Friends and Family (the rest of you are off the hook again – yipppee!) I just want to thank you all for helping support The Institution Theater and Me – especially all of you past and present PBS folks. It means a great deal to me and I know I owe you one. You are now [...]
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A Plea to Stephen Colbert
Posted: February 12, 2012 in Humor, MeTags: begging, fundraising, Improv, stephen colbert, superpac, the institution theater
Tuesday after work started like most Tuesdays after work do – dinner and the dramatic announcement of “I think this is my last sketch writing class.”. “Yes, I’ll give myself this last class and then I will plan to be home before 10pm from here on out!” My friends never grow tired of this pronouncement [...]
Thanks to some exceptionally lazy Mayans, who either ran out of large bits of stone or simply grew bored with chiseling, I’m left wondering if it’s really worth the effort to make any New Year’s resolutions. I mean, we’re talking the end-of-days. If I decide to exercise more and eat healthier how will that help [...]
Last week one of my more soft-spoken co-workers popped into my cube, lowered her voice and said, “Beth, I need to ask you a question and I need you to take it seriously.” My curiosity was piqued; this isn’t someone who would normally seek me out for advice. I mean, I sit over here, she [...]
My friends occasionally like to hear certain stories over and over again. At least that’s what I tell myself as I see their eyes glazing over. I know deep down that look expresses profound “enjoyment” and is in no way an indication that their minds are racing as they try to think up a polite [...]
Jacqueline from Mature Student Hanging In There kindly awarded me with the Kreativ Blogger Award. Jacqueline lives in the highlands of Scotland where I understand it gets to be very cold – the kind of cold that would instantly kill a Texan. She’s also a proud mom, a non-traditional student, a caregiver, a puddle jumper [...]
On Sunday we had a showcase for all of the Sketch 101 writers featuring one of our pieces (we’d written 5 over the course of the class). Throughout the course of the class, I had some lows and some very lows and an extremely dramatic meltdown that I dragged several people and my teacher into (lucky [...]
Sam, a photo by Big Blue Mess on Flickr. So, yesterday we had to have another frank talk with Sam. As you may recall, we recently had to educate her on her kind’s not so proud history of hunting rabbits and foxes in packs. We tried to explain that it’s not exactly fair when you [...]
Sometime after the first week of November our Thanksgiving plans blew up in a strange way. I’d attempt to share the details, but judging by how the story has been received here, you’d only feel compelled to respond with information about the weather or maybe some interesting bits from the news (I had a focus [...]
The Comment Overshare
Posted: February 15, 2012 in Humor, MeTags: comments, overshare
I have to make a confession. I’m a blog commenting oversharer. I’ll find myself completely captivated by a well-written story and the next thing I know, clicking “Like” just won’t do; I must tell a related story of my own. It’s a bit embarrassing at times as I look back at the other comments. They [...]