SMILE DON’T SMILE
Frankly, getting the right headshot is a bitch. But, then, it can be fun. First there’s the journey. You spend years second guessing what the market needs. If you’re lucky, […]
Austin
NETWORK THAT FAME
Early Saturday morning, I’m off to UT campus to stand in a long line on the sidewalk outside Blanton Museum. Unusually chilly for an Austin April morning, some waiting in […]
STAND-UP
Down on 6th Street recently, Larry and I dropped in at Austin Ale House to catch the newest stand-up comedy show in Austin, Banter with Bogart. The location’s perfect, the food […]
CHANGES
The room was in hazy half-light and without detail. It had party energy. Not frenetic, but the kind where they play jazz. I’d just been talking to people on my […]
UNINTENTIONAL SMART ASSERY
Between smiling, laughing and stumbling on words, I am trying to learn an exercise in Meisner technique that Michael Costello is teaching us. Unfortunately I am endowed with excessive wordiness […]
COOKING BLIND
Ding! Elevator doors open and out I step, heading toward my appointment. Turning the corner, I see, halfway down the hallway, a short, stout lady with short, graying hair, standing […]
DON’T IMPLICATE ME IN YOUR CRAZY
Must be my week for weird. Auditioning in Austin for a commercial this week and something happened I’ve never experienced before. And that says a lot. Several of us were […]
DOWN IN FLAMES
So we’re lined up, camera’s on. And the cameraman is asking us impromptu questions to see how quick we are on our feet, to check for spontaneity and to get […]
PALMS UP
That’s me. Entertainer, part Comedian, part Soothsayer, part Optimist, part Adviser. And obviously not afraid to give an opinion. Time to out myself. Not something I tell everybody, but yes, […]
CHARLIE’S ASHES – TESTIFY
Sound check, lights set, crowd arrives. Waiters bustle drinks to the tables. Other tellers get up, short intermission, one more teller up, then my turn. They’d saved me for the […]