March Madness
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...
Continue readingJackie Kashian as the Witch
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...
Continue readingShowerhead, etc.
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...
Continue readingPeacock Brainstorm
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...
Continue readingYour 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...
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