Personal

I'm trying to keep the "Bette and Joan" smap down to one everytime I post.

Really, I am.

Here's Collin Bernhart, posing with Dave Durbin as Bette Davis.

I'm trying to remember who brought Collin, and now I can't. Dammit.

Anyway, Collin, we learned (or, at least, I learned) has a really wonderful singing voice, when he sang kareoke.

I dig kareoke, I really do. But on one show's cast party, we learned that it can sometimes lead to a near bar fight.

Okay, here's my cousin Takeo Sugihara, Jesse Greenbaum, Chris Baker, and, of course, Best Man Seth Mangum, singing "Danny Boy."

(Eventually, I got dragged up there, too, but we've had enough embarrasing photos of me.)

Jesse explained to me later that there was just far too much actual talent on display during kareoke (we're theater folk, what do you want?), so he had to do something.

The thing is, we really only knew the words to part of "Danny Boy," namely, the part that was in Miller's Crossing.

When you can't sing, man, "Danny Boy" is the longest song in the world.

And this is Joe Wiener and I, enjoying a laugh as Ethan Mutz sings "Tainted Love" which was a song that figured into one of Joe and my many running gags.

(I think I have running gags with at least thirty people by now. It's probably a lot more than that, now that I think about it.)

Anyway, Joe and I have been friends since he starred in the first video project that I shot in Madison, "Situations Wanted," about which, the less said, the better. In fact, we almost weren't friends, just because the dialogue in it was so bad I'd almost alienated him. Well, okay, it was just one line that really sucked. No, I'm not saying which one, either.

This is my mom, again, with her friend Cathy.

My mom and Cathy have been friends for years (I suspect they have a similar friendship that Joe and I do--or Seth and I, for that matter).

My mom and Cathy are kind of like Mary and Rhoda, except they're both Rhoda.