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February 28, 2006

XSAN Uninstall

I don't usually post about technical stuff here, but Apple doesn't have this on their site and I just figured it out on my own, so I wanted to share.

If you have XSAN 1.1 installed on OS X Server and you uninstall it by running the "Uninstall XSAN.pkg" that came on the CD, after the required restart Server Admin will report in red that you have an "Invalid Serial Number". If you look at the Settings tab, under your completely valid serial number it will note "Invalid serial number: could not check license with daemon."

Apple acknowledges the problem, but their only solution is to call Apple Care. When I did so, the Server tech I talked to had no idea of any solution and said she'd escalate it to Engineering and they'd get back to me in 3 - 4 days.

So here's what you do: Reinstall XSAN 1.1. This will restore the system components that are needed to validate your serial number. Download the XSAN 1.2 Uninstaller. (I actually updated to XSAN 1.2, thinking that would give me the 1.2 Uninstaller, which it didn't, but I think the 1.2 Uninstaller will uninstall 1.1 also -- but I don't want to reinstall everything to check.)

Ta Da! XSAN uninstalled, valid serial number, no three day wait. Why that's too complicated for Apple to document, I'm not sure.

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February 27, 2006

Where's Mustapha?

Where's Mustapha?

Oh, there he is.

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Slick

Slick O'Donnell
Photo by Erica Reid.

So on Saturday night I sat in on the Belmont Burlesque Revue as the on-stage stagehand, a role usually filled by Chris Biddle as Second Cousin Joe. I was Slick O'Donnell, Jack Midnight's bastard half-brother.

It's an odd job/role. I mean, it really is a job -- I was the house manager before the show, trying to get a sold-out crowd into the theater in an orderly and speedy fashion (and I realized as the show began that I hadn't been doing it in character -- which I don't think really mattered, and I don't think Chris does it either, but it suddenly seemed like a mistake.) -- and then I really was the stagehand, setting tables and chairs on stage and cleaning up after each act (and I was a human prop for one number). Other than that there's not much to do, but I was onstage the whole time. I tried to keep Slick engaged, without taking any focus. Noah told me that I was doing a "Billy Bob jaw thing" which I'm not even sure what it is, and I don't think I want to think about too much, lest I trigger the centipede's dilemma.

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February 26, 2006

Book #14: The Killing of Worlds

Just getting ahold of a copy of The Killing of Worlds (by Scott Westerfeld) (it's the sequel/second-half-of-the-book to The Risen Empire) proved to be such a saga -- multiple trips to local bookstores and getting to the library just after it closed and then I ordered it from Amazon and signed up a free trial of their thingy that was supposed to get me free two-day shipping, but in three days it had made it to Addison, IL and then I did make it to the library, and then the book came from Amazon the next day. Whew. Anyway, it was a fine end to the story -- it ended in an "open to a sequel" manner, but nothing so abrupt as The Risen Empire.

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February 25, 2006

Slick

Tonight at the Belmont Burlesque Revue, I'll be filling in for "Second Cousin Joe" -- the on-stage stagehand -- as "Slick," Jack Midnight's nephew. Or something. Stop by the Playground at Midnight and see how much backstory we can fit in between sexy ladies dancing (Erica choreographed the new opening number), comedy, and magic.

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February 24, 2006

Last SINema

We're not extending SINema, so tonight is your last chance to see Shaun Himmerick, Jared Logan, Erica Reid, and Andrea Swanson make some dirty and funny movies even dirtier and funnier.

tonight at 11 pm
Improv Kitchen
3419 N Clark St

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February 23, 2006

Book #13: Longitude

Longitude by Dava Sobel has the rather unwieldy subtitle "The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time". Determining longitude (that is, how far east or west you are) had been a navigation problem for sailors for millennia, and the quest for a solution reached a crescendo in the 18th Century. So I was all set for a rollicking scientific adventure, but the whole thing felt a little flat. The book was expanded from a magazine article and it still feels like it's just a sketch of the drama surrounding John Harrison and his perfection of the chronometer.

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Happy Blogversity

Birthday Cake

One of my favorite artists, El Rey Del Art, has been blogging for a year.

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Dido reviews

I know that some of the Dido cast are that breed of actors who don't like to read reviews while the show is in progress (if ever) and that's perfectly understandable. So I'm hiding the rest of this post past the jump...

Besides the resultant publicity for the show, I'm a little chuffed that I have photos (neither with a photo credit, but c'est la vie) in two Chicago publications in one week.

