"Disc Jockey Al Jarvis saw me [on Grab Your Phone] and he [asked me], 'Would you like to be my Girl Friday? I'm starting a television show," [Betty White] recalls. "It turned out I was to be his Girl Friday... Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. He was going to be on for five hours every day. That's how he did his radio show and he wanted to do [the ( Read more... )

"Whereas through its five seasons The Wire built a vivid portrait of urban America as seen through the prism of its institutions and professions - the police department, the drug trade, the dockworkers, the local government, the schools, the press - Treme, though no less focused on the workings and failings of 21st-century American urban existence ( Read more... )

"Comes a day you're gonna have to decide whether it's about you or about the work."
- The Wire

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Today is my one year anniversary of moving to Chicago.

Our first 5B shows are Sunday night at 9pm. I'm super excited. I really like our class a lot, there's a nice vibe and a sense of fun; everyone is friends and gets along really well. I like our forms a lot, they're pretty different and both have interesting things to explore, but they're also really open and more like philosophies of play than ( Read more... )

Karate Van got accepted into Del Close Marathon. Sunday at 2 at the UCB. Fuck. Yes. So excited.

Monday - had three person group rehearsal, then Karate Van rehearsal ( Read more... )

"What had always been more interesting to me was improvisation because I was more interested in being funny with other people, and as it turns out, when you're doing a volume business like the Late Night show, there's such a large amount of it that's improvisational, and that was huge for me. Doing all those years of improv really helped, and ( Read more... )

yessssssssssssssssss

My sister is graduating college in December and wants to go on a road trip. I might finally see San Francisco and that Pacific Northwest. Alright!