Two kids, 16 & 17 years old, started this fire in the Hollywood Hills. The authorities said the kids started the blaze while they were playing with a lighter! Who plays with a lighter at the age of 16 and 17?!?! “Oh neat, you press this here and it makes a flame.” I mean come on.

They are visiting from rural Illinois though.

Really, I think we can all blame this on REFER MADNESS!! So to their defense, these two kids were probably so stoned they forgot that if you light dry brush on fire it can cause a bigger fire. Either that or they were shooting a new reality show pilot - LIGHT THIS

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I’ll be in a fancy art show this Saturday from 6-9 at Sister Gallery in Los Angeles China Town. I’ll have a very special surprise from The Center of Improved Living and a snow making machine! Yes… finally!

For more info go to their website: http://www.sisterla.com/

There is going to be some phenomenal artists there: Donald Baechler, Carter Mull, William Pope L., Paper Rad, Jonathan Seliger, Haim Steinbach!

I’m also in a show in Portland, OR at Elizabeth Leach Gallery. So if you are up there check it out. Their website is http://elizabethleach.com/

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Maybe I could make this a bit more exciting, here’s a picture of outer space for now.

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For those of you in the Virginia Area, Ryan Mulligan will be performing his new version of “The Stew Lecture” at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts on April 13th. You need a college ID to see the show. Don’t ask me why.

For those of you who don’t know, I cook food for people in galleries, and tell them about the history of soups. Marc knows all about it, you can ask him.

The Center for Improved Living was a tremendous success!

Click here to check out the video of our Life Celebration Booth! Just one of our many services.

If you’d like more info on The Center or would like to become a member or go on one of our many retreats, please send an e-mail to thecenterforimprovedliving at ineedtostopsoon dot com, sorry for lengthy e-mail!

I just got invited to be on the The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson! This is very exciting news over here at the National Dinner Tour Headquarters/ my RV.

Keep an eye out on Friday, June 17th!!

Any suggestions on what I should do on the show?

Friday, October 22nd, at 9:03pm and 9:58pm, Jon Brumit and I conducted willing audience members to perform two of our Sixty Second Symphonies at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Those two pieces were a sneak preview for an hour long performance of eight symphonies that will be performed on December 2nd at YBCA.

For the first symphony, “Prelude,” Jon and I conducted audience members in the lobby to perform a one minute symphony using the objects that they have on them at the time - keys, high heels, cell phones, drinks, loose change, zippers, papers, and candy wrappers.

The second symphony, “Introductions,” was based on the sounds and activities related to everyone first demonstrating their worst laugh, and then meeting the people around them in the lobby - greeting, asking questions, explaining, hand shaking, making toasts to good fortune and health,and hugging!

We gave a brief how-to and a trial run before starting the clock, used a limited number of hand signals to cue beginnings, endings, volume changes, and more. Don’t miss the larger event December 2nd, 2004! We need your participation!

Sixty Second Symphonies Sketch

This was a video sketch made to help decide with which direction to go with the symphonies.

CLICK HERE TO SEE IT

San Francisco Society for Society is a new collobarative works project where discussions at large community dinners result in future projects for society improvment

Here are the members:

MARC HOROWITZ

JULIA LEONARD

SEAN MCDONALD

MILLER CARR & STEPHANIE GARGES

SPENCER RHODES

TOBY DIXON

JON ROLSTON

JOE BAY & ROSIE LOYA

DOUG FREEDMAN & JENNY MARSHALL

IAN TREASURE

HAYDEN NICHOLL

GLENN

EZRA COOPER

ELAND

CORY BERNAT

CHRISTINA PEEH

CLICK HERE TO WATCH EVENING MAGAZINE’S STORY ON COFFEE IN THE PARK (I’M REALLY GEEKY HERE

For Coffee in the Park, I daisy-chain 1500 ft of safety orange extension cord and string it from my kitchen to the eastern end of alamo square park, where I power my Mr. Coffee. The coffee is hot and tasty, but a bit slow to brew due to the electrical resistance. The first saturday, I met some very interesting people and acquired an entire band from all four corners of the park. Initially, I was doing CIP every Saturday, but that got to be a bit much for me, so I started doing do it once a month.

This is a piece that CBS’s Evening Magazine did on Coffee in the Park.

Mom, I made the morning news! Here’s me in bed at 6am doing the interview.

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE NEWS CLIP!

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