I love the idea behind kickstarter.com it’s a funding platform for creative projects all over the world. If you’re an artist of any kind: musician, photographer, writer, sculpture, designer, film maker, theater owner, actor, etc., and have a creative project you need funding for, kickstarter. com is the place to be. From the site: “On [...]
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My little 2000 Jetta turns 12 in May, and she’s hanging in there. I told myself when I bought her brand new in 1999 that I was going to drive her ’till she dropped, and I plan on sticking to that statement. Over the years there’s been a couple of fender benders, an electrical transmission [...]
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I haven’t seen a winter in Chicago since 2006, every other year I’ve been working on a cruise ship for Second City and I’ve been really okay with that. There’s a sense of gentle excitement I feel about being here through the holidays. With the first snowfall this morning it’s made more real, add the [...]
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Rance and I are in a bit of a holding pattern while we wait for our sublet to become available. We’re going to move into our friend Padraic’s place while he goes out to sea for five months, but he doesn’t leave until May 7th. So, in the interim, Rance and I are traveling around [...]
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A fellow improviser and friend played a fantastic prank on one of our other friends and got it all on video. The prank got so much airplay on youtube that these two guys have just had their faces on CNN! It really is a video for the season, and so I share it with you [...]
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For the past week, I’ve been enjoying an early morning three mile walk. Most days I wake up without the need of an alarm. I’m sure I’ve helped by the recent clock adjustment. The weather has been perfect. Cool, crisp air, blue skies, no wind; truly beautiful. I think I wanted to just soak in [...]
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