That time of the month again..

Time to blog!!

- Saw "Inglourious Basterds" at the midnight premier Thursday.

a) It was not an easy movie for me to watch.
b) But it was very very very very good.
c) Quentin Tarantino believes in his patchwork-vision of pop culture more than he believes in gravity.
d) He really wants the kids to start watching some German cinema.
e) The performances were fanntastic. Especially.. this guy right here. Possibly one of the best written and best acted villains, and an absolutely engaging and terrifying character.
f) I also really liked Steiglitz. And the silly Brits. And basically everyone. Seriously. It was really really really good.

What else happened?

- I bought a $13 tent about 2 years ago. Two weekends ago, we used it! It is one of the sadder looking little tents, but it did good! It is the little tent that could.

- Saw the current Brave New Workshop show Friday. :) It's so damn'd good.

- I'm about to eat a Snickers Ice Cream bar. This is good.

- One more weekend of Tony n' Tina's at the MOA comes up this weekend (albeit, it starts back up in October.. but it's still a mini-break :) ) Yea for fun and good.

- The last Ka-Baam!!, this Friday at 10:30 p.m. at ComedySportz! Holy hannah! Hopefully it will come back too.. Ka-Baam!! is awesome and good! (and such a joy. Come see our last heroic blow out.) :)

- THIS SUNDAY August 30th and every Sunday after! SUNDAY FUNDAY DOUBLE TEAM! 7:30 p.m. at the Spring Street Tavern (downstairs) in beautiful Nordeast Minneapolis. 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m., Improv Open mic (have your team show up at 7 p.m. and sign up for a time), 9:30 p.m. - 11:30 p.m., Stand Up Open mic (show up at 9 p.m. or before, sign up for a time).

(I'm keeping the flyer at a bigger size, cuz it's absolutely brilliant. Err.. the flyer says $3. It might be $5. Still a hell of a deal. Mike Brody closes the night. Awesome and good.)

- Went to the 501 last night. Saw a band of 3 drummers dressed up as skeletons. Everyone was drinking Lone Star tall boys. Iz Minneapolis.

Time to go run and work.

Onward!

I only post monthly now..

.. well. THAT's lame.

Spending a morning with a couple of animals. Alas, a maltipoo's need for oatmeal leftovers will not be sated.

THINGS YOU CAN DO:
a) Go hang out with friends, their babies, and ham sandwichs. This was all sorts of awesome. Eat the sandwiches, kiss the babies.

b) Paint your front and back door Superman colors. The back door came out blue and great (barring future sanding and touch up). The front door needs some touch up (it looks like a very committed graffiti artist was exploring red). I may have a hole in my kitchen ceiling, but I've got pretty doors.

c) Not wear a mask while spray painting. Why, that was dumb.

d) Go see "An Intimate Evening with Mike Fotis: Part III". Why, that is not dumb at all! Mike is doing an awesome job, it's hilarious, and I'm honored to be thumping behind him. It's also been great to see good people come out for the fun - - Hi friends!! last show is tonight at 10 p.m.! :)

e) Come see "Ka-Baam!!" Only a couple of performances left!! (Fridays through August, 10:30 p.m., Comedysportz in Calhoun Square). This has been an utter delight. Goddang.

But if you don't see Ka-Baam!! next Friday..

f) Come see "OMG" at Mixed Blood, 11 p.m. Friday August 14th. Many many chick improvisers.. with their middle school diaries.. *sigh* It's gonna be awkward and awesome.

g) Get home and find a bat in your house. (FOTIS!!!) Upon first glance, it looked like someone had hung a dead rat from the curtains. Upon second glance, it was small, soft, and really really happy to be sleeping atop the front room drapes. The cat had already attempted to scale the drapes (Unsucessfully. Sebastian is unapologetic about his weight gain).

After pissing it off once (it was really really happy. The curtain are soft and warm. It seemed ready to move in. It was cute! Cute little muzzle. Freaky bat wings. So sleeeepy. I briefly pondered our shared life together.), a piece of cardboard and some soft fabric in a mixing bowl did it. YEAAA!!!

Bat's swear in clicks.

h) Go to your front porch to watch the thunderstorm, and have a raccoon amble by, a mere 3 feet in front of your legs. WHOA! The raccoon was huge, bigger than Sebastian and equally apologetic.

Raccoon's walk like their feet are too small for them.

i) Get yourself to the Corner Bar for Open Mic, Fridays. Minneapolis has some damn'd fine stand ups.

Speaking of, one of them gets back from Madison tomorrow. This is also all sorts of awesome. :) :)

I am going to do the things that need to get done. Or at least give it a bit of a try.

Onward.