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Rant & Rave writer Kristina Wong ran for office as a political performance and won. She takes her job seriously and tirelessly fights for positive change. Find out what it's like as an outsider on the inside. This week!

a little jump to the left... NOV 3 https://youtu.be/0aZPJBjutY0

When great people create great things. Rant & Rave co-creator John Pollono once again brings us together for a gut punch of a story. First seen onstage Rogue Machine, Small Engine Repair now a feature film, with its darkness, its violence and its humor shines a light on how we can be better to each other. Superb performances, skillful direction and killer writing. https://youtu.be/GSSeody1AYU

Rant & Rave fav T Chick has the most extraordinary wisdom and observations on life...and a whole lot more.

Gird your blue-veined loins motherf*cker. There are SO many ways to step on your dick Rant & Rave @ Home in October has something for all activists, slacktivists and textivists.. Veteran and famous actor, Tucker Smallwood has a message to share that involves the hubris in youth, perspective in aging and finally, a call to action. In my lifetime [the American] dream has been debased degraded dishonored. That is humiliating to me and it should be to you. This happened on our... watch... ...Your voices are now America’s trump card. I obligate your voices. - Tucker Smallwood, American Veteran - Purple Heart. Actor, author and vocalist. Star Trek, Contact, Cotton Club, Broadway. Whether a blue wave or an orange wave, one day these days will be behind us. Like. Love. Share widely. But most importantly, don't step on your dick... VOTE! Rant & Rave @ Home video drops always on the second Monday each month. facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rantandraveRMT https://www.facebook.com/RogueMachineTheatre youtube: https://youtu.be/UpuC-_VhsXM

Rant & Rave @ Home throws it back to the time when Dan O'Shannon won the vote fair and square...

NSFW Rant & Rave writers Felicia Michaels and Jessica Wellington host a podcast The Liars Club at the comedy store and some of the juiciest R rated stories end up as animated shorts.

Rant & Rave writer Carol Schlanger's memoir is a great read during a time when economic challenges have a lot of people curious about the dos and don'ts of forming a workable collective.

