(Pictured, left to right, my grandfather, Baba, great grandfather, and great aunt, and me, center, the disappointing, lazy three year old who has yet to compose his first opera) It’s a two-hour long train ride into the city to perform for five minutes, and after you’ve...
Dean dressed like a bum and Little Dog* in her stylish down jacket, walking across the pond. Image credit Alex Tuller. I’m looking for ways to avoid the things I don’t want to do. There’s this long list of practical, business-side things looming over my show,...
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...