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What’s So Funny?

First, hooray for Maggie. She made it through in her round of the Funniest Person in Austin Contest. From the very start, Maggie has been a strong stand-up comic, and has made it past the preliminary rounds. She goes on auditions and gets the parts on a consistent basis. Her first one-woman show made a [...]

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Who Do I Sue?

Who do I sue?
My personality has never been described as happy-go-lucky. I’ve never been a little ray of sunshine. Since I was a kid, I’ve dealt with dark moods and anxieties. They go way back. But they didn’t really come into full bloom until I entered junior high school (it’s called middle school now, for [...]

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Wait and See

Maggie’s away, and I’m cleaning up. Actual Spring cleaning. Maybe it’s a race-memory sort of thing, but I just have the urge to organize, clean up and clean out. And while going through my hard drive as part of the process (thorough, huh?), I came across this.
It’s something I wrote back in 2000, just after [...]

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Erik: The Smartest Boy on Earth

Does anyone else have this fantasy? The one where you’re back somewhere in your past, but you have your current brain? Anybody?
Because I have this fantasy fairly often, especially when I’m dwelling needlessly on something from my childhood or going through a bout of depression. “I should have done this, I should have said that, [...]

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In Your Face: The Aftermath

Second place. Not too bad, really. 18 classes over 7 days, and that’s accounting for my zero classes on Saturday. So an average of 3 classes a day. It’s little wonder that I’m exhausted. If you haven’t read my previous blog on this, you may better understand what I’m talking about by reading that one [...]

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