Well I’m back at it. This morning I revisited the Equity building for my first EPA in a few months. The auditions were for the play Milk, in which my dear friend Anna is already cast. But a part was available for an adult male who could play 15, and I was carded last year at a movie theatre, so that has to count for something right?
Anyways, the morning went well. I was able to wake up at 6:00, get to the building a few minutes before 8:00, and audition by 10:30. Not only that, but while waiting for my audition, I ran into my old Shakespeare teacher from Berkshire Theatre Festival, Johnny Epstein. He’s pretty much exactly as I remember him, which is how it should be.
On the way home I dropped off my library books – A Collection of Kafka essays and Tolkien’s The Return on the King, the second of which, I sadly did not find the time to read before it was due back. Yet, despite this fact, I felt my pro-active behavior of the morning merited a reward and thus treated myself to a blueberry muffin from The Oak & Iris, my favorite local coffee shop. Finally I bought stamps from my post office, which, despite the wait, was an overall neutral experience and, along with risen rate of found vs. lost mail, leads me to believe that postal code 11218 may be deserving of a rank above the worst post office as determined by Google. Good Job 11218!
The T-Shirt Project is an undertaking I decided upon after retiring a large number of the T-shirts I had worn for years in favor of a more fashionable, if slightly less eccentric wardrobe. These shirts all have stories, and I want to share them with you. So follows…
Does anyone remember Mad Libs? It’s that game where you filled in the blanks of a story with fun words, and then read the story aloud while hilarity ensued. Let’s play. Come up with:
I’m back in New York! And I’m looking forward to partying in the New Year in Harlem tonight! But before I move on to next year, I wanted to take a look back at the last one. It’s a tradition I began on an old blog, and I’ve found it to be immeasurably satisfying to look back and see what is possible in a year. So without further ado…
I love New York. I’m glad I live there. With that said, I’m glad to be spending Christmas where I am safe from the weather gods who just dumped over a foot of snow on the northeast. I woke up to a light dusting of two inches. This seems just right.
It’s good to have time with family. I wasn’t able to spend Thanksgiving with them (although I did receive and incredibly generous invitation from my roommate Ed to join his family in Connecticut, one which I gratefully accepted), so from watching the Cats on a real TV, to a Trans-Siberian Orchestra concert, making chocolate fudge, shoe shopping, and family dinners, it’s good to be home.
Right now I’m just taking it easy. But there’s exciting news on the horizon, and I’m looking forward to getting back home. Because New York is home now, and I’ll be back for the New Year.
I occasionally find myself bored in this city. It seems impossible, I know, but without an infinite cash flow, you eventually have a day where the desire to go out and have fun meets the realities of needing to pay rent at the end of the month. Last night I went out with some guys from work for nachos and margaritas; this was fun and expensive, so today necessitated a boredom day. As such, I woke up this morning, realized I had no reason to get up, and promptly went back to bed. (Read more…)
Okay, so you knew this post was coming at some point. You can’t have a part one without a part two right? It totally violates the laws of common sense, and the laws of storytelling!
The reason I’m so delayed in this post largely has to do with the fact that for the past two weeks I’ve fully immersed myself in a world full of storytelling. No, not the world of theatre as you might think, but the world of video games! Okay, so the last storytelling post talked about video games too, but this is about a particular new game called Dragon Age: Origins, and the game world in which it exists.
As promised, here’s a Photoshop tutorial for your creative pumpkin pleasure in which we’re going to make a picture into a pumpkin face. Steven and I did this the other night and the results were pretty fantastic for an on the fly creative project.
My friend Matt, who has left NY for Alabama, but is still here in spirit! Boo!
So the other night I was over at Steven and Moy’s place to carve pumpkins, listen to copious amounts of Greenday, and bake pumpkin seeds! It was a pretty fantastic evening that was documented by Steven over at his blog/website Chocolate Milk but you can check out the video here:
We essentially took a photo of my friend Matthew, who has left New York for a 9-month stint at the Alabama Shakespeare Company, and turned him into a pumpkin to share the love. The cool thing is, you can turn most portraits into pumpkin carving designs with very little work. If you like the pumpkin design, I’ll be posting a tutorial soon on how to create you own pumpkin designs using Photoshop and Illustrator! Until then, Happy Halloween!
