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David

One Man Sideshow

About Me

For info on my professional life see www.onemansideshow.com For my personal blog see www.livejournal.com/users/damionreed

My Interests

Juggling, contact juggling, fire eating, sword swallowing, sideshow, unicycling, circus, diabolo, devil stick, burlesque, vaudeville, scooters, piaggio, vespa, swing dancing, balboa, lindy, bass

I'd like to meet:

Like minded artists and creative people who love their work.

Music:

Bob Dylan, They Might Be Giants, Simon & Garfunkle, Tom Waits, Tom Lehrer, showtunes, Weird Al, Greg Salmieri, Eva Cassidy, The Jackson 5, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

Movies:

The Princess Bride, Big Fish, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, The Usual Suspects, All About Eve, Swimming to Cambodia, Living in Oblivion, Tombstone

Television:

The Daily Show, Bullshit, South Park, The Simpsons

Books:

The Fountainhead, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainance, Atlas Shrugged, Time Enough for Love, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, The Princess Bride, The Book of Questions, Harry Potter, The Cryptonomicon, The End of Faith

Heroes:

Penn & Teller

My Blog

My favorite articles

From my days at the Daily CollegianSqurrels nestle their way into heartsCarving the great pumpkin...
Posted by David on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:36:00 PST

Inspirational work

On Greg Salmieri's recommendation I downloaded Julia Sweeney's Letting Go of God from iTunes last week. It was the best $11 I've spent in a long time. It's a one-woman show about her journey from Cath...
Posted by David on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:46:00 PST

Emotionally exhausted

Last night I had a few hours to kill and no internet access to kill it with. I had my laptop with me though and I resolved to work on the Fringe show which, while it is progressing nicely, certainly n...
Posted by David on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:40:00 PST

Philly Fringe Fest

I'm really looking forward to the Fringe Festival this year. I'm doing a show called "Confessions of a One Man Sideshow." The idea is that I'm talking to a therapist about issues I have communicating ...
Posted by David on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 07:42:00 PST

Dealing with the breakup

Amy and I broke up a little over a month ago. We parted on very good terms and have kept in touch with each other. It has been a difficult time for me. I feel like we have both been trying to ween our...
Posted by David on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:10:00 PST

The comic is coming along nicely

I'm starting to get the hang of the process of making these. I also bought a Wacom pen tablet to make working in Photoshop a little easier. It's been a little strange getting used to it but I like it....
Posted by David on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:26:00 PST

This week's comic

I'm going to try to keep doing these weekly. While all of our previous ideas have come directly from conversations we've had this one was just dreamed up. Don't worry, I haven't been audited, I just t...
Posted by David on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 10:30:00 PST

It needs a title

I've sort of completed another installment of the webcomic Amy and I have been working on. We've had vague discussions about how much we would like to do something like this for a while and while I th...
Posted by David on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 10:24:00 PST

Baby steps toward our goal

Amy and I have long discussed writing a web comic. We are both big fans of the genre and feel like we have a lot of funny conversations that could be great material. I turned one of those into a very ...
Posted by David on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 09:16:00 PST

Happy New Year

I've been in the midst of a whirlwind romance for the past three days. I have spent most of my waking moments with her and all of them thinking about her. It's going to become a long distance relation...
Posted by David on Thu, 05 Jan 2006 08:51:00 PST