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100% Happy 88% of the Time
My Other Car is a Yoga Mat
The Comedian's Way

And the front office asks me to mention the store, where you can purchase My Other Car Is A Yoga Mat license plate frames, my book "Did I Wake You? Haikus For Modern Living", The Other Network Writer's Room interviews (CD or downloads), Un-Cabaret's critically acclaimed collection of comedy CD's, The Comedian's Way classes and coaching by my amazing producing (and life) partner Greg Miller.

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Or you can just dive right into the blog and find out the many reasons why I think the world is so exciting right now.

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Thanks for visiting. Have a beautiful day.

Last year at this time I was performing a workshop version of "100% Happy 88% of the Time" at the Writer's Boot Camp in Santa Monica and a gentelman named Clifford Bell came to see it. I'd met Clifford at MBar late one Sunday afternoon a month or so before that, in the transition between our teaching Comedian's Way class and his teching a show he was producing that night.

"I always knew we would meet, and something magical would happen" he said. "You are Un-Cabaret and I am Cabarabia. It's like matter and anti-matter colliding!" Magic, fate, anti- matter? I liked him immediately. Big twinkle in the eye.

He loved the show but thought it would be sooooo much more wonderful if it were musicalized.

the comedian’s way, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the laugh...

I was lying on a massage table in the middle of one of those health expos that are so popular nowadays. A practitioner had explained the technique: two inhales—one to the lower belly and one to the heart—and an exhale. And I was working it hard. But I was also worrying. I’d asked her what this technique was called and she’d said pranayama. But what kind of pranayama? I felt my brow furrow, an almost perfect reverse of her calm smile.

Read more on the kripalu website...

Sign up for the class here...

I received an email from the nice people at exquisitecrystals.com today about how crystals can be used to help in the BP oil spill clean up. The have passed it on themselves from Judy Hall the author of the very wonderful little and beautifully done The Crystal Bible.

If it seems far fetched to you that the rocks of the earth would understand how to help heal this earth wound, remember that scientists have done experiments where DNA separated from it's human organism responds half a world away when the human it came from experiences physical pain. We are just becoming conscious of consciousness and this oil spill can be a gateway to the next level of understanding.

I quote Judy's letter in full:

Here on earth it is not always reported, but the raising of consciousness - the being aware of consciousness - the consciousness of consciousness - or consciousness sqaured - is The Big Thing That Is Really Going On.

The silver lining to every major disaster from The Exxon Valdez to 9/11 to Princess Diana's departure, is that they are all part of the University of Consciousness that we have all matriculated in.

Some of us are doing the work on yoga mats and meditation pillows, some in bedrooms and gardens, some out on fields and in courts, some in hospitals and soup kitchens. And there are some - whom I think of as technosseurs - doing the work in engineering labs.

GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS PROJECT is run by a smarty pants Princeton prof (formerly part of the now-closed PEAR - Princeton Engineering Anomilies Research) and the good people over at the Center for Noetics. Through their network of EGGs (their name for Random Event Generators) they're able to track variations in Global Consciousness - and even more basically - to actually prove that a global consciousness exists.

Get ready for a Summer of Love!

TUESDAY, JULY 20, 8pm
Beth hosts and curates THE OTHER NETWORK at Club Oberon, 2 Arrow St. Harvard Square, Boston, MA. $15 at the door / $10 advance. Call 866.811.4111 or click here.

THURSDAY, JULY 22, 8pm
100% HAPPY 88% OF THE TIME at Club Oberon, 2 Arrow St. Harvard Square, Boston, MA. $15 at the door / $10 advance. Call 866.811.4111 or click here.

WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY, JULY 28 & 29, 9pm
100% HAPPY 88% OF THE TIME at The Triad, 158 W. 72 St., NYC. $20 / $15 advance. Call 212-362-2590 or click here.

MONDAY-FRIDAY, AUG 1-6
THE COMEDIAN'S WAY WRITING & PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP at the prestigious Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in the beautiful Berkshire mountains of western Massachusetts. Call 866-200-5203 or click here for more info and registration.

WEDNESDAY, AUG 4, 7:30pm
100% HAPPY 88% OF THE TIME at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health.

