Home of filmmaker, improviser, and decent dude Geoff Ross.

This shirt used to fit. There are a few scenarios that could explain this present in declining order from most to least likely.

1. Shrunk in the wash
2. I’ve gotten fatter
3. I’ve gotten stronger
4. My arms have grown four inches longer

Last weekend I was briefly in New York to do The CSO show with my improv group Casual Sex Offenders (yes, it’s our show.)

1. Eating undercooked hamburger

2. Having your body fight back from being fed undercooked hamburger.

3. Going through this while on a five and a half hour bus ride to Boston.

It felt like my intestines were trying to escape from my body using a fistful of rusty knives.

The good news is Thanksgiving went well.  Pictures soon.

This is my fantasy football roster this week.  I’m up against my good friend Adam whom Yahoo thinks is going to beat me.  We’ll see about that, Yahoo!

QB – Philip Rivers,  San Diego Chargers

WR – Vincent Jackson, San Diego Chargers

WR – Hines Ward, Pittsburgh Steelers

WR – Wes Welker, New England Patriots

RB – Adrian Peterson, Minnesota Vikings

RB – Chris Johnson, Tennessee Titans

K – David Akers, Philadelphia Eagles

DEF (team) – Chicago Bears

D – Ed Reed, Baltimore Ravens

D – Ray Lewis, Baltimore Ravens

DB – Nick Harper, Tennessee Titans

DL – Osi Umenyiora, New York Giants

On the bench this week: QB Tony Romo, Dallas Cowboys, QB Carson Palmer, Cincinnati Bengals, QB Brett Favre, Minnesota Vikings, RB Knowshon Moreno, Denver Broncos, WR Devin Hester, Chicago Bears, and  WR Davone Bess, Miami Dolphins.

Not manly enough for you?  Check this: I got a tetanus shot at BU’s Student Health Center so I won’t be a victim to Lockjaw.  After I took the shot like a man they gave me a bad-ass band-aid.

Those Fish Are Ferocious!

On August 8th (aka yesterday) I had my last improv comedy show at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre.  The current hope is that I can come back next summer.

Happy Birthday Mom!  I hope your Christmas in July is going well.

Also, here is the new Tron Legacy trailer.

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I’m out of floss.

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Hold my calls

I got a CAT scan of my sinuses this morning.  You may be asking yourself, “Why?” (No?  You’re not?  Okay…)  About ten years ago I was diagnosed with a deviated septum: basically I was breathing out of one nostril all the time.  We didn’t do anything about it then because I was still a teenager and there was a chance that I would grow out of it.

I didn’t.

However since then I have done exactly nothing about it.  This changed about a month ago when I went to see an Ear, Nose and Throat doctor (An Otorhinolaryngologist if you nasty).  She confirmed the original diagnosis: Deviated septum.  But, my insurance has insisted that I get a CAT scan to confirm the diagnosis.

So I did.

Now I wait for the results of that scan (which only took fifteen minutes of my time.).  Assuming the CAT scan confirms what I’ve known for a decade or more then I will have surgery (Septoplasty): They will scrape some cartilage out of the inside of my nose, place some plastic splints in there, and then remove them several days later.

Wait…why did I want to do this?

I have to say that I have been disappointed with my performance in improv 401 so far.  I need to step my game up if we are going to have a good show on the 6th.

That’s right I picked up the new Punch-Out!! for the Nintendo Wii.  I haven’t even cracked it open yet because of work, work, and work and the fact that I just got it.  But, as soon as I have a chance to play it I’ll let you know what I think.

Because you care.  So much.

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So crass.

I don’t get the Amazon Kindle.  I don’t understand why I should want one or why anybody would want one.  When the iPod first came out, yes, it seemed kind of ridiculous that anyone would need a thousand songs with them at all times (a number that seems laughably too small these days), but it’s basic concept was sound: people listen to a lot of music on the go.  A song runs about three minutes long on average.  During your daily commute you could go through plenty of ‘em.  However, books run in the hundreds of pages.  I don’t know about you, but I don’t read six pages of one book then switch to another book and then to another…all of which I am carrying with me at all times.  That’s just silly.  But that’s what the Kindle seems to be for: take your whole library with you.  I don’t get it.

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Since The Geoff Ross Farewell New York Tour™ has officially begun I have to decice, you know, what that’s going to be exactly.  For the rest of the week during those two seconds of free time I have I will decide on what it is I plan to accomplish over the next four months.  This will probably involve nudity and filmmaking.  Hopefully not together.

I have not been sleeping well.