2 pairs in one day

so earlier in the day, I ripped my pants. twice-once in the, um..."the middle". and the other time i ripped my belt buckle because it got stuck in my briefcase.

the second pair i lost was during tonight's performance, when I was supposed to take a pratfall, but my pants got caught, and almost my entire zipper region was exposed the audience.

ahh...the things I do for my crap.

I mean, craft.

Thanks to Afro, Judith, Jon Kean, Auggie and Kyle for coming out.

Peace!

Radio Plug

we were mentioned on the radio, and on the website. in the same breath as a member of Phish. Sweet!

http://www.waaf.com/Article.asp?id=171763

BTC, Tuesday night, beaches!

Some of you have nightmares for dreams...

...but can i tell you about MY real-life nightmare?

i'll be quick, since i have a big day at work today. time for "STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS-NESS STYLE":

woke up early. going to go to gym. putting on my socks. got hypnotized by computer. drove to gym. decided had no time for gym. got ready for work. got caught in traffic. got breakfast burrito at "lowfat Knowfat". realized said burrito is the size of macdonald's old burrito, but 3 times more expensive. got to work. realized i had a whole in my pants (yep. THAT type of hole). as i was walking up the stairs, my belt loop got caught in the zipper of my briefcase. so i was trying to untie it with my hands around my back. had to get co-worker Sharon to help out. now i have two holes in my pants. and i have a very important prospect/new business oportunity lunch at noon sharp. no time to get some new pants. crap.

Show

So,

Bragging To Children decided to "go dark" this past month and work on completely new matieral. Tonight, starting at 8:30pm tonight at An Tua Nua (835 Beacon St), we will debut that new material. Tickets are $7.

The Albino Code

Just saw The Da Vinci Code ...parts of it were entertaining, parts dragged. It wasn't as bad as the critics said, and to be quite honest, if you sit down for a minute and think about it, it wasn't as blasphemous as people make it out to be. There's a lot of extrapolation like, "well, I don't mean to be rude or say anything spiteful (after all, I do attend church regularly), but what if all of this is wrong?" They just plop that right in the middle of the film and all of a sudden that's supposed to make some of the anti-Catholic things okay. Oh well.

But let me share with you something funny. You've probably heard of "The Albino Code". If not, this local comedian and actor, Dennis Hurley, is in fact a "person with albinism". He's made a spoof of it, that everyone from CNN, Boston Globe, Fox News, etc, etc, are talking about. He's hosted a Bragging To Children show when we performed with the Tribe last year, and he's also been in many projects with members of the group (so, you should come more often to see us). This just in, his movie trailer is playing at the Cannes Film Festival. Cool, no?

Click here to watch it, if you have a high bandwith. It's a funny movie!

And Dennis has asked me to post this:

Come to a FREE 12 minute SCREENING of www.albinocode.com

The first Da Vinci Code PARODY.... made by a real Albino



THE


ALBINO


CODE


Actor, Writer, Executive Producer, Dennis Hurley

www.dennis-hurley.com

www.albinocode.com
RSVP: email dhcontacts@gmail.com
FREE SCREENING is Tuesday, May 23, 7.15pm at

The Drama Book Shop
250 West 40th Street - between 7th and 8th Avenues
New York, NY 10018

To RSVP: email dhcontacts@gmail.com with your name, .., the amount people in your party! or call 212-636-9174 and leave a message with Dennis Hurley. Seats are filling up!

www.albinocode.com - Join Our Mailing List!

A New Thing I'm Apart of...

http://www.lowellcomedyfestival.com/

Media Contact: Meghan O’Sullivan
978-264-0707x201

Wayne Brady To Headline 2006 Lowell Comedy Festival, June 8th-11th

This Year’s Festival Will Showcase Forty of The Nation’s Top Improv and Sketch Troupes from Chicago, Boston, San Francisco and New York and Around New England

(Lowell, Massachusetts) May 8, 2006 - - More than one hundred improvisers, stand-up comedians, and filmographers will descend upon the City of Lowell on June 8-11th for what Lowell hopes to be the emergence of one of the nation’s leading comedy festivals.

This year the Lowell Comedy Festival (LCF) has expanded to include five stages to showcase the approximate forty troupes slated to perform in the four day festival. This year’s line-up includes performers from the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre (UCB) in New York City; BassProv from Second City in Chicago; JoKyR and Jesster from Utah; Stranger than Fiction and Uphill Both Ways from California, the mainstage cast from Improv Boston and the comedic talents of Boston’s Walsh Brothers. Other highlights include a performance from Misunderstood, a musical rock opera, entirely improvised and performed with a live band; Brian Longwell, your favorite non-motivational speaker; and the Late Night Players to name a few.

Performances will take place at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium, Merrimack Repertory Theater, DoubleTree Hotel, Old Court Pub and Revolving Museum. In addition to Improv comedy, the festival will showcase stand-up, film, sketch, and classes from some of the best teachers and directors in the country.

“We hope that this will be the beginning of a festival that will someday be on a par with Chicago’s Improv Festival and Montreal’s Comedy Festival, but we are starting small,” says J. Matthew Coggins, Assistant City Manager. “Right now we are inviting troupes who are instrumental in the growth of the national improv scene and hope that over the weekend, they see the potential of the Lowell Comedy Festival and participate in the building of it.”

“This is the only comedy festival in the country that is sponsored by a city,” says LCF’s artistic director Will Luera, “That alone is creating big ‘buzz’ on the national scene. I’m also excited to be putting together a festival that features every style of comedy,” says Luera, who is also a performer and artistic director for Improv Boston. “This festival is going to have something for everyone. We’ve also arranged for people to be able to roam from venue to venue by staggering shows on the half hour.” According to Luera, each show will feature at least three acts. Log-on to www.lowellcomedyfestival.com for details.