If you have questions about any events call 323-717-4731 or e-mail us.

Please join us for the maiden voyage of THE SUNDAY SALON, a new collaboration between comedy guru Beth Lapides ("Un-Cabaret") and brilliant cabaret impressario Clifford Bell ("Cabarabia").

Sunday, May 16, 4PM at MBar, 1253 N. Vine St. That's right. 4PM on Sunday. That moment when your Sunday Sadness kicks in?

Come taste the wine... Or beverage of your choice.

Come hear the band... We promise, Beth won't bring her cymbals!

No cover! Invitation only! The bar is open!

Musical direction by the magically gifted Mitch Kaplan. Sandra Bernhard's collaborator for more than twenty years, his music has been recorded by Chaka Kahn, Thelma Houston, and Sister Sledge, to name a few!

Special musical guests this Sunday: Kelly Mantle ("The Confusion Of My Illusion!"), A.J. Teshin ("The Kurt Weill Project") and Raspin Stuwart ("We Do What We Do").

RSVP: 323-769-6447 or e-mail.

We were planning on doing a benefit performance of "100% Happy 88% of the Time" for the femme-tastic National Women's  Political Caucus California on May 20, but the NWPC wants to re-schedule the event to celebrate the 90th anniversary of women's right to vote (!) on August 26. So stay tuned for details.

The NWPC is an amazingly wonderful org founded in 1971 by feminist powerhouses  Shirley Chishom, Bella Abzug, Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan. They support progressive women running for office with both training and funding, and have had great success actually getting progressive women elected. (Though they haven’t be able to free them of those horrible ill-fitting cookie-cutter suits;)

I happen to be of the opinion that a lot of what has to change has to change in each of us individually. But there is some change that has to happen "outside" of us. Unbelievably we still haven’t passed the ERA. And women are still making 77 cents or less on men's dollars. Violence against women is still rampant, et-sadly-cetera.:=[

I believe we do need more women, especially the progressive women NWPC is helping to get elected, in politics in order to help move these things along (while at the same time remembering that all progress is illusory and linear time doesn't exist:) Interestingly, they point out that women typically come to politics to solve a problem. They come as moms, nurses, and teachers. They don't usually come with same monied and influential networks that men do. The Caucus exists to overcome those problems by leveling the playing field.

The benefit is going to be at the beautiful and comfortable Renberg Theater - aka The Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Center (two ladies we love) - at the LA Gay and Lesbian Center, Thursday, May 20, 8pm at 1125 N. McCadden Pl. West Hollywood 90038.

There will be a VIP reception from 7-8pm with yummies and wine and tarot/palm readers aka intuitive artists roaming and reading! Tickets are $25 students / $35 / $50 VIP* / $99 VIP + annual membership.

Call 951-461-4828 or CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS.

The organizers for the NWPC have a great energy and I'm really excited about what promises to be one of those special evenings. Please do join me and Greg and the rest of the team in creating a world that is at least 88% better for humans of the female kind.

The Comedian's Way workshop for Writers, Performers & Other Humans is the place to develop your authentic voice and deepest material for one-person shows, personal essays, books, scripts, blogs, or just to have a better attitude about life.

Each class starts with a Q & A and an inspirational rap from Beth about some aspect of the creative process. Here for your entertainment and edification is video of a recent talk about the 7 Questions Every Writer Should Ask Themself Before Sitting Down To Write.

Read more about the workshop on Beth's site and the Un-Cabaret website.

Class meets most Sundays from 1-4pm at M-Bar, 1253 N. Vine St. LA 90038. For more info, call 323-717-4731 or e-mail us.

Any single class $60
Any 4 classes $200

Audit (observe) any class for just $10
Audit 4 classes for $25

This summer we're offering a week-long retreat workshop - and a special performance of Beth's awesome new show "100% Happy 88% of the Time" - at the magical Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health.

Escape to The Comedian's Way week-long retreat, AUGUST 1-6 at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Stockbridge, Mass. Call 866-200-5203 or click here for more info and registration.

Take a break from your grind in August and devote an entire week to your work and creative process in this breakthrough workshop for professional entertainers and entertaining professionals, speakers and seekers, led by alt comedy gurus Beth Lapides & Greg Miller.