http://www.extrudingamerica.com Searching for the heart of a nation in the throat of its people, as they tell the stories that are... Extruding America. en Copyright 2007 Eric Luke and Reed Oros Gerard@ExtrudingAmerica.com Liberated Syndication - libsyn.com podcasts@libsyn.com (Liberated Syndication) Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:20:00 GMT 180 Searching for the heart of a nation in the throat of its people, as they tell the stories that are... Extruding America. Won't you join me, Gerard Armbruster, as every week we take a wrong turn off life's interstate, and discover the straight story about the bend in the road, where nestle the small towns with big characters, to tug on the common thread that unravels the hand-me-down sweater of our national zeitgeist, and extrudes the truths of our lives. Perennial favorite: Postcard from Battersea, with Stetson Tudd. extruding, interview, This American Life, improv, Bob and Ray Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd luke.eric@gmail.com Eric Luke http://libsyn.com/podcasts/skribe/images/title_page_300.jpg http://www.extrudingamerica.com Clean http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=370721# (image  2004 by Tomasz Sienicki)]]> Podcasts Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:20:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=370721# 00:02:24 Lentils, Masti, Bhangra, Dance, Comedy Robert "Bob" Robertson No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=368741# ]]> Podcasts Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:02:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=368741# 00:13:33 Rhododendron, Marcus Aurelius, Comedy, Monologue, Story, Brain, Psychodrama Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=353280# ]]> Podcasts Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:01:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=353280# 00:07:50 old time radio, comedy, software, satire, thunder beast, saskatchewan, Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=346453# (Image: Natxo 68, flickr)
]]> Podcasts Wed, 4 Jun 2008 16:31:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=346453# 00:08:01 reporter, improv, comedy, improvisation, Bob and Ray Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=339318# (Illustration: Alfanhui, flickr)
]]> Podcasts Wed, 14 May 2008 17:36:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=339318# 00:14:56 raven, philosophy, comedy, improv, ganesh, radio drama Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=325501# ]]> Podcasts Sun, 6 Apr 2008 16:21:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=325501# 00:14:03 self-realization, meditation, indian cuisine, daal, yoga, qi gong, ida lupino, humphrey bogart Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=312219# While this may not be an example of journalism or even editorialization, if you're listening to this on a podcatcher or computer equipped with speakers, it is affordable.
(dedicated to Paul Yamazaki.)
]]> Podcasts Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:21:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=312219# 00:13:50 New Orleans, coffee, 1001 Arabian Nights, Scheherezade, Goofy Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=301756# ]]> Podcasts Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:46:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=301756# 00:11:00 coffee, too much coffee, small town, Kaltenborn, reporting, journalism Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=295791# (Music cue: Aao Twist Karen by the great R. D. Burman, from the film Bhoot Bungla (1965))
]]> Podcasts Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:51:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=295791# 00:10:53 Twist Karen, R. D. Burman, Bhoot Bungla, Mexico cruise, raven, insanity, psycho drama Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=287287# (Music cues from Suspense, broadcast  12/05/46, probably by the great Bernard Herrmann, possibly by Alexander Semmler, Lucien Morawek, or Wilbur Hatch, also composers for the show.)]]> Podcasts Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:36:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=287287# 00:18:10 Old radio, poetry, Suspense, Bernard Herrmann Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=276102#
The 87 Club Volume Two Roster:
A Dark Nightâs Passing by Naoya Shiga
A Desire to Learn by Eric Moon
Soviet but not Russian by William M. Mandel
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
The Soil by Nagatsuka Takashi (translated and with an introduction by Ann Waswo)

]]> Podcasts Fri, 9 Nov 2007 00:57:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=276102# 00:19:00 Raven, Mexico, Detective, Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=267790# (Illustration: Tom Sanislo, for the Washington State Dept. of Transportation)
]]> Podcasts Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:41:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=267790# 00:22:41 Ganesh, Ganesha, Klickitat, Washington, Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=260144#
The 87 Club Roster:
The Gods Will Have Blood by Anatole France
Hitler's Army by Omer Bartov
Best Russian Short Stories edited by Thomas Setzer (The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev)
Mountain of Fame by John E. Wills, Jr.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

