Feb 5Member-onlyMartin Luther King, Jr. Day…Go Buy Something! I’m delighted that I’ve been published again on newthinking.com. If you have four to five minutes (depending on how fast you read). please check out my newest…Martin Luther King1 min readMartin Luther King1 min read
Dec 29, 2022Member-onlyPUBLISHED AGAIN!I’m delighted that the online publisher New-Thinking.online has published another one of my tales of the entertainment industry!Writing1 min readWriting1 min read
Sep 25, 2022Member-onlyMY STORY HAS BEEN PUBLISHED!Shameless self-promotion:Writing1 min readWriting1 min read
Jul 17, 2022Member-onlyOdd Jobs & Nutjobs: Exercise, Exercise, C’mon Everybody! Do Your Exercise!I was 237% committed to being an actor. 26 years old and it was my raison d’etre. When meeting someone, I made sure to let ’em know I was an actor in about twenty seconds. Whether they were interested or not. “Hi!” “Nice to meet you.” “You, too. …Life9 min readLife9 min read
Apr 29, 2022Member-onlyOdd Jobs & Nutjobs: How To Get An Agent, Part III’d been hustling in my pursuit of an acting career for four years and two months. I had rice and raisins for breakfast six days a week, weighed 142 pounds and asked friends if I could devour their leftover french fries. I’d had a bit of success, having been cast…Humor7 min readHumor7 min read
Feb 12, 2022Member-onlyOdd Jobs & Nutjobs: How To Get An Agent, Part II had been pursuing an acting career for about four years. It was my sole raison d’etre… my reason to live. My passion. My joy. And my gut crunching misery. My entire identity was caught up in being an actor. My whole life, every waking hour, day, week and month…Humor8 min readHumor8 min read
Jan 21, 2022Member-onlyOdd Jobs and Nutjobs: Cater WaiterFour years of borderline starvation led me to ten dollar-an-hour catering work. That way, I could eat shrimp and steak off a customer’s plate when I hauled it back to the dishwasher. Cater waitering. Not to be confused with a job that gives one any sense of self-esteem, like administrative…Humor6 min readHumor6 min read
Jan 9, 2022Member-onlyOdd Jobs and Nutjobs: Gupta Goes BerserkI. I had been auditioning for about eight months. Gone on over 100 auditions. My two successes: being cast in a commercial that was never shot and as an extra. Playing a guy sitting at a table. In an underground dump on West 57th Street. With no air conditioning. …Humor7 min readHumor7 min read
Dec 10, 2021Member-onlyOdd Jobs & Nut Jobs:Great Artists I Have Known/Part 1 It was the middle of a hot July. I had been auditioning for about eight months. The only job I booked was a non-speaking role. A guy sitting at a bar in a student film entitled Timothy Poindexter. I didn’t even know what the thing was about. All I knew…Humor7 min readHumor7 min read
Nov 8, 2021Member-onlyTales of a Wretched Past….Tales of the Past Part 2: Boy Scout Camp aka All About the Benjamins “BOY SCOUT CAMP?!” “Yes, honey,”said my mother. She had quit smoking and was on her fourth cup of black coffee. Her hands were jittery. At least she wasn’t slowly killing herself with tar and nicotine. “Don’t…Humorous Life Lessons12 min readHumorous Life Lessons12 min read
