One interpretive reading of this story about a suit-crazy judge, performed by my wife. [Link via Obscure Store]
Two eggs, over medium.
Three slices of toast, two with peanut butter, one with peanut butter and strawberry jam.
Five miles to school at a leisurely clip.
Four classes before lunch.
One very strange announcement of a quasi-lockdown, followed by a retraction three minutes later. (Hasn't hit The Olympian yet. Hmm.)
Two slices of Brewery City pepperoni pizza, cold.
Two handfuls of cherries.
One banana, Dole, underripe.
One can of Pepsi.
One remarkable rendition of "The Starcraft Blues."
Seven minutes of reflection.
One last Covered in Bees show, tonight.
Showing posts with label Covered in Bees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Covered in Bees. Show all posts
Jun 13, 2007
May 26, 2007
Covered in Bees and the mysterious guests
Last night, Covered in Bees improv did three crazy things.
1. Featured special guest Sara Rucker Thiessen of the Heartsparkle Players.
She had bid a boatload at a fundraising auction to win the right to come on stage--but it's not like she went up and goofed around like an amateur. Oh, no. Consummately professional and utterly fearless, Sara and her estrogen darn near stole the show.
2. Used a format for the entire show.
Jack and Suvir sat down to watch a DVD--"Cyberpunk"--which the cast members performed on the fly, including a looped menu, behind-the-scenes interviews, deleted scenes, an alternate ending, and sheer lunacy when Suvir crossed over into the television, culminating in the movie's revenge on reality. Breaching the fourth wall while within the confines of the fourth wall: how exceedingly meta.
3. Dragged me on stage.
It wasn't really dragging. I had sat in on the pre-show rundown, as Esa drew up the basic format, but wasn't ready when, two minutes before starting, Esa found me in my usual seat and said, "We need more people to make this work--and we need to make sure we have enough continuity. Mr. A., can you be in the show?"
I said yes, and the rest--Tess, the killer robot who loved too much--is improv history.
1. Featured special guest Sara Rucker Thiessen of the Heartsparkle Players.
She had bid a boatload at a fundraising auction to win the right to come on stage--but it's not like she went up and goofed around like an amateur. Oh, no. Consummately professional and utterly fearless, Sara and her estrogen darn near stole the show.
2. Used a format for the entire show.
Jack and Suvir sat down to watch a DVD--"Cyberpunk"--which the cast members performed on the fly, including a looped menu, behind-the-scenes interviews, deleted scenes, an alternate ending, and sheer lunacy when Suvir crossed over into the television, culminating in the movie's revenge on reality. Breaching the fourth wall while within the confines of the fourth wall: how exceedingly meta.
3. Dragged me on stage.
It wasn't really dragging. I had sat in on the pre-show rundown, as Esa drew up the basic format, but wasn't ready when, two minutes before starting, Esa found me in my usual seat and said, "We need more people to make this work--and we need to make sure we have enough continuity. Mr. A., can you be in the show?"
I said yes, and the rest--Tess, the killer robot who loved too much--is improv history.
May 23, 2007
Covered in Bees improv--last shows of 2006-2007
Update: The show list has been changed to reflect changes in the show list.The South Sound's finest improv group, Covered in Bees, has just a few shows left, all at 7:00 in CHS's auditorium.
Wednesday, May 23
Friday, May 25
Wednesday, May 30
Wednesday, June 13
Cost is always $3 at the door. It's the best deal in entertainment in Olympia. I can't promise that you'll laugh uncontrollably to the point where your kidneys malfunction, but I do guarantee that members of your preferred gender will find you irresistible for at least twenty minutes after the show--provided your kidneys didn't malfunction.
Since Esa Hakkarainen, Trevor Allen, Josh Hird, and Zach Schmidtbauer are graduating, you'd better go. Soon. Tonight, even.
Dec 12, 2006
rumors of bees
Capital High School has an improv group, Covered in Bees, which I, like Dr. Frankenstein before me, can bear responsibility for having created. To advertise for this Friday's show, they put up a poster with this classic shot, which comes from a context I can't remember (a little help, commenters?). A two-fer:1. A student apparently asked an nearby administrator if the fellow pictured was, in fact, coming to visit CHS. He isn't.
2. I had to quell a rumor that the fellow pictured was Alexander Litvinenko, the ex-KGB spy who was poisoned with polonium-210. It's not.
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