Trivial Pursuit Shaft Edition!

Fun times commercial parody I did for the awesome Nick Poppy and Karen Lurie.  Also starring Sarah "Third Degree" Burns, Mattieu Cornillon, and Sarah Yorra. Check it.

27 Kidneys Video

Here's one of the videos from this week's Maude Show...


Natural Male Enhancement from Lee Rubenstein on Vimeo.

Bathroom Art

Found in Men's Room at Rehearsal Last Night.  It makes me wonder what this person was thinking.  "I really want to STICK it to the drug companies... Wait'll they see THIS!"

I Beat Jarod's Pants Off

Today, I did the Body Test like I normally do on the Wii in the morning and it turned out I lost 17 pounds last night.

I felt pretty good.  

Then I decided to check again just to be sure, and I lost another pound.  Then it asked me to set a new goal so I set it to lose another 20 pounds.  I weighed myself again and in that time, I had lost the 20 pounds.

Then it dawned on me that 1) this was an unhealthy amount of weight to lose so quickly and 2) there was something wrong with my Wii balance board, but mostly 3) how good that new number looked.  

Oh well.  The good people at Nintendo are going to take a look at my board and get it back to me or a new one.  But until then, I am going to tell people I lost 30 pounds today.  

PS.... what will I do now without challenging my trainer in the plank exercise??  I guess I should keep training for when she returns.  

Ticket Master Blows

Just got Kathrine and I tix for Regina Spektor.  They came in the mail yesterday.  I just checked my bank and saw I was charged for $93!  These tix are $33 each.  So how you get the extra $30?  A "facility" charge + a "convenience" charge + "order processing".  Pearl Jam, where are you and why have you forsaken me?  Someone needs to take Ticket Master down a peg.  They are getting ridiculous.  

My Top Three Predictions for The Del Close Marathon

Check out my predictions for the marathon along with Besser and D.C. Pierson, and a bunch of other people's thoughts on some shows to see, and tips for staying alive... I mean comfortable in  this post at the Apiary.  

Paper Tiger

Did you see in the news how President Robert Mugabe just changed the currency in Zimbabwe to counter insane inflation there?  They changed it by 10 zeros.  So now, 10,000,000,000 dollars = 1 dollar.  

That's CRAZY!  But prolly a good idea.  But still---now there are going to be lots of former billionaires who are pissed.  

My Book's Cover

Someone has written MEAT with magic marker on our buzzer outside our front door.  It has an arrow pointing inside.  

It's been puzzling me now for a few days what can the anonymous writer be referring to.  Did he spy some hot girls(or boys) go inside?  Did he or she case a delivery of some big shipment of meat that he's sharing with the world at large?  Or did someone give the writer some meat per chance and this is a very simplistic version of a sign?  For now, I will let the mystery be.

Coming Up Next

I think it's time for a Nate Show Report.

Here's where to get some Nate Shelkey fix for the next week:

TONIGHT!
Dogbasket. Gotham City Improv @ 10 pm

SUNDAY
Dogbasket. Broadway Comedy Club @ 11 pm

WEDNESDAY
Get Psyched! UCB @ 7 pm

THURSDAY
I Hope You Have A Dump Truck. UCB @ 6:30 pm

SATURDAY
The Porter Maison Project in The Moon of Unpaid Gratitude. Del Close at Urban Stages @ 2:15 am

SUNDAY
Dogbasket. Del Close Marathon at UCB @ 6:30 am

TWIB Notes

I'm watching Network today. And it's like watching the original Studio 60. Everything is there. The anchor who goes crazy(Peter Finch/Judd Hirsch in Studio). The young executive who's going to make the ailing show work(Faye Dunnaway/Amanda Peet). The old director who falls for the young executive(William Holden/Bradley Whitford).

But I'm bored. And there's 40 minutes left. And I'm tired of the hahaha, a revolutionary gets corrupted by the network.

This is one of those movies that I felt, I should see this, and it feels like homework. Snoozeville.

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At the elliptical machine at the gym, there's a readout for the number of watts you are producing. Who gives a shit about this? The only reason I could think it would be relevant is if the machine is powered by your electricity. Otherwise, is someone thinking---gee I really need to be producing 200 watts to get a good workout. I don't buy it.