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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
One of my favorite records from childhood was Ernie's Hits. One of my favorite tracks was "Tiger Hunt," which, I recall correctly, I listened to and enjoyed with my brother, Andy. In honor of Andy's birthday today, I have transferred an audio cassette recording of Tiger Hunt and posted ...
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
Last week was the final "graduate show" for my improvisational comedy class that I had been with for more than a year, given by the The Bovine Metropolis Theater in Denver. It has been great to perform with Anders, Jane, Jim, Lori Beth, and Marylee, and I hope to ...
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
The final class of the Bovine Metropolis Theater's Level 3 series started off with an excellent exercise: we stand in a circle. The rules are to do what everyone else is doing, and exaggerate or subdue it. Eventually everyone is doing the same thing, which is evolving. ...
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Sunday, February 18th, 2007
Today my improv comedy class from Madcap Theater performed a couple of shows to demonstrate what we had learned in the six week "Level 1" class. As with the first performance, it went great. What is even more satisfying that what I've learned through the classes is the ...
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Monday, January 29th, 2007
Last night I saw a this South Park episode (Season 7, Episode 8) that ridicules the metrosexual fashion.
Ridicule sure is persuasive - I'm going to start wearing my socks three or four times before washing them. ;)
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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
Andrew called my attention to a great story about improv comedy by Doug Kassel
I’m reminded of the story of Elaine May auditioning with actors for “The Compass Players” in Chicago in the 1950’s. The actors were told that they were to improvise a scene where they were to go into ...
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Sunday, December 31st, 2006
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6×10 to the 23rd / Avogadro's Number
(parody of 867-5309/Jenny)
Performed at: New Focus, Inc.,
2630 Walsh Avenue, Santa Clara, CA
Tuesday Lunch, June 15, 1999
All the band members were New Focus employees. The rehearsals for the above song consisted of their playing the song without my "singing," and my singing ...
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2006
I just burned a CD of Weird Al's nine polkas, from 1984 to 2006. See, next Sunday, my short-form improv class will finish with a performance. 45 minutes, 6 or 7 games. One of them is "Jukebox," where we sing a bit of a song that's somewhat related to a ...
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Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
Tonight I attended was the third of eight Level 1 Improvisational Comedy classes given my the Bovine Metropolis Theater. During the first two weeks most of the exercises involved work with imaginary objects. For example, we'd envision ourselves eating at our favorite restaurant, doing an everyday activity like ...
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Thursday, July 13th, 2006
I saw an edition of this highly amusing book yesteday. Wired has a short review. A notable one was the multi-purpose garden tool in the style of a huge Swiss Army knife.
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