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Comedy as Cure

Hurricanes are more powerful; droughts linger longer and wildfires rage uncontrollably across the landscape. I have a second climate change comedy screenplay under construction. The best way to think about the climate is to laugh about our predicament and then because we can see for ourselves the impact our runaway climate is having on our […]

Much Ado rewrite

Writing here on the blog has been slower as the pace of screenwriting has seized the waking hours of my day. You’ll forgive the glazed over eyes, the seeming inexplicable delving into rabbit holes, the burden of the finite clock exacts its price and works to contain the prolific. I have been putting ukulele chords […]

Minting Ghost Towns

This is our America out here…

Temple Gods silver state

Luscious open empty miles on Nevada Highway 50 are planned. Busking buddy Sean Laughlin rules from the roost in Silver City. We go back to sidewalk show days. Sean’s pop was Bay Area icon radio broadcast personality Travis T Hip. Born and raised in Berkeley is its own geographical means of bending soul to place. […]

Opener… Street Theater Life

The Small Time Bigger Than You Know One of the hardest hand to mouth hustles ever invented in this world of hard knocks is busking. No contracts, no off site gigs, just pure hat and more hat shows. I’m talking about hard cold cash you can count in a hat after a performance. The lightning […]

Dealing with it

Galloping across the west this week. To San Francisco Monday in a downpour. Tonight to Burbank and back to Los Angeles Arts District apartment. Thursday to Palm Springs for hiking and soak at Sam’s Family Spa. Friday to Portland to meet our daughters new special guy. Saturday a meeting with street performing photographer Daniel Schulruff. […]

Still Earning My Stripes

Welcome to Wayfarer World Christina and Garrett are members of the Ventura Yacht Club. Garrett’s father had lived at the club since before he was married and started his family. Garrett was born, raised, and then had his own children and by fact of residency is the club’s most permanent fixture. Garrett has lived aboard […]

Four-Seven-Eighteen Saturday Californian

Left Coast Liberals and we are proud

April Fool’s Day

Nothing but kindness and gratitude. Makes a cynical man near weepy and melancoly.

March 25, 2018 The Bigger the Dream

Running with the Small Dogs Sunset in the Superstitions not far from Apache Junction, Arizona We rolled out on the road without a wireless telephone or an Automated Teller Machine card. We used such antiquated technologies as American Express cashier checks, wired funds via Western Union, made calls with coins fed into pay phones. Running […]