Yet another fun topic on Twitter today, this time started by Joe Bozic. It’s #RidiculousHistory. Here are mine: In 1936, “Action” Jackson Pollack discovered his trademark style when he shot a fellow spy, spraying blood on a canvas. Davy Crockett & his faithful partner Ricardo Tubbs successfully defended the Alamo from a force of Indians [...]

Today’s “trending topic” hashtag game on Twitter is #crapnamesforpubs, and holy crap, there are a lot of them. Here are mine: The Stranger Hug The Breathalyzed Senator The Ol’ 9-11 The Bathroom Rape Inn The Sailor and Semen The Hard Stool The Marinating Fetus Bangers ‘n’ Sashimi The Keg and Flukeworm Rolling Rock Tavern Daddy [...]

I was squatting in one of the science-fiction aisles at the Barnes & Noble in Roseville last night, perusing their selection of Philip K. Dick books.  I’d just sold them a huge stack of old sci-fi paperbacks from my high school days, and decided to convert those 26 Star Wars/X Files/Stargate novels into a couple of books I’d [...]

Whilst digging around the internet, thinking about my next show, I discovered interesting (and potentially exciting or distressing) information. Philip K. Dick’s novels and short stories have been adapted into films, sometimes with relative success (Blade Runner, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report), and some…not so much (Next, Paycheck, Screamers).  There are a few Dick-inspired films currently in [...]

So, every once in a while, Twitter lights up with ridiculous hashtag games.  People tweet jokes (usually puns) and label them with the appropriate hashtag.  Over the weekend, I kind of went overboard with #tvbandnames, and I apologize to anyone who was following me.  People were making portmanteaus of a TV show and a band [...]

The poster has been unveiled for Workhaus Collective’s 800 Words: The Transmigration of Philip K. Dick.  And thanks to the arrangement of images, it looks a lot like I’m eyeing Phil’s crotch.*  Click the image above to enlarge.  The image, not the…oh, never mind. Visit www.workhauscollective.org for info about the play. *”Dick” pun successfully avoided.

Not long ago, Boing Boing posted a link to a PDF scan of an old Rolling Stone interview with Philip K. Dick.  From philipkdickfans.com: A pivotal point in Phil Dick’s career and his first taste of national publicity, this 6-page article speculates on the 1971 break-in of Philip K. Dick’s apartment, among other things. Written [...]

Speaking of Philip K. Dick and my next show, 800 Words, Boing Boing Gadgets coincidentally posted an entry today displaying some Blade Runner props. Deckard’s gun:   There’s also a great Voight-Kampff manual.  Check ’em out here: http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/04/14/props.html

As Galileo nears the end of its run, here’s something related to my next show, 800 Words: The Transmigration of Philip K. Dick. BOOM! Studios is creating a 24-part comic book version of the Philip K. Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (the novel upon which Blade Runner was based).  More than an [...]

Happy Easter, folks!  In observance of the holiday, I have risen today and shall perform in The Life of Galileo once again. Fellow cast member Julie Ann Nevill forwarded this to the rest of the group: PROCEEDINGS OF THE TRIAL AGAINST GALILEO GALILEI It’s from the Vatican archives online, and you can see scans of [...]