Yesterday was my second performance with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, in which I narrated and performed children's poetry between educational blasts of Hayden, Saint-Saens and more. It's a flattering and awesome opportunity, one which I'd embrace again. There is nothing like sitting one foot away from the first chair violinist (who is the BOMB ( Read more... )

So I'm doing a TON of decorating for this week's puppet show's/Spooktacular extravaganza at work, which includes a couple of things I've always wanted to do: tombstones and coffins! Well, one coffin and a number of tombstones ( Read more... )

Guess who's got two thumbs and will be performing poetry with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra?

This guy.


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So remember when I had my solo art show last year and I had this piece hanging?


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The ride home was going to be a chore any way we cut it. We were leaving at 5 AM from the hotel, looking down the barrel of at least 13 hours to get home. I knew the rest of my team was going to basically stay up all night and be knocked out in the car, so I got to play a lot more of my iTunes than I did on the way up. Rachel basically slept for ( Read more... )

I wanted to know if the Oval Office had a computer in it, so I emailed the White House to find out what was up. When it came time for me to enter the code words to send the message through these two words popped up for me to type to verify my humanity:


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As far as I'm concerned you can tell the true mettle of an Othello by how the actor does Scene 3, Act 3, specifically the scene where Othello blows away his love for Dee to dust and conjures all of his pain into a key passage of pure hatred, love and jealousy.

Which brings me to the recent Lenny Henry Othello.


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First some clarifications based on previous comments and conversations.

If I sound a little short here, it's not my intention.  I'm in scientist mode and you were probably just trolling a Facebook link or something, so don't be offended because I give you a very clinical answer I've probably already given, implied or assumed was apparent two or ( Read more... )

So yesterday was the day of my big puppet show. By "big" I mean, "epic" and "featuring a sweeping cast of characters", and by "puppets" I mean "avatars of the human soul". This is the kind of language one uses when discussing the oeuvre of the man people are now calling "the Cecile B. DeMille of Puppet Shows".


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