01/11/11
As much as I love the big names, it excites me more to share the undiscovered everyday talented, hardworking, passionate, driven.. Artists, dreamers, performers.. That diversify & accentuate the culture & personality of this great city that I love. Some find me directly, some I bump into randomly as I explore the cultural scene myself, [...]
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01/07/11
As a kid, I shared a yard playing w/ the children who came from all over the country to stay w/my next door neighbor, the ronald mcdonald house, between their treatments at the world renowned children’s memorial hospital. Back then I never understood why my little friends would have serious disabilities, illness & eventually have [...]
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01/05/11
Remember the 3-d movie “shakey” that was just filmed in chicago over the summer.. where I had a crazy improv scene w/a hairless rat (click here to see it)? Well, another chicago native that worked on the movie, Chris Pluchar, is joining up w/ Director Frank Ziede, and a ton of local talent & crew, [...]
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01/03/11
If you follow me on twitter & facebook, you saw that last Saturday night a woman at rockit seriously asked me if I could help find her a good guy, as she put it, that’s “nice, ambitious, honest, funny… & will grab my ass & spank me.” well, as crazy or funny as this sounds, [...]
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12/31/10
Now that we are upon the last day of 2010, I thought it would be fun to look back and show you which of my blog posts people enjoyed / visited the most this year… I appreciate your friendship & support, and wish you the very best in the year to come! “billy dec eating [...]
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12/30/10
Just heard a crazy story about how chicago’s infamous oriental theatre is haunted. And its supposedly because of an incident that happened on this very day, 107 years ago… So naturally, I have to share…. When it opened in 1903 as the iroquis theatre it claimed to be absolutely fireproof. five weeks after opening its [...]
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12/24/10
You have til 1/3/11 to check out the amazing museum of science and industry christmas time experience where they have christmas trees decorated in all different cultural styles from italy to estonia to the philippine islands (where my mom is from!) to serbia to kenya to belize –almost everywhere! It’s called christmas around the world [...]
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12/21/10
Updated 12/24/10: here’s video mix from actual event so you can hear jennifer hudson singing, see the beautiful winter wonderland at navy pier, feel the happiness of giving toys & smiles to kids in need.. Please enjoy & spread this holiday cheer.. And have a wonderful holiday! i’m honored to join Oscar winning chicagoan jennifer [...]
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12/17/10
here’s some fun quick behind the scenes video of my day filming my part on fox’s new tv show “chicago code” by shawn ryan (“the shield”), starring jennifer beals (“flashdance”), jason clarke, matt lauria.. w/the greatest film crews in the world, in my own trailer, goofing around w/the actors, loving craft services… Haha- so silly I [...]
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12/14/10
The Arrival from Fig Media on Vimeo. if you follow me on facebook & twitter, you know I’m sitting in my trailer for fox’s “chicago code” waiting for makeup & wardrobe, before i deliver my lines in the scene I’m in today! as I look out from my trailer window, I see a very [...]
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