
Apr 19, 2017
Mister Inge, Delighted to Meet you
Apr 19, 2017
Apr 16, 2017
The Night Welcomes Abigail
Apr 16, 2017
Apr 12, 2017
Transient, I Am
Apr 12, 2017
Apr 9, 2017
Once Recurring Dream
Apr 9, 2017
Apr 5, 2017
I Haven't Been Home in Close to a Year and a Half
Apr 5, 2017
Apr 2, 2017
Television Ripple
Apr 2, 2017
March 2017
Mar 29, 2017
The Era of the Niche
Mar 29, 2017
Mar 26, 2017
Substanceless Words
Mar 26, 2017
Mar 22, 2017
I've Been Getting Back into my Zen Practice
Mar 22, 2017
Mar 15, 2017
DEFENSE ACTIVATED
Mar 15, 2017
Mar 12, 2017
A Jury of my Peers
Mar 12, 2017
Mar 8, 2017
Perpetually Dissatisfied
Mar 8, 2017
Mar 5, 2017
Muddy Wagon Wheel
Mar 5, 2017
Mar 1, 2017
You can't Trust Nobody
Mar 1, 2017
February 2017
Feb 26, 2017
Stucco Ceiling Revelation
Feb 26, 2017
Feb 22, 2017
It's Okay to Like Things
Feb 22, 2017
Feb 15, 2017
On the Importance of Fantasy
Feb 15, 2017
Feb 12, 2017
Selective Quotes
Feb 12, 2017
Feb 8, 2017
Bojack Horseman Makes Me Feel Things
Feb 8, 2017
Feb 5, 2017
Keeping Cursive Art You've Drawn
Feb 5, 2017
Feb 1, 2017
A Collapse of Meaning
Feb 1, 2017
January 2017
Jan 29, 2017
Observant of the Street Holiday
Jan 29, 2017
Jan 25, 2017
The Marching Women
Jan 25, 2017
Jan 22, 2017
Words in the Bomb Blast
Jan 22, 2017
Jan 18, 2017
Stupidly Stubborn
Jan 18, 2017
Jan 15, 2017
Energy Siphoner
Jan 15, 2017
Jan 11, 2017
The Board Gaming Renaissance
Jan 11, 2017
Jan 8, 2017
money made up martyr me
Jan 8, 2017
Jan 4, 2017
The Year of "Why Not"
Jan 4, 2017
Jan 1, 2017
you didn't even breathe when you looked at me
Jan 1, 2017
December 2016
Dec 21, 2016
Holiday Break
Dec 21, 2016
Dec 18, 2016
Wonderkid
Dec 18, 2016
Dec 14, 2016
The Person I Don't Want to Be
Dec 14, 2016
Dec 11, 2016
A Pretentious Poem of Snow
Dec 11, 2016
Dec 7, 2016
I Wish I Could Quit You
Dec 7, 2016
Dec 4, 2016
Those Evil Men
Dec 4, 2016
November 2016
Nov 30, 2016
Time Wizardry
Nov 30, 2016
Nov 27, 2016
Got it All Wrong
Nov 27, 2016
Nov 23, 2016
In Defense of Story for Story's Sake
Nov 23, 2016
Nov 20, 2016
How to Escape Your Mind
Nov 20, 2016
Nov 16, 2016
Not Resilient Enough to Be Online
Nov 16, 2016
Nov 13, 2016
Of Toxic Gas and Weedy Men
Nov 13, 2016
Nov 8, 2016
I WRITE THESE IN ADVANCE
Nov 8, 2016
Nov 6, 2016
I Wish I were Strong
Nov 6, 2016
Nov 2, 2016
A Farewell to the Most Important Band in Modern Music
Nov 2, 2016
October 2016
Oct 30, 2016
Go Run
Oct 30, 2016
Oct 26, 2016
The Demon in my Home
Oct 26, 2016
Oct 23, 2016
What You Mean
Oct 23, 2016
Oct 19, 2016
My Workaholic/Restaholic Tendencies
Oct 19, 2016
Oct 16, 2016
Insects Full of Ideas
Oct 16, 2016
Oct 12, 2016
The Sickness Paradox
Oct 12, 2016
Oct 5, 2016
Speaking Without Listening
Oct 5, 2016
September 2016
Sep 26, 2016
Cutting Back a Bit
Sep 26, 2016
Sep 25, 2016
I (Don't) Know
Sep 25, 2016
Sep 23, 2016
Chocoholic
Sep 23, 2016
Sep 19, 2016
An Internet Vomitorum
Sep 19, 2016
Sep 18, 2016
Goat Atop a Windy Hill
Sep 18, 2016
Sep 16, 2016
Hope you Guess my Soulja Boy
Sep 16, 2016
Sep 12, 2016
SELF PROMO. SUCH FUN. NOT SARCASM.
