I don’t like the sound of an alarm in the morning so instead of a tone, I opt for the radio on my clock/radio. For a long time, I woke to Howard Stern b/c he had the same effect for me as the alarm. I was annoyed at the sound, and I woke up. But [...]
Archive > January 2006
How Game Show Hosts Are Made
For whatever reason, while at Huck Slim rehearsal last night—we started talking about game show hosts. And I thought it would be interesting to see how game show hosts come about. Because so many of them, you don’t know anything about them except that they are game show hosts. The answers weren’t that surprising. Please [...]
Educational Progress Report #1
So last night I began the teaching of young Roberto Shelkey. I sprayed the blanky eat shirt with the cursed bitter apple. Have you ever smelled/tasted/touched this stuff? It’s pretty vile. It is sticky too. I wonder if it’s supposed to trap the animal when they have done something wrong, so you can effectively Venus [...]
Educating Roberto
Tonight, I am going to begin an experiment. I am crying to try and teach a cat a new trick. The trick is to not EAT HOLES IN MY CLOTHING. After consulting with some friends, I have a method in mind. The tool? Bitter apple. The delivery system? His favorite sweatshirt. Now when I say [...]
Improv Everywhere, Everywhere
So we did the annual No Pants mission yesterday and about eight people got detained by the police including Flynn, fellow Huck Slim member! Pretty exciting. And since there were like 9 different media outlets represented on the mission, it’s exploding. Showing up everywhere. New York Times, Newsday, AP, Reuters, New York Post, New York [...]
All The King’s Men
Today, I met the guy who plays the King, in those Burger King commercials. We both did that bit for Kenny Mayne on ESPN. But what was great is he said to me, “Hey, were you Goat Dog?” It’s pretty awesome to have someone come up to you that you don’t know and say that. [...]
Disturbing Trends
Reading Rolling Stone and ESPN today. Two things that bothered me. #1 This paragraph from an article on Carmelo Anthony: ‘Anthony recently signed a letter of intent to participate in a joint venture that includes Stan Lee, the famed creator of Spider-Man, to develop an animated DVD comic in which ‘Melo plays basketball by night [...]
How Bloopers Went Downhill: DVD Extras
I used to complain about dvds that had lame special features sections. And by that I mean, they had no special features. In the beginning, lots of dvds had just the movie with Spanish or French subtitles. And that was about the extent you got. So it made you appreciate the wonderful director’s commentary in [...]
The Streets Are Lined With Camera Crews
I live on 1st Avenue. And for the past couple of days, there was been not one, not two, but like six different camera crews and television vans with their big anntenae’s setup. Plus there was police. And then a huge line of people separated by a barricade. And so for the past few days, [...]
