Tonight I played fourteen parts in one night. And to think I used to think three parts was a lot. I was a hippie, a newsie, a town crier/beatnik, a lady-in-waiting, four sister princesses, and six citizens. It was exhausting. But hilarious.

Seanan McGuire brings her talent for creating strong, snarky heroines and detailed worlds to the realm of ( Read more... )

My dad wants me to do less theater. He says it's fine as a hobby, but it will never do anything for me in life. He doesn't understand that not only is theater basically my entire social life but also it provides me with more personal fulfillment and satisfaction than my actual job.

In past years, I have submitted three pitches for the SF ( Read more... )

Thankfully, I watched better movies this time! Mostly.

( Taken: B+ )

It's been a few weeks since the latest AMWA Annual Conference, but there are a few things I've been wanting to get down here!

Tell me all about them!

Oh thank God, Gerald, I've missed you. Even lists are too time-intensive this time.

Gerald > gerunds.

Well, I wouldn't go that far, but you do allow me a certain amount of freedom of expression.

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For months and months now, I have been looking forward to this year's AMWA conference in Sacramento because it just happened to fall on Columbus Day, which meant I could have a whole extra day to hang out with sophia_helix and actoplasm and lodessa and Jeremy and play lots of games. I was really excited.

Until I realized today that I don't get Columbus Day off. I don't know ( Read more... )

After enjoying The IT Crowd, I decided it was finally time to check out earlier Graham Linehan creation Black Books, which I had heard about for years from Dylan Moran fans foresthouse and dachelle and other Anglophiles. I heard that it was better and less sexist!

Black Books takes place at the titular Black Books, owned by Bernard Black. Bernard hates everything. ( Read more... )

After I fell in love with Richard Ayoade and Matt Berry in The IT Crowd, my friend Megan recommended Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, calling it "[m]aybe the smartest/most unique show of our generation."

You guys, IT IS THE GREATEST THING EVER IN THE HISTORY OF THINGS.

"I've always loved the great tragedies: King Lear, The Poseidon Adventure, Superman ( Read more... )

I feel pretty confident that I will never write epic posts about Comic-Con (in fact, I will probably never write epic posts again, sadly), so this will have to suffice until the Facebook albums go up ( Read more... )

I am not nearly as prepared for Comic-Con as I was last year or any other year, but here are the million billion things I will try to do!

( Wednesday )

Since I don't listen to Live105 anymore, BFD is where I hear the bands they've been playing! This year, my companion was Tavis (and, briefly, paraleipsis). Follow along in pictures!

I the Mighty: For the first time, we made the very first band at 11:30! And they were just plain okay, nothing special. B

Imagine Dragons: Tavis and I agreed they had an awesome ( Read more... )