I’M GONNA RAISE A FUSS, AND I’M GONNA RAISE A HOLLER

Sweet little old ladies they ain’t. Helen Golay, 75, and Olga Rutterschmidt, 72, were arrested a few weeks ago in Los Angeles, for insurance fraud. They allegedly paid for two men to stay in apartments for as long as two years, and in exchange they obtained the victims’ signatures and opened more than a dozen [...]

I guess this had to happen… The National Security Agency reported a sharp increase in long distance telephone usage yesterday, also known as “MOTHERS DAY” in the United States. The overload caused high-ranking intelligence officers in the Bush administration to fear that al-Qaeda might be planning a terror plot using moms. I saw the best [...]

One of the most humbling things any artist – musician, actor, painter, comic, novelty act, dancer, etc. – goes through is a bad audition. I see it this way: my job description is one sentence: GET THE NEXT JOB. So most auditions hold out a carrot that is a feasible, if somewhat personal and risky [...]