September 2009
55 posts
“So I’m walking, I turn the corner, and who do I run into? Leonard Nimoy.”
– Guy on the street, talking to a friend about the time he accidently walked into a transporter.
August 2009
25 posts
Good Novels Don’t Have to Be Hard Work - WSJ.com →
Story is the original narcotic.
“I’m not anti-Superhero per se — quite the opposite — I just have this crazy,...”
– Warren Ellis
Olly Moss →
Olly Moss = God. Do you like t-shirts, or revisionist movie posters? You will like Olly.
Always wanted one... maybe with spellcheck. →
One last IA podcast. A friend of mine did this...
One Sweet Jacket. →
This is all sorts of book nerd awesome.
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LOST Reading List
I love ABC’s LOST more than life itself, so life was pretty much over for me when (SPOILER ALERT) the show went on hiatus for six months. I’ve kept myself busy and alive by working my way through a LOST summer reading list:
“Replay” by Ken Grimwood
“The Black Swan” by Nassim Taleb
“A Separate Reality” Carlos Castaneda
“Everything that...
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“The ones that aren’t authentically funny, you know. Your body knows. You may not...”
– Woody Allen
The Boy Who Heard Too Much →
givemesomethingtoread:
Like a comic-book villain transformed by a tragic accident, Weigman discovered at an early age that his acute hearing gave him superpowers on the telephone. He could impersonate any voice, memorize phone numbers by the sound of the buttons and decipher the inner workings of a phone system by the frequencies and clicks on a call, which he refers to as “songs.” The...
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The Moth
One of my greatest joys is waking up on Monday and listening to a fresh story from the Moth podcast.
Oral storytelling is making a big comeback. Hopefully so big that people will stop sniggering when someone calls it “oral storytelling.”
Another IA podcast I did a little while ago....
My College Comedy Troupe →
For 4 years at Emerson college I was a proud member of the sketch group Jimmy’s Traveling All-Stars. Enjoy this smattering of videos.
WatchImprov doesn’t usually translate to video - and this clip is no exception. But I kiss an old guy (around 4:28) and it’s fun to watch people’s notions of societal norms MELT BEFORE THEIR EYES! (Via Casey Donahue)
I did a few podcasts while I was part of the NXT...
It Begins...
I’ve finally decided to start this blog.
It will contain the following:
Sketches
Videos
Comics
The shortest of stories
Screenwriting
Musings
Stand-up
Photography
Other brick-a-brack, shtick, pulp and kitsch.
I will be promoting myself (ugh) while trying to make a name in Internet City.
Here is my soul internet. Now pile on the snark.