]]> Podcasts Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:17:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=260144# 00:12:11 Ganesh, Ganesha, Anatole France, Omer Bartov, Turgenev, Lewis Carroll, Wonderland Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=251950# ]]> Podcasts Mon, 3 Sep 2007 17:40:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=251950# 00:16:14 Boris Pilniak, Stalin, Archangel with Gun, comedy, journal Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=248291# ]]> Podcasts Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:19:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=248291# 00:13:36 Bob and Ray, Abbott and Costello, Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=242628# (Image: El Palo Alto, circa 1910)
]]> Podcasts Mon, 6 Aug 2007 17:42:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=242628# 00:19:18 El Palo Alto, Gilroy Garlic Festival, plants feelings, Lima Bean, Giants, baseball, comedy, Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=233232# ]]> Podcasts Sun, 8 Jul 2007 21:00:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=233232# 00:08:59 Fourth of July, 4th of July, Extruding America, Bollywood, Dharmendra, Sholay, Amitabh, Tacoma, patriotism Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=228236# Podcasts Sat, 23 Jun 2007 19:04:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=228236# 00:08:30 Jonathan Gold, restaurant review, food critic, best Los Angeles restaurants, self help, humor, Wallingford, El Tepeyac Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=225538# (Photo: Carmen Dean)
]]> Podcasts Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:18:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=225538# 00:14:33 pho ga, Hoan Kiem, Vietnamese cuisine, Los Angeles, Interview, Jonathan Gold, restaurant, comedy Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=222438#  odyssey of Gerard Armbruster's life.  Stetson Tudd rides shotgun.]]> Podcasts Wed, 6 Jun 2007 01:52:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=222438# 00:16:17 Seattle, Tacoma, Dick's Drive-In, Selp Help, Interview, Journal, Comedy Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=218098# Podcasts Thu, 24 May 2007 16:09:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=218098# 00:08:23 Dream, World War II, Extruding, America, Interview, Tartar, Atlantic Wall, Pillbox, War Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=215806# ]]> Podcasts Thu, 17 May 2007 16:08:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=215806# 00:22:28 New York, Manhattan, Bronx, Zoo, Journal, Extruding, walking tour, surreal, comedy Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=211243# Podcasts Fri, 4 May 2007 22:11:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=211243# 00:09:46 Lovecraft, HP Lovecraft, Malcolm Lowery, Bollywood, Sholay, Dharmendra, Yeh Dosti, Extruding, Interview, Poetry, Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=215822#
Serves 6                      

While the ragu from Bologna has meat and barely any tomato, this version from Naples is tomato sauce flavored with only a little meat.  Most Neapolitans cook the meat in the sauce, remove it, and serve it after the pasta.  But if you want the meat in the sauce, you can start with chopped meat, or you can chop the meat after it has been cooked and return it to the sauce as many Italian Americans do.  Neapolitans usually serve this sauce over ziti, but you can also use rigatoni or fusilli.

1/3 cup olive oil
1Â pounds beef brisket or chuck, in one piece
 pound boneless veal shoulder, in one piece
 pound boneless pork shoulder, in one piece
Salt
1 yellow onion, chopped
 cup dry red wine
2 cans (28 ounces each) plum tomatoes with juice, chopped or pulsed in a food processor (Stetson note: San Marzano tomatoes)
Pinch of chile pepper flakes (optional)
Meat stock, if needed
Freshly ground black pepper

FOR SERVING
1 pound dried ziti, cooked
Grated pecorino cheese

In a large Dutch oven or deep skillet, heat the olive oil over high heat.  Add all the meats and sprinkle with salt.  When the meats have given up their juices, after about 15 minutes, add the onion and stir well.  Reduce the heat to medium and cook, stirring occasionally, until the meats are browned and the onion is golden.  This might take as long as 15 minutes.

Add the wine and cook until it is absorbed into the meats, about 10 minutes.  Add the tomatoes and the chile pepper flakes (if using) and stir well.  Cover partially and simmer, stirring often, for 2Â hours.  Check from time to time to see if more liquid is needed, adding stock or water if necessary to prevent scorching.  At this point, the sauce should be thick and the juices should coat a spoon.

Using a slotted spoon, remove the meat and reserve for another dish, or chop it and return it to the sauce.  Season the sauce to taste with salt and pepper.  Toss the sauce with the pasta and serve.  Pass the cheese at the table.

WINE:  Stay local with an Aglianico from Campania.  Look for Taurasi from Mastroberardino or Feudi San Gregorio.

