vlog haters


So a vlog is a video blog. A blog is a web log. A hater is someone who hates something almost entirely for the sake of hating. The internet is a place for haters and vloggers. Can't we all just get along?

Good Morning World

Well jeez these guys are funny, and you get a video each and every morning during the week. What else does anyone need from the internet.

Now including video.



Well, I do believe I have entered a new era of blog and video and the internet. I realize that this first post is pretty boring, but it was only to figure this technology out. Thanks to YouTube.com.

Summer of my Amazing Luck


Our friend Chris Craddock wrote a play adapted from an award winning book set in Winnipeg. It is playing at the MTC Warehouse until Dec. 2nd. Chris is also in it. The show is great, fast paced and funny. It grabs you and holds you and makes feel okay as you witness the lives of the poor and sometimes lucky.

The show comes highly recommended. As well, while Chris is in town we are trying to have him do some improv with us. He will appear when we do some improv at the King's Head on Tuesday, November 21st. We are also hoping to bring him along for the Jack'um & Attack'em Improv show on Tuesday, November 28th.

Chris Craddock is an award winning playwrite based out of Edmonton. He is currently the Artistic Director of Rapid Fire Theatre and slumming it in Winnipeg.

P.S. If you choose C, then you are correct.

How do people even fall for email scams?

This post was simply too long (mostly because i posted the entire fake email on the web here).

check this out

so there you have it,

The Grey Cup


So we (Lee and I) just did a gig with the CBC as part of their Grey Cup celebration. The show was a "live to tape" at the Forks. Actually, more specifically, the show was in the Atrium which is where I put together some shows with Ron Moore called "The Greenhouse".

The show was taped for "Shaken Not Stirred" and we shared the show with the D. Rangers and Red Anthem. The D. Rangers also played support for our "hilarity'. The show "DNTO" was also taped, it featured our buddy Mike Bell (of the Royal Liechtenstein Theatre Company).

The show aired on CBC radio one 990 at 5pm on Saturday. It will play at noon on Sunday on CBC radio two. check the CBC website

Thank you to Sarah Michealson and Jaeny Baik. Thank you to DJ Hunnicutt for watching the set instead of going home to nap. Thank you to the D.Rangers for making us sound better.

The bits we did:

The "How to throw a Grey Cup Party" bit
-Make your guests drink in the driveway in their cars before entering
-Replace carpet with artificial turf (or grass even)
-Have extra TVs (just in case)
-Bring some drunken strangers (to keep things authentic)
-Serve your hot dog buns wet
-Make sure you invite the Canadian Military (allow me to explain, the Military was at the forks displaying their tanks, guns and snazzy uniforms for everyone)

The "Grey Cup Throughout the Ages" bit
-Stone age rock footballs
-The First Nations first ever Grey Cup game played near the Forks
-The 30-40 teams that have been named "The Roughriders"
-Victorian Football rules that required Tea to be carried across the field

The "Grey Cup Fever" bit
-Inoculation for all CBC employees
-Symptoms include a skin rash in the colour of their favourite team
-No known cure, but Doctors recommend the ingestion of beer
-Winnipeg is under Quarantine (which explains the Military presence) and affects anyone who happens to be trapped in the city
-The good news is, the fever is not fatal, and only requires you to "party"

Well, I guess this means that very soon there will be a Grey Cup awarded to a team. Good Luck to all those playing, and to all those freezing their asses off in the stadium.

Cage Match


So Winnipeg has a CageMatch franchise now. The improv show "CageMatch" was started in New York City, in the Upright Citizen's Brigade theatre. The show has 3 groups compete for the love of the audience. Each team is given 22 minutes to do their improv scene/scenes/songs/whatever and after all 3 have gone up, the audience gets to vote in a secret ballot (they are given pieces of paper to vote with). The winner of the night gets bragging rights and gets to come back the next show (in Winnipeg's case, next month).

The show is being held at the King's Head at 9pm once a month as part of the King's Head "Happy Hour" which is a weekly comedy show there. Other shows that rotate through the "Happy Hour" are:
-Jack'um & Attack'em Improv
-Stand-up Comedy Night
-Alternative Comedy
-CageMatch (which, of course, I have already mentioned)

CRUMBS are currently the defending title holders. Which means we have "won" all the shows that we have done there (which has been 2). Last Tuesday when we did the show, we had a little help in the form of Herbie Barnes. He is in town from Toronto doing the MTYP show "Suessical the Musical". He and CRUMBS tore the joint up and rocked the house down (we had some fun).

Our next show with the CageMatch is December 14th, and we will be joined by Herbie once again. Maybe at the next show we will get to have some free drinks or something?

Anyways, see y'all there.

Now it is time for wasting time...

Time is one of the greatest discoveries of the modern age. Before it's discovery, everythinhg happen all at once. Now, thanks to time, we have a now. And the best thing to do with a now, is waste the now until it becomes a then.

I have compiled some time wasting internet thingys:

here is one

here is another one

and now here is one that is a little different

and here is one that is totally different

So there you go, four fun time wasters on the computer to compete with solitair and mine sweeper. Enjoy!

Great, now this.

So it seems that the Icelandic community was so upset by my last post that they have personally decided to eraticate these majestic beasts on their own. Do they really think they can hunt whales to extinction and then trun around and claim that they never even existed? (No, probably not)

Read an article in the news about it.