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Moments

Life is really all about the good moments you remember.  The NOLA improv festival was last weekend, and it had a lot of good moments.

During a workshop, John and I did this scene about having to kill all the rabbits in a pet store because the pet store was closing. Instead of killing the rabbits, John ‘accidentally’ killed my character, and let all the rabbits go, to the cheers of an audience made entirely of improvisers.

Jay Suko called me Gary all weekend, because we were doing a bit, and neither one of us wanted to break character.

We hung out with Clint and Buck from TwinProv, which was awesome. They’re awesome freestyle rappers. Also, because they’re twins, they can finish each other’s puns, rhymes, ect.

The troupe told ghost stories to each other during a late-night thunderstorm until we ran out of stories.  Then, we started telling each other the plots of 1980’s movies and tv shows as though they were ghost stories.

“So my uncle gives me this furry pet for Christmas, and there’s all weird these rules for taking care of it…  like three of them.”

“No!  That is a lie.  That is the movie Gremlins.  You were NOT IN THAT.”

“Okay.  Well, there was this one time that I was working in a New York skyscraper…”

“You were not in Gremlins Two EITHER!”

Add comment October 20th, 2009

Etiquette

Cell phones allow us to do all sorts of unwise things, like continuing a conversation with someone while you’re sitting down to relieve yourself.  Bad form, so people try and hide it.  They mute the phone when flushing, and when running water, hoping that the person on the other end won’t figure it out.  Icky, but not really a problem.

So, what do you do when somone else is on the phone, in a public restroom?  Are you allowed to make your normal bathroom noises, or is that considered rude?  Are you forced to help them maintain the illusion?

Should you warn them before flushing?

This bothers me.

(edit:  Need to proofread)

1 comment October 13th, 2009