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Monday, December 24th, 2012Kevin Pollak: An Unusually Funny Suspect
Saturday, November 3rd, 2012
Another tempting stand-up comedy show at the Funny Bone in Beavercreek came up once again on October 11, 2012. Ever since discovering this location at the Greene shopping mall, I’ve been enjoying an occasional evening out alone, a nice dinner, and a little celebrity encounter. I hoped that this one with Kevin Pollak would yield the same results. At first I had bypassed this one, but quickly realized that even though the name Kevin Pollak was only vaguely familiar, I did indeed know a good chunk of the body of his work. Ironically, most of the roles were in the dramatic vein. Read the rest of this entry »
Arrival in Germany…and the Stuttgart Volksfest
Tuesday, October 16th, 2012
You may recall that my step-brother Bryan and his wife Erine re-located to Germany last July, as Erine’s government job as an auditor took them to town near Kaiserslautern known as Trippstadt. My mom began to brew and simmer the idea in her head to take a trip to visit them as soon as they hit the door. I initially hoped to put off the visit until 2013, knowing that the vacation schedule of 2012 would be pretty full. I ended up bypassing both a trip to India and a possible one to Easter Island and instead opted to tag along to Germany. I was mostly excited that our visit would coincide with Oktoberfest, as that’s most certainly a bucket-list event. My aunt Diana and uncle Tom decided that they’d go along too and pretty soon plans were underway. Read the rest of this entry »