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Can't Wait

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 23:23:49 GMT

1 Giant Leap changed a lot of things for me in 2002, and they're now working on a second one. This is the trailer:

I can not wait for this. These guys are incredible.

Portland Trip

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:00:16 GMT

I'm excited. I'll be in Portland August 16-20. I'll be doing an improv show with my friend Nate Smith from college on Saturday the 18th at the ComedySports in Portland at 10:30.

War on Roosevelt Island

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:04:51 GMT

After Saturday's rehearsal, I was about to back off on my plan to attend a capture the flag game on Roosevelt Island put on by a few people from the improv theaters. I was about ready to give in on my anti-social feelings, when I pushed myself to go at the last minute, and it was amazing. This was our playing field:

Our tactics included jumping down to the river front and climbing the rocks along the East River, riding the bus from one end of the island to another while ducked among the civilians, and asking a stranger for a ride right to the flag. I played defense in the third match, and Alex Sidtis flanked us from the south end of the island. The base commander, Kevin was the first to spot him and he called me up to follow him. My job was a roving defender, watching the bus route, as well as the West and South approaches, so I tailed him from a distance. I hid in the trees by the play ground, and followed his bright blue shirt and red cap. He eventually got into a crowd outside the hospital, where I ran after him, following him around a corner, and he was nowhere to be found. I returned to my position, where I eventually saw another red team member in a white shirt coming up along the water from the south. I couldn't see who it was, but I saw the red flags hanging from his belt. I started tailing him from a distance. When I ran to catch up with him after he turned a corner, again, he was gone. I went back to the playground, where I saw Alex hiding behind the hand ball court, changing from a white shirt back into a blue shirt.

The whole day was awesome. My blue team won two out of three games.

Wedding Photos

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:34:18 GMT

I went to my cousin's wedding in Newport Beach, CA a month ago. Here's a whole mess of pictures from the weekend.


Rehearsal Dinner











Long Beach, CA

My Grandpa explaining something











	Mother of the Bride

Sister Singing











They Catch Me Spying

NYC Pictures

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:10:15 GMT

I love where my group Moxie rehearses. I'm constantly taking pictures from our empty office on the 47th floor in midtown.

47 floors below us, a vendor is crying.

Nathanael and I

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:50:00 GMT

Tracheotothey

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 05:11:41 GMT

I took the Fung Wah up to Boston and back this weekend. I should have some pictures to post later. One curious part of the bus ride was the amount of people with recent tracheotomies. One on the ride up, and one on the ride down. The one on the ride down, a small Chinese lady, was still holding a bandage to her throat with her hand. The one on the ride up, a Jamaican lady with dreads, hid hers behind a thin, colorful scarf.

Fantasy Cities

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:51:24 GMT

I just overheard a conversation in my elevator that I'm pretty sure I heard wrong, but only certain parts wrong.

Here's what I heard.

"I was at the airport until 3 waiting for my nephews flight."

"Delayed?"

"Yeah. They kept pushing it back an hour each hour."

"Where was he coming from?"

"Hammy. But they routed him through Damuse."

"Ah."

Want to See a Show?

Thu, 03 May 2007 18:12:14 GMT

Shows I'm in? Longform improv?

$5?

Happy Kid Presents: The Miniseries
Wednesdays in May, 8:00 pm, Magnet Theater
From the Magnet's website:
"Happy Kid (Marcy Jarreau, Peter McNerney, Garrett Palm) performs a completely improvised five week series of monoscenes. Each week's show features reoccurring characters and plot lines pulled from the previous weeks' shows. Totally improvised, totally awesome. Host Leslie Korein kicks off each performance with a quick video recap. Don't miss it. "

Moxie (in Megawatt)
Magnet Theater
Thursdays - 5/3 and 5/10 at 9:30
Saturday - 5/5 at 10:30, 5/19 and 5/26 at 9:00
A Magnet Theater team.

Improv Roadshow
Magnet Theater
Sundays, 5/13, at 8:00 pm and 5/20 at 9:30 pm
From the Magnet's Website:
"Every object has a story. Improv Roadshow, and its legendary panel of antique experts, return to the Magnet Theater in New York City. Bring in your prized possessions / whatever is in your purse and our team of experts will examine the object, present its true history upon the stage and, finally, tell you the item's true worth. Whether a picture frame that won the Civil War for the North, or a used Kleenex that started the Mississippi Elementary School Riots of 1977, your possessions have stories to tell. The question is, are you ready to listen?"

The Adoricorns (in The Project)
PIT
Sunday, 5/6, 9:30 pm
Come vote for us!

Creek Weasel
Gotham City Improv
Saturday, 5/12, 8:30 pm

www.magnettheater.com
www.thepit-nyc.com
www.gothamcityimprov.com

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:55:41 GMT

Ah ha! I figured out what this was that I stumbled across on Saturday, the 500th anniversary parade of the foundation of the Sikh religion.

More NYC Photos

Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:55:36 GMT

I had some time to kill the other night, so I wandered around the Jacob Javitz Center on the far West side of Midtown and took some pictures.

