Month: June 2009

Doyou remember where you were when River Phoenix died? Probably not. A better question might be, “Do you remember who River Phoenix was?”( He was an up and coming, very talented young actor back in the day. Did a wicked Harrison Ford impression at the beginning of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Made ... Read more

Noconnection between these three videos, other than the fact that I enjoyed them all very much. The first one is, in fact, the actual video for the eighties classic "Total Eclipse of the Heart," except that the audio has been changed to reflect what's happening on screen. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj-x9ygQEGA&hl=en&fs=1&] This is a lot of fun at ... Read more

Thepolitical landscape is so deeply depressing that I find it hard to muster up any kind of formal response to it. The Federal Government now owns the largest car manufacturer in the world solely so it can prop up a bloated union. The trillion dollar stimulus that was passed to keep unemployment below 8% has ... Read more

Inmy senior year at USC, a weird, artsy woman spent a couple of weeks as the substitute teacher for our acting class. (I know what you’re thinking– a weird, artsy acting teacher?! What are the odds?!) She was not just any acting schmo - she was a regular on the “New WKRP in Cincinnati.” ... Read more

Abouttwenty years ago, Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake produced a truly memorable version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet that I very much enjoyed. Many modern Shakespeare productions attempt to "update" the material with weird modern references, and I almost always find that distracting. This version used authentic Elizabethan costumes and sets, and it was ... Read more

Iwatched The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien last night. I don’t often watch late night television, although that wasn’t always the case. I was a huge Letterman fan back when Letterman was funny on Late Night. I used to tape Late Night, watch it the next morning, and steal all his material for my busy ... Read more

TheNew York Dolls came to town on Saturday night. I didn’t get a chance to go, but it caused me to reflect on one of the huge missed opportunities of my life. It was the summer of 1990. I had just finished an essentially wasted year at the University of Utah and decided to return ... Read more