New to the Tampa International Fringe Festival this year is a local theatre troupe the New Tampa Players, who are known for their fun musicals featuring large youth ensemble casts. This is not one of those shows. Sending Down the Sparrows is a story based on the Nazi youth and …
This is my second time seeing A Dandy Darkly show. Last year’s Tampa International Fringe Festival had him doing his Myth Mouth show which had some terrific color. This year’s show is a longer narrative called Dandy Darkly’s All Aboard based on a train, and a “must have” toy, and …
Standing in line to get in to Heathers today, I learned something about “the arts” from the people who never go to theatre. So very many people were getting into the Heathers line thinking it was the Hamilton line. Sooo many people who never go to live theatre events. I …
Many, many years ago I played pool often. Fun was had. I have my own cue, which I bought at a flea market around many, many years ago. Nothing special, and partially held together with J. B. Weld, but I like it. Yes, I have dreamed of turning my piece …
My wife and I spent the better part of a day in Dayton, Tennessee on one of our vacations. A small town that, in 1925, held one of the biggest trials in the world – prior to O. J. Simpson. A trial reported around the world deciding on evolution in …
When in the deeper literary mood, and not laughing at Bierce’s “Devil’s Dictionary, ” I like to laugh along with the wit of those old adages from Poor Richard and Mark Twain. Although I really didn’t like “Tom Sawyer” very much. As I have relayed in other posts, I like …
I’m not sure who coined the phrase “the customer is always right,” but I have to disagree with them. Even when I am the customer, I know that it could be me with the understanding issues. Customer support representatives can certainly tell you about consumers who simply haven’t got a …
I love meaningful sayings. “Haste makes waste”, “a stitch in time, saves nine”, “don’t pick at it” and pretty much anything that helps summarize something in a concise manner. Poor Richard really knew his stuff. Some old adages are more useful than others. That stitch in time reference, while still …
What has been seen cannot be unseen. As a kid watching Gilligan’s Island, and loving the theme song, I always appreciated the word play at the end of the second stanza. This enjoyment of clever phrasing migrated into my love of good storytellers and more than a passing passion for …
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.” – Charles Darwin I frequently listen to science podcasts from around the world. New breakthrough …
