Mark Traphagen | April 8, 2011
It’s been a long time coming, but I finally finished my multi-part story of high school band geekdom that began as an audio podcast (Alan Helm’s Afternoon of Glory, Part 1) that never got finished because I started intensive chemo for my cancer. Last night I got to finally put an ending on this story, [...]
Mark Traphagen | September 22, 2010
Last night, in my second appearance as a storyteller at The Monti Story Slam, a regular live storytelling event here in Durham, NC, my story “The Bus, the Bench, and the Chamber of Doom” was judged best story of the evening! I want to personally thank Monti founder Jeff Polish, his wife, and his small [...]
Mark Traphagen | June 23, 2010
Below is a video of my story “Somewhere My Love…Anywhere But Here!” presented at The Monti Story Slam, 22 June 2010, at Alivia’s Bistro in Durham, NC. The theme of the night was “crushes.” Video was taken by my wife Karyn in HD, but compressed for uploading to YouTube. The first sentence of my monologue [...]
Mark Traphagen | June 13, 2010
If you follow this blog, you know that I’m trying to develop myself as a storyteller (The Bus, the Bench, and the Chamber of Doom text version | audio version). They say if you want to be a writer you should read great writers. So I figure if I want to be a storyteller, I [...]
Mark Traphagen (aka Foolish Sage) is a lover of dark beers and darker music, of things that are but are not as they seem, of contexts taken out of context to become new contexts, of stories that point to a bigger Story. Mark lives in Durham, NC, with his wife and pet Macbook Pro. He has two married daughters and six grandchildren, and works by day for Virante, an Internet Marketing firm.Proudly Powered by WordPress | Theme by The Cloisters | Entries RSS Comments RSS
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