Wiggle Room
Good bad or indifferent, there are always those who seek out wiggle room in all they attempt to accomplish in life, or in any pursuits of the good life, or even a slightly better life than fate has bestowed upon them. Here are some personal definitions I’ve developed along my way. · I prefer jeans to...
Read More Veteran to Veteran
For most of us, Veterans Day comes once each year and its scheduled on a calendar date allowing banks, and schools to observe it. As an example, this year Veterans Day falls on a Sunday so it will be observed on Monday, the first workday of the week. The once-a-year observance has been going on...
Read More Blind Date
My favorite game is not my favorite actual happening. I’m referring to a game we played in an acting class way back when I was a teenager. The teacher who introduced us to the game used it as a stream of consciousness drill. It worked out so well, and we all became so proficient at...
Read More The Year of the Tweet
I conducted my own impromptu poll of those described by me as “The Thumbers” – those people who successfully communicate through electronic devices by the use of one thumb on each hand, used singularly or in tandem, with reckless abandon. As a casting director, what I do for a living is called profiling. My question...
Read More Kim Choo: Lost and Never Found
The northern outreaches of Korea were an abstraction on my own and very personal, daily canvas. They were almost all surreal days for me. At age nineteen, my only self-recognizable skills were those that had been God-gifted to me as an athlete. It had never occurred to me that reading and seeing were all part...
Read More The Bullshit Brigade
Membership is free just about anywhere in the free, or not so free, world. There they be, gathered together: nonsectarian, sectarian, agrarian, religious, persuasions of every imaginable ilk; cut evenly or torn in unmistakably boorish fashion; clear-skinned yet unmercifully pocked by every imaginable disease of deceitful presentation devised by their fellow man. The colors of...
Read More Backpacks & Kazoos
Often, the sheer brilliance of my staff of colleagues is mind-boggling or, if nothing else, at least hard to fathom. Believing the premise that timing is everything, then consider an office where its players launch into a seemingly obtuse conversation regarding the origin and merits of backpacks and kazoos. The fact that last night, some...
Read More Pretzel
Noted people reference their Fathers as they answer the question: “What would your Father have said?” My Father would have at least asked me what I meant by that. Dad always gave me a chance to explain. He always felt he had so much more in life to learn, and not enough allotted time to...
Read More Lance Legault: Not To Be Forgotten
Twenty years of a relationship free from anything disparaging. An audition requiring the presence of the one and only “Double L” always brought with it a smile in anticipation of his sharing a story or two. Lance Legault was a bright, boisterous, and gregarious human being. Lance will be missed, but never forgotten. Our relationship...
Read More Ventilation
da Harv has come to vent His rage by sharing despair. Often to laugh hysterically, Being a free man, without care. Your turn has come Try it on for size With no consequences No punishment for lamenting. Comes now this chance For the fearful amongst you To express dissents. The best way possible, venting! Ah...
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