Sunday, January 20, 2008

The Whistle Stop Tour

US Senate candidate Al Franken came to do a North Minneapolis meet & greet at the facility where my theatre group performs. Coolio! PMixx & I both streamed his show pretty religiously for the two-odd years it was on, and consider him to be a helluva guy, with the makings to be a public servant of the highest order.


It was nice to see him in person, and pretty wild that he was sitting there, addressing a crowd of supporters, on the same stage I will be performing on in less than three weeks.


Al on our stage. Note the ever-improving interior set.

Al, Lucy, & me. Lucy doing quite well, actually, being held by a strange man. This shot is going in a box somewhere right next to the one with me & George Takei.

9 comments:

Pat said...

Awesome...

Dan said...

Yeah. Pretty kewl that Al Franken spoke a mile from my house, though look for a possible upcoming post on the topic of the dilemma of "celebrity."

Pat said...

Not a tall man.

Dan said...

Famous people rarely are.

But I may not be quite as short as you & Gibbs have always thought I am.

Pat said...

Nor any of as 'insert description here' as we all made us out to be.

Stephen Cummings said...

Did you ever see that video clip of Franken yelling at O'Reily for lying about getting some journalism award? That won me over back then. That and the hundreds of SNL appearances.

C.F. Bear said...

your stage is mighty impressive! congrats on meeting yet another celebrity.

Dan said...

Bear: Thanks, on the stage. A few people put in quite a few hours on it. I was one of them.

As far as the celebrity thing - meh (to quote Stephen).

Mighty Tom said...

very cool!!