Painting schedule has been spotty for awhile, so I'm a bit rusty, especially with the oil paints. So I've got one of our famous—some time ago they were!—Back Room Sales. Prices just like a studio sale. Check these out. We're not putting them on Etsy because we want you guys to have first dibs. If you want something send us an email and reserve. Payment we'll work out with you. Of course we still have some of the first class originals for sale HERE.

We drove 2000 miles to do 5 shows in Boulder, Colorado, and one in Casper, Wyoming. Believe me when I tell you Casper never saw anything like Death, Herself before. I have to say that I'm really getting into the show-on-the-road thing. Instead of pulling a stack of paintings out of the old Element, I'm unloading a garment bag. The Yamaha sound system. The cameras and tripods. All the tools of the trade that I have so belatedly taken on.

Here's the Boulder promo clip. Check it out. 

By the way, if you think you would do this just for fun, you're MAD. It is fun for someone 30 years younger, I suppose, but the only reason I do this, the only reason I've left my painting career a bit despairing of my return, is that this show needs to be done. I've heard it too many times from people who saw it. No one, to my knowledge, has ever gotten up during the 90+-minute show to go to the bathroom. They sit all the way through. They say "Thanks - we need this."

Our culture's taboo regarding death is literally killing us.
So why don't we laugh about it for a little while?

We got some incredible reviews in Boulder. (Read the last one.) And the show—I must say so myself—just keeps getting better and better. I get more comfortable on stage and that's pretty key. I'm pretty confident that it's going places. Bigger venues, more shows. I certainly hope so—it's a bit disconcerting to wake up at 3 a.m. and think: my retirement plan is a cross-dressing comedy show about DEATH. Is that funny? Or terrifying?

We're signed up for three shows at the great Off-Center Stage in Grass Valley, CA, for the Nugget Fringe Festival. Late January 2016. Dates and times to follow. Soon we'll be setting up a small tour to the Pac Northwest, and, my fervent hope remains, in the midwest/east coast - perhaps this summer.

A final note. My dear friend Menlo Macfarlane and I were in San Francisco a few years ago. A young man with a camera sat across from us and said he wanted to take our picture. I realized that he was a professional when he got me to SMILE. We stayed in touch and in the fullness of time, he moved to Boulder, saw the show, and then invited me to his studio the next morning for some amazing professional shots of Dorothy aka Death, Herself. 250 of them in fact.

Dorothy never looked so good. Thanks Eli Akerstein!