What’s so funny about losing control of your life? Well, not much, except somehow a major element in Salvation Road turned out to be humor. It just came out that way.

I’m Eddie. Eddie Lounge. And I’m a lounge singer. I had been a retired lounge singer. No longer. Now, I’m back at the Fringe, baby, and I couldn’t be happier.

More than 200 years ago, the poet Wordsworth observed that “getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.” Today, “getting and spending” remains a fixation, and we are inundated in ways that Wordsworth could never have imagined.