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Vet Showmen Pay Lip Service

Trip to Kona has been a bit of a tale. A carrying cart failed just before coming over to the islands resulting in a propane tank landing square on my big toe. That kind of changed the last two weeks. An urgent care doctor glued the gash back together slapped me on the butt and […]

The Golden Gate Garbage Company

Chord changes to a tune like My Funny Valentine twist and turn at a quicker pace. When you only have four strings the chord change tempo helps.

Another Roadside Distraction

“A talent is a kind of imprisonment. You’re stuck in it, you have to keep using it, or else you get ruined by it.” Wallace Stegner

Pedal to the Metal with A Thousand Clowns

Norm Ornstein describes the partisanship to have metastasized into tribal warfare. Tribalism is about being a member of a group that you are above all else loyal to. Privatization, sending programs back to the states, rejection of spending on infrastructure, no new taxes, lower old taxes, and dismantle social welfare programs. That’s the village they […]

How Sweet It Is

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 […]

Slimeballing, Suckerpunching Misdirection Games

The Butt of a Bad Joke Jack Welsh coined the phrase “shareholder value.” Two pieces of the puzzle tilted in capitals favor from this four decade ago event. First, was an emphasis upon the share price. The second was the compensation packages for management. Washington was not an innocent bystander. Tax cuts, trade policy, regulation […]

The Comedy that Will Not Be Televised

Sharp Wit and Bullet Holes “And so capitalism being what it is jumps into action. These men of free enterprise build resorts. And the resorts, they’re not just for people that are in love, they are for people who might find someone to pretend that they are in love with.” I went into the kitchen […]

The Great Dictator’s Curtain Call

The Great Dictator Revisited… Can you say climate denial or how to protect your friends in high places.

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 […]

He Got Me and I Got Him… The Storymaker

Alan Plotkin 2014’s recipient of the Golden Finkel We are never alone. Sometimes it seems so. Some days on the road rolling from date to date- show to show, especially back in the day prior to cell phones, I could almost pretend to be in total isolation, an immaculate detached state of being in a […]