Time Out is, it seems, on a tighter production schedule than other Chicago publications (maybe because they mail it out?) so they needed a photo before the costumes were going to be ready. That's why the men are shirtless rather than in their costumes (and Shari in a dress), and why that photo doesn't appear in the press photos set.

Dido, Queen of Carhage - Chicago Reader 2-23-06

Dido, Queen of Carhage - Time Out 2-23-06

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February 22, 2006

Blue

Blue Hair

Erica colored her hair blue for the show she's in right now and everyone keeps noticing how it makes her already-startling blue eyes pop.

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Cancer sucks

Katie and Christopher have the latest news about Erica's dad.

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February 21, 2006

Yet another books list

Here are the current top 25* books from whatshouldireadnext.com. Bold the books you have read. Italicize the books you plan to read. Leave the rest.

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
1984 - George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk

15 of 25, if you're keeping score. So, um, I had to read the same books in school as other people, is what I think this list means.

* Via Bilal Dardai. Bilal said "50" but his list had 45, and the current What Should I Read Next? list has 25. So I went with the current list. (I was 30/45 on Bilal's list -- lots of science fiction in the next 20.)

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February 19, 2006

Book #12: Spin

I've been having a hard time finding the second halves of those two books-that-were-only-half-the-story books (bookstores not carrying them, library closed just before I got there, etc.) so I've ordered them (thanks to an Amazon gift certificate I got for my birthday from the Antoines. Thanks!). While I've been waiting for them to arrive, I took a break from books and finished Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time (oh, so cute). I was going to start another video game, but I discovered that I'm in such a voracious reading mood that I couldn't wait until my Amazon order arrived and so I stopped by Borders and, using a rediscovered Borders giftcard (Thanks, whoever gave me that, long ago), picked up a copy of Spin by Robert Charles Wilson.

I picked it up based on a recommendation by Patrick Nielsen Hayden. I was not disappointed -- it's a novel about events of cosmic signifigance (billions of years pass between the beginning and end of the novel) but seen from a very ground-level, human perspective.

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February 16, 2006

Dido, Queen of Carthage

The Cast

Over the last couple of months you might have heard me or Erica talk about the "real play, with words you have to memorize" that she's been rehearsing for. Well, tonight is the opening night of Camenae Ensemble Theatre Company's production of Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe.

I went to the tech and dress rehearsals over the last two nights to take publicity photos and I have to say that I was really impressed. I was at the first read-through of the play and, I have to admit, at that time I kinda thought, "oh great, 16th Century language about tragic figures from 9th Century BC. Yawn-town." But Sara's direction and the fine cast have really brought this play to life. And the lush costumes really pop on the simple stage, which made it easy to take beyutiful pictures.

And speaking of those pictures, I tried a little directed-publicity experiment. When I was shooting, I didn't just focus on the principals, but I got photos of everyone. So last night I made the offer that if anyone had a blog or LiveJournal or whathaveyou, I would send them a URL of a photo of their own self that they could post to help publicize the show. I was expecting 2 or 3 people to take me up on the offer. Twelve cast members came forward and gave me their emails. A number of them have posted pictures, and I see from perusing their blogs that they were already, of course, plugging the show, but every little bit helps and it was easy enough to crank out 12 web-quality photos while watching Project Runway last night.

The Dido cast blogs:

bdar
birchfire
dancing blue
duck2ducks
Erica Reid
hssst
miss sherri
misterholt
xandra_lj

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SINema press

Time Out Chicago, 16 Feb 2006

I guess the pull-quote is "quick-witted improv vets".

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February 14, 2006

Happy Valentimes, Internets

I don't usually look at my webstats -- I get intimidated if I think are too many or too few of you[1] -- but I was interested in how many people were signed up for the vodcast (latest addition -- Dog) and so I took a glance last week. And discovered that a huge percentage of my hits were people on MySpace linking directly to a Simpsons Valentine I posted last year:

I choo-choo-choose you!

And I do, you know, Choo-Choo-Choose You.

I'll confess that for a few minutes I thought about replacing the picture with something nasty (dang bandwidth-stealers), but then I realized that a) it wasn't taking up that much bandwidth and b) it's Love, man -- let Love flow. I'd probably be a better person if I had those thoughts in the reverse order, but what're you gonna do?

So to keep the love flowing, here's some Valentine's Webcomics:

Medium Large: What You Said Wrong on Valentine's Day
Overcompensating: Valentine's Melee, We Must Destroy Valentine's Day, Hate Will Bring Us Together, The Smoothest Aphrodisiac
Penny Arcade: Precision Ordnance

[1] In my head, I write these things for Dan, Tricia, and some guy I don't know in Kansas.

