Joshua Tree pt.5

October 2nd, 2009

This photo still cracks me up every time I see it.  Bob Dassie was one of my improv teachers way back when in Chicago at Improv Olympic, so you can imagine how excited I was to cast him in “Warthog” as Smokey Robinson Crusoe, a character based on my alter-executive-pesca-vegetarian-ego.  Needless to say, he hit it out of the park.

It was actually for Bob that we were visiting Joshua Tree in the first place.  He and his wife, Stephnie, another oft-collaborator of mine, were expecting their first child, Birdy, and this trip was our weekend-guy-getaway before the duties of fatherhood awaited him. Ironically, Bob and Steph are now preparing for the arrival of their second baby, so here’s hoping we can get him back out into the desert sooner than later!

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