NOTE: By request, I have excerpted this story from my book, Atilla The Gate Agent: Travel Tales and Life Lessons From A Musical Laf-ologist. During 1990 I lived in the Cayman Islands, working as an entertainer at a posh resort. Despite the laid back, exotic lifestyle, it was a period of great uncertainty in my [...]
Many years ago John Denver introduced Tina Turner at the Grammys this way: “She’s the woman God put on earth to show other women how to dance in high heels.” This has nothing to do with high heels, dancing, Tina Turner, or John Denver, but I thought about his line last night when I learned [...]
Some cogent thoughts and quotes from the just-finished Science and Consciousness Conference in Santa Fe, featuring Jean Houston, Sam Keen, Matthew Fox, Raymond Moody, Peter Russell, and others. (I emceed and inflicted myself on everybody in a comedy concert.) Jean Houston is the great-granddaughter of both Sam Houston and Robert E. Lee. (Presumably not together. [...]
NPR just did a piece on a new sport that its organizers hope one day to bring to the Olympics: competitive yoga. Competitive Yoga? Of course! Yoga’s all about the ego, right? You wonder why nobody thought of it sooner. I can see it now. Grandstands full of blissful spectators chowing down on tofu dogs, [...]
