Last night, I embarked on a ridiculous endeavor. My friend Nick and I went to see the very wonderful Yeasayer at The Triple Rock, and I decided to Twitter (tweet?) from the concert, because what better way to enjoy a concert than by staring down at your phone, typing furiously with your thumbs while you [...]

I’d post an Indiana Jones-type map of our path from Minneapolis to Indianapolis (by way of Atlanta), but it was by plane, which Google Maps doesn’t do. Instead, please enjoy this photo of Chris and Jen at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport. I’ll conduct a blog experiment, or…a blogsperiment, if you will. Actually, forget I said that. [...]

Last night was SadGrrl13‘s pay-what-you-can. We had to add seats, And it seemed like half of the audience were friends of mine. It was a great show They were a great audience And I was in full socially awkward splendor, When saying hi and talking to friends after the show. Sitting in a Target store [...]

Friday the 13th, The day before we open, Minnesota Public Radio is gonna run a piece on us During “All Things Considered.” Some time between 4:00 and 6:30 PM, You’ll hear interviews with Cory and Jeremy (Our playwright and director, respectively) And audio of some of our scenes. In four sweet minutes. Newsrooms and chat [...]

Went to Winona and back Monday night For what’s probably my last GTC show until the Fall orientation tour. The school: St. Mary’s University. The show: Another “Strange Like Me” (the diversity show) We had our newly hired moderator in tow so he could observe. He had many, many questions. St. Mary’s theatre facilities impressed [...]

Riding in the back seat, On the road from Duluth to Minneapolis. Jen is cocooned to my right, listening to her iPod. Michael’s driving, Toussaint’s shotgun. The moon is pretty near full, And we’re bathed in moonlight that competes with the glare of my Blackberry screen. The highway hurtles into our headlights from the darkness [...]

In Carbondale, Illinois, for a GTC overnight. Performing “Strange Like Me” for SIU School of Medicine. Thanks to steroids, my skin has mostly recovered from an allergic reaction to medication, So I’m not a hideous, speckled monster for the show. Still, it’s good that this is the diversity show, And not the one with all [...]

I think I’m ready for it to be over now. On Saturday, between back-to-back auditions and a read-through, Kat and I broke up. So that’s pretty momentous. I’ll refrain from inflicting any moping on you right now. I’m intentionally not making this a post all about that. But that’s pretty much the biggest deal. She [...]

Closed Santaland Diaries on Sunday, With a really great show, probably our best. It was the first one of the run, really, where I felt completely good about what I was doing. Less artifice and performance, More relaxation and trust in myself and the text. Thanks to everyone who came. After we loaded out, we [...]

(transcribed from a handwritten entry from 12/13/07) On the tarmac in Chicago, between Minneapolis and New Orleans. (well, not on the map) It’s always strange to get on a plane headed to New Orleans. I find myself scanning the rows for familiar faces. (I once ran into an ex-girlfriend in the Houston airport, I think [...]