It’s the Good Life

“Romance… it gives a man something to do while he’s waiting for the only thing he really wants.” A performer is just that. We earn our money by presenting whatever it is we have learned to do. Sometimes it is as simple as memorizing lines, and at other times it is the result of […]

Hells Angels & Roller Derby Stars

This is the best we got…..?

The Well Paid Truth Tellers…

They are paid to this work and now the peasants are in revolt.

Scotland is ready to Rumble

The Good People of the Catalan We begin today with where I ended yesterday. The failure of the business and political leaders of the major economies of the world to grasp how far out of touch they are with the citizens of their countries. Yes they may be capable of ramming a new trade deal […]

Edmonton 1985-2014 Thirty Fabulous Festivals

This 40 Year Veteran Street Act Scuffing Up the First Audience of the Day Saturday morning 11:30 show was mine to do. Alan Plotkin using a telephoto lens from “World Headquarters” took this shot. He didn’t bring me much luck the day before and discretion being the better part of valor stood off so […]

The Old West is Waiting

stealhead, river running, and hay farming as far as an eye can see The dirt road winds down the mountain into Troy, Oregon on the Grande Ronde River. Size of community is a mere handful of good souls. Groceries fetched by driving 50 miles north to Lewiston, Idaho. The outpost captures my interiors yearning […]

Saving Up Solstice for Aches and Pains

You Just Can’t Make A Place Like This Up… Today is the summer solstice. On Wednesday we depart northbound. Our track will be to Lakeview, Oregon. From this frontier on the California border we will continue into vast Great Basin regions of Eastern Oregon. Our ultimate destination is the 30th Edition of The Edmonton International […]

Book Expo America

I am here in New York for the Expo. I have noted that Hachette Book Group has crossed swords with Amazon. A fight has broken out and it seems Amazon is putting a hold on Hachette’s Books because a royalty dispute. Nasty bit of business this industry is involved in. Seems JK Rowling’s new title […]

Writing Comedy…

It is all in the words… After working on three novels, some 340,000 words, work that spans seven years, I’m trying to distill the essence into one hour. Someone has to do it. I spend seven years working on three novels and a reader will be done with all three in 30 hours, more or […]

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