Archive for February, 2004
Sunday, February 29th, 2004
Diana Chang, from Tony's Pony and Throw Like a Girl, between threats to steal my identity:
Some people might consider this a "creepy" picture of a distracted Julie Klausner, but I prefer the term "candid":
Lisa Palmisano's rack:
A group shot of Death By Roo Roo. Left to right, Neil Casey wastes water, ...
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Saturday, February 28th, 2004
Greetings from Hamilton Hall on the UNC-CH campus. I'm minutes away from call time for the Mister Diplomat show at 10pm tonight, so I'm clacking to soothe some mild-to-moderate nerves.
Also, Brett Gelman ate fourteen slices of my American cheese last night. I bought a pack of 16 slices on Thursday ...
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Friday, February 27th, 2004
Left to right, John Gemberling, Brett Gelman, and Curtis Gwinn, at leisure in my apartment:
Curtis and John comprise The Cowboy and John, who will be joined by Brett and Neil Casey at the Dirty South Improv Festival. These gentlemen will be perfoming an improvisation clinic tonight at 10pm, which I've ...
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Thursday, February 26th, 2004
Chris Sabis, my best friend from college and the speaker of the student while I was student body president, sent me an IM the other night asking me to stop him from sending a scathing letter to our alma mater's school newspaper to roll his eyes at the notion of ...
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2004
The author, standing against the back wall of the DSI Training Center in Carrboro, NC:
The author, taking one step to the right:
See, this is what happened: it was a Mister Diplomat rehearsal about a month ago, and we were running a Harold (a longform improvisation developed by Del Close in ...
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2004
Why did no one tell me about Super Millionaire? Why?
I was obsessed with the original, I TiVoed and watched every episode of the ersatz Meredith Vieira version, I auditioned for the daytime version last summer (and didn't make it), and this show was basically the centerpiece of my life my ...
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Monday, February 23rd, 2004
How many times has this happened to you? You have legacy data that's been marked up to look like this:
Name
ID Number
Address
Phone Number
Freddy McAwesome
123404
321 Fake St.
555-3454
Johnny Bigtime
478378
9728 Nonexistent St.
555-3893
Billy Badass
238989
3882 Keepdriving Ln.
555-9932
which is fine, I suppose, except it's not very useful if you want to use that data in another application ...
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Sunday, February 22nd, 2004
I've been mired in my own improv crisis of faith over the past few weeks, which is why I was so very very uplifted by an outstanding Mister Diplomat rehearsal today. Porter has been attacking each of our problems on an individual basis, which was productive for me because I'm ...
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Saturday, February 21st, 2004
Did I really put this off this long? I have to be in Porter's car in like twenty minutes to get to Inside Improv, so I'm just going to wave my arms around and beat the buzzer.
I'm a proud new owner of a GNC Gold Card, which entitles me to ...
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Friday, February 20th, 2004
This is the challenge: close out the month of February with a blog entry on every single day. Make the rest of that calendar full of blue links. Let the wall determine what it wants stuck to it. And then on March 1st, hell, do it again. It's why I ...
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