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Micro to the Macro: What’s Your Favorite Song Lyric

Posted on November 6, 2009. Filed under: Blog | Tags: , , , , |

Many moons ago, I posted my favorite single line of song lyric and asked people to share theirs. Now we move from the micro to the macro! My question: what is your favorite song lyric?
To clarify: I’m not asking for your favorite song necessarily but what song you think has the best lyrics considered as [...]

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Welcome to our Renaissance, Ottawa.

Posted on October 5, 2009. Filed under: Blog | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I had a fairly action packed weekend worth recounting.
Friday night, I performed in my first Eddie May touring show, the long-running The Murder’s Apprentice. It was a lot of fun and harder work than I expected. It was hard work because of the nature of an Eddie May show and the particular role I played.
Eddie [...]

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What’s your story? I Will Leave It To You To Decide If Your Pipe Really Is A Pipe

Posted on September 23, 2009. Filed under: Blog | Tags: , , , , , , , |

So, I’ve been thinking about storytellers, story-telling, and stories. And, this is what I am thinking.
When I think about the job of telling or “playing back” another person’s story, it seems to me that at any given moment a storyteller is always telling at least three stories. There is the story s/he wants to tell, [...]

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New Grist For My Blogging Mill: Sanitas Playback Theatre.

Posted on September 21, 2009. Filed under: Blog | Tags: , , , , , , , , |

In recent months, I’ve been thinking a lot about theatre.
As a writer, director, and producer, I’ve been thinking about the stories I want to tell. As an actor, I’ve been thinking about the nature of performance, what I give to it, and what I get out of it.
In terms of writing, directing and producing, it [...]

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Life is good. Breaking up sucks.

Posted on September 11, 2009. Filed under: Blog | Tags: , , , , |

Now is a time of unlimited excitement and possibility.
My girlfriend and I broke up Sunday, mutually and as respectfully as one would expect of us. We are, after all, both good and respectful people.
I am excited about the future, plans are materializing, and opportunities are being seized.
Even a mutual and respectful break-up means, at root, [...]

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The Really Long and Winding Road Home: The Final (?) Gmen Photo Gallery

Posted on August 28, 2009. Filed under: Blog | Tags: , , , , , |

Last show finished, great crowd, jump for joy!

Last show, great crowd, jump for joy 2!

One last item to pack.

Head east, goodbye west.

Random road side break (or, is that a corpse?).

Ray at rest with Eric.

The Thunder Bay Hostel Basketball Diaries (Or, watch me suck in three easy steps).
1) Jump:

2) Jumping:

3) Cower:

Ray Gets It Done In Style

The [...]

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Yet Another Flavor of Blog: Writing For Mass Appeal

Posted on August 26, 2009. Filed under: Blog | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

A day or two before the Gmen headed west, we received good news. The Managing Editor of Metro (Edmonton) had taken an interest in our publicity material and invited me to blog my Edmonton Fringe experience for Metro.
As it turns out, Harry, the Managing Editor, is an old high school friend. He recognized Dave’s name [...]

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Even More Gmen Photos: Edmonton

Posted on August 23, 2009. Filed under: Blog | Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Two Sold Out Shows Deserve Ice Cream (With Ophelia).

Coveted Sold Out Stickers.

Half-Time At The Edmonton Fringe Soccer Throw Down.

Second Half Action.

Handcrafted Precision.

Chilling, Besharah-Stylz.

Three Sold Out Stickers!

104 St & 82 Ave.

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Fourteen Short Free-Associations About The Edmonton Fringe

Posted on August 18, 2009. Filed under: Blog | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

104th Street and 82nd Ave. Edmonton. A clear wordless mind. I want to write, instead I watch the world go by. Amy arrives. We discover we are both Virgo. She has a friend and she doesn’t want to jinx it. I tell her, “Somethings are possible only if you open yourself to the possibility of [...]

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A Road Well Traveled: From Saskatoon To Edmonton (GMEN Photo Gallery, Part 3)

Posted on August 14, 2009. Filed under: Blog | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

The night before the spoof, Chris and Berkeley invite us to dinner with the Squid Kids. Yum!

The delicious eats provided by the hosts.

Getting primed for the spoof night.

The Squids spoof the G-Men.

Gmen Spoof: Zachary and the Story Telling Stoned.

Peter, the crass intoxicated bear, and the fringe forest animals.

Go west, to Edmonton.

Dave looking surly. Nothing new [...]

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