I did a show in Evanston on Saturday. Performed with Jim and also the Kastles. We did two sets… I led off with the Betrothal. The Kastles did 2 songs and then Jim did this new bear story. Second set started with Jim and another bear story, me with Mr. Pan […]
I told this story last night at the newly expanded Uncommon Ground.
Mr. Pan Asia (1.3 MB mp3)
One note: Abby’s crush was actually Mike Fang, not Mike Fong. Whoops.
Last night, I saw the Storyweavers (Dennis and Lucinda Flodin) at Uncommon Storytelling. The place was packed with storytellers, there to see them. Dennis has cancer, and no one’s sure quite how much time he has left. Instead of the usual format for the night, the open mic and featured set was […]
This is the Halloween story I told for November’s Uncommon Storytelling. El and I took her roommate Liz and Liz’s boyfriend Dave. I never know how to present storytelling night to people my age. I try to prepare them for some of the schmaltz that will unsuredly be unleashed and tell them […]
So, I told this story on Tuesday at Uncommon Ground… It went over better than I expected. See, there was no featured teller that night, so all open mic. The first half was pretty light hearted and then I started off the second half with this one. As I told Jim, […]
Growing up, my favorite toys were Legos and cardboard boxes. I loved them because they could be anything.
With the Legos, I’d create spaceships and army bases. When I’d get a new set, I’d make whatever the instructions told me to make, play with it for a few hours and then rip it apart […]
I learned two life lessons in one weekend in junior high. Usually when you hear that opening to a story, it’s some saccharine moral like, “Live every day like it’s your last.” Don’t worry. I learned that there’s no safety in numbers and that women are trouble.
Some background: I went to […]
Some people have a knack for getting lost. I don’t mean in some sort of existential way ‘cause then, we’re all pretty good at that. I mean physically lost.
My first big lost experience was the 1982 Chicago Auto Show. I was two and a half. My family, including some […]
I’m a pretty inert individual. I subscribe to the why stand when you can sit, why sit when you can lie down school of thought. I’m skinny only because I’m still coasting from a brief bout of fitness in junior high.
When I was in sixth grade, we started doing those national […]
I always felt left out when people would bring out their bar stories. It’s not that I don’t go to bars, just that when I do go with my friends, we just sit around a table and talk. It’s nice, but it’s not the wild times Jason and Rick would talk about. […]