When done well, improv should feel easy. Remember that we are a lazy people. We don’t write things down. We don’t do second drafts. We show up in old jeans and charge people money. Let’s embrace that we want it to be easy. So many scenes run into trouble when we pass on fun, simple, clear, easy ideas and over-complicate things through too much talking and not enough listening.

Improv Nonsense: Teaching Interviews: Chris Gethard, Part 1 of 2

Great stuff in here. Part 2 as well.

Watching season 2 of Friday Night Lights is going really well. Our favorite game is to recoil and audibly shriek every time the Taylors’ goblin baby is onscreen.

Watching season 2 of Friday Night Lights is going really well. Our favorite game is to recoil and audibly shriek every time the Taylors’ goblin baby is onscreen.

the definition of class:

When I’m sitting in the middle seat on a full airplane, frantically eating a hot dog before we take off, and I bite into a hot pepper that explodes, sending a splashing geyser of hot pepper juice all over myself, the seat back in front of me and the entire left pant leg of the 50-something business guy sitting next to me, and the dude PRETENDS NOT TO NOTICE.

Evidently I’m pushing a Muppet agenda upon my friends.

Evidently I’m pushing a Muppet agenda upon my friends.

Information is now free, and there is so much of it; clarity is actually very expensive in terms of the effort it takes to obtain. I will do anything for it.

Bullish Life: A Day In The Life of Bullish

Your argument that [this thing is generally true] is logically flawed, because of [my differing personal experience].
every comment that has ever been on the Internet
Don’t cultivate a “bicycle face.

A List of Don’ts for Women on Bicycles Circa 1895

Fruitless. :(

Fruitless. :(

Wow.

Wow.

Ask yourself: What can cat videos do for your business? (by johnst172)

daveholmes:

“You heard me: I would like to look like a picture of myself that has been defaced.” 

daveholmes:

“You heard me: I would like to look like a picture of myself that has been defaced.” 

It took 16 hours to make these.
Next year, we have to go as something with fewer legs.

It took 16 hours to make these.

Next year, we have to go as something with fewer legs.

‘ween ‘stume spoiler…

‘ween ‘stume spoiler…

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