From Italian Slow and Savory by Joyce Goldstein
                                      

]]> Battersea Confidential Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:28:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=215822# Ragu, Cooking, Italian, Reporting, Interview, Comedy, Improvisation, chef Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=207311# Podcasts Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:34:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=207311# 00:15:02 Ragu, Cooking, Italian, Reporting, Interview, Comedy, Improvisation, chef Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=205193# ]]> Podcasts Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:43:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=205193# 00:06:59 Depression, Battersea, Soup, Bully, possum, memory, journal Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=200492# ]]> Podcasts Thu, 5 Apr 2007 21:43:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=200492# 00:13:35 Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=197014# Podcasts Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:39:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=197014# 00:08:14 Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=194545# Podcasts Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:01:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=194545# 00:09:06 Imagination, Sound Effects, Radio, This American Life, Insanity Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=190120#
]]> Podcasts Thu, 8 Mar 2007 19:09:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=190120# 00:04:58 Sound Effects, ventriloquist, Extruding America, This American Life Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=184714# Podcasts Thu, 22 Feb 2007 02:03:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=184714# 00:15:52 Shirley Chisholm, America the Beautiful Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=184972# 1.   Alabama
2.   Arizona
3.   Arkansas
4.   Florida
5.   Georgia
6.   Illinois
7.   Louisiana
8.   Mississippi
9.   Missouri
10. Nevada
11. North Carolina
12. Oklahoma
13. South Carolina
14. Utah
15. Virginia

The above list is certified factual and true.  Click here for further information.


]]> Battersea Confidential Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:29:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=184972# ERA, Equal Rights Amendment, Shirley Chisholm Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=182499# ]]> Podcasts Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:57:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=182499# 00:11:02 Black History Month, Shirley Chisholm, elections, political Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=179568# ]]> Podcasts Wed, 7 Feb 2007 23:57:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=179568# 00:17:12 Betrayal, NFL, super bowl, superbowl, comedy Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=176512# ]]> Podcasts Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:35:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=176512# 00:02:02 dance mix, ma po dofu, ma po tofu, Extruding America, mapo tofu, mapo dofu Robert "Bob" Robertson No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=175580#
]]> Podcasts Sun, 28 Jan 2007 15:54:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=175580# 00:21:48 Moonmaid, Dick Tracy, Robert Shaw, The Sting, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Hitchcock, Ghostbusters21 Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=173849# (bar snack loved by the Chapman boys; not necessarily for everyone)

Ingredients:
3 bite-size pieces of pickled pig's feet (Hormel or Faraon)
Hot sauce (Tabasco, Trappey's, Crystal, Cholula, Tapatio, El Pato, etc.)
One large glass of ice cold lager (Budweiser, Miller, Rainier, Pabst Blue Ribbon, etc.)
Napkins, towel, or Wetnaps

Directions:
Fill 6 oz. glass or other small container with 3 bite-size pieces of pickled pig's feet.  If you have to cut them be careful; there may be bones.

Apply liberal dash of hot sauce (see above).

Put entire piece in mouth.

Spit out any bones.  

Take a large gulp of beer (see above).  

Enjoy.

Great on a hot day.

]]> Battersea Confidential Tue, 23 Jan 2007 04:32:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=173849# pig's feet, bar snack, hot sauce Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=173025# Podcasts Sun, 21 Jan 2007 00:51:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=173025# 00:17:52 Ganesh, Battersea, superstition, bar snack, pig's feet, Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=170239# Podcasts Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:11:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=170239# 00:13:52 Memory Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=164414#
]]> Podcasts Sat, 23 Dec 2006 15:59:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=164414# 00:08:48 Christmas, Battersea Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=169455#
MA PO DOFU

Ingredients:
3 tablespoons peanut oil
1/4 pound ground pork
1 tablespoon peeled and grated fresh ginger
1 tablespoon chopped garlic or to taste
3 teaspoons hot bean sauce (or chili garlic sauce)
3 teaspoons black bean sauce
1 tablespoon rice wine
3/4 cup chicken stock
1 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch dissolved in 1/4 cup water
1 pound fresh soft bean curd (or medium or firm) cut into 1/2 inch cubes
1/2 cup chopped scallions, including half of the green tops
Salt and ground Szechwan pepper to taste

(IMPORTANT NOTE: the Szechwan pepper tree, in China, has, in recent years, been infected with a canker of some kind, and the ban on importation of this beautiful spice has only recently been lifted.  As a result, do NOT roast the pepper, as is required in many recipes (because the pepper now has to be heat-treated before it leaves China.).  It can be added (and should be finely ground) to recipes, but usually near the end, or, at the very least, unroasted.)

Directions:
In wok over high heat, heat the oil.  When hot, add meat, stir fry until lightly brown (2 minutes).
Add ginger, garlic, hot bean sauce and black bean sauce to taste.
Add rice wine and stir fry for 20 seconds.
Pour in stock, bring to boil.  Simmer, stirring frequently 3 to 4 minutes to blend flavors.
Add cornstarch and cook, stirring slowly until thickened (about a minute.)
Fold in bean curd and green onions. 
Heat gently, seasoning with salt.
Transfer to warm bowl, season generously with Szechwan pepper and serve immediately.


