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Humpback near Antarctica

Humpback near Antarctica

Marty’s photo of the day #4724: Greetings from Mattoon, Illinois! I shot today’s humpback whale photo off the coast of Antarctica, and it is featured in my two college shows, Around the World in 50 Minutes, and the second is Around the World in 90 Minutes. Here’s where I am performing this week: Wednesday, April […]

Around the World in 90 Minutes

Around the World in 90 Minutes

Marty’s photo of the day #4723: Greetings from Mattoon, Illinois! I have two shows coming up. The first is Around the World in 50 Minutes, and the second is Around the World in 90 Minutes: Wednesday, April 17, 11:00 a.m., Lake Land College, Mattoon, ILThursday, April 18, 6:00 p.m. Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL Today’s […]

Poison Dart Frog

Poison Dart Frog

Marty’s photo of the day #4552: Greetings from North Carolina! I’m here this week performing two “Around the World in 50 Minutes” shows at Davidson-Davie Community College. Today’s show was at the smaller campus. Usually satellite campus shows feature small crowds, so I was thrilled to fill up two side-by-side conference rooms with roughly 100 […]

The brunch show

The brunch show

Marty’s photos of the day #4279-4781: Today, I’m featuring three pictures from my weekend in Chattanooga, Tennessee: 1. This morning I performed Around the World in 50 Minutes for the Parent’s Weekend Brunch at Southern Adventist University. Meal shows are usually death. For those of you who have watched the Amazon Prime series, The Marvelous […]

Meeting Jeff Strand

Meeting Jeff Strand

Greetings from Chattanooga, Tennessee! I’ve just returned to my hotel room after a delightful dinner with Jeff Strand and his wife, Lynne Hansen. For those who don’t know who Jeff Strand is, he is the master of a fairly obscure genre, called horror/comedy. I write in an equally obscure genre that I call science-fiction/political-comedy, so […]

Leopard Seal

Leopard Seal

Marty’s photo of the day #2865: Greetings from Bremerton, WA (near Seattle). I have 3:00 pm show today at Olympic College. If you are nearby, come see the show! One of the animals I talk about in “Around the World in 50 Minutes” is a leopard seal. Here’s one that I photographed off the coast […]