A Christmas Yuleblog

From time to time this Christmas season, I'll be posting some amazing videos that have been rescued by people like us and posted at the mecca of all things wonderful and obscure - YouTube . I invite you to add a fun comment, witticism, clever remark, or observation in the comments section provided. Any comments deemed worthy of repeating will be included into this entry where all the world will see it. We just posted a review of Kristin Chenoweth's new Christmas album and I mentioned that I was first introduced to her from my friends at First Presbyterian Theater. It was through this place that I met my long lost brother and best friend Joel who happens to be the technical director of another venue: The Scottish Rite Center of Fort Wayne. Earlier this month, Joel and his crew (minus me - sorry, dude) were involved with a huge undertaking - the construction of and for "The Living Christmas Tree" singing group whose CD I reviewed earlier this year. With tha...

Here's a Christmas gift that wasn't given to me from any of my cats or my immediate family. This CD found its way to me from my best friend Joel - my long-lost brother that I never had or wanted (it's his joke about me, folks!) He and I have been best friends since our first encounter in Spring of 2004 at First Presbyterian Theater where he holds several jobs - production manager, full-time director, and part-time actor. When he's not working there, he's the technical director of the Scottish Rite Center here in Fort Wayne (more on that in a moment). I first wrote about him when he presented me with a copy of Jana's " American Indian Christmas ". Since then, Joel has joined me on several thrift store excursions of their record bins, searching for that second item I don't own in my collection. Shortly before Christmas last year, Joel's schedule had him shuttling between the Scottish Rite and FPT. He was working himself to death simu...