I’ve been thinking about all the years that have been sliced off my life. For a long time, I had it in my noodle that the years were sliced off from the end. Smoke too much? Die at 96 rather than 100. Severe trauma in your life? Now you’re at…
Category: Ideas and Musings
Anything For Your Art
Many years ago, I was in a voice over class with a teacher with 25 years of experience. I decided that she must know the answer to my question: “How do you go for your art, your passion, and still be able to live well?” She told me that you’ll…
Unpacking the Freeze
What do you get when you cross a Zen Buddhist Nun with a Dominatrix? You get Kasia Urbaniak and the Academy of Power. Now that I have your attention… Yes, I’ll give you more information on Kasia and her school but that’s not quite the focus of this post. No,…
The Problem of Hope
I’m a software tester. For me to fulfill my duty and obligation to my company, I need software to test. It’s kind of a requirement. We got a new CEO and thing have been changing. For one thing, there is a new focus on getting things in the backlog done.…
Pepe Le Pew – I’ll Miss You!
We are in the middle of a culture war. Cartoons are being attacked by people who are re-framing them in ways that suggest that they are the baddest of the bad. That they should be banished from our culture. One of these cartoon characters is Pepe Le Pew. I’d like…
Vaccinate! …but I’ll be last in line
My Uncle Jerry passed recently. He was in a rehab nursing home because he’d taken a fall. They had him in quarantine before they would let him join the rest of the population. He hated it. He thought he was being abandoned and would call my aunt multiple times a…
Heaven? Hell?
I am sad. Very sad. I found a couple of days ago that my friend and co-worker, Jeff, had lost his battle with cancer. After losing my Uncle Jerry and having friends lose their family members, and having several friends even lose their babies in utero, it’s all just too…
Walking Big
Over a decade ago, I was in L.A. for a month at the Actor’s Bootcamp, a month-long intensive acting class. One day I was walking to Samuel French, THE bookstore for Actors and other entertainment industry types, when I was stopped by a couple of youngsters hanging out on the…
As Old As I Feel?
I was standing in the middle of a group of people, all of us waiting impatiently for an update on the status of the brisket. The brisket was the guest of honor at this party. My friend had been cooking the brisket all day, drinking and smoking pot while he…
The Gift of Masterclass
A couple of years ago, a friend and I got the Masterclass deal of 2 subscriptions for the price of 1. It’s a nice way to try something without the full commitment. If you don’t know, Masterclass are the classes that the greats are teaching. It started out more about…