I think maybe — maybe — I’m starting to pick up the faint outlines of what my new piece, Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews?, wants to be. A lot of this has to do with the fact that my director/collaborator, David Dower, has been focusing on it the past few days, and we had … Read more
I’m going to my first-ever religious Jewish service tomorrow morning — at Congregation Netivot Shalom in Berkeley, where I’ve performed and improvised a few times. I called my friend Menachem Creditor, the temple’s rabbi, to ask — among other things — what one wears at a Jewish service. (Thanks to my late father’s love of … Read more
My longtime theatrical collaborator, David Dower, is far away, in Washington, D.C. So as we collaborate on our new piece, Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews?, we are experimenting with communicating via Twitter (among other methods, like the old-fashioned telephone call). If, for some reason, you’d like to join us on our continuing journey (which, admittedly, … Read more
A few years ago, my sweet brother-in-law Nathan Sato and his lovely wife, Miki Azuchi, ran off to Hawaii and launched a brave and improbable new career making delicious local chocolates. Due to the intense yumminess of their products, their company, Malie Kai, has been branching out — just now reaching the Bay Area, where … Read more
Even my lovely and powerful computer is getting fed up with all the multitasking. When I ask it to let me use Firefox, it rope-a-dopes me — asking, in effect, “Do you really need to use Firefox? Wouldn’t you be just as happy sticking with your email application?” I need to click on the little … Read more