Urban Mountain Media’s comedic short film Guy Meets Girl, starring Billie Jo Konze and myself, will have a screening party at the Brave New Workshop tomorrow night! It’s open to the public, and the bar/café will be open. Go! Have fun! Watch a movie and schmooze! The 16-minute film focuses on two screenwriters attempting to write a typical “guy-meets-girl” movie. As [...]

Tonight is the opening night of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest at Pioneer Place on Fifth in St. Cloud, MN. Zach Curtis directs, and it stars David Coral as McMurphy, Karen Wiese-Thompson as Nurse Ratched, and Raine Hokan as Chief Bromden. I’m playing Cheswick, one of the patients in the ward. Here’s the poster. (It’s wrong about [...]

Sunday afternoon, we left the French Quarter and headed to the Audubon Zoo, which is a world-class zoo and has been one of my favorite places all of my life. It’s the only zoo I’ve been to where I don’t feel sad for the animals. The habitats are wonderful, the animals seem well cared for, [...]

On the Saturday of our visit to New Orleans, I introduced Carin to the French Quarter. With Pat O’Brien’s hurricanes in hand, we spent the afternoon roaming the streets and seeing the sights. More pictures of old New Orleansy goodness after the jump.

In mid-December, Carin and I traveled to New Orleans for a five-day excursion through my homeland. It was partly an early Christmas visit with my family and partly a tourist vacation, as Carin had never been to New Orleans. I was happy to return home, to introduce Carin to my family, and to show Carin my home, [...]