Dunroamin Tour 7.0 Day 39: 550 miles, Total on this tour 8367, Total since March 35,668. After a night of dystopian dreams, woke up in Caliente NV to find tha...t the internet was off. Fine, didn’t want to do the crossword anyway, and can prob figure out the weather by looking out the window. Showered, dressed, walked to The Shady Inn office to get some coffee. Turns out I’m about the only guest at The Shady who’s not a Utah firefighter coming back from fighting the California fires. Out the door at 7am, and go to fill up The Beast at the local Sinclair - and the card doesn’t work. Apparently the internet is out all over town. Meh, no prob, still have about 70 miles and the GPS tells there’s gas about 50 miles down the road. So off I go. Few things better than riding alone in the desert early in the morning with the sun at your back. Up over 317, and realize that the road to Tonopah (yes that boring drunk of a town again - there’s only so many roads in Nevada) splits off to the left 5 miles before the gas station. Now as you know I hate to backtrack. I actually have a real reluctance to head to that Shell, even though at the speed I’m going it’s literally seven minutes out of my way there and back. Toy with the idea of trying to make it to...Hey Ronald, what are you, some kind of ? ARRIGHT, Enough Dad! Fill up with Shell gas, then make it back to the junction with Rte. 375 long before 8am. Good idea to fill up, Dad, credit where it’s due, because the next filling station is apparently quite a long way away... So it’s the long haul on 375, otherwise known as the Extra-Terrestrial Highway for its proximity to Area 51, past The Little Alie-Inn and past any number of ET-themed trailer parks. All the signs warning of Free Range Cattle are riddled with bullet holes. Quite honestly, if creatures were to visit our planet this would be the ideal place for them to come. Very very few people or cattle around, and those that are around seem a) really open to some probing and b) drunk, stoned, or hungover, and hence absolutely useless as witnesses. Come over a steep escarpment into a 90 mph descending right hander and pass a couple of pick up trucks parked about twenty yards off the highway on the scrub, two guys in one-piece hazmat suits and masks have set up a table the size that four aunts might play Bridge upon, and are conducting an Alien autopsy. Since I’m doing 90 I pass them in a second. WAIT! WHAT?! I try to process what I think I’ve just seen, and bit by bit realize that the wet bloody lump they’re working on must have been a still-born calf. It simply must have been. Still wondering about that an hour later as I coast down the hill towards Tonopah, but then I start to focus on thick brown cloud over California in the distance. Normally the charmlessness of Tonopah is mitigated by the sight of the Sierras in the distance. But not today. California, what have you done while I was away?? Glad I’m turning south on 95 south. Gas up again, and head towards Death Valley. Into the park south of Beatty NV, drop the $25 to ride through the 106 degrees below sea level, then up the hill to the Panamint Hwy. Today seems to be all about being the only human as far as the eye can see. Down past the familiar dry chemical lake ghost town of Trona, then past the old gold mining towns of Johannesburg and Randsburg (you get one guess) and onto the 14 south. Always a bit bracing to file back into LA-style traffic after five weeks away, but I soon adjust to using all lanes to dodge and weave past all the drivers arbitrarily traveling in all lanes between 60 and 100mph. Off at Sand Canyon for the familiar 20 miles of hairpin twisties, and before I know it The Beast has found its way home. Tomorrow a day to pause and reflect, go to Dodger Stadium for a plague test, review the map to see if there’s anywhere left to go in 8.0, and make a plan. A plan. Any plan. Could use an Acting job. These commercials aren’t going to run forever. This last tour was really fun, not least because I got to spend quality time with old friends. Yes you Timothy, Augusta, Kathryn, Michael, Peter, Saul and Diane. Let’s do this again. See more

This might break your heart wide open. We are so thrilled that veteran Rant & Rave writer T Chick McClure will featured on Story Corps and then preserved in the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress!!... Tune in tomorrow - details in the post.

RANT & RAVE AT HOME - AUGUST 2020: Gone Fishing! Summer Break 2020 "is what it is", and while it may look different this year, Rant & Rave usually takes a break... in August. We hope that you are enjoying whatever down time you can find for stress relief, self care and kindness. If your idea of a break includes storyhere are the last three months of Rant & Rave - Rogue Machine, Los Angeles at Home. May - Mary Jo Smith CHANGE, a story about handling the unexpected https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rant-rave/id599938687 June - Orlando Bishop GRIEF, a story about fighting on https://www.facebook.com/115971108421301/posts/3486800151338363/?vh=e&d=n https://youtu.be/f4EWJ1PGKI4 July - Scott Sheldon SWEAT, a story about faith with a classic Ron Bottitta introduction https://www.facebook.com/115971108421301/posts/3588702187814825/?vh=e&d=n https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDuyi80DZC8&t=27s

Rant & Rave @ Home July 2020

These days most people have a new appreciation for unpredictable outcomes. That is why Rant & Rave @ Home July 2020 revisits Chapter 98: SWEAT by Scott Sheldon. When a lack of control goes so deep that it even makes an atheist ask God to knock it off. This has everything you know and love about Rant & Rave including a 10 minute story with groans and twists you don’t see coming, and a NSFW introduction by host, Ron Bottitta that is so funny, it could just be your abdominal wor...kout for the day. Find the story all of JULY on the following facebook pages. If you’re not on Facebook, email us for the youtube link. Thank you for following, clicking the links and commenting. It means a lot to us Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/624415081502292/ RMT: https://www.facebook.com/RogueMachineTheatre R&R: https://www.facebook.com/rantandraveRMT Rant & Rave is a live show of six writers that happens the second Monday each month at Rogue Machine Theatre in Los Angeles. During the COVID-19 quarantine it's one story a month for Rant & Rave @ Home.