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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:…

Jazz for Cows

I love cows.  I don’t know if any of you out there have spent any substantial amount of time with one or more of these ladies.  But I have.  Not enough, by any means.  For sure, if I had my druthers, I would say that I would like to spend more time with cows.  But…

Sept. 17th Master Class for Improvisers

Whether you do short form or long form improv, being comfortably grounded in your scenework can take you to the next level.  Come to this class to find out how to use the tools you already have to gain richness in your humor and a more dynamic relationship with the audience.  Find out how to…

my life

I’ve been a fool rushing considerably more often than I’ve been an angel fearing   definitely okay with that