Had a blast shooting a Washington Mutual commercial! What a fun group of folks.

Just spent a very fun day with Hal Cantor and Geoffrey Sharp shooting the pilot for an Internet comedy series called "Hold, Please." Starring Royana Black, it will be available online on StrikeTV in the coming months!

Very happy to report that a monologue I wrote has won a prize in this year's "One on One" competition at The Carl Cherry Center for the Arts in Carmel, CA.

Last year I was thrilled to receive first place. This year, they will only tell me I won something and I must appear and perform the monologue to find out the prize!

I very much look forward to performing there on Saturday, Nov 3, and seeing so many wonderful folks from last year.

I've published a book called "Florence's Knockers and Knobs," which is a photographic collection of exquisite door knockers, knobs, handles, and hardware from Florence and Venice, Italy. You can read more about it and buy it online at:

http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/48743

These photos were taken on my trip to Italy, this past April.

Enjoy!

I recently heard from someone who came across an old tape recording of mine, from 1990, and was so happy to hear my little weirdo songs again that he put three of them up on a web page: http://pelog.net/debHiett.html

These songs were recorded on a home 4-track cassette mix system, and written just to share with my family and friends. It makes me so happy to know that someone remembered them fondly, and took the time to hunt me down and put them up.

And the best part is that his kids listen to them now, and love them, too.

I'm having a free, informal reading of a children's ghost story play I co-wrote with Richard Kuhlman, called "The Gathering" at The Alliance Theater in Burbank, on Wed. Feb 7.

On 11/17, HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" opens the show with a sketch that parodies those horrifically annoying (but brilliantly marketed) ads for "Head On" ("Apply Directly to Forehead" repeated ad infinitum). I'm happy to say the gang at Real Time included me in this fairly outrageous sketch.