No Need To Travel The World

Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:26:26 GMT

I can do what anilnaik is doing right here for a lot less money.

Speed of Light

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:56:20 GMT

I never understood why we cannot go faster than the speed of light. There seemed to be no good reason other than that's what some equations say. Then I read an article on nasa.gov about warp drive and what they know about it outside the realm of science fiction and they explained as an aside why we can't go faster than the speed of light and I finally got it. The atoms that make up our physical selves and everything else are held together by electromagnetic fields, which is what light is made up of. We can't go faster than what holds everything together. This is amazing and sad, because I really wanted to go here.

Pass The Giant Face

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:44:54 GMT

The Magnet celebrated their two year anniversary with a giant game of Pass The Face in Washington Square Park on Saturday. Pass The Face is an improv warm up that basically goes how you'd expect, you make a weird face to the person next to you, and they copy it and pass it along. It makes for great photo opportunities. Here's the gallery, and some sample pictures are beneath the cut.

Subways

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:25:14 GMT

I stood next to a couple Upper West Side type families with loud, young children on the A train yesterday. We stopped at 34th street, and stayed there with the doors open for a few minutes while we had a red signal. As we stood there, a man with unwashed hair, black jeans, dirty boots, a torn black sweater with two unbuttoned collared shirts underneath, a big, dirty, khaki jacket, and an empty Pepsi can came up to the doors of our car and started jerking about as he shouted something like "Listen to me! Clamor bump bump jam to the bump! Argue traffic, listen! Bump! Bump!" He ran down to the next door and shouted the same general ideas to the people there, then came back to us. "If you bump! Jamma jamma! Listen to the bump! Time jam police can bump!" He took his Pepsi can and crushed it on the subway car above the doors as they closed. Once the train got underway, one of the parents said to the kids, who stopped talking during the whole speech, "Don't worry about him, he's just being silly, like your Auntie."

Uh oh, someone has an embarrassment in the family.

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Speaking of kids on Subways, how do parents handle it? I'm sure as a kid there were plenty of times I refused to get ot of the car because I didn't want to go where we were going (like maybe those kids whenever they go to their Auntie's). When a kid doesn't want to get off the subway in the thirty seconds before the door closes, the next thing you know, you could be in Harlem. As much as New York Parents can be annoying, I do sympathize.

Life is a Slow Harold

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:13:26 GMT

"I hope he arouses the fire that's dormant in the innermost recesses of my soul, I plan to face him with the zeal of a challenger.''

Ichiro Suzuki on facing Daisuke Matsuzaka for the first time in America. I want so badly to get excited about the Mariners this year, especially with King Felix looking like a Future Hall of Famer, but I'm afraid of the long term, when Felix and Ichiro break our hearts and follow A-Rod, Griffey, and the Big Unit out to sunnier skies.

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My friend Jeremy told me about a bit of graffiti in the Union Square subway station that always confused him, "Film does not equal cinema." What does that even mean? What made someone feel so strongly about that that they sharpied it onto a pole? It's something that has been on his mind for months now.

This last week he house sat for the Executive Director of The Atlantic Theater. His first morning there, he went down the stairs of the B and Q Prospect Ave subway station and noticed someone had sharpied on a pole "Film and cinema are actually the same thing." You never know where the answer is going to be.

Nature in NYC

Sat, 07 Apr 2007 21:13:33 GMT

Some pics of nature in the city.

City Pictures

Sat, 07 Apr 2007 20:59:40 GMT

Some random pics of the city, two from the subway, two from my office.

Old Snow

Sat, 07 Apr 2007 20:24:48 GMT

It snowed a few weeks ago, so I took some pictures from my park, and around the city.

Rehearsal With A View

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 15:55:14 GMT

My Magnet house team, Moxie, rehearses gratis in an office building managed by Leslie's dad. We get whatever office space is unrented at the time, and lately the only room available is a little bungalow type office on the 45th floor. We have to take two elevators up, one being New York closet size, and it's the only room on the small floor near the top of the building. I love the space, it's always been my dream to live somewhere like it (above everything, great views, secluded). I spend a good portion of our warm up time taking pictures, because I can't help myself.

View From Office

My Grandparent's Backyard This Last Christmas

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:48:22 GMT

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:33:00 GMT

Aren't there usually 3 bears in the cage? Should we tell Chris?

Nah, he's busy. One must be in the back, sleeping.

Probably, yeah. ... Is it the weekend?

Nah. Not even close. Why?

I thought we only had the mascots out on the weekends. Huh.

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:04:09 GMT

God I'm bored, there's nothing to do in this town.

I know.

Not since the bowling alley was bought out.

And Red's Bar was turned into a parking lot.

Yeah, and the movie theater was taken over and only plays Spam: The Documentary.

...

...

You want to go to that new place that just opened up?

I guess.

It's Over

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:47:09 GMT

Guess Who's Coming to Chapel

(I don't know who took this, presumably someone who's now in Hell.)

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:52:57 GMT

A response to Achilles: