I raise my glass to toast the New Year.

The origin of making “toasts” is obscure. The word derives from the Vulgar Latin tostare (to scorch or roast). From Classical times it was common to flavour wine by floating small pieces of toasted bread in it…It is commonly supposed that the drinking of “toasts” derives from the gallantry that ‘the name ( Read more... )

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I was off on my character for the show tonight....I know the theater of you out there know the feeling: in your head your yelling “that sucked…stop the sucking!!! Stop it right now!!!” and each line comes out of your mouth sucking just a little bit more until your subconscious is pleading, “For the love of God stop the tide of sucking!!!!!! ( Read more... )

So on Tuesday the theater preformed our ten minute play festival for a class of non theater students who are known historically for not being very good audiences…they come drunk, talk, pee the seats, mock, and sleep ( Read more... )

So yesterday I changed the world. I taught a child to read. Seriously, the kid walked in not knowing how to read and after an hour with me he was reading up a storm. The feeling was euphoric (for both of us)! It was amazing I was on a ‘I changed the world for the better’ high. (It is important to note that for reasons we won’t go into all of ( Read more... )

( Adventures DD-ing...this is long so you might want to skip it )

( Humiliating and degrading stories… )

So on the way to the theater yesterday I pick up my mail, like you do, and noticed that one of the letters was from my good friend Joanne. Yay! I rip it open right there and then (in the middle of the street as it happened) to discover horrible horrible Scottish Porn ( Read more... )

So have you ever gotten really busy and so just not worked out in a while…like say, a year and a half…and then suddenly something happens and it comes to your attention that you should try to get back into some sort of recognizable shape…so you go jogging…like you do (yes, I still quote Eddie Izzard on a near hourly basis)….and lift a couple of ( Read more... )