CANADA!

Last week, the mysterious forces at Big Nazo asked me to go along with them on their Canadian tour. As a dedicated denizen of the road, my heart yearned. It's only a few cities, and the troupe will be traveling through the air and sleeping in hotels, as opposed to vans and vans, respectively, as can be the case.

At first, I practically ignored the dates on the schedule. I have a job; I can't just leave for three weeks. After some e-mails and a convincing phone call, I figured I would see what I could do at work. Somewhat miraculously, I was granted the time. (I only have two weeks of vacation a year.)

So We leave May 13 for what could be an epic adventure. Mostly children's festivals in the cities of Ottawa and Vancouver. I've enjoyed traveling and performing with the Nazo cats so far. It can be exhausting, but it's rewarding. It keeps my creative juices flowing.

A few notes about this blog:

I installed Google Analytics on this page. I wanted to see how many people were reading. I was thrilled to see that I have had six viewers! I understand that a few of them are me, but that's honestly more than I though I would have.

I haven't sent this to more than two or three people, and I haven't put up links anywhere. I'm sort of soft-opening it, which I'm also doing with some of my new videos. Eventually, I want this to be the clearing house for all my projects, and maybe I'll get the design of this thing figured out by then too. (If you haven't noticed, the header keeps changing.)

Anyway, live long and prosper.

John Kerry update

I'm happy to report that my video of John Kerry was aired on CNN by Lou Dobbs. Of course, there was no credit given. A number of blogs, including BreitBart.tv and Greta Van Sustern also helped get the video over 10,000 views, which I think is new territory for me. Some jerk also captured it an re-uploaded 28 seconds of my clip, and that has 6,000 views. The Huffington Post linked to that one, and said that he "gave an interview with a local N.H. paper," which diminishes my confidence in the Huffington site.

Anyway, I guess I did my job if I got people looking at our stuff. Setting a camera up on a tripod isn't the hardest task in the world, but finding the few minutes out of an hour that people might be interested in takes a few brain cells.

Even if I keep thinking we're done talking about Obama's race, it seems to keep coming up. I'm saddened about the reposted clip. The user is not only stealing copyrighted material, but also edited the clip with a clear bias. Granted, I picked the part of the interview I found the most interesting, yes, even controversial, but I thought I gave his remarks appropriate context.

I suppose it's a lesson in today's media. Even when presented with the full argument, some will intentionally grab a few words to create controversy. This isn't news to anyone, but I've never been a party to it before.

My Stupid Trip

I just uploaded a new film, finished a couple weeks ago. It's about my trip to India.

I should point out that Sean Belcher filmed the shave, Trevor Wilson provided the music and Aidan Giuttari and Nick Wilson provided additional support.



I hope to do a longer series on my trip to India soon.

Springfield Movie Awards

20,000 movies were being show in Springfield one weekend, and all the cobras had their titties perky at the prospect.

For 20,000 years, The Baroness had said "no more stupid movies, idiotcows!" so all the vipers watched were the episodes of Step by Step that Firefly had lent them on VHS.

So all the danaburgers showed up for the big showing of movies, which were all supposed to about eating giant cheeseburgers, fraggin' on Snake Eyes with .3134234 full-deriched uraniamum anti-tank hollow tipped diamond stylus automatic rounds froma 20 metere bored and stroked plasma MAMABA cannon that they JB welded onto the side of that gay thing that Zartan cruises for old florida swamp ladies with.

So they were excited about that.

Anyway, they all showed up at the theater, which a televiper made by modifiying Kristal Ballz' holodisc to project onto Dr. Mindwarpers cloak thing. It was bad ass.

TOO BAD IT WASN'T!

Cause the movie started, and it was mad awesome for like, 12 seconds, all explosions and Supertramp songs and titties and shit, but then the screen caught on fire and a buttload of Rolling Thunders came through the screen with Rock and Roll, Snake Eyes, Hit and Run, General Hawk, Quick Kick, Kwinn, Lady Jaye, Flint, Deep Six, Torpedo, Shipwreck, chuckles and Hi-Tech all shooting mad .357 caliber shotgun lasers through their faces and making them bleed and burn to death while their kids and puppies watched.

After all 20,000 cobras were throroughly bled out to death, The Joes yelled "Yo Joe" and told kids to wash their dad's cars every Saturday morning without being asked, and maybe he won't beat you anymore. PSA, fo real.

Anyway, the worst part was that the movie was really bad too, after the first 20 seconds it was mostly just old Grateful Dead footage and Destro's favorite scenes from "Glengarry Glen Ross" all out of order.

Trouble me

I intended this blog to be a place to write about my life, among other things. I also intended it to be a light-hearted telling of my story, which would certainly be a comedy if it ever became a movie.

I'll get to the funny stuff later, I guess.

I met Natalie a few times late in 2007, she lived in the apartment below an old friend, Erin Sheppard. We chatted briefly.

I was a busy man on New Years Eve, appearing in four shows and dancing with a near excess of ladies. One of those ladies was Natalie Garcia.

A week later we talked more at a party in said apartment building. Mutual attraction and interests came to light; we started dating soon after. Of course things went well at first. We hung out, had dinner, watched the occasional movie. Since we were both runners, we also found great training partners in each other.

Natalie works at a newspaper too; she's a fellow for the Providence Journal. Her fellowship ends in June, something I could never get out of my mind. I think that's one of the biggest reasons it came to an end last night.

I don't intend this space to be a just a social journal, but I figured I should record these events in case I need to reference them later.

So ladies...

John Kerry and Obama.

John Kerry came to meet with our editorial board yesterday. I've met him briefly before, and seen him talk once in person at the Providence Journal Follies. After some truly hilarious jokes, he went into a not-so-hilarious stump session for Obama that night.

The stumping continued on Monday when he talked with the editors. I would like to add that I talked to him briefly about the half marathon I ran the previous day, which Bob Unger had just brought up. I admit I felt like a little kid again, talking to a grown-up.

I think it was interesting that he would say Obama has advantages just because he's black.

Either way, he's a nice guy in person. Tall, relaxed, well-informed.

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