Donny & Marie do Star Wars. Red Foxx is Obi-wan and makes Sanford & Son jokes.  Kris Kristofferson plays Han Solo.  Paul Lynde is a bad guy.  Stormtroopers sing and dance.  As I watched this, I looked like Joaquin Phoenix when he sees the home video in Signs. You’re welcome.

My 48 Hour Film “Save Me” is now online: Genre: Superhero Character: Kevin or Kathleen Schnabel, an expert Line of dialogue: “I hope they decide soon.” Prop: sandwich

This weekend, I had the pleasure of shooting another 48 Hour Film with the guys at Urban Mountain Media.  I previously appeared in their award-winning Safe House during the 2007 48 Hour Film Project.  The 48 Hour Film Project is an annual event wherein filmmakers are assigned certain requirements (specific genre, particular line of dialogue, [...]

As 800 Words fades into the past, I’m shifting my attention to my next project, a short film called Dinner Date, written and directed by Paul von Stoetzel and featuring Heather Raiter.  Here’s the premise:  My character places an online ad, which Heather’s character answers, looking for a voluntary victim to be eaten by him.  It’s the [...]

One of the events fictionalized/referred to in our play, 800 Words: The Transmigration of Philip K. Dick, was the time Polish science fiction author Stanislaw Lem (Ryan Parker Knox) singled out Philip K. Dick (Luverne Seifert) as the only worthwhile American science fiction author.  You can read Lem’s essay: Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans. [...]

Recently, my friend Nick (pictured here) received a few flirtatious texts from a Louisiana number that were clearly not intended for him.  It was still going on when he, Carin, and I were at Green Mill this Tuesday night, so we decided that it was high time he replied.  Nick has detailed the entire sordid tale on his own [...]

…because I don’t want to shatter their belief in crunchberries. California woman Janine Sugawara lost an historic case today when a judge ruled that a reasonable consumer would know that crunchberries are not real.  The following is ripped from legal humor blog “Lowering the Bar.” On May 21, a judge of the U.S. District Court for [...]

800 Words got a mention on Minnesota Public Radio’s “Art Hounds.” What’s Art Hounds? Here’s what the MPR website says: Each week Minnesota Public Radio News asks three people from the Minnesota arts scene to be “Art Hounds.” Their job is to step outside their own work and hunt down something exciting that’s going on in [...]

Maggie Chestovich and Luverne Seifert Quinton Skinner’s review of 800 Words is in this week’s issue of the City Pages. “…a vivid picture of a man who simply couldn’t help but go too far…” Go make reservations already! www.workhauscollective.org

David de Young’s review of 800 Words is up at How Was The Show.  He calls it “a mind-trippy but very human drama.” There’s also a blogger by the name of Baron Dave Bromm who praised the show, saying, “Highly recommended, especially for SF fans.” We only have four performances left, so make your reservations [...]