My friend Kathleen Judge had a dream about me. I was riding atop an elephant just outside her window and using it’s strength and finesse to manage a landscaping project. Great idea I have to admit and of course, it got me thinking. A few years ago I had the great fortune of visiting friends in Brittany, France. While there they whisked us off to a small town that featured site specific installations of huge photographic prints throughout the village….

Has anyone else noticed how the word “look” has crept into our everyday vernacular just as “basically” did in the 90s? It seemed to have begun with the presidential debates of 2008 as Barack Obama would preface a point with the word. Now everyone uses it when making a statement and it works to keep the listener at bay while driving home a point of view.

The Athens, GA Pt. 1 post mentioned earlier, has begun a documentation process of old photos and history of my work with the Rat and Duck Playhouse as well as our performance collective, Infants Fearing Sleep (I.F.S.) here in Chicago. While that’s proving a bit daunting both to scan photos and transfer old video tapes, it’s also served a more important purpose. Basic reflection on just how I began this journey in the first place and what has been at…

Time for another piece from the archives. I purchased this original charter at a yard sale many years ago. I seem to vaguely remember the fellow mentioned it was his mother’s and there it sat in a broken frame and water damaged. I quickly snapped it up and gave it a home where it continues to hang over my desk. I consider it a valuable document and below is some very brief background on David Dubinsky the president of the…

This weekend I watched the documentary Mad Dogs & Englishmen, Joe Cocker’s tour in 1971. Now, I’ve always been a huge Leon Russell fan but watching this gave me an even deeper appreciation for him. Something about the way this film was put together also left me with a sense of watching the music develop  in real time rather than being distracted by the dramas and back stories going on behind the scenes, most of em predictable I’m sure. It’s…

Sure this is a generational reaction to an old-school method and a comment on an antiquated system but I’m with Bernie in that I hold out for improvement versus dissolution of the post office and it’s potential. I realize it’s going to be as difficult as turning an elephant around in a small room but why should that be the end of discussion? Of course being a government agency it’s overdue in addressing it’s problems (way overdue) and yes, it’s…