doggie in the window
In case you didn’t know I’ll clue you in. The show is over when the dog’s routine is over.
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Let’s Talk City Buildouts—
If Phoenix is a hot mess of a beast, Gilbert is the sizzling distant unknown reptile nobody has ever heard of. I’d come in from the south, drove through Coolidge, then finally the long straight boulevard into downtown, the very beating heart of this anonymous gargantuan valley town.. Three lanes in each direction for 20 […]
Read More Let’s Talk City Buildouts—Canada Day Celebration—Congratulations
To our friends to the north a very happy day of celebrations—
Read More Canada Day Celebration—CongratulationsVet 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 […]
Read More Vet Showmen Pay Lip ServiceAnother 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
Read More Another Roadside DistractionThe Love
Street theater’s LovingKindness
Read More The LovePedal 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 […]
Read More Pedal to the Metal with A Thousand ClownsHow 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 […]
Read More How Sweet It IsAcademy Awards an Oligarchic Pie in Face
Oligarchic Nightmare Goes All Hollywood That pesky liberal agenda featured on the Academy Awards was a bit of a thumb in the eye to many people not sympathetic to such an agenda. These are the issues being systematically blocked by a do nothing Congress. Voting rights, equal pay for women, spying and immigration reform come […]
Read More Academy Awards an Oligarchic Pie in FacePrizefighting the Godzillas in the Room
“As far as entertainment goes clinching a barbecue fork in my teeth and performing this stunt stands at least one foot higher in the minds of audiences than topless dancing does.” The Godzilla in the room of a performer’s world is to know when to build new material. A huge dividend is paid for having […]
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