Category: Humor
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“Green Acres” is the Broadway place to be!
I just saw this news in Variety and, bless my gooseberry pie, I think it might be magic in the making! Ladies, gentlemen and hogs, Green Acres may be coming to Broadway. As a kid, I was completely in love with Green Acres. I’d tune in on Nick at Night every evening after school and…
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BOOK REVIEW: If It’s A Choice, My Zygote Chose Balls by Jeremy Hooper (Good As You)
If It’s A Choice, My Zygote Chose Balls: Making Sense of Senseless Controversy by Jeremy Hooper My Goodreads rating: 5 of 5 stars The LGBT community has been under attack by conservatives and religious fundamentalists since before Adam and Steve had their first chance to shake their groove thing at the first Eden Happy Hour…
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Jest: The Secret Gay Agenda Revealed
The folks over at Jest have taken the fears of the foolish and turned them into a witty sketch. The “Gay Agenda” (a pejorative that has been bandied about by jerks for 20 years now) is exposed! Kudos guys, kudos! (Hat tip to Towleroad)
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That Time My Truck Blew Up
Yes, for a very brief period of time I owned a pickup truck. But the universe didn’t think this was a good fit for me and decided to end the, at best, tenuous relationship. Roughly fourteen years ago, the 1988 Ford Ranger (red) and I became acquainted because of need. I needed a VERY CHEAP…
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“The Clifton Monroe Chronicles” is a rousing success!
During my extended absence from writing on the blog, we successfully opened The Clifton Monroe Chronicles: Episode 1 – The Case of the Scarlet G. I was in New Orleans for the opening weekend (and helped by running the light board while working with the press) and enjoyed watching this co-creation get standing ovations each night.…
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Theme Songs that Terrified Me as a Chld
I’ve been busier than usual lately so I haven’t posted much, short of some Instagram moments here and there but I was listening to a podcast this morning and one of the panelists mentioned the theme to Unsolved Mysteries and it reminded me that, while I loved the show, the song itself terrified me! Something…
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The Night My Mother Got Peed on at the Theatre
In 1998 I was enjoying a two-week run of Cabaret at the Clarence Brown Theatre. This was a University production (not to be confused with the professional company on the campus of UTK) and I was excited for my mom and stepdad to see this sort of naughty, sort of sexual, very-much-in-the-vein-of the Roundabout’s Broadway revival that I was…
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UPDATE: We are 70% of the way to our Kickstarter goal!
The Clifton Monroe Chronicles We are constantly surprised (pleasantly) by the generosity of our friends, family and future fans. Last night we hit the 70% mark (see our Mattie Meter update below)! We have 44 days to go… and that’s just $13.41 a day left to raise. So, we hope you will share this project’s…
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NOM & Gallagher: The Veruca Salt in our Nation’s Chocolate Factory
The National Organization for Marriage (trumpeted by Maggie Gallagher and Brian Brown) have become the Veruca Salt in our nation’s chocolate factory. Gallagher wrote the following in a blog post following yesterday’s jubilation-inducing ruling that Prop 8 was unconsitutional. “In a breathtaking exercise in ill-natured illogic, a divided Ninth Circuit ruled 2-1 that because Prop 8…
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Huskey Cemetery
I saw this image on Facebook today and laughed because it churned up this filed-away memory of driving the country roads of Tennessee with my mom. We were travelling along Highway 321, roughly ten miles beyond the entrance to my high school, in search of some sort of adventure. I’m not entirely sure what we…
Tommy Karr 