Month: August 2008
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J. Campbell Wisdom
Instead of clearing his own heart, the zealot tries to clear the world. Awesome. The Hero with a Thousand Faces continues to be revelatory and brilliant.
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Shakes-prov
Chris Scott saw the Improvised Shakespeare Co. on Monday at the Del Close Marathon. He urged me to see it on Tuesday after they had done an amazing show off of his suggestion of The Three Laws of Asimov. By Wednesday, during the Walsh workshop, I resolved to wait in the stand-by line for their…
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My Bones Have A Bone To Pick
According the generally accepted formula of weight divded by height squared, my Body Mass Index is a 29.2. A BMI of 30.0 or above is considered obese. You might have been able to at least make a case for me being obese 10 years ago, when I was kind of a fat guy. But I’m…
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Workin’ With Walsh
I took a four-hour improv workshop with UCB founder Matt Walsh last night. I didn’t really know what to expect, because you hear a lot of stories about the old-schoolers and what they’re like, but who knows whether the stories are true, or whether they’re still true about them now. I’m happy to say I…