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February 13, 2006

Jokes

Erica and I went to see Demetri Martin's sold out "These are Jokes" show at the Lakeshore Theater on Saturday night. The show was being recorded for a Comedy Central Records release, which continues to be one of my fascinations with standup recordings -- he was doing four shows and just, you know, trusting that out of those four shows he'd get a good album. Madness.

The aforementioned jokes were, indeed, funny. Demetri just tells jokes, none of which are longer than 3 or 4 sentences, so it was nice that he varied the evening up by setting some of the jokes to a drum-machine and glockenspiel backing, others to guitar noodlings, and yet another set to a waltz with Will Forte on backing vocals.

Leo Allen opened up for Demetri and I thought he looked familiar -- a quick Google this afternoon revealed that I'd seen the Comedy Central Presents of his comedy duo Slovin and Allen. Also funny stuff -- I'd like to see more of him.

And if you weren't sure we're in the 21st Century yet -- at the end of the show Demetri came back out onto stage and told us that his flight back to New York had been canceled and so he'd be in town on Sunday to do an in-store or signing somewhere -- and that to find out where, we should check his MySpace page.

...

Erica had to leave the show early to go do KOKO at The Playground. Unfortunately, when she got there she discovered that the heat was out and the show ended up being canceled. Double-boo. And that meant that the Don't Spit the Water show was canceled as well, which means the world missed the debut of Clockwatcher Samson. I even bought a new wrestling mask at Chicago Comics and everything. Triple-boo.

(New Chicago Metroblogger Nicolette was at the later Demetri Martin show -- I noticed the drunk guys she talks about when I was on my way out.)

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February 12, 2006

Books #10 and 11: The Da Vinci Code and The Risen Empire

Usually I try to read books (and see movies) knowing as little as possible about them before I plunge in. With book #10, The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, I went in with a lot of baggage -- the book has been a bijallion-seller, it's been praised and denounced seemly-endlessly. We discussed it, on a tangent, at my old bookgroup. From all that information, I wasn't anticipating that I'd like the book, but my boss had a copy laying around in his office and I told I should give it a chance. And besides, if I'm reading fifty books, I can sacrifice one or two to keeping up with the zeitgeist. So I cleared my mind and tried to give it an unbiased read.

Dear Lord I hated that book.

I think it was the unrelenting mediocrity. I mean, I've seen worse books, but they were either just incoherent, or at least bold in their terribleness. My bookgroup had said that it was, at least, a compelling read, but I think that was just the endless, forced cliffhangers at the end of every. single. chapter. Bleh. Bleck. I had a bad taste in my mouth when I finally finished.

I decided to cleanse my pallette with Scott Westerfeld's The Risen Empire. I've been enjoying Westerfeld's young adult fiction, so I thought I'd give his adult science fiction a try. I succeeded in going into the book with knowing anything about it -- I didn't even read the blurb on the back. And it was delightful -- it's a space opera about the clash of interstellar civilizations. The one problem, it turns out, is that it is, again!, a huge book chopped in two for publishing reasons. So now I have two more second-halves of stories to read.

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February 10, 2006

5 Days to Get There

5 Days to Get There

Over Christmas my soon-to-be brother-in-law Christopher entrusted me with the Quark file of his comic masterpiece 5 Days to Get There. Now, a mere month-and-change later I've finally got the dang thing up in a navigable form. Go read the back story and then... behold!

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Early signs of the hopeless geekiness to come

A young Fuzzy watches TV

I found this picture at Thanksgiving in a stack of family pictures. Mom says we never had a TV stand like that, so we're not sure whose house this was at. The photo is (presumably) by Don Gerdes.

While I was trying to clean up the color a little, iTunes random-play threw up Henry Rollins, Talk Is Cheap Vol. 4, "I Can't Get Behind That", about Hank recording a track with William Shatner for Shatner's Ben Folds-produced album Has Been. Ooooh... synchronicity.

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Happy Burt Reynolds Day

Burt Reynolds Day

Erica and I would like to take a moment to wish everyone a Happy 70th Annual Burt Reynolds Day!

(via Beaver and Steve)

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Chicago Metroblog

If you haven't been reading the Chicago Metroblog, recently I've posted a couple of "Separated at Birth?" photos, a rant about punctuation, and a picture of a dog in a backpack.

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February 9, 2006

Dog, SINema, DSTW

Your FuzzyCo weekend:

Best of Split Pillow

The FuzzyCo short film Dog will be screened, along with other "Best of Split Pillow" selections, at the Around the Coyote Arts Festival at Rodan (1530 N Milwaukee) at 6pm on Friday, February 10, 2006 and Sunday, February 12, 2006.

