Your Neighborhood Association is a Hit!
Okay, not necessarily YOUR neighborhood association. But our FronteraFest piece got selected for Best of Week last week, and Saturday’s performance was a real step up from our original Wednesday night’s show. The audience was warm and in synch with the performers. The pacing, timing and chemistry was just right. Still amazes me how...
Continue readingSpring Benefit?
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...
Continue readingA Confession
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...
Continue readingUh-Huh Uh-Huh Uh-Huh Uh-Huh…
I’ve had this dream for the past twenty years to take the song That’s the Way I like It by KC & The Sunshine Band and sample it in the middle of the first measure of the chorus so that the AND of the second beat through the fourth beat is repeated over and over...
Continue readingWinter 2017 Events
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...
Continue readingThe Earth, the Sun, the Apes and Mars
The ScriptWorks Fling happened over the past weekend. We had a kickoff on Friday evening and I could tell a number of people were trying to battle through the election results to find the creativity to write. It didn’t help that one of the ingredients this year was election-related. This year they were: The...
Continue reading14/48 Austin 2016: Night two
12:08am: Falling down on the job a bit. Enjoyed Night One. On fumes now for Night Two. Theme: Mistaken Identity (I like it) I’ve got three women in my cast. Current approach: Duck, Duck, Goose. Two ducks, one goose. One of the ducks who’s a Mallard is mistaken for a Layson Teal (I know!),...
Continue reading14/48 Austin 2016: Night One
Hey look, I’m a veteran this year (not a virgin)! 11:02pm: The theme for the night is Emotional Hangovers. Nice and broad, but leaves a lot of options as well. I’ve got characters named Man1 and Man2 in this one, really working hard to come up with something unique. They’re talking in a not-really-talking-to-each-way...
Continue readingEnd of the Year Surf Retreat!
In exchange for getting a first look at whatever writing I do in November (twist my arm, twist my arm!), a friend and arts lover has offered to let me spend a long weekend in a bungalow in Ocean Beach in San Diego. It’s two blocks from the water and I’m hoping to work...
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