To those of you who have asked and have only been met with “I don’t know”s and “Don’t get me anything”s, I now officially know what I want for Christmas.  $400. There’s a Guthrie acting class that will meet on Monday afternoons over 16 weeks. You can sign up for the entire 16-week course for $400. [...]

Question of the day While Weird Al’s “Theme from Rocky XIII” (a deli-themed parody of “Eye of the Tiger”) is playing on your iPod, which is more embarassing?01) Coworkers passing by the door might hear you listening to Weird Al.02) Coworkers passing by the door might think you’re actually, and without irony, listening to the real “Eye of [...]

Sitting at the BLB (That’s Bryant Lake Bowl) Waiting for my BLB scramble and sipping my coffee, which isn’t too bad. I’ve heard their house wine is terrible. Doesn’t matter, though, because I don’t drink wine with breakfast. I can attest that the service has been pretty poor every time I’ve been here. We’re opening [...]

November 19th, 2007, 4:28 AM – I am suddenly awake. Wide awake, instantly. My roommate’s cat Togar is lying at the foot of my bed, and we are the only ones home. I didn’t get to sleep until around midnight, so I should still be unconscious. I woke up physically tense, and it was like my body or subconscious thought [...]

I’m doing a reading at The Playwrights’ Center tonight. And hey, my former Boys in the Band castmate Matthew Vire is also in it! Come check it out. It’s free, after all. If you come, perhaps we can enjoy an impromptu birthday celebration at Pizza Lucé afterwards (I’m 27 today!). Were you aware? The Playwrights’ Center is [...]

What else has been going on?! WHAT ELSE?! I’ve seen a shitload of theatre lately. One of the shows I saw was Workhouse Theatre’s production of David Mamet’s Oleanna, and it was a pretty decent production. Some of you may know that that was the first show I did in undergrad. I am incapable of evaluating that play, [...]

Seattle. Whee!  In the thirty seconds or so we had between checking into the hotel and arriving at KCTS for our walk-through, we grabbed lunch in the hotel restaurant, Marazul. I can’t decide if that name is seductive and stylish, or if it sounds like a Ghostbusters villain. It’s a Caribbean / Latin place with an Asian influence, which I dug. [...]

I am writing this from a cavernous bathtub in my posh Pan Pacific hotel room in Seattle, WA, whilst sipping a tall mug of decaf. Through an openable partition between the tub and bedroom, I am flipping through the internet radio on the TV. Right now, I’m listening to The Current. The Space Needle blinks [...]

The New Orleans Improv Festival is going on right now. I am not there, but different sets of my friends — one from undergrad, one from here in Minnesota — are meeting each other. I am bewildered. Jill Bernard, Dave Jennings, and Jen Scott are down there. Drum Machine and Vaudeville with a Pig are [...]

Happy Birthday          The Flux Capacitor  November 5, 1955 “what makes time travel possible”