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Congratulations to Minneapolis, MN for being REALLY Literate

Minneapolis has toppled Seattle as the most Literate City! Wow!

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I have two close friends that live in Minneapolis, MN that I feel have contributed to the Most Literate Rankings.

Congratulations to Harry Waters Jr. and Brittany Halverson for being literate!

Harry Waters Jr. who is a professor at  Macalester College who also is now an entry in Wikipedia. Wow! Thats Cool. Harry was most known for his role as Marvin Berry in Back to the Future 1 and 2.
Harry Waters Jr. and I worked on Godspell at Lambs Players Theatre  as well as several other projects.

Brittany Halverson is a talented and graceful up and coming Ballroom Dancer who's favorite book is Phantom of the Opera.

2007 Holiday Street Performing in Balboa Park San Diego, CA December 26th- January 6th

San Diego, CA- Stephen Sloan, Leo James and David Kamatoy will be performing in Balboa Park this Holiday Break in Balboa Park.

Street performing blooms in Balboa Park during the Holiday Break as thousands of people are drawn to San Diego because of the 68-degree daytime temperature. After the last minute shopping, sporting events and family time.

You can’t go to the beach it’s not that hot. Where do you go? Balboa Park

Stephen Sloan aka “Sleeveless the Magician” will be performing his feats of prestidigitation at the bottom of the stairs in front of the Natural History Museum. Sleeveless has been performing in San Diego for over 20 years. Originally Street Performing in Balboa Park in its Prime Years in the 80’s. Stephen also has performed in several theme parks as well as colleges and corporate events.

David Kamatoy and Leo James will be in front of the Lilly Pond which is in front of the Botanical Building.

Leo James won 1st in Ball Competition at the World Juggling Federation and 2nd and 3rd at the International Jugglers Association in Juniors Competition. He grew up working training with David Kamatoy as well as other great jugglers. He is using this Holiday week to hone his Street Performing Show.

David Kamatoy will be performing his solo show and an occasional team show with Leo James this Holiday Week. David blends his juggling skill with stand up like comedy that is both for adults and kids. Not-often referred to as the Number One Filipino Comedic Juggler in the World.

The Great thing about Street Entertainment for families is that for the price of one admission at a movie you can entertain the kids for a few hours. Enjoy a laugh or two from some prime performers that have been performing for at least over a decade.

TIP: BEST SHOW TIMES 1-4 (While its warm.)
TIP 2: Bring a blanket to sit on the ground or low lawn chairs.
TIP 3. Bring Singles for the Kids (Wink.)
TIP 4. The Botanical Building is showing it’s Poinsettia Display.

And finally…

The Dead Sea Scrolls will be on display until January 6th, 2008 extended. Once in a Lifetime  Opportunity.

Stephen Sloan, Magician Performs in Balboa Park during the Holiday Break

San Diego, CA Stephen Sloan joins us in Balboa Park for the Holiday week performing at the bottom of the steps in front of the Natural History Museum. You can catch his shows from 12-5.

Leo James: Juggling in Balboa Park

San Diego,CA Leo James and David Kamatoy are juggling today in Balboa Park. This is the start of the big Holiday juggling week for us. Say Hi if you stop by.

David Kamatoy Radio Show: Dat Phan 2007 enhanced version

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San Diego,CA-David Kamatoy interviews Dat Phan, winner of last comic standing and Rick D'Elia master comedian backstage at the Improv at Pechanga. David and Leo James also talks briefly about what’s happening in the news including a new social business network, Ojeez.com.

Check out Dave or Leos Page on Ojeez and sign up today…
www.Ojeez.com/Davidkamatoy, www.ojeez.com/leojames

David Kamatoy Radio Show  Copyright is held by Kamatoy Media Group. If you are interested in anything on the show you can contact us by emailing us from davidkamatoy.com

A video podcst of the Dat Phan and Rick D'Elia Interview will soon be available to please subscribe or check back here in a few days.

Dat Phan Holiday Party Album Posted

Santa Monica, Ca- Dat Phan, Emmet Morgan and Martin Mansour hosted a Hollywood networking party in Mid December.

There were over 150 people attending over 12 hours in modest Santa Monica Abode. The neighbors were kind and invited. Actors, Extras, Comedians, Jugglers ( HA HA), Break Dancers attended.

Dat Phan and the Gang were extremely happy and exhausted with the results of the event..

If you were there please comment..

 

Check out the pictures by clicking here...

DAT PHAN HOLIDAY PARTY 2007 ALBUM

KNOL Googles answer to Wikipedia: By Invitation Only...

Google is encouraging people to contribute knowledge to Knol it's new wikipedia type plattform.

This is a good opportunity to again get some recognition, branding and search engine placement by being a contributing author. However at this time its by invitation only. If you have an invitation to contribute I would love to hear from you.

Here is the link to the BLOG article

Encouraging people to contribute knowledge- by Udi Manber, VP Engineering

Just keep a lookout for this plattform to open up for authors and jump on it. If you notice categorically wikipedia is dominate on natural searches of most subjects.

Comically when you type in KNOL into Google a wikipedia post pops up in the top searches...organically..lol.

Don't Ask Don't Hug: Taiwan Minister of National Defense Repeals Hug Order

I found this story on News of the Weird and mentioned it in the show as China but its Taiwan...

Check out the Story on News of the Weird

The Taiwanese Minister of Defense apparently ordered recruits and their squad leaders to hug as a ritual to build mutual respect. Obviously it did not stick...

Just imagine for a moment our minister of Defense or Secretary of Defense... Robert M. Gates ok formerly Donald H. Rumsfeld ordering our Don't Ask Dont Tell Soldiers to Hug...

Penthouse Enters Social Networking Biz and Buys AdultFriend Finder

So one of the dominant ads on Myspace.com is Adult Friend Finder. It's hard not to have been on myspace and not seen on of these ads. Penthouse just made a huge move by purchasing Various Inc. which owns AdultFriendFinder but not surprisingly also owns JewishFriendFinder and KoreanFriendFinder .

This is such a strong move and another sign that Social Networks are the place to be either networking, building or starting one....

Check out the Article in The Wall Street Journal...

Penthouse Pays $500 Million For Adult Social Network - By Kathy Shwiff

Derrek and Lisa at Dat Phan's

Dat's Main Director of Photographer and his lovely companion Lisa.