I Live For Birthday Freebies There are very few things I like more than getting free stuff. And your birthday is the best time to get a lot of free stuff. It's super easy. All you have to do is take a few minutes to sign up for rewards clubs and when your birthday comes around, your inbox will be overflowing with birthday freebies. I suggest you set up a dedicated email address (I use my old AOL account) just for [...]
I Live For Birthday Freebies There are very few things I like more than getting free stuff. And your birthday is the best time to get a lot of free stuff. It only takes a few minutes to sign up for rewards clubs that will send you birthday freebies. Most are good for your birthday month. Some for a month after your birthday. And some, thank you Jersey Mike's, are good all year. Here's my giant list of places that [...]
My Coronavirus Diary - Day 1 March 16. Lockdown. Everything is closed. Restaurants, stores, schools. "Keep six feet away from people" has been replaced with "don't leave your homes!" Don't go outside! The zombies will get you! Jesus, Mary, and Josephine Baker I'm stressed. I work from home. Now my wife works from home. My daughter is home, "distance learning" with her school. My dogs are unemployed and all they do is lie around all day. Lazy bastards. I'm a [...]
Best Christmas Songs - Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin' Making my 25 Days of Christmas Songs list, in which I count down what I think are the best Christmas songs, is Albert King's soulful R&B song "Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin'." [embedplusvideo height="505" width="640" editlink="http://bit.ly/2h0mHSo" standard="http://www.youtube.com/v/Sjc2KwhlrtA?fs=1" vars="ytid=Sjc2KwhlrtA&width=640&height=505&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=¬es=" id="ep4119" /] Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin' by Albert King Albert "The Velvet Bulldozer" King was one of the greatest blues guitarist ever in the history of ever. Born in Mississippi, he literally picked cotton on [...]
Another Play Heads to the Commonweal Theatre I'm heading back to the Commonweal Theatre in Lanesboro, MN. Well, maybe not me personally but one of my plays. I just found out that my play The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge will be produced by the Commonweal Theatre next year. [embedplusvideo height="505" width="640" editlink="http://bit.ly/2fKYKBt" standard="http://www.youtube.com/v/p_88GWh9phk?fs=1" vars="ytid=p_88GWh9phk&width=640&height=505&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=¬es=" id="ep1336" /] Back in 2014 the Commonweal put together a fantastic production of my play Around the World in 80 Days. (It was directed by my [...]
How About an Around the World in 80 Days Soiree? I was having coffee with my friend Sharone O' Tannenbaum (Okay, I added the "O") and we got to talking about how we are connected to a bunch of people who have been in Around the World in 80 Days. Sharone said, "Wouldn't it be great if we could get together everyone who has done the show?" While I was pondering it she said, "Let's do it. Let's have a [...]
The other day I posted about my song "The Rain," which was the first song of my imaginary demo album The Ghosts That Haunt Me. Today I bring you the song "The Wounded Circus." I was living in Orlando, FL after my big breakup in Chicago. (The breakup being what led me to write the aforementioned song "The Rain.") I was in the process of pulling my life together and I remember standing in an aisle at the grocery store, unable to [...]
When I wrote Around the World in 80 Days, I left out any stage directions because I wanted the actors, the director, and the designers to bring their imaginations to the show. The show is not just an adaptation of the great Jules Verne novel but a celebration of the magic of theatre. I didn't want to hamper any productions with my silly and most likely less imaginative stage directions. So it makes me happy when I see bits like [...]
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Oldcastle Theatre has been getting some great reviews. You can read them here and here. Congratulations one and all.
