gawd, my last post was so maudlin i feel the need to post another ( Read more... )

i found out early this week that my 12 year old cat, parker, has cancer and has to be put to sleep on saturday.
i'm coping okay, but on the sad side. i'll write a memorial sometime later when i'm not so sad.

the dog days of summer always remind me of that thornton wilder play, "by the skin of our teeth". i saw a production of that at the guthrie probably 17 years ago that was one of the best plays i've ever seen. but anyway ( Read more... )

"i don't think you are going deaf" my ENT says ( Read more... )

i just got scouted and signed with a distro/promo group out of los angeles . . .
based on my myspace stuff. currently they are submitting my stuff to 7 different projects, including film and radio - we'll see what happens. i tend to be a little cynical about the biz, but this can only help, right? wish me luck . . .

summer is for fun! i am taking some little trips in july to visit friends and it makes me happy. when i spent summers in rochester when i was in college and high school, i was often in plays at the mantorville opera house. mantorville is about a half an hour northwest of rochester and it was a beautiful drive. i think this is when i first started ( Read more... )

the hillside is heating up. about a week ago, 3 people got shot half a block west. yesterday, a couple of blocks east, 2 guys held an older man by knife in his apartment. there was a separate shooting as well, but i don't think anyone got hurt ( Read more... )

hey cats ( Read more... )

my life has been happily jewel free in the last couple of years, but alas, that time of peace is over ( Read more... )

i had my hearing test on friday where it was discovered that my hearing is worse than it was before the surgery. what??? no, that's what i was expecting, because i can't HEAR ( Read more... )