I packed my bag and headed off to the airport with my driver yesterday. Halfway there I told my driver I didn’t feel like getting on a plane and that a weekend break would be nice as I headed into the final stretch of level 4 and the pending pressure cooker of level 5. We …
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Week 28: The Mysterious Staricase; I’m #1
Friday I was off to Santa Fe with my friend Dave to be ushers in our good friend’s John’s wedding. We flew on passes from Southwest so we had to stop briefly in Albuquerque thanks to the Wright Amendment. I must add a hello to Jen and Christina who sat next to me on the …
Week 27: Guitar Heroes, Desperados, Sopranos
This week’s trip was a one day turnaround so I got spend some time Saturday afternoon running errands and having lunch with my driver. We had some time between our errands and that night’s Desperados game so I did the most productive thing – I played Guitar Hero for 2 hours. We’re huge arena football …
Week 26: Knocked Up, held over…and the return of my driver
Be warned, this is going to be a long one. This is the longest travelogue yet. Longest to write, longest time to write (a span of a couple days) and longest in length. So grab the beverage of your choice or maybe even bring a light snack if you’re a slow reader. The weekend started …
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Week 25: Flap spackle
(Editor’s note: I didn’t publish this when I got home like I originally thought. Sorry it’s late.) We’re starting early for this one as I spent Friday night in Ft. Worth at Funimation doing voiceovers for “Hell Girl” and “Suzuka”. I was in a sound booth with 3 other guys to do “walla”, or background …
Week 24: 2 to go
For the last week of Level 3 I decided to go stand-by on an early afternoon flight so I could run some errands and catch up with some friends. A few days before I took off, my friend Jason Dilks emailed me to let me know he would be in LA on a lengthy layover …
Review: Blades of Glory
Review: “Blades of Glory” Run time: 1:33 What happens when you put Ron Burgandy and Napoleon Dynamite on ice? “Blades of Glory”. I wish I was kidding, but I can’t watch Jon Heder without hearing his delivery and waiting for him to start reciting lines from “Napoleon Dynamite”. I can imagine that is a tough …
THE DALLAS MAVERICKS ARE THE BIGGEST CHOKE IN SPORTS HISTORY
What better way to follow up the biggest choke in NBA Finals history than with the biggest choke in sports history. Avery Johnson has said all year long “the regular season doesn’t count” and the Mavericks have definitely proved it in this series. The Warriors outplayed them all year and Nellie has outcoached him. I …
Week 23: Jokes & Chokes
Greeting from the Chili’s bar in LAX’s gate 42B. I’m writing this on my Blackberry as I watch the Mavericks try to even their series with the Warriors, so please forgive any typos. I will admit right away that I am pretty po’d due to my return flight being delayed nearly 4 hours and the …
Hot off the presses
The following email just hit my inbox: “Congratulations on your acceptance into Level 4 of the Conservatory at The Second City Training Center!” What does it mean? 16 more weeks for Level 4 and 5, plus 4 weeks of graduate shows….and that I’m doing what I need to do.
Week 22: Make or break
Friday afternoon was the much anticipated Level 4/5 audition, and I almost missed it. I had a 12:30 flight and let’s just say due to some poor planning when I arrived I heard “FINAL BOARDING”. This is the second week in a row that I’ve arrived within 20 minutes of my flight’s departure. One of …
Review: Hot Fuzz
Review: “Hot Fuzz” Run time: 2:01 A “parody” or “satire” usually skewers the material on which it is based. The “Naked Gun” movies were extremely slapsticky and could be best described as “loose send ups” of police movies, where the case itself is hardly anything more than a reason to set Leslie Nielsen in glorious …
Week 21: Yin & Yang
They say everything has it’s opposite. What goes up, must come down. Well, the opposite of a great “Amigo Friends” Saturday night show, would be the Level 3 class show this afternoon. We had such a great, tight “Amigo” show Saturday with a near capacity audience and then today we just stunk it up for …
Week 20: Eggsellent
Wow. All I can say is wow. I never thought that the first show of “The Amigo Friends” (TAF) would be sold out and that they would be turning people away. If you would have asked me what my prediction would have been for attendance, I would have said a theater half full of our …