The title of this blog is taken from one of my favorite greeting cards. I wrote a different title back in March, shortly after my last post and saved it as a draft. The title was The Ugly Truth. Just a title no content. It’s probably better that I didn’t post it. I can’t really [...]

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It was a good night for me. I had a rehearsal for the upcoming theater benefit I am singing in for Hell in a Handbag Productions and the movie: “Catfish” afterwards. “Bea Arthur” & “Shelley Duvall” sing “Scarey Monsters”photo: Rick Aguilar

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News that I have neglected to share… I have been asked by the great artist Tony Fitzpatrick to become a part of the musical cast of his one man show entitled: “This Train” when he takes it to New York!!! Whoo hoo! Tony is a very successful artist who happens to reside in Chicago. I [...]

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Wow!!  Tonight was wonderful.  The thing that made it so great was the turnout of my friends and family. There were folks in attendance from every aspect of my life: day jobs from the 80′s, college, college friend’s parents, people I’d taken classes with, shopped with, partied with, done events for – you name it. [...]

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So, you may have wondered where I’ve been for the past few weeks.  I’ve been here having all kinds of fun and confusing times but you know what?  Thanks to Facebook  -  I can’t blog about it.  Well, I could blog about it but the characters involved are so distinct and such that I would [...]

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Photo: “taxi” by anna kipervaser – On Look Films Sometimes something as random as the taxi you hail can open up a world of new friendship, conversation and interconnection. I got into a conversation with my cab driver – found out he was a musician (he was playing his band’s lovely music on the cab [...]

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“Age ain’t nothing but a number.” That’s what a twenty something said to me last week. I laughed. And as I glanced around the tavern and bopped to the music ( a “top forty” tune that I loved singing with my band) I realized that maybe it was true. “You’re as young as you feel!” [...]

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I just viewed some of the footage shot by civilians (via cell phones) during the recent crackdown by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard against the street demonstrations that have risen in Iran during the past week. The people are protesting what they see as a fixed election result. The recent “landslide” election victory of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [...]

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Social Media Notice it up there? Next to Home on the toolbar? Well, it will connect you to my: My Space Page (don’t go there so much anymore.) Facebook (my new obsession, next to the Tudors) Twitter (don’t know what the fuck with that one,) I still gotta figure it out and I believe I’ve [...]

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