At Acadia Cafe About to see Quickies, which Is a series of one-acts that involves Some friends of mine. Here in the cafe, waiting for the theatre to open, drinking a Surly Bender. Ran into two people I know, But they were busy, Working on Shakespeare text. One of them is a good friend, The [...]

I am at Figlio, which is a bar/restaurant in uptown Minneapolis’ Calhoun Square. It is trendy. Not actually trendy, but The kind of place douchebags “slam brews” and overly-made-up chicks preen. Suburban trendy. I spontaneously generated a term for places like this: Doucheteria. Examples of Doucheterias in Minneapolis are; The Independent Williams Drink A douchebag [...]

Sitting at the BLB (That’s Bryant Lake Bowl) Waiting for my BLB scramble and sipping my coffee, which isn’t too bad. I’ve heard their house wine is terrible. Doesn’t matter, though, because I don’t drink wine with breakfast. I can attest that the service has been pretty poor every time I’ve been here. We’re opening [...]

I am writing this from a cavernous bathtub in my posh Pan Pacific hotel room in Seattle, WA, whilst sipping a tall mug of decaf. Through an openable partition between the tub and bedroom, I am flipping through the internet radio on the TV. Right now, I’m listening to The Current. The Space Needle blinks [...]

I’m writing this from the set of our very first Mad About Money performance. We debut at Oak Grove Lutheran Elementary in Fargo, North Dakota. Our audience will be small: 15 fifth graders. This is our first time putting the show up in front of kids, so we’ll see how the material goes over. Fifteen [...]