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…...
The 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...
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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...
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Due to overwhelming demand, I wanted to give a quick update on the year’s goals to this point, as we’re about a third of the way through the 12-month period: October through December: everything is done with a couple of caveats: It was an inurnment at Arlington, not an interment (I only recently learned...
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Some notes on next steps for April’s show: 3 or 4 main sections where we could put stuff on (see red in diagram) Entry way for opening bit Then long hallway for some theatrical stuff Then an outdoor patio for musicians Possibly the garden area for something else Start in entry way with musical...
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Okay, so I’ve booked a space in April for a fundraiser. I had no real inclination to go through the work of doing something like this right after A Night of Squid (exhausting!) but maybe the churning and burning of having inauguration day around the corner has spurned some sense of activism, or at...
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So I haven’t told many people about this, but a couple of months ago I took part in a terrible, terrible activity. I let myself get talked into running the Austin Beer Mile. What’s a Beer Mile? You probably don’t want to know. Maybe best to turn away from the screen now. You drink...
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Oh hey, got some stuff upcoming. FronteraFest comes again, and Your Neighborhood Association opens Wednesday, January 25th, at Hyde Park Theatre. This (left) is one of the shots we got at our professional photo shoot in early December. Oh, and this (below) is a satirical political bumper sticker David saw after an early rehearsal...
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