William Stobb

M AN  sits in pizzeria with pizza wrapped around his feet                         WOMAN enters pizzeria PIZZA GUY is behind the counter PIZZA GUY [as WOMAN enters] Welcome to Miraculous Pizza! WOMAN Thanks!   Do you have any specials today?   [notices MAN with pizza slices wrapped around his feet]   Whoa!   Dude!   Why do you have pizza slices on your feet? MAN When my Gout acts up, I just come to Miraculous Pizza.   Their slices have healing properties. WOMAN [to PIZZA GUY] Is that true? PIZZA GUY Of course!   Yeah!   It’s totally true.   [Gestures for WOMAN  to come closer, then whispers]   No, it’s not true.   At least not that I know of.   But what am I gonna do?   He’s my coursin. WOMAN Good point.   Well, I’ll take a classic Chicago slice.   Pepperoni.   MAN Pepperoni, huh?   Your Lumbago must be acting up. WOMAN Huh? MAN The classic Chicago Pepperoni.   That’s for Lumbago.   Also reduces pain and swelling due to Angina. WOMAN Okay... well...   I just eat it.   MAN

From "Doom" Doom is the law book of King Alfred the Great, circa 900 CE.   This book is so awesome that the Ten Commandments are the preface .   That would be my blurb for it: "this book is so awesome that...."  Doom means something like “law” or “judgment” to King Alfred because language evolves over time.   Wikipedia provides the example “Doom very evenly!   Do not doom one doom to the rich and another to the poor!”   King Alfred rated honesty pretty highly: “if he belie himself and be slain, let him lie uncompensated,” and it’s ironic that I get a very doomy image from that of a big red-bearded Viking guy lying in the mud, bleeding out from a sword wound, blinking his last blinks knowing that no one has prayed for him in the way you need to be prayed for if you’re going to heaven.   And the camera pans out up into the sky and into our solar system and our galaxy and our universe, but the heavy string music continues over top of all of it because my capacity fo

Roundhouse Productions Presents the World Premiere of Predator: The Musical July 15 - August 13, 2011 New Rock Theater, Chicago, Illinois, USA, Earth Written by David Krump, William Stobb, and Will Bulka Directed by Derek Elstro Music by Will Bulka Tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/ , keyword "Predator the Musical"   July 15 - August 13, 2011 New Rock Theater, Chicago, Illinois, USA, Earth Fridays and Saturdays at 9:30 PM Based on the 1987 Fil m Predator , but re-imagined and re-booted with original words and songs. A special operations team, sent  on a covert mission in the jungle, encounters a seemingly unstoppable force, determined to hunt and kill them all.  The action-packed race for survival features a soundtrack ranging from early punk rock to R & B. Predator: The Musical fl ips both modern musicals and fi lm-to-stage adaptations on their heads making this production one of a kind.    Featuring: Lance Newton (Dillon) Glenese Hand (The Predator) Tracie D