April 16,’18 Street Scene

Veteran Working the Craft in Red Deer, Alberta Canada I was there when the scenes exploded. The artists medium was variety entertainment. The venue was street. Street was the canvas of choice. Indoor ticketed facilities had been a dead end for decades. Like wildfire the spreading news of variety acts turning a good buck out […]

March 24, 2018 Showtime

Riding with the Wind Working at the legendary Oakland, California Children’s Fairyland this weekend. Two shows each day. Between shows is pictured above. High Plains Drifter ala street performer style

March 21, 2018 Maestro’s Return

Blue Wave Surfing Starts Here Street Theater as Social Justice Cupcake Fundraiser Join us won’t you!!!! The early days of street theater in San Francisco is part of a collection of photographs and essays I am putting together about the geographically more ambitious topic of busking across the entirety of North America. The thirty minute […]

Strumming the Heartstrings

Here is Where the Tractors are Fixed at Schnepf Farm I have been coming out to Schnepf Farm’s Pumpkin and Chili Party since 2000. It is located in the town of Queen Creek, Arizona. You are on the southeastern edge of the Valley of the Sun by the time you arrive here. The Valley […]

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 […]

Finding the Fun in the Setting Sun

“One morning you wake up in Yuma, Arizona in this thing called a motorhome. The phone rings it’s a receptionist, she’s calling to confirm your appointment with the plastic surgeon.” While on stage the topic of the golden years of our lives needs to be approached carefully. Cliché is an epidemic hazard. As we approach […]

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 […]

Summer Alongside the Salmon River

Welcome to a slice of heaven on earth You might miss the time of your life. Sometimes I get that feeling. Not today. Life in Idaho along the Salmon River is fat. Bald eagles on wing remind me to notch another best day off my bucket list. My list includes learning how to recognize […]

Lord of the Styles

This moment’s style and fashion is so obvious. House of Cards has it, Veep deploys it, and Silicon Valley is based upon it. Lenny Bruce skewered the sacred by roasting it atop the fires of the profane hypocrisy’s he alone seemed capable of speaking about. And for each act taking one tack there […]

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