2024
Time for the annual review for 2024.? I was lucky enough to be in a short film in which I cast as one of the leads; when we filmed my role became even larger.
In February I auditioned for a
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2023 video
just found the film i was in on youtube.
The highlight of 2023 was being cast as the star of "In My Brothers Footstep", a short twenty-minute film which was shot over several weekends in the spring
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2023
January 2024
Hope all is great with you. Happy new year. Here is my annual newsletter for 2023. It's time for the annual review and once again I was surprised at how much I did.
The highlight of
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2022
Hope all is great with you. Happy new year. Here is my annual newsletter for 2022. It's time for the annual review and once again I was surprised at how much I did.
One of the highlights of the year
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2021 letter
Annual newsletter for 2021
Time for the annual review and once again I was surprised at how much I did during Year Two of the Covid pandemic.
In January we got an inch of snow, the most in Austin
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2021
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2020 letter
What a year. I'm so glad 2020 is finally over. It was the strangest year that we all have ever experienced: The year of the Coronavirus pandemic.
Before the shutdown, I was in four films. I was an
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2020
Jenny Grow - great math teacher i worked with at Lamar
Marnie Martinets - one of my best students at Lamar
Bernadette Buchko - great student at Lamar
Maria Salazar - great student at Lamar
Erica de la
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2019 letter
Another decade has passed and it's time to review my life in 2019. While going over the past year it's enjoyable to discover things that I had completely forgotten about.
I opened the year in January
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2019
Susan Rice - United Nations ambassador from 2009 to 2013 and as the 24th United States national security advisor from 2013 to 2017. and to run the White House Domestic Policy Council for Biden
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2018 letter
2018 Newsletter
Another year in the book. More memorable events. This year I was the initial speaker for a new group, the Austin Entertainment Business Mixer, which meets monthly. I was also the
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2018
Terrence McNally, the legendary playwright
Jake Tapper - the CNN news reporter
Julian Castro Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2014 to 2017
Ashley Doyle Darnell - one of my all-time fave
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2017
Katy Tur - NBC news
Jeff Nichols - director of Mud, Loving, Take Shelter
Joaquin Castro - Congressman
Amado Pena - artist. his mural for ACC Highland just completed (in 2020). went to college with
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2016 letter
2016 newsletter
Another year has passed; it's been a good one for me, (other than the disastrous election results). Perhaps the most notable event was playing a small role in a pilot episode for a
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2016
Jane Alexander great actor, at the texas book fest
Lauren Oliver great author
Stuart Woods one of my fave authors, i've now read 84 of his books. at this time he was writing 4 books a year
Woody
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2015 letter
2015 newsletter
Once again, time for the annual newsletter. I got to see some notable people this year: In January, Hall of Famer Hank Aaron spoke at the LBJ Library emphasizing his civil rights
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2015
Penelope Spheeris, great director. Wayne’s World, and the 3 Decline Of Western Civilization films are her best-known works. her brother Jimmie, was one of my fave singers
Myriam Perales was one of
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2014 letter
It was an especially good year for me as an actor with several paid gigs and some excellent roles. I had four paid gigs in January; an extra in a Verizon spot, a diner in the reality show "Mystery
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2014
Bob Woodward, the great reporter, part of the team that covered Watergate
Shawn Phillips - great singer, subject of my master's thesis
Ricky Williams - winner of the Heisman when he played at
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2013
Back in the 1980s, in the early days of the Austin Film Society, its founder Rick Linklater (before he became a filmmaker) noticed me at AFS screenings and once told me, "You're the guy who goes to
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