Sep 12, 2016
Sep 11, 2016
A Dream of Balanced Scales
Sep 11, 2016
Sep 9, 2016
The Elements of Love
Sep 9, 2016
Sep 5, 2016
Savior of LA Traffic - Podcasts and Audiobooks
Sep 5, 2016
Sep 4, 2016
Wither Words
Sep 4, 2016
Sep 2, 2016
Today, a Rock; Tomorrow, Dust
Sep 2, 2016
August 2016
Aug 29, 2016
An Existential Blog Post Searching for Answers
Aug 29, 2016
Aug 28, 2016
Thieving Road
Aug 28, 2016
Aug 26, 2016
My Manufactured Victory Finale
Aug 26, 2016
Aug 22, 2016
Two Years
Aug 22, 2016
Aug 21, 2016
Sestina for Jinny
Aug 21, 2016
Aug 19, 2016
My Manufactured Victory Part 3
Aug 19, 2016
Aug 15, 2016
My In-Yer-Face Music Tastes
Aug 15, 2016
Aug 14, 2016
Brock
Aug 14, 2016
Aug 12, 2016
My Manufactured Victory Part 2
Aug 12, 2016
Aug 8, 2016
Identity Crisis or Transition?
Aug 8, 2016
Aug 7, 2016
Hiding from the Burning City
Aug 7, 2016
Aug 5, 2016
My Manufactured Victory Part 1
Aug 5, 2016
Aug 1, 2016
Starting Over. And Over... and Over... and Over...
Aug 1, 2016
July 2016
Jul 31, 2016
Again Anew
Jul 31, 2016
Jul 29, 2016
So Like, I Met a Wizard
Jul 29, 2016
Jul 25, 2016
I Hate Moving
Jul 25, 2016
Jul 24, 2016
Return to Light
Jul 24, 2016
Jul 22, 2016
Death by Boredom
Jul 22, 2016
Jul 18, 2016
For the Ancestors!
Jul 18, 2016
Jul 17, 2016
Buffeting Time
Jul 17, 2016
Jul 15, 2016
Bead Beneath my Bed
Jul 15, 2016
Jul 11, 2016
Reading is for Nerds - Cool, Awesome Nerds ;)
Jul 11, 2016
Jul 10, 2016
That Fraction Width
Jul 10, 2016
Jul 8, 2016
Dudebro and Brodude do Bro Things
Jul 8, 2016
Jul 4, 2016
Writer Talking About Writing
Jul 4, 2016
Jul 3, 2016
Burnt Out
Jul 3, 2016
Jul 1, 2016
The Changing of the Gods
Jul 1, 2016
June 2016
Jun 27, 2016
An Ignorant American Talking About the Brits
Jun 27, 2016
Jun 26, 2016
Wanderlust
Jun 26, 2016
Jun 24, 2016
Serial Bopper
Jun 24, 2016
Jun 20, 2016
I AM GAMER, HEAR ME ROAR
Jun 20, 2016
Jun 19, 2016
The Lanky Length of Limbo
Jun 19, 2016
Jun 17, 2016
The Adventures of Little Girl Sally, Marxist
Jun 17, 2016
Jun 14, 2016
Pasteurized News and Dead Skin Cells 6/7 - 6/13
Jun 14, 2016
Jun 13, 2016
I had a Different Blog Post Written; then Orlando Happened
Jun 13, 2016
Jun 12, 2016
Evangelical Waste
Jun 12, 2016
Jun 10, 2016
City for a Day
Jun 10, 2016
Jun 7, 2016
Welltits 5/31 - 6/6
Jun 7, 2016
Jun 6, 2016
The Most Annoying Lifelong Learning Experience
Jun 6, 2016
Jun 5, 2016
Rash
Jun 5, 2016
Jun 3, 2016
Fetal Savior
Jun 3, 2016
May 2016
May 31, 2016
Borscht. What a silly word. 5/24 - 5/30
May 31, 2016
May 30, 2016
Pens and Paper and the Like
May 30, 2016
May 29, 2016
A World where No One Speaks
May 29, 2016
May 24, 2016
5/17 - 5/23
May 24, 2016
May 23, 2016
Done with School, or Now the Floundering Begins
May 23, 2016
May 22, 2016
Graduation Speech
May 22, 2016
May 15, 2016
Sonnet for Sleep
May 15, 2016
May 8, 2016
Ghost Story
May 8, 2016
May 1, 2016
The Precipice of Possibilities
May 1, 2016
April 2016
Apr 24, 2016
The Gash and the Bird
Apr 24, 2016
Apr 17, 2016
Beady-Eyed Badgerman
Apr 17, 2016
Apr 10, 2016
Embarking
Apr 10, 2016