After answering an ad on the Chicago Craigslist site in spring 2009 for an unpaid art co-host position, interviewing and getting the job, I was well on my way! The short-lived web series was based on the other co-host, Lorenzo Ross’ (Zomatic) daytime employer of being an art package handler at a UPS mail shop in Chicago somewhere. Zomatic would take photos of the art he handled and...
Read MoreWhat began as a routine request for a photograph from a 2009 Chicago music festival, has continued as a great friendship and collaboration well over a decade. From the amusing conspiratorial DOCTA film series (2012-2016), to contributing musician in Sid Yiddish And His Candy Store Henchmen, spontaneous music, parody and video productions and everything else in between. I look forward to many...
Read MoreI met Westley Heine in 2004 while he was still a student filmmaker in Chicago. He cast me in a student film as a drunken news anchor. That same week I met him over drinks, he showed me his poetry and prose. it was good. Damn good. Soon after, we began hanging out together at open mics and before long, we formed the band $2 Cockroach, a poetry jug blues band. The band lasted a total of two years,...
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