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Hello all. I hope this web log finds you well. We have just finished our third, highly successful, week running here at the Steppenwolf Garage. If you aren’t one of the lucky people who have caught the Pajama Men, then you have two short weeks in which to right that wrong and come check us out. On a side note, the weeks themselves aren’t short, I was just trying to emphasize the fact or phenomenon that time often gets away from us or tends to “fly by” before we’ve had a chance to do all we wanted to in the allotted time-frame. So better get those tickets now while you’re thinking about it. If you aren’t sure you want to come to the show because you don’t know enough about it, try a review , view a clip or ask a friend (or as we say back home in New Mexico, amigo). I, myself have trouble describing our show to people who are unfamiliar with our work: (If they are familiar with it I simply say “Why are you asking me to describe it, Mom? You just saw it.”) If someone wants me to explain what it is the Pajama Men do the conversation usually goes thusly:

SOMEONE: “So, what is it you guys do?”
MARK: “Close your eyes and imagine a color that doesn’t exist in the human visual spectrum.”
SOMEONE: [eyes closed] “Uh…ok.”
MARK: “Good now describe that color to me.”
SOMEONE: “That’s impossible…I couldn’t possibly…”
MARK: With his arms crossing confidently over his chest, gaze narrowing, and the slightest of knowing smiles escaping from his lips he whispers: “Exactly.”
SOMEONE: “You’re saying your show doesn’t really exist?”
MARK: “No. Just that it’s hard to describe.”
SOMEONE: “So. Air is hard to describe to someone unfamiliar with it, that doesn’t mean that I want to watch it for an hour.”
MARK: “Right. You’re just going to have to trust me that it’s more entertaining than air. Who would be unfamiliar with air anyway?”
SOMEONE: “Space whales.”
MARK: “Well, you got me there.”

So there you go. If you have seen us and want to describe us to the reading public then by all means, post a comment. If haven’t seen us yet, but want to describe a color no one has ever seen then that’s fine too. Thank you for reading, if you’ve come here by mistake and were simply trying to look up Gary Sinise’s bio click here and you’ll be on your way.