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Monthly Archives: October 2008

PLUG x3

Over the course of the next week I have three improv shows, each of them completely different formats.  Please come to all three shows and yell out “proctologist” when we ask for a suggestion.
1. Saturday, 10/18, 9pm @ The Creek in Long Island City, FREEEEEE!
My big improv army Caligula will perform with two other awesome [...]

WE GET INTO TROUBLE WHEN WE BBQ

Last week somebody put up a little photocopied sign on my apartment building’s front door:  BLOCK PARTY THIS SUNDAY.
At the bottom of the sign someone had scrawled a handwritten note: We get into trouble when we bbq.
I was away from the apartment all day on Sunday.  When I returned at 11pm there were random, broken [...]

CHASE AND WaMu AND ME

Banking with Chase was terrible.  Every couple of months they’d screw up, and blame it on me.  Eventually things would get straightened out, but not before several employees were given a chance to be rude and dismissive.  The subtext was always, “Wow, we’re really scared that you’re going to be so dissatisfied that you’ll move [...]

NATIONAL PIZZA MONTH

Do you know Sean Taylor?  Do you know what he’s been doing every year since 2002?  I’ll give you a hint:  It involves eating at least one slice of pizza a day, every day in the month of October.
(In retrospect, that was an overly generous hint.)
I think Sean’s quest excites me for two main reasons:
1. [...]