PB Crook

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Director*Actor*Arts Educator. Author: “The Art and Practice of Directing for Theatre.” Proud Bama alum (twice). Husband. Dad. He/Him

Paul takes a pausa de hidratacion sip from an Alabama tervis tumbler.
A picture of the ceiling of the Omaha airport. It is in disrepair due to construction.
Kit Kat in a sink
The cover and some of the liner notes to the 1956 album, “Ella & Louis,” the first album that Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong collaborated on for Verve records.
A tervis tumbler of Jack Daniel’s on the rocks in the foreground, a laptop with Alabama softball beating UCLA in the mid-range, and trees and mountains in the Smokey Mountains in the background.
The most college male of all college male refrigerators, containing two ice packs and a partial bottle of mustard.
A delicious meal of tilapia, shrimp, broccoli and potatoes
Audrey II at USC Aiken, lit in red light.
A scoreboard chyron for Alabama beating Florida 6-0.
Two paragraphs from the novel Strength of the Few, where Diego is walking away from his zombified father.
An airbrushed tshirt that says “Flygirl” on it, with an image of a cassette tape.
Kit Kat—a very silly, cute, and precious orange and white cat—lays upside down on the coach with her paws extended, while my wife works on her laptop.
Paul wearing a flamingo tie, checkered sport coat, and reading glasses. He has on a headset and is sitting backstage
A Jonathan Durham post from Threads: Me: and the hell, is it fresh? 2026s Oh yes, the freshest Me: Wonderful, and is that my… 2026: your handbasket, yes
The cover of the Riverside Shakespeare
A plate of brisket, collard greens, black eyed peas, and cornbread.
Two glasses of champagne and peaches on a rail in the foreground, with a mountain stream in the background. The tradition of drinking champagne and peaches on holidays/special events was introduced to my parents by our nextdoor neighbors on New Years, 1971. We have met up the tradition ever since. Coincidentally, today would have been my parents’ 70th anniversary. Hope they’re enjoying a glass or three wherever they are.
A screenshot of Merriam-Webster’s word of the year gif that is stopped on “hopeful.”
Charlie Brown sits at Lucy’s psychiatry booth, where the doctor is reeeaaaaal in.
A picture of a wildly grinning Thurl Ravenscroft
A picture of Paul (me) with a bandanna on my head, and sipping a drink, while on the Disney Treasure on “Pirate Night.”
A screenshot of a text between a middle-aged man in academic regalia, and his 13 year old daughter's savage reply.
The Sickos skeet screenshot has chosen NCSU vs OU for the Duke’s Mayo Bowl
A screenshot of a text between me and my daughter. I sent a pic of the current Denver-Washington score: “6-7,” and my 13 yr old daughter’s reply: “I regret teaching you this.”
Kit Kat, a precious, 6 month old, orange kitten, sits under a Christmas tree, plotting just how many ways she can destroy it, knowing that her humans won’t do anything because they are completely smitten with her.
Tinker and Kit Kat, sleeping on my wife’s legs
An Ole Miss player loses the game for his team by seemingly losing his mind, and thinking he’s a dog?
A beautiful bacon-wrapped bird.
Three glasses of champagne and peaches. A family holiday tradition.
A remnant of a bygone era
An information table and display for the University of South Carolina Aiken Theatre Department
Kit Kat, aka Miss Priss, aka Li’l Bit, aka, Junior, a beautiful yellow kitten, lays partially on top of a laptop.
Baby Paul—with arms raised, celebrating what was presumably an Alabama touchdown.
Kit Kat, an orange cat with green eyes, looks majestic.
Post it notes from a 13 yr old
A photoshopped picture of Ed Orgeron in Penn St gear
A stunned Arch Manning thinks about the physical abuse he will receive from his family for sucking so much in this game.
Wikipedia description of a Happy Days episode where Fonzie joins the cast of The Rainmaker
A picture of The Great Gazoo, a fictional cartoon character with a noggin similarity to trashy, racist, xenophobe fascist Stephen Miller.
The cover of John Scalzi’s book, Starter Villain, which features a handsome cat in a suit.
Cover for Dire Straits 1985 album, Brothers in Arms
Paul and Mary Fran with sadly normal sized keys
The cover of Christopher Moore’s latest novel, Anima Rising.
Terrifying Purdue Pete photo
An excerpt from the article: "Capaldi: I think because I’m from Glasgow the swearing came very naturally. Sometimes a “fucking” in the middle of a sentence can propel it forward with a new energy. But often I would swear because I couldn’t remember my lines. It would take a fucking minute or two for me to fucking remember the line that I fucking forgot. So I would be searching desperately for the line … and then it would fucking arrive!"
A much younger Paul (maybe about 25?), with his nephew on his shoulders.
Kovu, a gray and white cat, sleeps with one leg extended outside of his bed.
A picture of Paul, a middle aged man wearing glasses, using a walker with a caddy on the front of it.
A gray and white cat, sleeping on his side with a paw over his face.
The cover of The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraboty, depicting a 12th century ship being attacked by a sea creature.
Paul, glasses on, taking a sip of Jack Daniel’s.
Kovu, a gray cat with white socks, sleeps in a cardboard box on a stained carpet that was previously ruined by our old, blind, incontinent dog, so please don’t judge!
A picture of me looking ridiculous, brown hair teased up and standing on top of my head, blue eyes wide, and grey goatee stretched out about 2.5 inches. I was letting my beard grow for No-shave November, and decided that my midlife crisis was going to be to grow my hair out into an old man ponytail, since I hadn’t had one since about 1995. But November ended, and the hair was annoying me, so I shaved and got a haircut. But took this ridiculous picture first.
Me and my youngest son at the Bama-Carolina basketball game
Bama basketball warming up
3 little birds on a camera feeder