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My film came back from Fotokem and I’ve been editing ever since.  I’ve been trying a few things that are new (to me): Cutting on Avid and starting the edit with the ending sequence and working my way to the front.  Being a Final Cut Pro kind of guy cutting on Avid is somewhat of a pain.  Starting with the end and moving back to the front seems to be working in my favor.  The photo below is from that ending sequence a couple days ago.  I’ve made significant progress since then.  This excites you.

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Way back in February (about two weeks ago) my improv group Casual Sex Offenders traveled to Carrboro, North Carolina for the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival to do a little bit of that old tyme comedy.

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.

On September 19th I was back in New York and did another Casual Sex Offenders show this time at Gotham City Improv.  The video evidence is below.  Please note that there is a glitch in the clip towards the end.

I was a bit disappointed with my performance and felt we all did better in an earlier show.  There is a lot to be learned from this clip like how I need to be more aggressive with my backline support and commit to my characters more fully.  But I won’t bore you with that.  Instead I’ll bore you with this.

A group of my fellow improv 201 students (Cecile, Dara, Jason, Austin, Shalyah, Brad, Esther, and Eric) got together to practice today.  This is only the second time we’ve had practice sessions outside of class (class itself ended nearly a month ago), but I already have a good feeling about these folks.  We’re going to get some interesting things done.

In other news: the infamous sketch video churns along slowly.  I hit a technical snag that has taken me a few days (on-going) to get sorted.  I really want to push this thing out the door, but I’m not going to do that until Greg and Anthony sign off on the whole thing.

Tomorrow is the next Society of Reasonable People™ meeting.  I decided to write my Zombies! script.  I have some of the first pages written and am quite interested in what people think.

I’m going to turn off some of the new plug-ins I installed because they just don’t fit the current look of this website.  As soon as I get around to redesigning the front page (no idea when that’ll be) I will bring some of those things back.

It took me forever, but I finally finished the Arlington video. A little background: My Grandfather, Gilbert Langford, died a year ago. During that October he was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. This is a short video of that event.

p.s. The improv show on Sunday went great. Because they don’t allow flash photography or video taping I have nothing to show you, though. Next time I will try to sneak someone in to get non-flash photos.

If you were a kid in the late-80s – early-90s you must remember Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! (Later renamed Punch-Out!! after Mike Tyson got his rape conviction. However, Nintendo claims this is not why the game was renamed). If you don’t I feel sorry for you, dear reader. For those of you who do you will be thrilled (THRILLED, I SAY!) to know that Punch-Out!! is being remade for the Nintendo Wii. Check it out!

Also, you may enjoy this fan-made gem.

This will only make sense if you are familiar with Team Fortress 2.