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4/28/2008 04:19:00 PM
GTAIV
Tonite I will be waiting in line for the new Grand Theft Auto. I have been spending many hours lately delving into this game. Four years in the making, this thing is going to be GINORMOUS! So long reality, Helo Liberty City!!
tfp
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11/10/2007 06:16:00 PM
360 returns!
So Microsoft saw fit to send me a brand new X-Box 360. Hopefully this is one of the no-brakey variety. I have to say I am impressed with the quick turnaround and attention to my customer satisfaction. Kudos Bill! The new machine is much quieter and seems to be running a bit cooler. Time will tell I suppose. A big thank you to my favorite newly minted corrections officer DJ Skilz for lending me his spare 360 while mine underwent "the change".
TFP
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10/25/2007 12:09:00 AM
Pumpkin Party!!!
I'm the winner!
I won the pumpkin carving contest at 'Dwin's this year. Yippee. I did go with a NBX theme as it is one of my favorites. Check out the pix.
Happy Halloween
TFP
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10/05/2007 01:46:00 AM
Red Ring Of Death!
My X-BOX 360 is dead!!
I have had friends who have encountered this problem but never myself. I am disheartened to say the least. I guess the failure rate on these things is something like 30%!! that's like every third hamburger at Mc Donalds having nut hairs on it(which they do!). At any rate I just bought a new game today and was looking forward to some Orange Box goodness next week. Guess I get to suck it. I sent an e-mail. Their phone service stops at around 1am. Who do they think is playing these marathon sessions of HALO 3? Early risers? Fuck no! Crazed, sleep deprived night owls like myself who's very day BEGINS at around 1am.
Get your shit together, Bill
TFP
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9/25/2007 06:30:00 PM
Hello Halo
So I nerded out in line last night with the unwashed gaming masses to receive my copy of Halo 3. I Got the legendary edition. It comes with a helmet. More awesome crap I have no room for, but I will find a way to display! I a m finally almost over my cold. Just a bit of coughing left to do an I should be fighting fit soon. Now I have to go play HALO!
TFP
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9/14/2007 06:31:00 AM
Over a year
Where to start?
Well, I'm fat again. Yea I know, boo hiss, but, well, I don't know. I'm pushin 260lbs. I was down to 205 at some point in this blogg.
I'm married. Yea I know, boo hiss, but , well, Anne is the bees knees and she let me have my own videogame room.
I have two dogs, corgi's. Princess Buttercup and Lucy. Buttercup is sick right now because she is an asshole and eats everything.
I bought a condo.
I helped write another second city review
I haven't been in full Klingon gear for over a year
I will have to reminisce on that some more but my face thanks me.
I just went to the dentist. No cavities. Take that cavity creeps!
God this feels good to be writing again.
I had some crazy blogger issues for a while but now looks like its all good.
Much love true believers!
TFP
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9/14/2007 06:20:00 AM
Revenge of the Klingon
I have returned.
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8/04/2006 05:16:00 PM
Of pudding and proof
Check it out 'yall
Here is Mike Weatherford's review of our new Second City Show from this weeks Review Journal, Neon!
The new Second City production stands in breathless (and funny) denial of the conventional theory on Las Vegas show-going.
Most of the Broadway musicals coming to town have trimmed the running time, figuring casino audiences are too antsy to wait out an intermission or sit through superfluous subplots.
But the Chicago comedy troupe packs so much into its new 75-minute revue at the Flamingo that ticket-buyers actually have to pay more attention than they do at those musicals. And while the musicals try to dumb themselves down, this one is subversively sneaking bright ideas into the R-rated raunch.
The ensemble opens up with a choreographed "ballet" on wheeled office chairs. Before it's over, you realize the entire affair has been equally orchestrated. Skits are woven into a structure, in which God (Paul Mattingly) is an indecisive office supervisor being pitched the whole concept of humankind by his middle-management staff.
A reference in one sketch ignites a new one: When one member of an arguing couple says, "I feel like I'm alone on a desert island," the scene changes to a guy alone on a desert island. (And oh, what happens there becomes the evening's sick highlight you'll be talking about later).
The skits flow into one another, and tie back to previous ones. In a final tour de force, God ponders a change that turns back time to showcase alternate endings for several of the previous sketches.
Whew.
Not your average comedy show, and one that proves 10-fold why each of the five performers carries an Actors Equity Union card. They wrote the whole show, and they're creating dozens of well-drawn characters here.
But is it funny? Mostly.
The price of ambition is essentially having to write more jokes. You see, Second City used to pad its show at the Flamingo with at least one improvisational "game." A favorite would be to send two cast members out of the room, then make them figure out five words supplied by the audience during a sketch.
Now, figure that took up 10 minutes. Think about writing three or four skits to fill that same 10 minutes, and you'll see the challenge.
On one hand, you miss the breathing space. There are bound to be some clunkers, or at least sketches that go on much longer than they should. The filthy granny on "Family Feud" (Katie Neff), the weird guy (Craig Uhlir) antagonizing a couple in a movie theater, the cautionary songs to Girl Scouts about Internet predators -- all good ideas that go on too long or lead to dead ends, ultimately falling into the "nice try" category.
With any luck though, the weaker stuff will blow past and be left in the wake of the memorable moments. The guy (Uhlir) who gets pulled over for a really unusual sobriety test while driving his drunk girlfriend (Amanda Blake Davis) home; a geopolitical plant shop where the "Iranian geranium" will "take your garden hostage"; the almost touching tale of two nerds (Davis and Uhlir) on a blind date.
But there's more than one kind of nerd, and more than one nerd skit in this show. When Mattingly doesn't want to be bothered by his gal on "new comic book day" and rekindles an argument about "the broadsword thing" -- "I just feel safer with a broadsword in the apartment" -- you know you're touching down on current American society at a complex level.
Likewise when you meet the couple (Neff and Andy St. Clair) trying to convince each other it will be OK to have a baby: "You'll have a constant designated driver."
It all comes at you so fast, you might not have time to realize this comedy show has more to say about life today than any other show on the Strip.
Pay attention.
Note: This show isn't done on Tuesdays, when both performances are "Scriptless" improv shows performed by understudies from the Second City Training Center.
We got an A-! Kick Ass!
Big thanks to my Producer: Brooke Schoening, our Director: Jim Carlson, Mr.David Novich, Mr. Andrew Alexander, Kelly Leonard, and Steve Flynn.
And of course, a huge thank you to my brothers and sisters in comedy
Andy St. Clair
Katie Neff
Craig Uhilr
Amanda Blake Davis
Michael "Watco" Watkins
You guys rule.
-TFP
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