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Eva B. Ross sings “Pet Names”

The latest music video offering from my youngest daughter — and groovy singer-songwriter — Eva B. Ross. Directed and edited by Daniel Rashid.

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Tyrannosaurus Tomorrow!

Tomorrow, Friday March 28th.

More fun than a barrel of Brontosauruses…

To get tickets, just click on the graphic below…

Emilia Poster iO West w:dates #2

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The Fun Begins This Friday!

To get tickets, just click on the graphic below…

Emilia Poster iO West w:dates #2

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Daughter Eva Rocks UCLA TV…

There’s not much I can say, folks. Just check these videos out — and tell me what you think…

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Recall Wisconsin Governor Walker!

Last year, I posted this rousing (and funny) song about the battle for democracy in the Badger State. With folks going to the polls  in Wisconsin today — it’s a good time to hear my friend Steve Rashid’s song again.

Holy cry-eye! Come here, take a look once! We’re takin’ our message to the Capitol Dome…

Wisconsin native, Practical Theatre veteran, and musical genius Steve Rashid’s pro-union marching song for the Cheddar Revolution was recently played on Thom Hartmann’s national radio show. But more people need to hear it. And the folks on the front lines in Madison could use a good laugh.

So, we’re taking “Fight on, Wisconsin” to YouTube.

Here’s a video I put together at Steve’s dining room table, illustrated with photos of the Madison Uprising by Bill Cronon. Ya Hey!

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Fight on, Wisconsin

Holy cry-eye! Come here, take a look once! We’re takin’ our message to the Capitol Dome…

Wisconsin native, Practical Theatre veteran, and musical genius Steve Rashid’s pro-union marching song for the Cheddar Revolution was recently played on Thom Hartmann’s national radio show. But more people need to hear it. And the folks on the front lines in Madison could use a good laugh.

So, we’re taking “Fight on, Wisconsin” to YouTube.

Here’s a video I put together at Steve’s dining room table, illustrated with photos of the Madison Uprising by Bill Cronon. Ya Hey!

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My YouTube Channel

It’s hard to believe that YouTube is barely 5 years old.

It should be obvious to anyone with access to electricity that since the debut of YouTube, popular culture has changed dramatically. Whether it’s a dancing cat, a woman getting hit in the face with a watermelon, an Indy band with a homemade music video, or a too-comfortable politician saying something off-color at a fundraising barbecue – YouTube can make the trivial, the talented, and the downright terrible alike nationally known within hours and days.

This revolutionary online video portal was the founded in 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim – but it was Hurley who studied design at my mother’s alma mater, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Chen and Karim were computer science geeks at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, or as we use to call it in Chicago, Champaign-Urbana.

YouTube’s early headquarters was housed above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California and the first YouTube video was was uploaded on April 23, 2005. That first video, Me at the zoo, features founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. You can still find it on YouTube.

Me at the zoo has scored 3,597,873 views.

Now, even a dinosaur like me is aware of YouTube. In fact, as you’ve seen if you’ve been following this blog since “The Vic & Paul Show” ran in June, I’m gradually getting the hang of how to use YouTube to post video clips and embed video on this blog.

And now I’ve figured out how to create my own YouTube channel. It wasn’t hard. The technology was right at my fingertips. But since nobody uses technical manuals anymore, you’ve just got to stumble around until you figure this stuff out.

My YouTube channel is currently a place where “The Vic & Paul Show” clips live, plus other video treats that will accumulate over time.

You can access Paul’s Channel at:

http://www.youtube.com/user/58pab

But if you’re looking for videos of dancing cats, don’t look here. Our noble beast Caliban just isn’t the dancing type.

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