Fun: "The Ugliness Club: Coming to a conclusion about my place in someone's personal history" and The Buff Barbarian Song. Yesterday I tried out Leonard's T-Mobile Danger Sidekick mobile device, a.k.a. the Hiptop. It's the …
Maybe my sense that I'm a better heckler than a performer means that I belong in improv. Or maybe just that I enjoy heckling. "I am a C-section birth--" "Are you going to kill Macbeth?"
The audience, quite rightly, didn't much laugh at my performance tonight at A Cuppa Tea. My best line, a question to the MC: "How much time would I have left if I were funny?" (Response: …
If you have a notebook that contains lots of important information, including friends' phone numbers, you will lose it. Especially if you are now using a new notebook, since the old one is full, but …
[Sumana reminisces about The Early Days.] The first time Leonard saw me do stand-up, we went to Burbank and filmed the moon landing. No, but we did replicate an on-stage moment after my act had …
The days tick by and I have to come up with a really good two-minute routine for the Apollo audition. Oh, yes, by the way, I get two minutes, it turns out. Ack! That's perhaps …
I'm playing Michael's Bach CD (solo violin; sonatas & partitas). Maybe I understand why Bach is so cool now. Or maybe I'm just pulling the KDFC easy-listening trick on myself. Lots of odd social interactions …
I'm enjoying the drawn-out pleasure of Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak. I usually hate tone-setting narration, but here it's great. And Pasternak's swift and cutting depictions of the Revolution clearly say, "Censor me!" and/or portray …
Leonard alerted me to an Antarctic weblog (use a graphical browser -- neat pictures!), and an Indian reports on his country. Yesterday Adam interviewed me for items of folklore, e.g., superstitions, myths, jokes, etc. I …
