Phuket cleanup

I’ve been spending a lot of this morning looking for information on how Thailand is recovering from the Tsunami. I have been impressed with how quickly they are putting things back to normal. Most of the local websites I’ve found have had been quite...

Call for Improvisors – Crazy Eights

Just in case there are improvisors reading this blog that don’t read the Staircase General Improv mailing list, I’ll repost my message here. Nada Jovic and I are producing a longform show at the Staircase called Crazy Eights. The shows are scheduled for...

I so dumb

Consider these facts: a) I have a spare set of car keys in my condo. b) I have a spare set of condo keys in my car. Then consider me going out tonight to improv class. The car was covered in ice and snow, so I turned it on to warm it up, got out the snow brush and...

Life Aquatic

I watched The Life Aquatic tonight. It was a fun movie. It followed the trend of setting a somewhat retro mood, like The Royal Tennenbaums, which was made by the same director, and Napoleon Dynamite. It was the story of a worn-out Jacques Cousteau-type undersea...

Aftermath

New Year’s Eve was a pretty quiet thing this year, which is more than alright with me. I think my days of big, expensive celebrations are over. I went to a quiet party at Laura and Gary Reid’s place tonight. It was just a few of us improvisors in...