Locations and Times

Merrimack Repertory Theatre
Showcase Shows
50 East Merrimack Street
Friday, 7:00 [Stranger Than Fiction (SF);Romance 101 (Lowell); UCB (NYC)]
Friday, 9:00 [UCB(NY); Uphill Both Ways (SF); BassProv (Chicago)]
Saturday 7:00 [BassProv (Chicago); Joker and Jester (Utah) Black Jew Dialogues (Boston)]
Saturday 9:00 [Stranger Than Fiction (SF); Uphill Both Ways (SF) Jokyr and Jester (Utah)]

DoubleTree Hotel
New England All Stars (Improv)
Thursday, 8:00 [New England Family; DeBattle; Mosaic]
Friday, 7:30 [Misunderstood; Kamikaze Comedy(VT);Am I A Ghost?]
Friday, 7:30 [Improv Boston Mainstage; Crackers In Bed; TheatreSports]
Saturday, 7:30 [The Tribe Players; Agent Spy; Seriously]
Saturday, 9:30 [Unexpected Company; Stranger than Fiction (NH); Dirty Puppets]
Classes: Saturday and Sunday A.M – P.M.

Old Court Pub
Central Street
Standup and Sketch
Friday, 8:00 [WPI Alumni Project; The City Never Sleeps; Perfect Monster]
Friday, 10:00 Show [Walsh Bros Host Standup]
Saturday, 8:00 [Whose in the Doghouse?; Late Night Players; Cleanest River in America)
Saturday 10:00 [Walsh Brothers Host Stand-Up]

Revolving Museum
Shattuck Street
Film
Friday, 11:00 [Barmanda: The Sequel; Card Sharks; Grillz; Lunches with Laura; Sam Adams]

Tickets

Tickets for each show are $10 per person. $20 will buy you an evening pass to all shows. And $40 will buy you a pass to all performances, all weekend. These prices exclude the price for attending Wayne Brady. Tickets can be purchased at the door of each venue beginning one hour before each performance.

Tickets for Wayne Brady range from $40-$53 can be purchased separately from the Lowell Memorial Auditorium by calling 978-454-2299 or through Ticketmaster. Those who attend Wayne Brady’s show at the Auditorium will receive a FREE all festival pass to the remainder of the festival.

For more information on performers, performance times and locations, log-on to www.lowellcomedyfestival.com

Comings and Goings

Props go out to Elliott Kim who made the big move to L.A. this weekend (I think, because I missed him on the phone).

Did I show you guys this article?

I hate video games. Reason 1...and Reason 2.

I also don't if there's a subject that can't be turned into a "Mother's Against.."

Just finalizing some details on the new apartment that my gf...excuse me, my fiance (not this one)and I are going to rent in sunny, sunny Worcester over the next year. But at $750, all amenities including laundry and dishwasher...not too bad! I'll have to buzz you in, and let you in the "Gates." Yes, it's got big steel iron gates to keep out the "kids" from the street. Whatev!

And we just found out that we can't have our wedding in our old dorm. All those thoughts of having people eat off plastic trays and bus their own meals while sitting in uncomfortable chairs from the 40's are out the window. Sigh!

What's new in your neck of the woods?

Edit: I also can't stand it when people edit your prepositions, for example, when you use in instead of at. Whatev'.

Why my girlfr---I mean my fiance loves Dance Dance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg

New article...

My group made it to another magazine, IN Newsweekly. Big props go to Sean Paul Cormier for a kick-butt article...

Screw You Guys...2

i don't care you anymore.

for this one reason:

did you realize there was a Chuck Norris cartoon called "Chuck Norris Karate Komandos?" Did you know that said cartoon had a character named "Super Ninja" as the bad guy, and an Asian sidekick named "Too Much." WHAT?

And if you did know, why didn't you tell me? I thought we were friends?

To Hell with this!

Shut up...you know this is funny:

Good point

Just reading the Reverend Tim McIntire webpage. He has this comment about Colbert's performance at the White House Correspondents' Dinner:

Friday, May 05, 2006
More On Colbert

The thing about Colbert's performance and whether or not it was funny or appropriate is that basically, from a comedian's perspective, it's just another shitty private gig. Really, it's something that every comic with any time in this business at all has seen dozens of times.

You get hired by a company to do their annual party. The person who hires you tells you they want you to write jokes about the owner. They tell you he can take a joke, and they give you tons of stuff that they practically beg you to use. He cheats at golf, they say. He wears a wig. He yells at his secretary. Definitely mention how fat he's gotten, they tell you. Don't worry, he'll love it, they promise you. Then the night comes, and you get there, and as soon as the very first fat joke bombs, you can feel them turn, and the people who hired you suddenly pretend they had nothing to do with it, and you suffer through the silence, and when it's over, and you're talking to the very same people who told you to talk about the guy's wooden leg, they look at you and say, "What happened? You weren't funny."

Agreed!

Blog wishes...

I wish Fan W and John B would have blogs (or tell me about it if they do.). Do you think that would be funny? Those of you who know them, know what I'm talking about...

You know you're a nerd when...

You see one of those "word verification" things (to prove that you're not a spammer), and the letters are "manhcl" and you immediately think, "oh, Human Hydrocloric Acid? Hmm...Do those have covalent bonds?" And then you smack yourself because it's nigh impossible for non-oxygenated molecules to have covalent bonds.

And then you realize you're just throwing words at the screen.

Simple Pleasures in Life, part A. xvii

My new deodorant. "Fresh Scent." Not bad!