Not gonna lie, I’ve been banging my head against the wall a bit today trying to wrap up what I hope is one last logistical hurdle to Sunday’s show. The city requires two different kinds of insurance when you put on public events at its parks: General insurance and Auto insurance. I’m good on...
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Chairs!!!
Hit the first snag of the week today when the caretaker at Mayfield Park called to tell me that the 45 chairs (and 8 tables) they have on hand can’t leave the cottage. The chairs are too nice, apparently, and the city doesn’t want them to get dirty outside. A few phone calls...
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What. Is. Happening!!! Why am I doing this again??? Oy-yoy-yoy-yoy-yoy-yoy-yoy. 🙂 It’s going to be fine, Max, it’s going to be fine…...
Revisiting Hollywood Again and Again and Again
I told this story about my nine incredibly intense days in Hollywood last year at Testify, and now I get a chance to repeat it three times tomorrow night at the annual Thinkery benefit. I’ve gotta chop out a few bits of the narrative, and it’s gonna barely be ready under the wire. But...
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Had initial meetings this week with the production teams for two upcoming events, and they were both super helpful. 1. On Saturday I met with Sharon Sparlin who will be directing this piece for the annual Out of Ink production at Hyde Park Theater which opens the last week of April. She has...
Continue readingThe Night I Fell off a Bridge
So on March 30th, I’m scheduled to do Testify again at the Spider House Ballroom. You should totally come! (ahem, doors open at 7pm) But anyway, as I was looking through photos for the Boom Chicago post below, I happened to find this photo too, which is actually referenced in the story I’m working...
Continue readingMe and Jordan Peele
I’ve seen the movie Get Out twice now (paying not only for the movie tickets, but for the accompanying beers each time too). It’s entertaining, poignant, scary, funny, thought-provoking and–cinematically–incredibly assured. I was listening to Terry Gross’s interview with writer/director Jordan Peele last night and thought to look up some of his background on...
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Lots of big decisions coming up this month. The kids each need to make a decision about where they’ll be attending school next year. I need to make a decision about what kind of car I’ll be driving the next few years (go practical, go electric or go Car2Go?). I also need to figure...
Continue readingYNA & DDG & PTM
Just catching my breath after this year’s FronteraFest. Feeling happy and honored (and lucky, really) to have had two pieces in the final week. Your Neighborhood Association (YNA) was smooth and well-oiled and everyone (Lana, David, Roxy, Jenn and James) was so professional and easy. A real dream (even if it the play itself...
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Napervillains producer Jen is one of the most persistent (and nicest) people I know. After a couple of years of off-and-on recruiting, she convinced one of her favorite comedians, Jackie Kashian, to record the vocal part of Wendy the Witch for an installment of our work-in-progress animated web series. They spent time last weekend recording...
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