The Ecstacy of Pilsen

The World Shimmers

Sat up late with beautiful Jess about a week ago, talking about solar eclipses and of how stars huddle around them:

Dusty Ice Gives me the Giddy Shivers

Progress & Unabashed Cat-Love

A Much Belated Bird Show Video from 2006

Check it out at my website or click below to watch it:

Shoot me an email/phone call if you'd like a high quality DVD of it!

Hungry for Cheese Mongrels?

Well the very first installment of it will be printed in the upcoming May issue of Opium Magazine! Click here to visit their site & check back again to catch future, unpublished adventures~

I'll Never Tire of the Spokes in Your B Ring

You're so pretty it makes me weep!

Charbel Khalil

This puppet satire show "Democracy" by Charbel Khalil is pretty hypnotizing. I wish I spoke Arabic:

Read about him at the New York Times Website.

Langley

Honeycombed Wind Tunneling for your Love

Busy Bee

It's back to working on the good work: Army of Lovers, finishing touches on BEER, and now my editing station is finally complete! That means some long overdue documentation will come pouring into the internet. Plus ~ I can finally start animating again. Yes! Here's the first panel from the upcoming Army of Lovers book four:

Our Magical Extravaganza

Another very nice article about our play, BEER:
Web Behrens at Chicago Free Press

Ellis

From Dear the World of the Living, Ellis, who was thrown through his windshield on Lake Shore Drive:

Grass is Growing Over my Feet

Oh Dave Depew, I'm Easy

In lieu of posting new Cheese Mongrels episodes, here are some life & times photos. Oh Dave Depew, don't Point-Break my heart with your dreamy visage:

Madam Colette gave an incredible karaoke performance this week:

And Lilli Carre shared her awesome animating technique. It's top secret. Don't tell nobody:

Hazel

Dear the World of the Living

CheeseMongers

Are you ready for the new reality-comic-sensation sweeping the nation? It's my official foray into autobiographical work. Can I bring myself to produce more than five pages of it? Can I bring myself to actually reveal personal info? Find out! Soon!

Nice Press #3

Oo! Someone called me "ingenious!" I'm atwitter:

John Olson at Talkin Broadway
Rory Leahy at Centerstage

Nice Press #2

Click below to read them!

Hedy Weiss at the Sun Times
Randy Hardwick at the Chicago Critic
Tim McCormick at Time Out Magazine

Nice Press

Yay, the Chicago Reader said nice things about my play:

"Like the beverage, this Neo-Futurist show ain't classy. But it just may be the feel-good experience of the year. Ten-year-old Boon and his puppet sidekick, Puke--the nickname comes from an unfortunate encounter with piss beer--embark on a Wizard of Oz-like quest to learn the art of craft brewing and vanquish Bud Miller, evil purveyor of Millweiser. Along the way they meet beer ingredients in puppet form. In one of many ingenious touches in a lovingly crafted show, plastic jugs slung together create Hard Water, a bodybuilder, and Soft Water, a little old man. A talented five-piece band plays original songs and various roles. The only thing missing from this show--written by Sean Benjamin and Steve Mosqueda of Drinking and Writing fame, and directed by Dan Kerr-Hobert--is actual beer. Dress warm for the chilly setting, a working brewery. --Laura Molzahn $10-$15, pay what you can on Thursdays and during previews"