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Last week BU had a snow day.  This week the snow actually showed up.

This is a fantastic visual effects video of a destroyed space shuttle orbiting Earth.  Apparently it was only made with some still images, photoshop and after effects.  Very impressive.  This guy should market himself to special effects houses.

I am out of green tea.  Alert the authorities.

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I loved Avatar.  Not like I love my girlfriend, but more like how I love nachos.  And I LOVE nachos!  For those who don’t know Avatar is about a parapalegic former marine who gets to go to the forest moon of Endor Pandora thanks to the untimely death of his twin brother and walk around the lush environment pretending to be a 10-foot-tall Blue Cat Person that the film insists on calling the Na’vi.  ”Isn’t this FernGully?” you ask.  Well, no, it’s more like Dances With Wolves, but that’s beside the point.  It’s entertaining.

Like pornography.

My Xbox 360 Avatar. Sadly not in the movie Avatar

In fact it was better than pornography, sort of, because not only was it nice to look at, but it had a story worth following.  Although there wasn’t a money shot (Not yet) Avatar did have the odd distinction of getting me and the rest of the audience to root AGAINST humans and FOR some Blue Cat People that were, in reality, made in a computer.  That’s impressive.  What James Cameron and his crew of, I’m guessing here, trillions accomplished was a spectacle.  For that he and the film should be commended.

It wasn’t a perfect movie.  As hinted above it treads on themes that have been walked on before even by James Cameron himself (corporate greed = bad, science = good.  See other Cameron films: The Abyss, Terminator 2, Aliens), the movie runs a half-hour longer than it needs to and, honestly, the 3D presentation was OK not mind-blowing.  But I was entertained, I left the movie theater smiling and, frankly, I can’t ask for anything more.

Except a sequel.

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My improv group, Casual Sex Offenders, came to Boston on December 12th.  We did one of those shows we do.  You know, the ones with the laughs?  Allegedly.  Well, here’s the video evidence.

It’s December so, of course, I have Thanksgiving photos for you.

Movie school stops for no man.  Or goose.

My New York improv group Casual Sex Offenders do shows all the time.  Often multiple shows a week.  I’m rarely there due to the fact that I live in Boston.  Makes it tough to participate, you know?  However, every now and then I make the trip south to New York get onstage and do the funny.  This past Sunday was one of those times.

Well, the TV is sort of new.  I got it when I moved to Boston in September.

The Shake Shack in Madison Square Park has the best burger I’ve ever eaten in my life.  Hat tip to Shake Shack.

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We had our first film shoot yesterday.  Very exciting!  Movie school has become real.  My shoot is this weekend.  Wish me luck, Dear Reader™.

I went back to New York, briefly, to do another Casual Sex Offenders show.  I intend to have the video for you tomorrow.

Howdy.

On September 11th, 2001 I was a freshman film stduent at NYU. I lived at Carlyle Court which is on Union Square near 14th street and University Place. Class had started just one week earlier. Then on that Tuesday morning I stepped out of my dorm and saw this. These stills are taken from a video I shot that day. At the moment I can’t find the actual video.

On September 6th I was briefly back in New York City.  Why?  Well, to see my girlfriend, but also to do a show.  My new improv group, Casual Sex Offenders, had it’s first show that day at The Creek and The Cave in Long Island City, Queens.  This video is the unedited ~20 minutes set.  Yours truly first shows up about three and a half minutes in.  Enjoy.