Dear One and All,
Roxy is looking at me like she wants to go for a walk but I don't really believe her since I just opened the patio door for her to go out and take care of biz and she just stared long and hard at the puppy deep puddles and opted to hold it...What a grey and gloomy day for our usual sunny CA...maybe we'll just play a little game of indoor catch and hope we don't destroy another lamp (but that's another story)...
Roxy sure loves her little soft leopard-colored squeak ball and all in all she's pretty good with it. Good...but not like Ripley. Ripley was incredible!
The Case of the Creaking Chair
© Ari Dane 2010
Ripley!
Woof! creak…
Want to go for a walk?
Woof! creak…
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Dear One and All,
Hiya'!
This is my second blog and it's a two parter:
First - a comedy performance up-date: Tomorrow, Saturday, the 16th of January I will be appearing at "The Waterfront Cafe" on "The Waves of Comedy" show and on Monday the 18th, I will be at Marymount College for the "Bravo" organization...I'm looking forward to both programs and intend to generate a real good time for one and all.
Once again, I realize that for so many of you who would like to be in attendance, it is just not feasible...so... the next best thing I can offer is for you to go to my website
http://www.aridane.biz click on the "Video" page and take your choice of my several show links posted on "You Tube." My performances go from the present back to the early eighties and if you watch them all in sequence (even I can't do that!) you will notice that my act hasn't changed nearly as much as my haircuts! Look at it this way...Sure, I'd love to see you there...but...this [...]
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Dear One and All,
In comedy...timimg is everything.
With that in mind, twould seem that a short story/essay/routine I wrote some time ago is apropos.
Happy Holidays and I hope this gives you a chuckle. Ari
NO CHRISTMAS IN THIS HOUSE!
It was hot as hell and our little trailer located on the grounds of the Green Acres Hotel in Loch Sheldrake, N.Y. in the Catskill Mountains was sizzling in the August heat.
I had a long relationship with the owners of Green Acres, Cissie and Larry Blumberg, ever since I was a child and spent several summer vacations with my family at the resort, which was originally in Lake Huntington, N.Y. A fire leveled it and, hence, the new address. It was the early Seventies; Janet was employed as the head bookkeeper and I performed one show a week in exchange for our room and board, which was an equitable situation.
Equitable or not, it was hot as hell and my temper was not far below the surface when the TV started blaring, "Ronco! The perfect Christmas gift!!!" Are they [...]
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