Dave Griffin

WARNING: IF THIS IS YOUR FIRST VISIT TO THIS BLOG DO NOT CONTINUE READING. THERE ARE MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD. PLEASE GO TO THE BEGINNING. READ ME FIRST it’s been a few days and I’m still recovering… To those who join this blog later who were NOT actively reading in the buildup of the last month…

WARNING: IF THIS IS YOUR FIRST VISIT TO THIS BLOG DO NOT CONTINUE READING THIS POST. THERE ARE MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD. GO TO THE BEGINNING. READ ME FIRST It’s late. I am suffering Shock.And the effects of The Attempt. Being checked into a mental health hospital in the dead of night is the strangest time. Because you have…

WARNING: IF THIS IS YOUR FIRST VISIT TO THIS BLOG DO NOT CONTINUE READING THIS POST. THERE ARE MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD.GO TO THE BEGINNING. READ ME FIRST I dedicate this post to the Heroes who inspired this project. Adventures in Odyssey: Episode 256 – Aloha, Oy Part 1 Adventures in Odyssey: Episode 257 – Aloha, Oy Part 2…

Focus called. They want you again. THAT’S MORE LIKE IT. Now we’re back to the old routine. LIKE HOW GOD INTENDED. Drive to Burbank. Through the front doors. Hey, look, there’s more actors on the photo wall that Marc Grau worked with. ^ you all don’t understand how sick that joke is. Only 5 people…

I have been planning this post for months and of course now that I’ve finally arrived to this point in the narrative… the website is no longer up and the picture I wanted you all to see is no longer available. While this really, really, really sucks for the point I was going to drive…

Coming of Age would hit the airwaves the week I turned 14. Not that I knew that. I still never knew when it played and on what stations in my area. Middle school life in my Effin Evangy Kidz™ private school was predictable and cloistered. I dabbled in sports, but as a late bloomer I…

Once my voice cracked it was a race against time to write Jimmy out of the show. If you have not read the last post you should, because that explains all the trauma of the Fucking Puberty™ issue in the lead up to the end of my time on Adventures in Odyssey. No boy actor…

In the Autumn of 1990 I started 7th grade. I transitioned from the public elementary school in my neighborhood, and went to a private, effin evangy kid middle school instead of the public one. I will credit the evangelical community I was raised in with sufficiently frightening me to the point about public education where…

This is the story of the time I met Dr. Dobson. But, of course, before we get to this most notorious of episodes… we must run through more episodes I’ve mostly forgotten. Adventures in Odyssey: Episode 109- Two Sides to Every Story Not much memory of this other than it was fun script and I…

I have been fortunate in my time as Jimmy Barclay to get to perform some epic storylines and episodes. And as we journey through my personal list of the dozen or so episodes that I find to be worthy of study we come to an episode that I would simply define as: The. Episode. As…