D-Town

Editor's note: For the purpose of this blog post, I'm pretending it's the day after Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Yesterday, I walked out the back door of my new apartment building and into a parade.  My building is smack dab in the middle of gay heaven.  When I say that, I mean that it's in the center of a slew of gay bars, gay sandwich shops, and gays.  My roommate and I were trying to get our internet set up at our house, and instead, we decided to get some greasy fast food a block away.  Instead, we found thousands of people walking down the road, complete with signs and golden retrievers:

This is where I live now!

It's pretty exciting that I moved out of my parents' house for the second time and into a major city.  I live about six blocks from the state capitol, and it hit me the other day that I've never really lived in a big city.  I find this strange, since I really love cities, and since I've visited quite a few.  But to live in the heart of the city is really different than living in a suburb... Toto can attest to this, since he's still not really sure what to do when he hears cars rushing past my window or when he has to pee on the sidewalk.

I GOTTA DOLLA!

HEY HEY HEY HEY!

Well I finally took the plunge and posted the link to my blog on my Twitter.  This was really hard for me, first because I've never had a blog that was actually public, and second because I wondered what people would think, both about my writing and about the fact that I'm asking people for money.


BUT I GOT A DOLLARRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


My first buck came from none other than my friend Joe, who's an actor making it out in Chicago.  Look for big things from him, he's wonderfully talented (or at least he was back in college when I saw him four years ago in The Grapes of Wrath, so I can only assume he's freakin phenomenal now) !  Follow him on Twitter @JoeVonBokern .  Thanks so much Joe!

In honor of my rule that I haven't been following very well, I want to post a link to his fantastic blog, Playbills vs. Paying Bills, which you can visit at playbillsvspayingbills.com . He actually co-authors it with two other graduates from my college theatre program, all of whom are amazing, and each of which live in different cities: Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles.  All have great stories and (especially) information for actors looking to try their luck in one of the big U.S. cities.  Check them out!