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"Art is one place where we can walk away from our plane crashes." - Brian Eno

We was robbed!

The Telepaths played last night. A cozy, neighborhood bar. We cranked up the amps and blasted our sound through the place. One of our frie...

We saw Mary Archies' production of "Cherrywood," last night. One of the great plays, perfectly realized. That's my take...

I still read the newspaper, still listen to NPR. So the world of human affairs still intrudes on my consciousness. I suppose listening to...

Yes, we all have prejudices. And we must fight them! Some prejudices are easy to debunk, based on irrationality. But sometimes prejudices ...

Hard-Boiled. Yes. That's right.

After a weekend of sound and fury, the Lovely Carla and I spent most of Monday in the world of mundane chores and basic house-keeping respon...

Back to being audience for day three. We saw lots of good stuff. Our friend Jason sang about the adventures of Lobster Boy on his ukulele ...

We spent lots of time at the little black box theater yesterday. Saw some really great performances from the Mary Archie players, Famous in...

We played the part of audience last night for the opening of the Abbie Hoffman Died For Your Sins Fest. It was a packed house and a rollick...

The Abbie Hoffman Died for Your Sins Fest (check out this Chicago Magazine piece for a primer) kicks off tonight at 7:00 p.m. And then it...

Yesterday I ended up in a conversation with a major Dylanologist. It was so cool to meet a kindred soul. Someone who has listened to the r...

I live in the Heartland, and I actually voted for Blago. I thought he was a dumb but honest guy. I got the dumb part right. So anyway, Bla...

I don't watch cable news. I think I'd rather drive nails through my head. Probably more enlightening too. So I missed out on all t...

You wonder if you are just mirroring the world around you. Or whether you are projecting your internal condition upon the world. And how wo...

We ran through our little performance piece, "The Dogstar Rages," a couple times yesterday. It's tightening up. We are worki...

Someone asked me how our rehearsals for our piece The Dogstar Rages was going. I said, "kind of train-wrecky." Which was sort of ...

It's just stuff. You can't be attached to just stuff. It comes and goes. It doesn't make you a better person. Or cooler. Th...

Looking at the "big picture" is probably a "mug's game." The human thing is just such a weird job... I guess if you...