Chicago-based Actor / Violinist

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I wouldn’t wanna go in there drunk

“…its toilet a throne from which to survey the magnificent carved bowers of the stair beams above”

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Bernard Herrmann

“I am firmly convinced, and so is Hitchcock, that after the main titles you know something terrible must happen.”

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The Whale in the Blue Washing Machine

One summer, we took a drive on the Richardson highway, and paid a visit to Haines at his homestead.

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Lee Boot: Looking Back at the Holiday Ritual

This got me thinking about the first Christmas we recently celebrated in our new house.

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Gary Hecker – Veteran Foley Artist

My friend Chris and I once bought a watermelon and started hitting it with things in the bathtub, trying to get a good face-punch sound.

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Paul Buchheit: The two paths to success

“To the greatest extent possible, do whatever is most fun, interesting, and personally rewarding (and not evil).”

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Nutmegger Workshop

Beautiful hand-painted signage from another era.

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HTML5 Converter for YouTube videos

Fantastic Safari extension that converts YouTube videos — even those embedded on other sites — into HTML5.

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First Chicago Marathon

Your recorded finish time was 4:50:03 and you placed 20,436th out of 36,159 finishers.

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