The Lunch Bucket Card Carrying Men in My Family

Where the people live… in reality… they don’t live in trade deals

Hat Snatching Owl’s and Brawling Burro Truths…

The owl soared across the street to the limb of a cottonwood. The animal perched, balancing on one foot, with Mr. Garrett Harwood’s hat clasped and dangling in her clutches in the other. Hot Spring Honeymoon Owl attacks joggers and steals their hats… Headline from The Guardian, Reuters in Portland, Oregon I concocted a confrontation […]

Breathing is Now a Privilege… Hands Up Mother….

We are no longer a freedom loving country. We are something else now. “Corporations are people my friends, and they are pissed off.” Our counterinsurgency has gone domestic. We are the enemy now. The police are dangerous. If you are arrested and it doesn’t go so well that is too bad. Our own security is […]

Beaujolais Nouveau

Nothing welcomes this traveler home better than autumns release of this years newest youngest wine… Beaujolais. It is a chance to check on whether this last summer was as delicious as I remember. Beaujolais Nouveau was lost on me until November 2001. That year I drank from a cask of Beaujolais at Nizza La Bella […]

The Idiots Guide to Discovering Surefire Laughs

Those tough nuts can be tough to crack.

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 […]

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 […]

Trouble in Nevada

Hot Spring Honeymoon Just Enough Trouble to Call it Fun Life imitates art. The recent standoff between the Bureau of Land Management and Clive Bundy is a more radicalized version of the politics I hinted at in Hot Spring Honeymoon. The free grazer movement depends upon more magical thinking than my character Garrett Harwood. My […]

Her Name Was Lola…She was a Dancer

Alejandro and Dante Loading Up for Shows Today in Playacar, Mexico was shopping day. Stand-up comic roommate Ted Holum and I walked across town into Playa Del Carmen and replenished the cupboards. Teddy’s a month younger than me, so he’s the kid in our odd coupled family. We share an apartment here. We share […]