WHERE: Hillel House, 213 Bay State Road
WHEN: Thurs. Feb. 23, 8-9:30 PM
WHO ELSE: Myq Kaplan, Sol Azouz, Rob Turbovsky, possibly others
But Chris! I have a paper due the next day!
Oh, really? Perhaps you are in my contemporary American fiction class. Sit next to me next time. In the meantime, suck it up.
Friday, February 17, 2006
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
MY [SHOW] IS BETTER THAN YOUR [SHOW] WE'VE GOT MORE [JOKE]S THAN A [JOKE] CONVENTION SING IT
The long national nightmare is over*: BUTV (or Terriervision 10 or something) is launching*. If you are living on the BU campus, buy a TV, plug it into the cable jack in your wall and get ready for some student-produced television like you've never seen before.
Channel 10 on the BU cable system has gone through some huge changes since I came here two and a half years ago. Sure, now it's a static logo with a tantalizing "Coming soon..." promise, but it wasn't too long ago that the channel was a bouncing cow, an empty black screen and nonexistent because only one of the dorms had cable capabilities (yes, outsiders, most of BU really didn't have cable when I got here). But starting Feb. 22*, we will finally have some real, honest-to-God programming to show you*.
Like what, you ask?
BU Tonight, of course. What is BU Tonight, you ask? It's a late-night comedy show (in format at least; presumably the channel will not only air the show at night as it doesn't really have that much to work with) whose writing staff include little ol' me. For a taste of the show, look at these. Here, you've got a trailer for the show, a sketch from first semester about writing jokes that I had little if anything to do with and another sketch that host Christian and I wrote the bulk of while terribly bitter that an improv group we had opened for was doing so well (regular readers may remember an early version of the script from December). And somehow I got roped into acting in that one too, but what are you gonna do. Anyway, the video is bound to make you laugh and say to yourself "My God, he really is thin, you don't really notice it in real life, but it's all right there on video."
(And while perusing Google Video, now's as good a time as any to see all the other Shrimp Products video selections, and as of 11:00 on Feb. 15, 2006, Scottywood rapping still never gets old, and also I need a lot of help to vault Ridgeway in views; within a day of being up his videos were already completely dominating me to the point where I'm considering changing my descriptions to make people think they're going to watch a five-plus minute video of Pac-Man playing the harmonica)
So anyway, be on the lookout for BU Tonight and whatever the hell else this station's got cooking when it finally launches* on Feb. 23*.
*fingerscrossedknockonwoodohmygodithinkit'sforrealthistimebuti'vebeenthroughthisbeforebutohmygoditjusthastoberealthistimesoohpleaseohpleaseohplease
Channel 10 on the BU cable system has gone through some huge changes since I came here two and a half years ago. Sure, now it's a static logo with a tantalizing "Coming soon..." promise, but it wasn't too long ago that the channel was a bouncing cow, an empty black screen and nonexistent because only one of the dorms had cable capabilities (yes, outsiders, most of BU really didn't have cable when I got here). But starting Feb. 22*, we will finally have some real, honest-to-God programming to show you*.
Like what, you ask?
BU Tonight, of course. What is BU Tonight, you ask? It's a late-night comedy show (in format at least; presumably the channel will not only air the show at night as it doesn't really have that much to work with) whose writing staff include little ol' me. For a taste of the show, look at these. Here, you've got a trailer for the show, a sketch from first semester about writing jokes that I had little if anything to do with and another sketch that host Christian and I wrote the bulk of while terribly bitter that an improv group we had opened for was doing so well (regular readers may remember an early version of the script from December). And somehow I got roped into acting in that one too, but what are you gonna do. Anyway, the video is bound to make you laugh and say to yourself "My God, he really is thin, you don't really notice it in real life, but it's all right there on video."
(And while perusing Google Video, now's as good a time as any to see all the other Shrimp Products video selections, and as of 11:00 on Feb. 15, 2006, Scottywood rapping still never gets old, and also I need a lot of help to vault Ridgeway in views; within a day of being up his videos were already completely dominating me to the point where I'm considering changing my descriptions to make people think they're going to watch a five-plus minute video of Pac-Man playing the harmonica)
So anyway, be on the lookout for BU Tonight and whatever the hell else this station's got cooking when it finally launches* on Feb. 23*.
*fingerscrossedknockonwoodohmygodithinkit'sforrealthistimebuti'vebeenthroughthisbeforebutohmygoditjusthastoberealthistimesoohpleaseohpleaseohplease
Sunday, February 12, 2006
Concussed
“I think I might have a concussion.”
“Uh huh. And why do you think that?”
“Well I was juggling and I tripped and fell and smacked my head against the wall.”
“Uh huh.”
“And I didn’t think too much of it at the time, and I went to dinner and a few hours after that, I threw up. And I know that’s a sign of concussion, so right after that I called you.”
“Well that is a sign of concussion. Perhaps—”
“But the thing is I had some oysters for dinner.”
“Oysters, I’m not sure I—”
“Well they were pretty bad. They smelled terrible. So I don’t know if that’s why I threw up or—”
“I see. Well there are other ways to tell if you have had a concussion. Have you had any memory loss?”
“I don’t think so.”
“Or dizziness?”
“No. Although is it possible I was dizzy but just forgot on account of the memory loss caused by my concussion?”
“I suppose. Why don’t you come down to the clinic and we’ll check you out.”
“OK. Wait. I don’t know where your clinic is. Oh God. I forgot where the clinic is. I have a concussion.”
“Have you ever been to our clinic before?”
“I don’t know! Don’t you see? My whole world has been overturned! For all I know I could have already visited your clinic about my concussion! Maybe I didn’t even have a concussion and I simply forgot the fact that I didn’t have a concussion because—uh—”
“Sir, why don’t you just come down to the clinic. We’re on St. Mary’s Street right by the driving school.”
“OK. Thank you.”
“Uh huh. And why do you think that?”
“Well I was juggling and I tripped and fell and smacked my head against the wall.”
“Uh huh.”
“And I didn’t think too much of it at the time, and I went to dinner and a few hours after that, I threw up. And I know that’s a sign of concussion, so right after that I called you.”
“Well that is a sign of concussion. Perhaps—”
“But the thing is I had some oysters for dinner.”
“Oysters, I’m not sure I—”
“Well they were pretty bad. They smelled terrible. So I don’t know if that’s why I threw up or—”
“I see. Well there are other ways to tell if you have had a concussion. Have you had any memory loss?”
“I don’t think so.”
“Or dizziness?”
“No. Although is it possible I was dizzy but just forgot on account of the memory loss caused by my concussion?”
“I suppose. Why don’t you come down to the clinic and we’ll check you out.”
“OK. Wait. I don’t know where your clinic is. Oh God. I forgot where the clinic is. I have a concussion.”
“Have you ever been to our clinic before?”
“I don’t know! Don’t you see? My whole world has been overturned! For all I know I could have already visited your clinic about my concussion! Maybe I didn’t even have a concussion and I simply forgot the fact that I didn’t have a concussion because—uh—”
“Sir, why don’t you just come down to the clinic. We’re on St. Mary’s Street right by the driving school.”
“OK. Thank you.”
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