My show, Voice of Authority (tickets»), is about getting into big trouble. The US Dept of Justice comes after me for $19 million. True story. So I’m doing a new, very short storytelling series I’m calling Big Trouble, where I ask you to tell us...
(Pictured above, my mom, my baby sister, mom's '68 Mustang, and me with the mop of black hair.) You have this ambitious project that you need to take on, the kind of project that most of the world around you sees as utterly impractical. And while...
If you’re like me you stare at your computer screen and think, my God, why did I announce this was a regular thing in that first blog entry? The first one is so easy. The idea pops into your head. It just happens and then you’re...
In earlier performances of Voice of Authority I've had sometimes as much as a half hour before the show on stage, so I've played my own pre-show music and greeted the audience on their way in. As much as I love doing that, I get...
At David Lawson’s Astoria Bookshop Storytelling Show the other day, I told a story about setting a toilet on fire in middle school. And just as I paint a picture of sitting in the principal’s office, I blank. Completely. It’s almost like I forget I’m...