Confessions of a Climate Change Comedy Screenwriter
The Most Beautiful Places in the World Timing is everything. A good location doesn’t hurt. But, it’s the intangibles that will get you. “To be completely honest, although I love living in the city, it’s not my favorite place to perform.” What? “It seems to have an overly-politically-correctness vibe.” Really? So, we haven’t changed; they […]
Read More How Sweet It IsWe go to busking great Tim Motley enjoying his summer in Melbourne for this: “I try to sit down with my morning coffee around noon.” It usually happens first thing,” Dan Looker explains, “when the previous evening’s alcohol and the morning coffee meet in a front.” That’s some kind of weather pattern. The well washed […]
Read More How to Not Write Anything BrilliantlyFire the Boat Up… We’re Coming For Them… It is all connected. Let’s review. Climate change is real and carbon dioxide buildup in the atmosphere is the cause of the problem. Income inequality is real and uber wealthy titans of industry and finance have rigged capitalism and now literally spray money to regulators and politicians […]
Read More Kissing George Wallace at a Petting PartyFrom Australia with Kate Wright Dynamite… Best Showgirl the other side of Hawaii If you are in the juggling game you find that each phase of life is building toward the next phase. Hopefully the next phase begins before the present phase ends. We try not to be phased by any of this. Instead we […]
Read More ShowgirlsMonument to Civilization, Stratosphere “Why are you picking a fight with the Chamber?” “Just standing my ground.” Keefe said. “We usually go around him instead of through him.” “Well, it’s a new day for Meadowhawk,” Fletcher said. Gallup that fabulous polling organization that quantifies what we already know has confirmed what we already knew: our […]
Read More Extinction Event Bribery Style“Of course conventional demolition work didn’t pay nearly as good as nuclear annihilation, but Fletcher rightly calculated that there wouldn’t be much use for money in a world that no longer existed.” The street act is all cocktail. It is a mixologist mash-up with monologist. The lone wolf soloist jerking the innocent and unsuspecting into […]
Read More Richard Pryor- A Funny Motherf…..kerNothing 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 […]
Read More Beaujolais Nouveau“My flight down to Cancun was a little bumpy, but the water landing was very smooth. By the time I swam to shore and got out of my wet clothes and hat a shot of tequila it was like wow… here I am.” The shift is on. I return to San Francisco tomorrow. I have […]
Read More Long Hops and Short StopsMore Off the Cuff Links… We take you to the streets of London where students are marching for, “No tuition fees! No education cuts! No debt!” Let’s go to Milwaukee where what passes for progress we have this pathetic excuse for policy being implemented. Sorry folks we can’t get to the new economy everyone is talking […]
Read More End Stupid Stop StubbornThe Great Dictator Revisited… Can you say climate denial or how to protect your friends in high places.
Read More The Great Dictator’s Curtain Call