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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, […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]