Our first rehearsal is tonight. Read through of the script, some music excerpts, meet & greet etcetera. I will document all that later tonight. For now, I thought I would mention some of what I have been doing to prepare for the role since auditions three weeks ago. So, Bobby is a  huge role, and [...]

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Yes, that’s it. The script for Company. I have not posted here in a while, because I suck. But you knew that already. Anyway. So, longish story shorter – I was cast as Bobby in the Playhouse Merced Production of Company. I KNOW!!! Right? The show opens Feb 12 and runs through the 28th right [...]

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21 years ago I went to my first non-school related audition (!). I had always loved theatre, I had done some shows in high school – but only one musical. I loved musical theatre but had been told at an early age by my parents that I couldn’t sing. I had worked up a song [...]

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I have been infusing vodkas as many of you know. I have made Ginger vodka, Vanilla vodka, Pomegranate vodka, Pomelo vodka, Cucumber vodka, Lemongrass Vodka, Buddha’s Hand Vodka (this is still infusing) – but the most daring, strangest, and potentially most awesome vodka infusion? Bacon! Of course all of this infusing isn’t just because I [...]

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It was brought to my attention that having the photoshop file instead of just the GIF of the WITWisAkang do-it-yourself iage would be ever so much more helpful for the home user. So, as always, your wish is my command when I feel like it. Below is a link to the PSD file. Be creative! Be [...]

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This is just because I like torturing Akang so much and he reacts so strongly and everything it just makes doing things like this soooo much fun. Anyway, there was this awesome picture of Akang that I did not take myself but he was making this very strange face off in the corner of this [...]

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  One of my favorite people is Alex Kang. You may know him as the extra sleepy boy from my Facebook photo galleries. He has also been the podcasting voice of UC Merced; bartender par excellence for many a boozy college kid party; UC Merced alumnus;  webmaster extraordinaire; graphics designer of some renown; and a [...]

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Among the many things to ponder on this, the first day of 2009, is the 50th anniversary of the Cuban revolution. 50 years ago today Fidel Castro and his band of freedom fighters entered Santiago de Cuba as the dictator Batista fled the country. An extraordinary victory, regardless of your political leanings, that toppled a [...]

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So – we spent our 20th wedding anniversary in September at Disneyland. I managed to keep it a secret from the family until three days before we were supposed to leave. We had a phone call from Mickey, Daisy, and Goofy to the kids telling them how excited they were we were coming to visit. [...]

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