I’ve spent my life standing in two very different rooms:
One has a judge’s bench. The other, a stage.
In one, I argue law. In the other, I let characters speak for themselves.
Both are performances. Both demand truth.
This is Chaos and Craft — not just a blog, but a living collision between the rigid and the ridiculous, the structured and the strange. If you know me, you know that contradiction isn’t something I shy away from. I build with it.
Who am I?
My name is Brian S. Brijbag. I’m a personal injury attorney by profession, a playwright by obsession, and a human being (hopefully) somewhere in between. I’ve spent time in courtrooms fighting for the injured, the unseen, and the wronged. I’ve also spent hundreds of hours wrestling with fictional characters who sometimes make more sense than real people.
I’ve written about medical debt, environmental injustice, and superhero liability. I’ve staged absurdist comedies about final slices of pie and grief-stricken funeral rehearsals. I’ve cross-examined expert witnesses and also explained contract law using sock puppets. (Ask me sometime.)
So yes — chaos and craft. One is the world. The other is what we do with it.
Why this space?
Because I needed somewhere that didn’t force a binary.
Somewhere that could hold both the chaos of a broken system
and the craft of those who are trying to fix it.
Both the mess of real life and the meticulous shaping of a good line of dialogue.
Both the courtroom and the footlight.
Both the pain and the punchline.
I don’t believe we’re meant to be just one thing.
This site exists because I am not just one thing. And neither are you.
What you’ll find here
This isn’t a law blog.
It’s not a theatre diary.
It’s not a journal of activism or a professional landing page or a self-promotional vacuum.
It’s all of them. And none of them.
It’s a place where my thoughts go when they don’t have to fit neatly in a filing cabinet or a final draft.
Expect:
- Essays on justice, creativity, and contradiction
- Musings from the courtroom and the greenroom
- Snippets of plays in progress
- Commentary on absurd laws, stranger clients, and moments of unexpected meaning
- The occasional philosophical detour into why any of this matters at all
You’ll hear from the lawyer who quotes Beckett.
The playwright who drafts demand letters.
The father, the Floridian, the advocate, the skeptic, the faithful, the tired, the hopeful.
Why Chaos and Craft?
Because those two words describe how I move through the world.
Chaos is what we inherit — from the legal system, from society, from our own pasts.
Craft is what we make of it — in how we tell stories, fight battles, and shape meaning from mess.
There’s no clean line here. Just a deep belief that if we stay honest, stay weird, and keep writing, something good — maybe even beautiful — can emerge.
So welcome. You found the edge where structure breaks and soul steps in.
Let’s build something out of the wreckage.
— Brian
Brian Brijbag 