The Escape Hatch

This is the second of a two-part post.  Last week’s post was titled “You Can’t Do It Yourself.”  Yeah, I suppose I can see the irony in that. But in reality, what I’m talking about isn’t as much at odds with my prior post as one might assume.  Last week, I talked about needing friends [...]

This is the first of a two-part post.  Next week’s post will be titled “Do It Yourself.”  Probably the first in a string of deliberately infuriating contradictions in which I take particular delight. Last week was the final round of the stand-up contest that I wrote about previously.  From an initial pool of about 70 [...]

I don’t write a lot of short stories or magazine articles – mainly novels.  So each time I put myself and my work out there, I’m basically putting a ton of eggs in a very small basket. It’s been a long time since I regularly submitted my writing for publication.  I’ve never been very good [...]

I know what you’re thinking.  You can’t ‘make’ inspiration.  That goes against the very meaning of the word.  By definition, inspiration has to arrive organically and without design. Au contraire, mon ami. One week ago today (as of the writing of this post), I lay in bed for hours on end, my mind in a [...]

Last night was the reason I’m in L.A.  It’s the reason I do what I do, the reason I left my day job, the reason I put up with all the heartache, the rejection, the closed doors. I performed my stand-up routine at a comedy club for the first time.  It went better than I [...]

I have always had the worst case of stage fright.  This usually shocks the hell out of most people who know me, especially those who have seen me perform in front of large groups or audiences in the past.  But the fact is that I’m petrified up there.  Always have been.  I just try my [...]

I mentioned in a recent post that Side Work – the group of talented artists of which I am grateful to be a part – held a 2-day art show in Hollywood.  One of the pieces, designed and created by fellow Escape Artist Nikki Klecha, was titled “A Tree Grown in a City of Dreamers.”  [...]

I moved this past week.  And I didn’t even call you to help me. You’re welcome. Of course, the moving process took much longer than it should have, because every time I happened upon a box of artifacts from my past, I spent the next hour or so taking a jog down the ol’ memory [...]

Last week, a group of seven incredibly talented and inspiring personalities put on an art show.  I feel privileged to have been one of them.  (I realize that by saying that I am, in effect, calling myself incredibly talented and inspiring, but seriously – we’re awesome.) For those of you who don’t regularly read my [...]

So that’s what I’m doing!  Aren’t I a nice blogmaster?!? The Escape Hatch blog is “officially” on a vacation of its own for the week of June 21, 2010…back next week (week of 6/28) with more inspiring posts from resident Escape Artists/Artist Entreprenuers Todd Kreisman & Nikki Klecha as well as yours truly. You just [...]