(I think I've remarked before that for a producer of mostly live theater, films are this odd thing that they're still there months or years later, unlike a stage show. And they can go places without you. Dog was selected as a Best Of for this festival without me having to lift a finger. (Jason of Split Pillow is, I'm sure, working like a dog*. Which is one of the reasons he's great.))

Friday night at 11 pm FuzzyCo and Lavender Cabaret present SINema at the Improv Kitchen. People are making noises about extended runs already (the show has sold out both weeks, so reservations are recommended), but we're still only contracted through the end of February so I'm going to say Only Three Weeks Left!

Saturday night at 10:30 pm at the Playground it's your favorite crazy live game show, Don't Spit the Water. This week Erica will be performing as Cutie Bumblesnatch and I'll be filling in for Timekeeper Willis. As Clockwatcher Fuzzy or something.

* No pun intended.

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February 8, 2006

Book 9: Carter Beats the Devil

Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold is a rollicking adventure tale, and yet also an examination of loss. So now I want to learn a bunch of magic tricks, and read about the Harding Administration and Philo Farnsworth, and also sit and think a little.

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February 7, 2006

Party!

Erica and Jin

Thanks to everyone who came out and made [my birthday|our engagement|our housewarming] party so fun. The kitchen/dining room ended up being the adult-conversation-world and the living room was Guitar Hero-town. Dan had me make a new save-file right at the start of the night and I was pretty impressed -- our band, Party, got all the way through Easy and most of the way through Medium -- not bad for a bunch of folks who were (mostly) playing the game for the first time. Except for the Guitar Gods, Jin and Kenner.

Anyhoo, I took a bunch of pictures. At my party. And no one else did. Which is why I'm not in any of them. Hmmm.

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SINema cast

SINema Cast

Hey, it's the Channel 12 Action Eyewitness News Team! Oh, I mean, the cast of SINema!

We made some pretty big tweaks to the show between weeks 1 & 2, getting rid of the intermission, throwing out the "commercials", adding another short-form game, and sexing-up the whole show (replacing, for example, Cheerleader[s'] Beach Party with SuperVixens). I think we really took that half-step from pretty good to really good.

And hey, some people (well, one person - but if one is asking, ten are wondering) had asked what movies we're doing. The first week our feature was Cheerleader[s'] Beach Party (the name is different on the box cover and title sequence[1]) and we used scenes from Flesh Gordon and Trader Hornee for improv games. Week 2 our feature was the Russ Meyer classic SuperVixens and we added a 40s b&w short for games. I may tweak the short scenes for this week.

[1] I have a Kung Fu movie that has three completely different titles -- one on the box cover, one on the DVD menu, and a third in the title sequence of the movie.

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Getting Ready for the Party

So, when we woke up Saturday morning, the house was not ready for a party. And we had a limited window to borrow Shaun's truck and get party supplies. And Erica had a rehearsal. Panic! Panic!

What saved us was Noah. Yay Noah! Noah came over around noon and spent the next 7 hours helping us clean and organize the place. We got the living room looking like this:

Clean Livingroom
Play a bonus round of "Where's Mustapha?"

Which, I suppose, looks like a regular living room. And you know, Fuzzy, the pillows and blankets are a little untidy on the couch there. But if you'd seen the GIANT PILE OF BOXES that used to be where that red futon is now, you'd know how impressive this is.

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February 6, 2006

SINema press

Chicago Tribune

Um, no, it's not "family movie night fodder". But it is a Metromix Best Bet. Again. Whee. The old name, but that's to be expected as the new name chases after it through the press-release ecosystem.

And we were also the subject of a cbs2chicago.com story (the .com is on purpose -- it was a web-only story): A Tale Of Two 'Dirty Movie Nights'.

Odd Obsession Movies owner Brian Chankin said Gerdes’ show using the name was never an issue for him.

"Really, it just was funny to me," Chankin said of the protests against the proposed other "Dirty Movie Night."

A nit-pick with the article: the show is a FuzzyCo / Lavender Cabaret co-production (it just felt a bit weird to keep reading "Gerdes' show"). And there are a couple sentences that I think Adam quoted me too well -- I need to learn to speak in sound bites, rather than conversational english. It's very likely that I actually did say, "a variety of classic sexploitation movies that we’ve overlayed with shorter scenes with some movies, that we’ve overlayed with Improv games" but I don't think that's what I meant. There's a lot of overlaying going on in that sentence. (For the record, the show features short scenes from movies used as the basis for improv games, and then a longer feature, which is presented with witty banter and green screen tomfoolery by the cast.)

