THANKS, EVERYBODY!
Thanks, everybody! Thanks for paying me the supreme compliment of paying attention! Thanks for noticing my efforts! I have never had such a year of such kind attention and generosity of spirit. Truly. I promise [...]
ART: The “Get Out of Jail Free” Card
(From a keynote speech for Cal Lutheran University, given on November 2, 2013)When you attend an arts symposium or an event of that kind, you want to come away being inspired; you want to reach [...]
EVERY MAN, EVERY WOMAN A CELEBRITY
I had a "come to realize" moment today while on my bike: EVERYONE has some grade or ranking of celebrity.In the Old Days, there were celebrities, and then there was everybody else. If you were [...]
Art is a Battle
Writing, painting, choreographing a dance, making a YouTube video in the back room... it's a savage battle. The TIME to create has to come out of something, dug out of the schedule like a vein of [...]
Looking Back
Now that I'm back home in the bosum of my family, I have had a chance or two to reflect on my experiences with America's Got Talent.I had a much better time than I thought [...]
The Aftermath
Okay, so first off, THANK YOU!So many people wrote and tweeted and emailed... all the modern communication channels, to tell me they voted and told others to vote... it was just like being bathed in [...]
The Day Before THE DAY
So, what did I do on my "day off" before I go on TV tomorrow night on America's Got Talent at Radio City?After a brief, somewhat perfunctory hair appointment, I had lunch with my very [...]
Onstage At Last
Today I finally got to step onstage at Radio City Music Hall.We blocked my set for the cameras, lighting and sound, and I got to see the view from up there. Big hall! This magnificent [...]
WHAT’S TAKING SO LONG?
DAY FIVE IN NEW YORK CITY:You might wonder, what the heck takes so long that you have to be in New York City an entire week prior to the broadcast of America's Got Talent?Well, it's [...]
The Rain Must Come
My memories of New York City in the summer always includes big, loud, wet thunderstorms. It gets monstrously hot and humid, then finally the clouds just LET GO. I got caught in many when we [...]