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Editor’s Note - Yes, my Photoshop skills are quite lacking in this pic but I couldn’t find a proper match of any of my headshots with any stills from the film. I actually think the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade float motif I’ve got going here works well enough for a laugh.
Looks like the Acting Bug [...]
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Saturday, August 30, 2008 | | Blog
This weekend I came face-to-face with a truth I’d long tried to suppress. As Andi took the stage and stepped into the role she was born to play - The Sound of Music’s Maria - I realized we couldn’t dance around this topic much longer. No longer could we ignore the elephant in the room, [...]
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Saturday, August 23, 2008 | | Blog
Last Thursday evening - just a few minutes after Andi waltzed through the door upon her triumphant return home from The Sound of Music’s official Dress Rehearsal - she lobbed a playful question my way.
“Do you know what today is?”
Enter the male panic insitinct. I try to jump start my cerebral cortex. Kick start my [...]
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 | | Blog
Note: I have a piece coming up that details my reactions to the masterful performance of The Sound of Music we enjoyed this past weekend. I’m planning on publishing a note to a wide distribution list calling attention to that piece and to Andi’s accomplishments. As I may see some new readers, I thought I [...]
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Monday, August 18, 2008 | | Blog
I’m not an avid comic reader, not like I was back in the early 90’s, but I keep a close watch on all manner of pop culture so I usually have a handle on What’s Hot and What’s Not in most forums – be it movies, books, television, music, comics, name your poison. And, given [...]
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Sunday, August 17, 2008 | | Blog
There’s been a startling new development. We have a plot!!!
Today’s episode begins with a little montage - checking in with our three amigos and laying bare the possibilities that any one of them could be the Turner Cove College Killer (we have seen a murder right??? Maybe that was No Country for Old Men - [...]
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Sunday, August 17, 2008 | | Blog
So here we are, midway through The Ed Zone’s first official miniseries, and the only thing late on arrival is the plot. Fear not, faithful viewers, it’s coming. Maybe not in today’s installment but it’s definitely out there. In fact, I think Part 4 introduces the shady character, Roma Scarpetti (Joe Dolat) who creeps onto [...]
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Thursday, August 14, 2008 | | Blog
So you suffered through Part 1 and that wasn’t enough for you? You actually decided to waste whatever ounce of energy it takes to click on that Play button, and you’ve returned to continue the thrilling adventures of the Dumb White Guy. Good for you, you sick masochistic bastard.
As I mentioned in my prior post, [...]
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 | | Blog
I have been trying to figure out a way to upload my videos to this site for months and finally I found my solution. Yup, this newfangled doohickey YouTube is my ticket to fortune and glory. And what’s this I hear about a Google on the Internets?
As some of you know, I was a helluva’ [...]
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Sunday, August 10, 2008 | | Blog
“I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I’m listening to it.”
– G. Carlin
Uh oh!!!
Geez, this has been a tough stretch, with two big-time entertainment legends passing in such close proximity of each other. In mid-June, we lost Stan Winston, which I wrote about the other day. And then, at [...]
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Thursday, July 3, 2008 | | Blog