When you pump gas into your car, are you disappointed and disoriented during those few moments without any form of media pacifier in your mouth? Well, worry no more, because we now have NBC at the Pump.

I encountered this while gassing up en route to my show in St. Cloud. In addition to intrusive, hyper-vivid ads for all the shit I can [...]

The National Theatre for Children’s Mad About Money TV Special will air on some North Dakota CBS affiliates this Fall! This airing of the TV show, which we taped in Seattle last November, will coincide with a live Mad About Money tour in North Dakota. Incidentally, that’s the tour which Mike Rylander and I did last [...]

On Monday, we had three consecutive shows at St. Ben’s/St. John’s, which was only an hour or so away from Minneapolis. The following day, we had two shows at Hamline in St. Paul. And hooray, my girlfriend Carin came to see the second show! Our Hamline shows were chopped down to an hour or so, [...]

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After our final show in Ames, we took another dining recommendation from Jen Scott and ate lunch at Cafe Beaudelaire, which was another excellent pick. Then, on to the University of Dubuque for an evening show.
That’s it, really. Nothing eventful. Although, Jen Rand unknowingly jumped an extremely significant portion of one of our [...]

“Hey, dudes and dudettes! Allow me to introduce myself! I’m Wayne Wingate, but my friends call me Waynetown! I work at the Blockbuster over on Industry Drive, and in my spare time, I like to listen to Pink Floyd, watch the Road Trip movies, and show ladies a good time.”

Damian, backstage at ISU, about to go on as Al in the first scene of the diversity show “Strange Like Me.”

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We did a morning show in Indianapolis. Then we drove to Canton, Missouri, just in time to do an evening show there. Then we drove to Ames, Iowa, where we hoped we’d get to bed by 2:00 AM, and we had a 9:00 AM show the next morning. Whew.
Thankfully, we had two nights [...]

I’d post an Indiana Jones-type map of our path from Minneapolis to Indianapolis (by way of Atlanta), but it was by plane, which Google Maps doesn’t do. Instead, please enjoy this photo of Chris and Jen at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport.

I’ll conduct a blog experiment, or…a blogsperiment, if you will.
Actually, forget I said that. That was [...]

E-mail to the troupe from our director Michael:
Damian [actor who lives in southern MN on the way to Iowa], that means that we will meet you at the Gas station on the Southeast corner of the intersection of I-35 and CR-46 at 8:30 AM.
My reply:
This is how they do it for Sir Ian McKellan, right?

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The first (short) chunk of our Fall orientation tour is done, and I’m back in Minneapolis for a day. Tomorrow, we fly to Indianapolis to continue the adventure.
The new guy Chris moderated his first two shows with Michael supervising (which meant five of us were crammed into the car for these long trips, which proves [...]