]]> Armbruster's Musings Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:47:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=169455# Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=162784# Podcasts Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:30:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=162784# 00:08:58 Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=161833# Podcasts Fri, 15 Dec 2006 21:36:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=161833# 00:12:44 Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=162759#
But that's neither here nor there.

What is germane is that I sought out and found, in the city of Artesia, southern California's Little India, a neighborhood cinema that showed only movies of Bollywood.  Finding my seat, I experienced the dimming of the lights with a somewhat skeptical outsider's perspective, and began to make the acquaintance of the heroes on the screen: the Big B himself, Amitabh Bachchan, the suave rogue and trickster Shahrukh Khan, the boyishly earnest Hrithik Roshan.  Caught up in the heady and somewhat arrogant rush of the cultural explorer, I unwrapped a tinfoil packet I had purchased at the snack bar, and found an intensely green leaf folded into a triangle, stuffed with sweet spices and seeds labeled "mitha paan: Fresh!"  Imagine my surprise when, in the very act of sampling the exotic treat, I witnessed Shahrukh Khan on the screen, pop one of the very same delicacies into his mouth and start acting goofy, dancing with wild abandon, rolling his eyes, winking knowingly as he addictively consumed the little green triangles, his gyrations becoming absolutely manic and hysterical. I froze and stared at the treat in my own hand.  Had my tongue suddenly become numb and tingling at the same time?  Were the colors of  the saris on the screen just a little brighter  and more intriguing?  Had everything in my immediate vicinity just become far more profound or at least hilarious than it had been just moments before?

With a gasp, I fled the theater in horror, images flooding my mind of myself as a lone dope-crazed dancer, running wild down the aisle, prancing and cavorting in front of the screen, to the complete cultural and personal embarrassment of all involved, being asked politely by the management to leave, possibly leading to my arrest and subsequent vilification in the press, and blacklisting by the podcasting community.

As I dried my tears in the alley behind the theater, and tried to steady the spinning world, a profound depression settled upon my reeling frontal lobes, which pervades still.  Seduced by the illusion I could remain an impartial outsider, I am now trapped by the span of my lifetime.  Shahrukh or Amitabh will never lay a hand on my shoulder and call me brother.  I will stare at them across a cultural divide as wide as the world and as deep as the bottom of our souls, and wish that I could stand with them on the other side, in that colorful, vibrant land of adventure, music and life.

]]> Armbruster's Musings Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:20:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=162759# Bollywood, Shahrukh, Amitabh, Hrithik, Artesia, Mitha Paan Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=160282# My town's name is Battersea, roughly 39 miles south of Seattle, and, strangely, with a population the size of Tacoma's my neighbor 2 miles to the south.  Oddly, we show up on no maps, even though we are the sixth largest seaport in the contiguous U.S.  We are an hermetically sealed, sometimes racist, always hard working, hardscrabble community, pretending, occasionally to be hip, always failing at that, with nary much in the way of culture.  We were poised to be the largest city in the Northwest, until the Great Northern Railway blasted its way through Stevens Pass, in the Cascade Mountains north of Seattle, back in the late 19th century.    Put us almost out of business, and definitely out of the way.  Not irrelevant.  Just hardworking and sleepy at the same time.

]]> Battersea Confidential Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:00:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=160282# Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=160281# ]]> Armbruster's Musings Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:57:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=160281# Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=164262# Gerard@ExtrudingAmerica.com

Contact Stetson Tudd at: Stetson@ExtrudingAmerica.com

For behind the scenes information: Reality@ExtrudingAmerica.com

Bruce Dean designed the Extruding America logo.   His impeccable artistic sensibilities can be viewed at: www.BruceDeanArt.com
]]> Contact Info Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:19:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=164262# Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=164735# Eric Luke (Gerard Armbruster) and Stetson Tudd (not at liberty to reveal identity at this time) have enjoyed a long and hardy acquaintance.  Their collaborations include the seminal storefront performance group The Meat and Soap Theatre (with Christopher Mills) which played to sold-out houses for one summer in San Francisco's North Beach, but ended in a New Year's Eve show for Singles Over 40 that they still consider one of the most disturbing events of their formative years.  Their times in Mar Vista with the inestimable Ken Sailor continue to inform their lives and creative efforts.

Contact them at: Reality@ExtrudingAmerica.com

Bruce Dean designed the Extruding America logo.  His impeccable artistic sensibilities can be viewed at: www.brucedeanart.com
]]> Behind the Scenes Sat, 9 Dec 2006 23:28:00 GMT http://extrudingamerica.com/index.php?post_id=164735# Gerard Armbruster and Stetson Tudd No