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Panda Unplugged

Voice actors are, by and large, as agreeable a bunch of people as you are likely to find in any given workspace. Convivial, pleasant, and almost always entertaining, they are less prone to the excesses of egotism afflicting the greater pool of actors in Los Angeles. Perhaps it’s because they’re heard but rarely seen; perhaps it’s […]

March 7th, 2012Still Life Las Vegas

Naked in Korea (town)!

Annyong haseyo! Many pleasurable greetings!  Are you one who is wishing to travel abroad, yet lack the financial means to do this? Do you wish to experience a new cultures and traditions without need of a passport? If this one is you, please to join me! Gather under my umbrella, and together we will experience […]

February 29th, 2012Still Life Las Vegas

Sunday Roundup

Gleanings from a week’s worth of idle, non-productive scrolling. I waste time so you don’t have to! Sheep sheep sheep! They’re overruning the internet this week! First, a little known phenomenon—sheep cyclones (via towleroad): What can whip these diabolical Baa Baa Bad Sheep into submission? Call in Babe, the… rabbit? My friend, Sally Nemeth, posted […]

February 5th, 2012Still Life Las Vegas

Benji and the Art of War

If the last audition I went on results in a booking call from my voice agent, I’m gonna owe my son Ben big time. It’s like I’m being attacked by those floating spores from “Avatar.” I got called in for a mocap game. Mocap stands for Motion Capture; it’s where you get suited up with […]

February 1st, 2012Still Life Las Vegas

Beware! A Most Evil Post

I have definitive evidence, recently obtained, of the Existence of Evil: Cashew Brittle is insanely easy to make. It’s a one-way trip to overeating hell. I’m talking about gathering ingredients, mixing them together, putting it on a tray and munching on it, all under, oh, 20 minutes. Ingredients readily available in your kitchen. No preheating the […]

January 23rd, 2012Still Life Las Vegas

Food Gone Wild!

The end of one year and the beginning of another is a time rife with reflection and revelation. Here is mine: I have a problem. I’m hoping that, by talking about it, I’ll be able to finally get some help and work through it. The problem has flared up over these past weeks and is […]

January 2nd, 2012Still Life Las Vegas

Yes, Benjamin, There is Possibly Not a Santa Claus

The gig is up. Or could be. It’s hard to say. After dinner, Doug calls out to me from where he is putting Benjamin to bed. I trudge upstairs begrudgingly (Why can’t he put the boy to bed by himself? Doesn’t he know I’m doing the dishes/checking Facebook/playing a round of Angry Birds: Seasons?) until […]

December 17th, 2011Still Life Las Vegas

Baking With Disaster

I almost entered into a baker’s hell this weekend; you know, that particular lower circle where you’re asked to make a birthday cake for a 40th birthday party and you spend hours on a new recipe and then find that it’s becoming an utter catastrophe and you might have to start over from scratch and […]

December 12th, 2011Still Life Las Vegas

My Dinner with Two Hot Tamales

It’s official: I’ve become a Top Chef whore.I watch all the incarnations: “Top Chef,” “Top Chef: Just Desserts” and “Top Chef: Masters”; if there was a “Top Chef: Reheating Lean Cuisines” I’d probably program that into my DVR as well. But, I swear, I’ve gleaned many useful directives from these shows. Contrast salty and sweet. […]

December 5th, 2011Still Life Las Vegas