Archive for June 2011
flashback
My roommate Tracy and me at our Christmas party in 1991. That’s a bold blond bob wig atop Tracy’s copper tresses. She made the hat I am wearing. That black dress now lives in my costume box. We lived in a flat above a Chinese restaurant and the living room (where this picture was taken)…
Read Moreshoe luck 2
After the last shoe score, I was hoping I could break myself out of the habit of the idiotic platform flipflops to which I keep defaulting to wearing. But no. Still haven’t rehabbed. So, off I went to the constant, ongoing megasale over at a local store downtown — buy one pair, get TWO PAIRS…
Read Moreso how was the festival, anyway?
I’ve talked about getting ready for it, my cold during it, the popularly of the Big Ugly Glasses throughout it. But how was the festival itself, doofus? Great. Intense. Dense. Freeing/frustrating. The focus was on the concept of “The Fool” and how it relates to improv. We delved into Shakespeares’ fools as well as clowns…
Read Morerussian hands
I went to the Museum of Ventura County recently; it only took me 10 months to check it out in their new digs. It’s very very nice. I feel a burst of civic pride, something I rarely got in SF. Sorry SF, but your mishandling of any large civic structure? Oy. I had sort of…
Read Moreman, you are a boy now
It’s 3am Sunday morning and I have a full day ahead of me, after I try to catch some sleep. This is going to be the blog post for the day. Oh, and the manfriend has now become the boyfriend. He’s snoring next to me and I’m about to join him. Good night!
Read Moregentle, oh so gentle humor
I opened up an actual newspaper recently, first time in ages. Obits, local news, then comics. I laughed out loud at this Beetle Bailey cartoon. Is that wrong? Cookie has a cupcake on his head!
Read Morea plague upon my house
My co-star on my trip to the International Improv Fest in Seattle last week was my cold, my endless cold. I was so ill. I had hoped, obviously, that I would be more out of the woods before I left. Little did I know this would be a 3 week+ rhinovirus odyssey. Things for which…
Read Moremy double vision always seems to get the best of me
I finally shambled on over for an eye exam, after a couple years of eye neglect. I had not been looking forward to it, because, in addition to my near-sightedness, I have been increasingly in need of reading glasses. Ah, age. I have been trying to have fun with the whole reading glasses thing —…
Read Morestrike one and two
Horrible name. And in the Disney font. Please don’t use the Disney font. Unfortunately, your sushi is really good. A recent experience at this restaurant, related on Facebook: Becky: Sharing the restaurant with “Tammy,” drunkest sushi-eating lady on the planet. Perhaps she was attracted to the “aholic” in the restaurant’s name. Roger: Tammy’s motto must…
Read Moresum sum summertime
My favorite solstice memory. In 2009, I was at the International Improv Fest in Seattle. We had our last show on Saturday the 20th of June. It was an extraordinary evening; the connection I felt to my friends and fellow improvisers was magical. After the show, we hung out at the theatre and ate and…
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