January 2012
23 posts
…and on the F train all the 49er fans quietly return to Brooklyn.
Teaching Sketch and you can Help!
So I’m preparing to teach sketch to high school kids. Need videos.
What is everyones favorite CLEAN (PG-13) sketches?
Anything from SNL, In Living Color, MadTV, The State, All That, et cetera…
“Start with the honest part. If we believe that a character has some...”
– Isn’t this also Rule #1 for sketch writing?
Improv Nonsense: Teaching Interviews: Chris Gethard, Part 1 of 2
ROCKY VS RAMBO →
scottaukerman:
Around a year ago, a few friends and I watched all four Rambo movies in one day. We got to talking about how much fun it would be if John Rambo were to meet Rocky Balboa. So we wrote a movie about it.
We wrote the outline on one page of paper (in gold ink), split it up into six sections, and each wrote around 15-20 pages, without looking at each others’ work. I got the last...
Michael Delaney on audience expectations for...
siegel:
“Say we were all trapped in this classroom, and I had to prepare dinner and all I had was the stuff in that vending machine. And then say somehow I managed to put together something resembling a meal beyond what you normally eat out of a machine. You’d be tremendously impressed. Then say I invite you over to my home for dinner. You’d probably expect a nice home-cooked meal. If I served...
“A lot of AOL properties and other “content farms” … who are...”
– Is It Time For You To Go On An ‘Information Diet’? : NPR
“To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight...”
– David Sedaris
I posted this three years ago but I feel it bares repeating.
2012 in review
12am - Washington Square
1am - F Train
2am - Brush Teeth
3am - Watch Breaking Bad S04E12
4am - Sleep
5am - Sleep
6am - Sleep
7am - Sleep
8am - Coffee. This was pretty amazing part in my life in 2012. I had set the coffee maker to brew at 8am. It was the confidence builder I needed for 2012 after mistakenly bushing my teeth for a full hour last night.
9am - Why did I think coffee was...
December 2011
19 posts
“If you only write when you’re inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet but...”
– Neil Gaiman on The Nerdist. (via brenttharshman)
Relevant!
“I love Los Angeles. I know a lot of people go there and they see just a huge...”
– David Lynch, Catching The Big Fish (via bbook)
An indie-rock star satirizes hipster culture, on... →
I was standing in line at Whole Foods, and the guy in front of me says, ‘I really wish you guys sold locally made fresh pasta.’ And the cashier says, ‘Look, we do.’ And the guy says, ‘No, no—that’s from Seattle.’ Really? You don’t have a bigger battle?
- Carrie Brownstein
“We already saw this one!”
– Regarding an episode of Kourtney and Kim Take New York.
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“There’s nothing good on TV. Making cakes, fixing the dress, making the...”
– Grandma
2 tags
“In other words, there were just not survivors to continue to fill the positions...”
– The 70th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack will be the last one marked by the survivors’ association. With a concession to the reality of time — of age, of deteriorating health and death — the association will disband on Dec. 31.
Fewer Veterans to Remember Pearl Harbor Day - NYTimes.com
November 2011
7 posts
“You can’t regret your fate,” Ms. Peters once said, “although I do regret my...”
– Stalin’s Daughter Dies at 85 - NYTimes.com
FX Developing TV Version Of Web Series ‘Broad... →
broadcity:
So, this is what we’ve been up to!
I don’t think we could be more excited about anything ever! I do want to take a sec and thank absolutely everyone that has ever been involved with one or many of our episodes. This without a doubt took a village, and we hope that we get to bring the real deal back to our community and make more with you guys…ON TV!
October 2011
8 posts
“Nobody stands in one spot all day,” she said. “And nobody eats dirt.”
– Kaoru Noguchi, head of Tokyo’s health and safety section, however, argues that the testing already done is sufficient.
Citizens’ Testing Finds 20 Hot Spots Around Tokyo