Fun Stuff
Improv Everywhere
You have to check out this comedy group. Some of my favorite missions include Cell Phone Symphony, The Moebius, No Pants, Megastore, and Look Up More.
Sara got that job! Also, my sister graduated from college on Saturday. Congrats to both of them!
We went to NYC one last time over the weekend. We saw the Wedding Singer (staring Stephen Lynch!) and Sweeny Todd. They were both pretty good, Wedding Singer had a lot of good 80’s jokes and references and Sweeny Todd was very creepy and weird. We tried to get tickets for the Tribeca Film Festival, but we didn’t get there in time. We also ate a ton of good food, as usual. I’m going to miss having that place so close! I love New York, it would be really cool to live there.
Oh, for mother’s day I bought tickets to see Wicked in Chicago. I’ve been trying to get my mom to see it forEVER! She’s a huge Wizard of Oz fan (she even collects stuff from it) and I bought her Wicked the book last year for Christmas. She could never get a trip planned to get out here to see it, so I got tickets when she’s already going to be in Chicago to help me move in. I’m going to tell her next weekend on Mother’s Day.
The big news of the day is that I convinced Sara to let me buy tickets to a Packers game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’ve never been to an honest-to-god pro game…I always end up going to pre-season games because they’re cheaper. In particluar, I’ve never been to a game at Lambeau field. The Packers play a pre-season game in Madison and also I’ve seen them here in Philly. I’ve been to Lambeau before, but only before the season to watch a practice. The game is Lions at Packers on December 17th. I booked a hotel in Appleton for the night before, since the game starts at noon. I bought 2 tickets, one for me and one for my dad for Christmas/birthday/other holidays to be named later. It’s been my dream for a while to go with my dad to a game at Lambeau…even more so now that Favre decided to come back for another seaon. This will be my last chance to see him play! I even went all out and got 2 tickets to the official tailgating party at Brett Favre’s Steakhouse before the game. All you can eat and drink for 3 hours before kickoff!
So the real question is, how am I going to keep a lid on a secret this big for months! I could hardly keep from calling my dad minutes after I bought the tickets!
Pirate name
My pirate name is:
Bloody Sam Flint
Every pirate lives for something different. For some, it’s the open sea. For others (the masochists), it’s the food. For you, it’s definitely the fighting. Like the rock flint, you’re hard and sharp. But, also like flint, you’re easily chipped, and sparky. Arr!
It’s done!
Well I finally heard back from the job. They did offer me more money! So I finally proved that you should turn down the first offer! However, I also proved that you should not get your hopes up because the amount of money more they offered me the second time was like 1% more than the first time…I don’t know if it was worth the stress of asking for more money!
The only question to settle now is do I want to start May 29th or June 5th. I’d prefer the second date, but they wanted someone as soon as possible. I’m waiting to hear back from them.
In other news, there is this fantastic game called Kingdom of Loathing. It’s a simple online game, best explained by their “What is KoL?” page. I used to have a Pastamancer named “Felix the Al Dente” but I always secretly wanted to be a Disco Bandit. Anyway, you should play this game and waste hours and hours of your free time.
But why do I bring this up now, especially since I don’t play anymore? I bring it up because i was recently reminded of the game by a reference to it in an article on this sick puppy. Basically he was just a regular guy, as demonstrated by this quote:
“Regarding a potential motive,” Purcell Police Chief David Tompkins said Saturday, “this appears to have been part of a plan to kidnap a person, rape them, torture them, kill them, cut off their head, drain the body of blood, rape the corpse, eat the corpse then dispose of the organs and bones.”
Oh, and also:
“He said one of his main interests was the online role-playing game “Kingdom of Loathing,” in which stick figures battle one another.”
So basically, what I’m saying is, you should really check out this game! ALL the cool kids are doing it.
Cool story
Here‘s a cool story. Basically some cabbie in Lansing, MI dropped some dudes off at a laundromat and while he was waiting for them to come out he started jamming on his harmonica. When the guys came back out they heard him and thought he was awesome. Turns out one of the guys was Ben Folds and he invited the guy to come play the show with him that night.
Shane Halbach 