January 2012
25 posts
Somebody in the office suite is telling blatant lies about Joss Whedon and I should be given a Medal of Unimportance for not going in there and correcting them.
Alexis Pereira, Male: This Thing I Feel About... →
alexpereira:
Don’t pretend.
This feels weird to say as an improviser, but I try to never ever pretend.
Pretending everything is great is how you lose your point of view and your unique perspective. Also, I personally don’t want people lying to me, nor do I like watching people bullshit each other.
…
This is excellent and a well-timed reminder.
What is SOPA? →
Cathryn just gchatted me a question about SOPA and I realized I can only provide kind of vague half-answers. I did that thing where I thought I knew what I’m talking about but then could only talk in nonsense fragments.
So I did a google search (lucky!) and, unfortunately, most of what came up isn’t as thorough or informative as you might want.
But then I found today’s post on...
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He gets me
Me: I'm going to pay attention and watch the whole episode this time.
Chris: So you can write an angry blog about it later?
Rob Marshall & Disney to Develop Film of... →
chrisreblogs:
To quote the last section of the article:
This is the third major attempt to adapt Into the Woods for the big screen. In 1994 Penny Marshall oversaw a reading with Robin Williams, Goldie Hawn and Cher. Later the film was developed by Columbia Pictures, with director Rob Minkoff attached, and Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan and Susan Sarandon rumored to star.
Yep. I believe it when they...
“Did they have to grow the spinach for my lunch?”
– My boss.
I understand the internet. And I understand what is not a good idea to write on a blog that comes up when you are google searched. For those reasons I haven’t been telling the world that my 2012 resolution is To Quit This Job Even Though It Scares Me. Oh well.
Improv Ramblings: Now that you know everything...
chrisreblogs:
This is an off shoot of the conversation started (well, not started, but whatever) here. To summarize:
• You don’t HAVE to know EVERYTHING
• But the more you know, even on a casual superficial level, the easier it will be.
• If you don’t know something, speak in confidence anyway. Assume you know.
• The Challenger shuttle is problematic. (Note: My first response to read...
Know Everything!
improvnonsense:
I get in trouble for saying that because I deliberately say it in a jerk manner. KNOW EVERYTHING. When someone says “I didn’t know the movie my partner was mentioning” I’ll sometimes say “Well, you don’t HAVE to know it but it would be easier if you knew it.”
And then people are like “Why do I have to like Star Wars?”
And I say “Who said anything about Star Wars?”
“All these...
“If someone was wearing that sheet in 1863 and was charging you with a musket,...”
– Chris, trying to solve a debate about the color of my sheets. I fucking love him.
2012 THOUGHTS: MAYBE GET BANGS AGAIN?
I don’t know. I feel like it worked for me that last time.
December 2011
28 posts
The Most Important Thing I Learned In 2011, by...
the-faraway-here-and-now:
the most important thing i’ve learned in 2011 came in the form of an experience i had at an airport. i think. unless i’m forgetting and it occurred somewhere else, but the fact is that if it didn’t occur in a starbucks in amsterdam, it may have occurred in a peet’s coffee and tea in harvard square, or at a coffee bean & tea leaf in los angeles, or at a caribou...
Shit Girls Say
natedern:
Have you seen those Shit Girls Say videos that are floating around? Watch it here if you haven’t.
What would a normal human response be to seeing those videos? To laugh and share the link with a friend? To smile politely and move on with one’s life? To find them vaguely offensive but mostly harmless?
Those all seem like reasonable responses. But if you’re me, you spend a few hours...
Devil's Advocacy →
Generation Why? by Zadie Smith →
from December 23, 2010. This is mostly for Ben because it has some interesting observations from Jaron Lanier about programming and art and, like, society and stuff.
The most important lesson I learned in 2011
If you fall asleep (drunk) at a Christmas party, Chris Scott (and also my mom) will make you go home.
Stupid rule.
The Innocent Intricacies of Ida Indiana →
abbijacobson:
I was asked to be a part of this awesome project, Alphabooks (Instant Books). This is my book!
Merry Christmas!
Abbi is the coolest.
NAKED PEOPLE gets interviewed by Jiji →
juliawiedeman:
It’s our first NAKED PEOPLE interview! Oh the process!
This is a very excellent and necessary read it you’ve ever thought about doing a one-person show.
Watchbenjaminapple:
Watch Rob Michael Hugel say my name out loud in a list of people who have donated to help him finish his web series! Then go to his Kickstarter page and put your name on the list!
Improv Ramblings: Imaginary Games
chrisreblogs:
I mean game games. Not improv “game.”
In a scene where you have some card game or game show or board game that is made up.
And it doesn’t have to be a made up on actually. Say it’s Monopoly. Unless you have a very interesting take or view point, seeing folks argue about rules is boring.
I would much rather, not matter what the rules are or are not, that we all agree that...
Nadler calls for full DOJ investigation into NYPD... →
One of the writers from Family Guy was arrested at... →
jasonsaenz:
mattmayer:
The real problem is that it is taking things at this level to get people like me, who haven’t previously batted an eye, to see that there’s a problem at all. I’m sorry to all for my years of apathy. That’s over. This type of thing is absolutely frightening. And the powers that be are using their own citizens, the very people they are supposed to represent, against...
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Doctor Love: Nerds and Male Privilege →
Brett: i think this is up your alley so far
Brett got me an article on Nerdom and male privilege for Christmas.
It’s interesting, smart, and well written. I’ll be honest, the nerds I tend to run with are of the comedy-slash-comics-nerd variety and I’ve never had firsthand experience with anything close to what’s addressed in this article. But the plight of Female...
The SANDMAN Graphic novels are on introductory... →
neil-gaiman:
I don’t think I know anyone with a Kindle Fire but this is just a friendly reminder that Sandman is wonderful and masterful storytelling and might be Neil Gaiman at his Neil Gaimaniest and also is, in some ways, a love letter to comic books and storytelling and being a human and also immortal but not immortal and also Curtis should really read it.
Truthful Tuesday.
jezebelthegreat:
Every night when we go to bed, in the half hour between the lying-down and the falling-asleep time, we ask each other:
“What are three things you liked about today?”
Sometimes one of the answers is something as simple as, “I liked laughing with you while we watched that really lame episode of Billy The Exterminator.” Sometimes it’s something more memorable and intimate.
We...