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Two More Chicago Monkey Appearances!

Last night’s show was great!  The folks at Stage 773 are delightful, Kelsie Huff’s opening act was stellar, and the audience was terrific.  It’s always fun to hear people’s take on the show after seeing it.  It’s admittedly not your run-of-the-mill solo show.  Because there are three sock-monkeys whose dialogue the audience “fills in” in…

The Good, the Bad, and the Monkey returns to Chi-Town!

The monkeys are back!  And this time, they’re bringing opening acts! You’ve only got three chances to see the monkeys in action at Stage 773’s Cabaret (1225 W. Belmont).  We’ll be there the first three Thursdays in November at 8pm. And each night brings you a different opening act! November 3:  Kelsie Huff November 10: …

Monkey Promo Video

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLHeqafz2MA&feature=channel_video_title] Here’s a little teaser for my show that’s coming up in November.  There are only three performances….and I’m hoping to pack the houses each night.  Please share this video and spread the word about the show! Thanks!

People Opening for Monkeys

I am extremely delighted and excited to announce the opening acts for November’s Chicago run of The Good, the Bad, and the Monkey at Stage 773.  My monkeys and I are performing on the three non-Thanksgiving Thursdays that month and we have a different opening act for each performance! November 3:  Kelsie Huff November 10: …

Watercolor Art of Dessert Cake

Watercolor Art of Dessert Cake (or Future Top Search Items for My Blog) boobies.  big boobies and decorative floral art high ceilings with windows, over 4000 square feet, amazing beach front property. 50% off ways to combat anger, rude kittens, and politics recipes for disaster, pumpkin pie, and love make yourself happy and wealthy and…

In Search Of: Something Else Entirely

One of the most entertaining places on my website (for me anyway) is the little area where only I can go.  It’s a whole page that lists how many “hits” my site has had, what pages folks were looking at, and notably, what search words they used to find it.  Typically, it’s stuff like my…

Do you like me?

At the risk of sounding either narcissistic or needy (or both), I have created a fan page on facebook.  I did not create a fan page for something I myself am a fan of–say, The Muppets, Jane Austen, or sliding around on hardwood floors in my socks.  No, I created a fan page for Amanda…

lower case preference math

trains > buses carrot juice > apple juice books > wireless reading devices jars > cans bridges > tunnels 4 > 5 hardwood > carpet fresh > smoked lighthouse > yurt seeing > looking scrabble > words with friends malachite > diamonds acrylic > watercolor comfy pants > pantyhose cornell’s boxes > boxy architecture any…

Lighten up!

It is fall. Okay.  Well, it’s not officially fall.  We still have a few more days before the equinox.  But here in Chicago, we’ve already had at least three nights in a row where the temps dropped down into the forties. And tonight, I wore my puffy vest.   So, yeah.  I’m callin’ it.  It’s fall.…

Vacation Day

wind chimes,  morning times and just enough sun, gentle almost-fall sun         so I did and didn’t do things.   I did some things I shoulda and somethings I shouldn’t uh but the only thing worth mentioning… ah… is over the sand, past the green, on the stones, near the waves, under the sky ah or, actually:…