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February 3, 2006

Birthday Lunch

Birthday Lunch at Benihana

Have I mentioned that it's my birthday? Thanks to Kyle, Kenner, Mary, and Erica for taking me out to lunch at... some restaurant... the name is on the tip of my tongue...

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It's my birthday...

... but I don't want to make a big deal out of it.

Ha ha ha, that is a lie.

Of course I want to make a big deal out of it! Whee! It's my birthday!

It is also Don Hall's birthday and Tim Whetham's birthday. And Joey Bishop, Morgan Fairchild, and Nathan Lane. And no longer with us, but James Michener (probably), Norman Rockwell, and Gertrude Stein were all born on February 3, also.

So... come see my show tonight and I'll probably be having a quick one at the Spoke afterwards. And then come to my party tomorrow night. Yay!

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February 2, 2006

More press for Toronto Neutrino

Eye Weekly: Fast Film

In a matter of three years, James Cameron wrote, directed and produced the epic blockbuster Titanic. Let it be known: James Cameron is a lazy son of a bitch. Every month at the Drake Hotel, the Neutrino Film Project simultaneously shoots and screens an hour-long improvised movie in the time it takes a live audience to watch it.

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February 1, 2006

Book #8: Bunny Bunny

Book #8: Bunny Bunny: Gilda Radner : A Sort of Love Story by Alan Zweibel. Erica suggested that I read this, one of her favorite books ("maybe just because I love conversations," she said). Zweibel was a writer on the first season of Saturday Night Live, where he met Gilda Radner. This book is a re-creation of conversations the two had over the course of their friendship, from early flirtation, to becoming great friends, and eventually to her death from ovarian cancer.

It's a tiny thing, but it drove me a little crazy that there was no typographical difference between the two voices, especially since a lot of the conversations are like:

-- Hey.
-- What?
-- Hey.
-- What?
-- You know.
-- Alright.

and sometimes I had to go back a half a page and count lines to figure out who had said what.

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Some other things I'm up to

So, this late night show is chewing up a bunch of my time (video-editing, as I've noted before, is just time-consuming) but it's not the only artistic outlet going on at FuzzyCo.

For one, I'm coaching a new improv ensemble called Sass Patrol. It's some old friends from Documentary South and some others -- just 5 of them altogether. Part of the reason they asked me to coach them was that I've got experience with small groups, and indeed we've already had rehearsals with just 4 and 2 of the group there. They're letting me go wild with an improv-math heavy form, so I'm happy as a clam. No shows planned or scheduled anywhere soon, but you can be sure I'd let you know.

And I'm being taught a little, as I'm finally taking the 500 Clown workshop on "Risk, Play, and Relationship". I've wanted to take this class for a year or so, but I kept thinking "oh, I should see if signup for the next session is available" a week or two after that next session had already started. But Erica helped me keep on top of it this go-round and I had my first class on Monday. I came home sweaty and achy (in the good way) and full, already, of ideas about playfulness.

And I've got a bunch of comedy bits coming up -- I just realized I have a show 3 Saturdays this month -- two different burlesque shows and a Don't Spit the Water appearance (with Erica).

But I've been thinking it's time again to put out some feelers about performing improv (remember that stuff) with some group (of which this sentence is one of those feelers). Shaun's job kept Bare off everyone's radar last year and we haven't really gotten back on that horse. Neutrino Project is off until this summer (and I should be doing a bunch of producer-y stuff for that right now, but I'm not). It'd be nice to find some group I could just play with, and not have to arrange all the shows myself. Oh, how I'd love to be lazy.

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Party

It's my birthday this weekend! And we moved! And we got engaged! So we're having a party on Saturday, from 7 'til late. You're invited, my internet friend -- if you know where I used to live, it's half a block south. If you don't know where we live, shoot me an email.

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Book #7: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

After reading so much science fiction in a row, I was feeling a little genre-shame, so I dug out a buzz-worthy book from last year (my copy's cover notes that it's a Today's Book Club selection) -- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon. It's a murder mystery, where the murder victim is a dog and the detective is a 15-year old boy with autism. I was surprisingly moved.

I squeaked in #7 just at the end of the month last night, which, if I may be a little OCD about the numbers for a second, puts my "rate" at 7.5 books/month, which would mean I'll get to 50 in 6.6 months. In any case, this goal feels eminently doable. And, it's been quite nice to plow through a bunch of books -- it feels like the old days.

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